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Description: The Orange Cube, also known as Le Cube Orange, is a new cultural and office building located on the banks of Saône river in Lyon, France. It is designed by Paris-based Jakob + Macfarlane Architects who were chosen through a design competition in 2005. Construction of the mixed use development was started in mid-2008 and completed in early 2011.

Description: This guy was somewhere along the miracle mile in Edinburgh. People use to get their water from him, but no more.

Description: A modern high end (or so the space leasing ads say) office building that I stumbled on while wandering around aimlessly In Hartford.

Description: The Cape Cod Highland Lighthouse was built in 1797, rebuilt in 1853, and replaced in the same location with the current structure in 1857. The first illumination was fueled with whale oil, then subsequently, lard, kerosene, and finally, electricity.

Description: These are not the original gates, which were torn down during the French revolution. In 2008, more than three centuries later, the a copy of the original royal gates grace the entrance to Versailles.

Description: The easiest shot I ever took. My wife and I were lounging in deck chairs, drinking some wine. Below us was the glacier Mir de Glace. Starring us in the face was this magnificent peak, along with a string of other only slightly less magnificent peaks. If only they were all so easy.

Description: The Cape May Historic District encompasses an area of 380 acres (1.5 km2) with over 600 buildings in the resort town of Cape May, New Jersey. The city claims to be America's first seaside resort and has numerous buildings in the Late Victorian style, including this beauty.

Description: The Fontaine Bartholdi is a fountain sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and realised in 1889 by Gaget & Gautier. It was erected at the Place des Terreaux, Lyon, in September 1892. Bartholdi is better know here in the US as the man behind the Statue of Liberty.

Description: The Golden Gate Bridge was, until 1964, the world’s longest single span suspension bridge. Construction started in 1934 and it was opened up in 1937. My wife and I nicknamed it BOB (Big Orange Bridge).

Description: The Biosphere, also known as the Montreal Biosphere, is a museum dedicated to the environment in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67 located within the grounds of Parc Jean-Drapeau on Saint Helen's Island.

Description: The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in central Scotland, connecting the Forth & Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It reconnects the two canals for the first time since the 1930's and it opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project.

Description: My wife and I were in Miami Beach for Art Deco weekend in 2019, and it turned out that there was an antique car show on the strip that day. I absolutely love the wonderful details to be found on old cars that don't exist on modern cars

Description: Roswell is a city in southeastern New Mexico that is renowned as the site of an alleged 1947 UFO crash. There are lots of goofy ufo/alien things about town center, including a spaceship that crashed into a McDonalds

Description: Celtic Crosses dot hundreds of cemeteries across Ireland and Scotland, as well as Wales and England. Few symbols are as recognizable as the Celtic Cross as the embodiment of Celtic Christianity.

Description: An engineering wonder, pulled off by Filippo Brunelleschi, who was a goldsmith by trade. I highly recommend reading "Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture" by Bob Ross for the incredible story behind this dome.

Description: Originally opened in 1943, this bar took its name from a mining claim that bore the same name. The profitable strikes from this mine provided the construction funds for the building, which dates back to 1888.

Description: The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in Manhattan, at 42nd Street and Lexington Ave. At 1,046 feet (319 m), it was the world's tallest building for 11 months after its completion in 1930.

Description: The Ross Fountain is a cast-iron structure located in West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, UK. It was installed in 1872 and restored in 2018.

Description: I took all kinds of images of the Palacio Real in hopes of turning one into a great kaleidoscope, but none of them lead to anything interesting. I only took 1 image of this lamppost and it turned out great. Go figure.

Description: Stumbled upon this beauty while my wife and I were exploring the funky little town of Madrid (accent on the first syllable, not the second like the one in Spain) New Mexico.

Description: This 9-story structure was designed by San Diego architect Rob Quigley. It is topped with an iconic steel-and-mesh lattice dome over a two-story rare-book reading room. It opened on September 30, 2013.

Description: Not the original one, which is inside the Uffizi. This is a copy but it is located were the original originally stood, in the Piazza della Signoria. There is another copy in Florence, this one in bronze, located in the Piazzale Michelangelo.

Description: Le Petit Palais issmall in name, but big in size. It is a fine arts museum constructed for the 1900 Paris Exposition (World’s Fair). And the best part - the permanent collection is free.

Description: This avenue is a landmark for Madrid residents and the location of important cultural and tourist spots in the city, including the so-called Golden Triangle of Art, the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and the Reina Sofia Museum.

Description: The foreground of this image is of the University Club's present building (beige), begun in 1907 and completed in 1909. In the background is Legacy Tower (blue) is a 72-story, 822 feet (251 meters) skyscraper.

Description: Pretty sure that these ducks don't understand the Chinese concept of Yin and Yang. Pretty sure I don't really either.

Description: The Scottish Parliament Building is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh. Construction of the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of the Scottish Parliament held their first debate in the new building on 7 September 2004.

Description: Stumbled across this monument on the weekend that I did my first art festival. It's near the Ct. state capitol building, but not a lot of Hartford workers/residents know about it.

Description: The Cadet Chapel is the most recognizable building at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the most visited man-made tourist attraction in Colorado. This aluminum, glass, and steel structure features 17 spires that shoot 150 feet into the sky.

Description: Nice combination, I think - Wine and Flowers

Description: Perlan ('The Pearl') is a museum and rotating glass dome that stands on top of Öskjuhlíð Hill in Reykjavík; surrounded by forest. It is one of the capital's most distinctive landmarks. The site is built on top of six water tanks that together store 24 million litres of Reykjavík's hot water.

Description: One fall I spend two 4 hour mornings with my camera and long lens parked with the Bethesda Fountain to my back and this to my front. I got two great shots out of it, this one and "A Kiss Under The Arch".

Description: Philip Simmons, who became an apprentice blacksmith at the age of twelve, is responsible for over 500 masterful pieces of wrought iron in the Charleston South Carolina. This window grill is one of his.

Description: One fall I spend two 4 hour mornings with my camera and long lens parked with the Bethesda Fountain to my back and this to my front. I got two great shots out of it, this one and "Walking The Dog".

Description: I took the original from which I made this image from the third floor of a bike parking garage. That's right, three floors of nothing but bikes. For a bike person like me, its like dying and going to heaven.

Description: Understandably one of the more popular gathering spots in NYC, this memorial was created by Italian craftsmen and was donated by the Italian city of Naples