Cathy N

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Dzień dobry ☀️ Cudownej soboty i miłego weekendu

Guten Morgen ☕ Habt einen angenehmen Samstag und ein entspanntes Wochenende

🏔️🌲❄️🌊 Big Almaty Lake, Almaty region, Kazakhstan
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Thank you!

This is on my list of places to visit next time I’m in the UK. So beautiful.

A high-angle black and white photograph looking down the long nave of Salisbury Cathedral. The interior features a striking perspective with rows of tall, slender columns and repetitive pointed Gothic arches leading the eye toward the distant altar. In the foreground, a modern, dark cruciform-shaped baptismal font sits centrally on the patterned stone floor. Symmetrical rows of chairs are arranged throughout the space, and a few small figures of people provide a sense of the cathedral's immense scale.

Salisbury Cathedral

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#architecture
#Scape
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A deep plate of vegetarian Mediterranean food contains eggplant, falafel, some sort of carrot salad, some other cucumber salad, and hummus. The plate is on a small, round, golden table which also includes a glass of mint lemonade and a dish of pita. Another glass holds a napkin. Beyond the table are some other tables, and an out of focus bakery across the narrow street.

Mediterranean feast in the Marais
Paris, France
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Fire in the Sky
#ForestFriday #scape

Black and white image of a cattle fence and partial gate which then transitions to a barbed wire fence running through a field of grass. It's a foggy morning, and the image was shot into the sun, adding to the atmosphere and lighting contrast. The sun is reflecting off of the metal cattle fence creating a strong contrast of tones and dimensionality. This is at Laguna Lake Open Space in San Luis Obispo. California

#Scape #ColorADay #BWFri

Morning fog.

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Thank you, Luis!

A variety of colorful candy fills the foreground. In the background, a worker wearing an apron works over a table, and tourists mill about the market.

Candy #Scape
La Boquería, Barcelona
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That sounds absolutely delicious. Looks pretty, too.

Vestibule of an art museum with curving stairs on either side of a rounded space. Stained glass windows and a skeleton statue with arm raised is at the top. Stairs directly in front of the camera lead to the floor below.

Stair #scape
Palais des Beaux Arts
Lille, France
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A small willow tree, bare of leaves, sits on a brown, grassy bank. It is backed by a fog-covered river and sky.

Willow #scape
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A clear vase sits on a black table. It holds white flowers with speckled pink interiors. The lookup feature on my phone says it’s Alstroemeria. Behind the table, off white panels glow with soft backlighting.

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a deserted tropical sandy beach lined with tall, gently leaning palm trees looks out over the ocean to an island on the humid horizon

'Paradisiacal Still-Life w/ Palm Trees' (2024) -- Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia

'To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise' -- Emilia Wickstead

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#Photography #Landscape
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Oh no! Still. I do’t think I would mind too much. So close to Regent’s Park! What a beautiful place to unwind.

Marble statues lying in state on top of tombs in Saint-Denis Basilica. In the foreground is the head and upper torso of Catherine de Medici, hands held in prayer, intricately carved crowns on her head. In the r background is her husband, Henri II, in the same pose.

Thank you! I find this queen’s story fascinating. She warranted two statues, and a prominent corner in the basilica. Here she is, lying next to Henri II. Their marble crowns are truly intricate.

Thank you! I found it charming.

A golden, crowned lion sits atop a green, and white striped pole inside an herb and flower garden. The plant beds are all squared and fenced by more green and white stripes. Other beasts on poles are visible in the background. Behind the garden is the red brick palace.

An interior garden at Hampton Court Palace is Chapel Court. It recreates Henry VIII’s privy garden, including mythical beasts and 16th century plant varieties
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The Wallace Collection is unbelievable. Every room was more incredible than the last. I walked through that mansion like this: 🤯

A statue of a kneeling Catherine de Medici with praying hands rests beside gothic stained glass windows.

The Basilica of St Denis in Paris is a good place to see royal fashion through the ages. Most of the French royals are buried there, with effigies on display. Here, Catherine de Medici poses in prayer
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Staircase in a 17th century Parisian mansion that has been converted into a museum. The staircase has wrought iron railings. The ceiling has ornate plasterwork. Two people are ascending the stairs, and one is descending.

Musée National Picasso
Paris, France
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In the near foreground, two stone staircases enter into frame from left and right. Stretching away from us, a gravel path passes two ornamental urns on either side, with close cut lawn and sharply cut box hedge. Further back, the path forms a T junction, heading left and right. Beyond, well kept lawn, and eight inverted acorn shaped box hedges, four on each side. In the middle of the lawn, and ornamental fountain. In the background, a Jacobean style country house. Blue sky and white clouds above.

Blickling Hall - a 17th century Jacobean style country house, with garden and grounds later redesigned by the very fashionable 18th century landscape gardener Lancelot "Capability" Brown #PalacesAndGardens #FashionThroughTime #photography #EastCoastKin

A long wooden pier stretches straight out into the calm waters of Lake Chiemsee. At the end of the jetty, two slightly older people stand close together, gently leaning against one another while looking out across the lake. On a small side platform to the right, two women sit side by side with their feet near the water, quietly talking and watching the lake. Soft ripples move across the water, and beyond the far shore the hazy silhouette of the Snow covered Alps rises beneath large, sunlit clouds in a blue sky.

In vast landscapes, humans suddenly look small — yet moments like these feel very large.

#Chiemsee #Bavaria
#landscapephotography 📷
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A view across a shaded lazy river to a small, isolated Buddhist shrine accessible only by boat against an impressive backdrop of karst stack formations and unevenly covered by thick vines of jungle. The humid air particles hang in the air as the sun dips behind the misty mountains towards the horizon

'Of Towers & Temples' (2023) -- Nestled in the Breathtakingly Still & Timeless Jungle, Visual Moments of Zen, Trang An Landscape Complex, Ninh Binh, Northern Vietnam

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#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
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The picture is taken from the middle of a restored gothic chapel that was based on Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, but is only one level. We are facing the front door. A figure stands in the open doorway. There is a small circular window above the door, and a large rose window in the flamboyant style higher up, just below the arched ceiling. There are large stained glass windows with gothic arches on either side. The chapel is mostly empty of furnishings. A group of people is huddled in a corner beside the door.

Inside the restored Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes
Paris, France
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Tall French doors with large panes of stained glass in flowery shapes sit along a wall of the museum. Sunlight shines through the stained glass windows and lands on the parquet floor. In a sort of hopscotch pattern.

Musée Carnavalet
Paris, France
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Inside the clear, tubular hallway that runs along the outside of the iconic Pompidou Centre. The view is a long hallway with bands of metal semicircles arching over the walkway, decreasing in size as they converge on the horizon.

Centre Georges Pompidou
Paris, France
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I have a picture of him, too! I really enjoyed that cathedral.