The Pena Palace sits on the summit of a ridge above the town of Sintra, a short train ride from Lisbon. From a distance the place seems unreal, given its location, its architecture, and its striking color scheme. Up close the weathering changes the effect a bit, but in a way that only seems to make the place a bit more mysterious.
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This is another photograph from Lisbon’s Santo Amaro Chapel, a very old structure near the waterfront and almost beneath the April 25 Bridge (“Ponte 25 de Abril“). That is the one that looks very similar to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. After passing beneath the bridge’s north end, we walked a little further west, then climbed steps to this location. It is one of the better viewpoints of the bridge, with a wide plaza open to that view.
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This seemed to me like a particularly picturesque curve in the Leie River though the old section of Ghent, Belgium. Although the sky suggests partly sunny light, it remained a bit overcast where we were, thus the very soft light in this photograph. This is a busy place, and there were not a lot of opportunities to photograph just one or two people in this scene.
We were only in Ghent briefly — we took a train there from Brussels for the day. We spent the day walking around the center of the city, where there are many old buildings and perhaps one of the greatest concentrations of church spires I have seen. I made the photograph as we walked a bridge connecting the two sides of the river.
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Among American national parks, Death Valley is known for extensive and diverse evidence of human presence. There are traces of ancient people from the time of European immigrants and their descendants. More recently, members of the latter group came to this landscape as prospectors and miners. Today, even in the most remote parts of the park, you can find their decaying remnants, like this old cabin.
I have visited this site for years, and each time I ponder what it must have been like to live and work in a place like this. It is high in desert mountains, without trees or water, and most people would regard it as desolate. Nearby is a small mine that appears to have been worked by hand. Over the years that I have visited the tiny cabin has continued to deteriorate, and I cannot imagine that it will last much longer.
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