15 February 2009

Photo Tag

Like Pandabonium, (who nominated me for this tag), I don't often do memes unless they're short, sweet and fun. This one meets the above criteria - so I'm going to do it.

The instructions are: "Go into your photo archive, pick the 4th folder in the archive, select the 4th picture in the folder, and write about it. You then need to tag 4 other people to do the same."

Here's the image:

BerlinerDom_OrganIt's of the huge pipe organ in the Berliner Dom. The cathedral was built between 1895 and 1905. On 24th May 1944, it was bombed and heavily damaged.

A temporary roof was built over the remains and in 1975, rebuilding work started.
In 1984, the interior was restored including full restoration of the organ which has 113 stops, including three ranks of 32' pipes on the pedal division, and played by a 4-manual console.

In 1993, the church reopened in a grand ceremony which was televised all over Germany.

The Dom is well worth a visit when in Berlin. There is outside viewing just below the top of the high dome and the underground crypt filled with the remains of royalty and clergy is an amazing experience.


If anyone wants to do this tag, please do so, and link to it in our comments section!

12 February 2009

Quick Update

Life has been busy and I've been learning a lot about my new camera and the image post-processing choices available to me. I still have a long way to go with the learning and it's great fun to be back doing what I used to do about 5 years ago.

We have been to Barcelona since getting back from San Francisco and we're about to jump on another plane tomorrow to go to Umbria in Italy for 10 days.

Here are some images to tide you over until my next post!

Click on them to enlarge

GoldenGateBridgeGolden Gate Bridge just before sunset

Nordstroms_SanFranciscoNordstrom has funky curved escalators

SanFrancisco_from_TwinPeaksSan Francisco panorama from Twin Peaks

Barcelona_cityscapeBarcelona cityscape

LaSagradaFamiliaUp scary heights on Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia

Cathedral_Barcelona Inside the Santa Eulalia Cathedral in Barcelona

I hope to be able to blog from Italy and, Pandabonium, I haven't forgotten the Guten Photo Tag!