Where I love to wander …

Posted on April 29, 2017 by ShakespearesGal

Tuscany

Glendalough, Co. Wicklow

Tuscany

Windsor, England

Heading toward Calgary, a prairie storm announces its ominous presence …

Oahu

Isle of Arran, Scotland

Ashford Castle. Co. Mayo

Prague, Czech Republic

Bar U Ranch, Alberta

Spanish Riding School, Vienna

Barcelona, Spain

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Port Olympic, Barcelona

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Isle of Wight

Vienna, Austria

Lake Bled, Slovenia

River Arno, Florence

Grand Canal, Venice, Italy

Florence

York Minster, York, England

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Venice

Tuscany

Maui

Sydney, Australia

Home

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Wide open spaces

Water +

Antiquity +

Sacred spaces +

Select cities =

My wanderlust

Thanks for visiting …

Dorothy

(Missing from this gallery Paris and London as images are not to be found. Guess it’s time to wander across the pond again.)

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Dramatically Angular … Sydney Opera House

Posted on November 21, 2014 by ShakespearesGal

Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular

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The opera house ~ on the stage and in the hallways echo the dramas of life and vision and creativity.

The Sydney Opera House immediately comes to mind as a place of great theatrical drama, spectacularly reflected in all its dramatic, angular, architectural glory.

One little story … the tour guide told us that when the great (and superstitious) tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, sang at the opera house in 1983 he could not be persuaded to walk on the purple carpet because it was the same colour as coffin lining.

That, my friends, is a dramatic angle …

Thanks for visiting,

Dorothy

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©Dorothy Chiotti … Aimwell CreativeWorks 2014

Window of Time

Posted on September 10, 2014 by ShakespearesGal

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For Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Week 28 I’ve selected an image taken while on a guided tour of the Sydney Opera House.

This magnificent music venue perched on Sydney Harbour is a marvel of design and construction, and offers all kinds of interesting photographic opportunities.

On tours my tendency is to lag behind, my eyes and imagination caught for far longer than the guide’s strict window of time allows. Still, what I miss in the commentary I gain through my own observation.

Thanks for visiting …

Dorothy 🙂

The Art of Zigzag

Posted on August 2, 2014 by ShakespearesGal

Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag

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For this week’s challenge three completely different travel destinations come to mind.

Each an artistic representation of the beauty of the Zigzag.

Enjoy!

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Vienna, Austria … where the impressive multi-colour zigzag of the tile roof at St. Stephen’s Cathedral dominates the Stephansplatz …

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Monterosso al Mare, Italy … where colourful shade umbrellas zigzag across the popular Italian riviera beach …

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Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia … where the ceramic tile roof zigzags with the glow of the mid-day sun.

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Thanks for visiting …

Dorothy

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Shout Outs

The Landslide Photography

A Bowl of Cherries

That Montreal Girl

The Numpty With A Camera

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the details … Sydney Opera House

Posted on March 1, 2013 by ShakespearesGal

One of the world’s most recognizable structures, the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point on Sydney Harbour is a marvel of design and engineering.

My focus for this week’s photo challenge “Lost in the Details” is the Opera House’s amazing ceramic tile roof.

There are 1,056,006 roof tiles covering an area of approximately 1.62 hectares that sit over the structure. They were made by a Swedish tile company, Höganas.