In Photos dot Org » Architecture http://inphotos.org no photoshopped images here Sun, 20 May 2012 11:43:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The London Eye http://inphotos.org/2012/05/18/the-london-eye/ http://inphotos.org/2012/05/18/the-london-eye/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 11:33:55 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=5904

While on my way to Iceland a few months ago I had about 10 hours to kill while in London. Thankfully John Godley collected me at the airport and gave me a quick tour of the city centre!

I got loads of photos of the London Eye, here’s one of them.

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Cadiz is a city and port in the Iberian Peninsula in Spain. The centre of the city is filled with old alleys and narrow streets. Here’s I shot straight upwards at the junction of 4 such alleys, I think it was here near the local cathedral.

Many years ago I took a similar photo of buildings in San Francisco.

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A small corner house in Reykjavik, Iceland. Love the colours.

There was a music lesson going full swing when I passed there. I think they were beating drums.

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Drekinn, a shop in Reykjavik, Iceland. Drekinn means dragon in English.

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]]> http://inphotos.org/2012/03/26/drekinn/feed/ 0 Sólfar, The Sun Voyager http://inphotos.org/2012/03/12/solfar-the-sun-voyager/ http://inphotos.org/2012/03/12/solfar-the-sun-voyager/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:48:30 +0000 Donncha O Caoimh http://inphotos.org/?p=5764

This is a metal statue in Reykjavík of what looks like a Viking longboat but according to the Wikipedia page is in fact a “dreamboat”.

It is a common misunderstanding that Sun Voyager is a Viking ship. It is quite understandable that many tourists think like this when travelling in Iceland, the land of the sagas. Nonetheless, it should be stressed that this was not the original intention.

Jón Gunnar was himself very ill with leukaemia at the time that the full-scale Sun Voyager came to be constructed, and he died in April 1989, a year before it was placed in its present location. Some people have thus suggested that Jón Gunnar conceived the work during this period, at a time when he might have been preoccupied with death, and argued that Sun Voyager should be seen as a vessel that transports souls to the realm of death. While this is a nice idea and might be imagined to have some validity, it actually has little truth (at least from the point of view of the artist). As noted above, Sun Voyager was essentially envisaged as being a dreamboat, an ode to the sun symbolizing light and hope.

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What I’ve seen of Reykjavik so far has been really nice. Buildings are colourful, the streets are for the most part well maintained and the city centre has cobbled streets so it’s pleasant to walk around.

While on our photowalk today we passed these buildings on the sea front. I thought they were just another apartment building until I noticed that the balconies were fenced in by planks of wood held together loosely!

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Seaside, Florida USA.

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A bridge carries the Cork to Dublin train over a local road near Blarney.

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The interior of a cottage at the picturesque Brandon Creek on Slea Head, County Kerry.

Outside there’s a planning permission notice, dated August 2008 and written in Irish. I presume the owner is no longer in a hurry to develop his property. All he wanted to do was replace the roof and add an extension.

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County Hall in Cork, as it was in 2005. Not so long ago it was flooded but it looks vaguely impressive when seen from certain viewpoints since the facelift it received in this photo.

Shame it’s built on a flood plain.

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