United Kingdom - Edinburgh
Manel - United Kingdom - 31.12.2010
Edinburgh Street Art
United Kingdom
Manel - United Kingdom - 31.12.2010
The Scottish Kilt. Scotland.
The History of the Kilt stretches back to at least the end of the 16th century. The kilt first appeared as the belted plaid or great kilt, a full length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over head as a cloak. The small kilt or walking kilt (similar to the 'modern' kilt) did not develop until the late 17th or early 18th century, and is essentially the bottom half of the great kilt.
The word kilt comes from the Scots word kilt meaning to tuck up the clothes around the body, although the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (vol. 15, p. 798) says the word is Scandinavian in origin. The Scots word derives from the Old Norse kjalta, from Norse settlers who wore a similar, pleated garment.
United Kingdom
Manel - United Kingdom - 31.12.2010
The kilt - Scotland.
The kilt is a knee-length garment with pleats at the rear, originating in the traditional dress of men and boys in the Scottish Highlands of the 16th century. Since the 19th century it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland in general, or with Celtic (and more specifically Gaelic) heritage even more broadly. It is most often made of woollen cloth in a tartan pattern.
Although the kilt is most often worn on formal occasions and at Highland games and sports events, it has also been adapted as an item of fashionable informal male clothing in recent years, returning to its roots as an everyday garment.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Canada - Vancouver, BC
Monica Delgado - Canada - 29.12.2010
Sky Train - Vancouver BC.
The Sky Train in Vancouver, British Columbia is an Advanced Rapid Transit system operating fully-automated trains on two lines. With 33 stations, it moves over 220 000 people a day along the 49.5 km of track. Built for the Expo 86 World's Fair, it has since become the world's longest automated light rapid transit system utilizing the world's longest transit-only bridge, the SkyBridge.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
China - Hutong
Mengkai Batu - China - 28.12.2010
Life in Hutong
Taken in Dongchunshu Hutong, in July, 1991
Hutong are a type of narrow street or alley commonly associated with northern Chinese cities, especially Beijing.
In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Australia - Sydney
Denny Partridge - Australia - 20.12.2010
Kangaroos and Wallabies are among Australia's most remarkable wild creatures. In this group, starting at the left , are Red Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Common Wallaroo, Whiptail Wallaby, Red-necked Wallaby, Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby.
Kangaroos are endemic to the country of Australia. The smaller macropods are found in Australia and New Guinea.
Kangaroos have large, powerful hind legs, large feet adapted for leaping, a long muscular tail for balance, and a small head. Like most marsupials, female kangaroos have a pouch called a marsupium in which joeys complete postnatal development.
The kangaroo is a national symbol of Australia: its emblem is used on the Australian coat of arms, on some of its currency, as well as by some of Australia's well known organisations.
A wallaby is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Germany - Bodensee
Nina Wack - Germany - 13.12.2010
Die Fischerin vom Bodensee. The fisher from Lake Constance.
The fisher from Lake Constance is a German home movie from 1956. He plays against the backdrop of Lake Constance, with the towns Friedrichshafen, Schloss Kirchberg, Hagnau, Meersburg and the piles of Unteruhldingen. Title factor was the eponymous folk song by the lyrics and the melody of Franz Winkler (1906-1962) from the year 1947.
Lake Constance (German: Bodensee) is a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps, and consists of three bodies of water: the Obersee ("upper lake"), the Untersee ("lower lake"), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein.
The lake is situated in Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the Alps.
Egypt - Giza
Rod Sfrjlani - Egypt - 13.12.2010
Giza Pyramids - Ahmed Attalah round the pyramids.
The Giza Necropolis, "pyramids of Giza", is an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramid complexes known as the Great Pyramids, the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers' village and an industrial complex. It is located some 9 km inland into the desert from the old town of Giza on the Nile, some 25 km southwest of Cairo city centre. The pyramids, which have always loomed large as emblems of ancient Egypt in the Western imagination, were popularised in Hellenistic times, when the Great Pyramid was listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is by far the oldest of the ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
South Africa - Cape Town
Lisa Huang - South Africa - 09.12.2010
Cape Town, South Africa.
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The city is famous for its harbour as well as its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom, including such well-known landmarks as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Cape Town is also Africa's most popular tourist destination.
