This is a copy of my post on my other Blog: Falling in Love with Arts https://wordpress.com/post/speakingabouttravel.wordpress.com/1221 This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge. The Collage I want to highlight here is the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris. The architect was Charles Garnier whose bold and decorative style had made…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare (2)-Architecture Without Architects: Santorini, a Greek Island
This post is my second response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare. Please also see my first response: Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare –Architecture Without Architects: Telč, a City in Czech Republic, and my very old posts in another earlier Blog Exploring Turkey and Greece – Santorini. The four colorful pictures posted here were taken by my friend Link…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare –Architecture Without Architects: Telč, a City in Czech Republic
This post is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare I just bought a book named ” Architecture Without Architects.” By Bernard Rudofsky, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965. It is a very good book, providing a backdrop in understanding about Vernacular Architecture. It is easy-to-read with lots of B&W pictures. This book…
Apsaras in the Art and Architecture of Cambodia
This post is inspired by a blogger friend Michael Lai. I had been hibernating and tonight I suddenly wanted to post something. Having seen Michael’s recent post on apsaras in Cambodia, I went back to my earlier post on this topic and found these. Angkor Wat is still one of my most favorite travel destinations….
Weekly Photo Challenge ” Vivid”: My trip to England, Wales and Scotland #1 The Rows!
We are now traveling in Europe. Today I learned something new. In the Chester City of England, we saw a number of buildings with a unique architectural design: ” the Rows”. These are half-timbered buildings with rows of shops in the ground and upper floor built around the 13th century. The patterns are vivid and sharp…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Angular _My Spain Trip #4 -Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge- Angular. The picture I posted here is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which I visited last month. The museum was designed by the American-Canadian architect Frank Gehry. From the Museum’s website: “Hailed as the most important structure of its time when it opened in 1997, Frank Gehry’s…
Buddha Faces at Angor Wat, Cambodia
Originally posted on retireediary:
This is a close up taken of the Buddha faces in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. I like the texture in the image. More than that, I was stunned as to how the statues were constructed. Unlike many of the Buddhas I saw in China which were carved out in situ from a…
Highlights of my recent trip to Eastern Europe
Dear family and friends: Happy New Year! To wish you all a happy new year, I created this video with highlights of some of my photos taken in Eastern Europe. I did not have much time to write about this trip on my blogs, but hope that you would like the video and the music…
I just published my second book: Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Angkor Wat, Cambodia by Denise | Make Your Own Book Dear friends: Please join me to appreciate the architectural wonder of Angkor Wat, and the beautiful art and culture of the Cambodian people. Sincerely, Denise
Eastern Europe 2013 #2 – St. Mary’s Altar, Krakow, Poland
If you ask me what impressed me most during this trip, without hesitation, I would say ” St. Mary’s Altar.” It is called Altarpiece of Veit Stoss, at St. Mary’s Basilica in Krakow, Poland. The altarpiece was carved between 1477 and 1489 by the Bavarian sculptor Veit Stoss. If you google this title, all you can see…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern – Dali Catholic Church, a Beautiful Combination of Western and Eastern Architecture – My Yunnan Trip # 11
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge – Pattern This post was already posted yesterday on my other Blog named Falling in Love with Arts. I am re-posting it here in order to categorize all my Yunnan posts in one place. I tried to re-blog yesterday and again WordPress messed up my photos. They…
Weekly Photo Challenge: “Forward” — My South America Trip #21 – The Metropolitan Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge : Forward of WordPress. I thought I have concluded my South America trip, but I haven’t. Churches, temples, mosques, are the places of worship, and most of them I visited, are ancient or historic in their architectural style. This is the first time I visited a…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Green – The California Academy of Sciences, the Greenest Museum in the World
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Green Below is a picture of the California Academy of Sciences building facing the Music Concourse. I took this photo from the Tower Observation Deck of the de Young Museum in San Francisco. This picture on the left is a view from the Deck of the Music Concourse…
Weekly Photo Challenge – Geometry #4 – The Nest and the Water Cube, Beijing, China
This is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Geometry, my fourth entry. The Nest and the Water Cube are two of the most popular Olympic sites in Beijing, China. I was lucky to see them twice, once before the Olympics ( while they were under construction) and then another visit the year after. These…
Weekly Photo Challenge: #2 Geometry
This is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Geometry, my second entry.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry #1 – Colorado Convention Center, Denver
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry. This photo was taken in July this year at the Colorado Convention Center, where I attended a conference. In my earlier post on this blog, I presented the Big Blue Bear, an iconic art work of this Center. Attention was not paid to the geometric design…
” Taking Imagination Seriously” – Janet Echelman
Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously Published on Jun 8, 2011 by TEDtalks Director http://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman.htmlTED “Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing — which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign — McDonald’s in Salzburg, Austria
McDonald’s has flowers arrangement on its tables! It is in Salzburg, not any place in the United States! This post is in response to Weekly Photo Challenge : Foreign The picture was taken in the “Old Town” of Salzburg, Austria. Salzburg is the birthplace of Mozart and also part of the setting of the musical…
Weekly photo challenge: Big # 3 – St. Vitus Cathedral in the Prague Castle
Weekly Photo Challenge : Big To many people, St. Vitus Cathedral is Prague Castle. While the huge Prague Castle complex includes many fine buildings, St. Vitus is the one that is the most impressive. This picture was taken inside the St. Vitus Cathedral. We had to be in line for an hour before we could…
