The "monsters" of Mendoza.
Street Art. #photography #Streetart

Windsor Great Park #photography

Cascading waterfall series with tropical planting

View across swimming pool to hotel at night. Showing palm trees in foreground.

Arial view of pool are showing palm trees, pool, and sun setting in distance over public beach.

External view of Melia Salinas Hotel

Paradisus Salinas Hotel, Lanzarote.
Built 1973. In 1979, the hotel was awarded the International Prize for Architecture.
Original architecture/design: Fernando Higueras, Gardens & murals by César Manrique.
(Photos pt2)
#architecture, #photography

Internal image of Melia Salinas Hotel Lanzarote showing internal gardens pillars and serried interior balconies.

Melia Paradisus Salinas Hotel Loungebar

Melia Paradisus Salinas Hotel Reception Area.

Paradisus Salinas Hotel, Lanzarote.
Built 1973. In 1979, the hotel was awarded the International Prize for Architecture.
Original architecture/design: Fernando Higueras, Gardens & murals by César Manrique.
(Photos pt1)
#architecture, #photography

The view to the alter down the aisle between the pillared columns

Black and white view of the bell tower from the courtyard.

A carved flowing bearded statue in hues of brown. Undoubtedly a saint, but I k ow not which.

Lecce Cathedral
#photography, #architecture

Not a picture of me on a bad day..
Detail from Lecce Cathedral, Apulia, Italy.
#photography, #architecture, #Lecce

TRG Republike Square, Slovenia.
Designed by architect Edvard Ravnikar 1960
The brutalist tower, and the main entrance of the parliament building, surrounded by sculptures depicting workers in various occupations, the work of sculptors Zdenko Kalin and Karl Putrih.
#architecture, #photography

A beautiful woman's face, wearing a green scarf, painted on a wall, with a red blue and yellow background.

Street Art. A naked woman from waist upwards, wearing an eye mask. Set against a red background.

Street Art. Beautiful eyes looking out from a face wearing a scarf as a mask covering the head, nose and mouth with an urban graffiti background.

Street Art of beautiful women from Valparaiso, Chile.
#photography, #streetart, #Valparaiso

Spacious barrel ceilinged building with people walking through

Big map on curved wall in alcove, with world maps below.

Ho Chi Minh Post Office

It was designed by Alfred Foulhoux and was constructed between 1886 and 1891
#photography, #architecture

Milan Central Station
Possibly the most beautiful railway station in the world...
#photography, #architecture

Bicycles in Da Nang & a market in Hoi An, Vietnam
#photography

Salt pans nr Cuzco, Peru
#photography, #Cuzco, #Peru

Mainly the luck of being in the right place at the right time. Unfortunately the only camera I had to hand was my iphone!

Torres del Paine, Patagonia
#photography, #nature,

Fly with iridescent green exoskeleton and dark russet eyes, on plant with yellow flowers.

Lucilia sericata aka Green Bottle Fly. It's amazing how something that might be thought horrid, can also be beautiful.
#photo

'Refused service again with my guide dog, I'm done speaking out' Sean Dilley is inundated with abuse on social media whenever he posts about discrimination issues.

This is both sad and infuriating.

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Black and white picture of Pompidou centre with the stark exposed pipes this is a fascinating building.

Black and white close up looking up at the 3 white vents and side of Pompidou Centre

The front (?) of the Pompidou Centre with the diagonal staircase overlaying the exposed structure and pipes.

Pompidou Centre, Paris
1970s High-Tech architecture designed by Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
#photography, #architecture

Black and white image of Cafe & Vin cafe in Paris, France. A lady standing by the entrance looking at her phone, patrons inside sitting at tables.

Sunday morning, why rush breakfast, take time to relax...
Picture Cafe & Vin Paris, France.

White Swan majestically flying low to the water surface

Low flying swan
#birds

Orange and brown caterpillar rolled into a circle, the 8 fake eyes looking back at the camera.

Admiral Butterfly Caterpillar (?)

A deep orange sea scape, with a child throwing stones into the waves, the sun setting behind the skeleton of Brighton Western Pier in the background.

The Old Western Pier, Brighton, UK

Penguins in Cape Town. I don't know why, but when your day is going badly, watching a penguin will always put a smile on your face.

A shop front in Valparaiso Chile, above the shop entrance, is a spectacular piece of very colourful street art of the town, which dominates the shop it is located on.

Valparaiso, Chile. Street art that speaks! This small store acts as canvas to a representation of Valparaiso, and is almost completely hidden by it.

View of a building in Valparaiso, Chile. The lower part has street art of a man covering his face with his hand, and looking between the fingers. The picture is divided in two by a vine, then above is a very eclectic, shabby decrepit building.

Valparaiso, Chile. I love this scene, the art, the building, it is so eclectic.

Street art of woman with scarf over her face from Valparaiso, Chile.

Street Art in Valparaiso, Chile.

Trevor the worlds most beautiful tortoise, crawling towards you, over the grass.

Side view of Trevor, the worlds most beautiful tortoise

Let me introduce Trevor, possibly the greatest tortoise on earth...if "greatest" actually means most spoiled! Having a diet of bagged washed salad, and living in an 120sq ft heated enclosure, with underfloor heating, artificial sun and an adventure play ground. But he's so cute, I just can't say no!

A Snails eye view. Snail viewed through grass and clover.

A Snail's eye view.

Old postcard of Wraysbury Sign..."Within the boundaries of this parish were laid the foundations of English Liberty by the sealing of Magna Carta in the year 1215"

Windmill by bowls green in Wraysbury

Daffodils in front of Wraysbury Cricket Club

Old ruins of Ankerwyke nunnery, in Wraysbury.

Pictures of Wraysbury. Possibly the best village in UK!
"Within the boundaries of this parish were laid the foundations of English Liberty by the sealing of Magna Carta in the year 1215"
#Wraysbury

Bald Eagle Head and shoulders. Pale grey head on a dark brown body with yellow beak and watery yellow eyes. It is looking at the camera quizzically.

Bald Eagle, looking quizzically at the camera.
#addBirder

Mandarin Ducks in water, one swimming, the second flapping.

Mandarin Ducks, Virginia Water, UK.
#addBirder