This photo was taken in Ta Prohm, Angkor, Cambodia. The trees growing out of the ruins are perhaps the most distinctive feature of Ta Prohm, and two species predominate: the larger is the Silk Cotton Tree (Ceiba Pentandra), and the smaller is the Strangler Fig. You will see more from Cambodia looking at my Cambodia floder. Below a photo of a previous post on the same subject.
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This is a photo of a bagpiper, playing a Great Highland Bagpipe (A' Phìob Mhòr in Gaelic), a type of bagpipe native to Scotland, which has achieved widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world. The bagpipe is first attested in Scotland around 1400, having first appeared in European artwork in Spain in the 1200s. The earliest references to Scottish bagpipes are in a military context, and it is in that context that the Great Highland Ba... Read Full Story
This photo was taken from the Plage des Sables Blancs, Tréboul, Douarnenez, Brittany, France, looking towards the Baie de Douarnenez, a bay in Finistère, between the Crozon peninsula to the north and the cap Sizun to the south. It is formed of a vast semi-circular basin over 16 km wide and 20 km deep. Although half-closed-off to the west by Cap de la Chèvre, it opens out again to a width of 9 km on the side of the Mer d'Iroise.
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This is a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretching 1,825 m over the East River, connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Upon completion in 1883, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world, the first steel-wire suspension bridge, and the first bridge to connect to Long Island.Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge in an 1867 letter to the editor of... Read Full Story
This is a photo of a penny-farthing or high wheel or high wheeler or ordinary, all terms used to describe a type of bicycle with a large front wheel and a much smaller rear wheel that was popular after the boneshaker, until the development of the safety bicycle, in the 1880s.
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This is a photo of the Tintern Abbey (Abaty Tyndyrn in Welsh), which was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, in 1131. Situated on the River Wye in Monmouthshire, it was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain, and the first in Wales. It is one of the most spectacular ruins in the country.
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This is a photo of the Phare de la Vieille (Vieille lighthouse), a lighthouse located in Brittany, France. Built between 1882 and 1887 on the rock known as la Gorlebella (Breton for "the farthest rock"), it illuminates and improves the safety of the strait Raz de Sein, across from the companion lighthouse Tourelle de la Plate.The so-called "hell" of this lighthouse is due to its remote position in rough seas. Furthermore, it has a rich past: between the first feasibility studies and its first... Read Full Story
