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Uploaded: 07/13/08 12:23 AM GMT
Austria 020
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Austria, Stift Melk.
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.alexis518
07/13/08 2:00 PM GMT
Such wonderful detail and color! Of course your comp is also top notch.
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I'm speechless! Beautiful is all I can say my friend.
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sandi♥
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life.
A beautiful composition with great detail and color.
Very well done.
Ed
Very well done.
Ed
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It's not how many megapixels. But how you use the ones you have.
excellent detail and color as well as composition. what a magnificent place to worship.
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sorry if i don't comment on each of your pictures. to those of you who comment so often, i can't imagine how you get it done!
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Very nice. Very ... nice.
And I can only imagine the lighting challenges. You handled the exposure aspect very well.
Not only a excellently technically handled shot, but quite a beautiful one as well. The dynamic range is gorgeous to view. Wonderful details abound, both in the light and shadowed areas.
Well done from me. And but of course, thank you for sharing this one with us. :o)
And I can only imagine the lighting challenges. You handled the exposure aspect very well.
Not only a excellently technically handled shot, but quite a beautiful one as well. The dynamic range is gorgeous to view. Wonderful details abound, both in the light and shadowed areas.
Well done from me. And but of course, thank you for sharing this one with us. :o)
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Een overvloed aan barokke praal ! Dit moet wel de hemel op aarde zijn....
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
Saved & faved again Hans. Thanks for this excellent post.
Regards, Cornelius.
Regards, Cornelius.
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Cornelius was here! (lol) Click HERE to see his work!
Melk Abbey or Stift Melk is an Austrian Benedictine abbey, and one of the world's most famous monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk on a rocky outcrop overlooking the river Danube in Lower Austria, adjoining the Wachau valley.
The abbey was founded in 1089 when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria gave one of his castles to Benedictine monks from Lambach Abbey. A school was founded in the 12th Century, and the monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection. The monastery was also a major site for the production of manuscripts. In the 15th Century the abbey became the centre of the Melk Reform movement which reinvigorated the monastic life of Austria and Southern Germany.
Today's impressive Baroque abbey was built between 1702 and 1736 by architect Jakob Prandtauer. Particularly noteworthy is the abbey church with frescos by Johann Michael Rottmayr and the impressive library with countless medieval manuscripts.
Due to its fame and academic stature, Melk managed to escape dissolution under Emperor Joseph II when many other Austrian abbeys were seized and dissolved between 1780 and 1790. The abbey managed to survive other threats to its existence during the Napoleonic Wars, and also in the period following the Nazi Anschluss (takeover) of Austria in 1938, when the school and a large part of the abbey were confiscated by the state.
The school was returned to the abbey after the Second World War and now caters for nearly 900 pupils of both sexes.
Since 1625 the abbey has been a member of the Austrian Congregation, now within the Benedictine Confederation.
Umberto Eco named one of the protagonists in his well-known novel The Name of the Rose as a tribute to the abbey and its famous library "Adso von Melk".
Oh, en "de naam van de Roos" kan ik je ook aanbevelen!
p.s. prachtig, prachtig, prachtig!
The abbey was founded in 1089 when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria gave one of his castles to Benedictine monks from Lambach Abbey. A school was founded in the 12th Century, and the monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection. The monastery was also a major site for the production of manuscripts. In the 15th Century the abbey became the centre of the Melk Reform movement which reinvigorated the monastic life of Austria and Southern Germany.
Today's impressive Baroque abbey was built between 1702 and 1736 by architect Jakob Prandtauer. Particularly noteworthy is the abbey church with frescos by Johann Michael Rottmayr and the impressive library with countless medieval manuscripts.
Due to its fame and academic stature, Melk managed to escape dissolution under Emperor Joseph II when many other Austrian abbeys were seized and dissolved between 1780 and 1790. The abbey managed to survive other threats to its existence during the Napoleonic Wars, and also in the period following the Nazi Anschluss (takeover) of Austria in 1938, when the school and a large part of the abbey were confiscated by the state.
The school was returned to the abbey after the Second World War and now caters for nearly 900 pupils of both sexes.
Since 1625 the abbey has been a member of the Austrian Congregation, now within the Benedictine Confederation.
Umberto Eco named one of the protagonists in his well-known novel The Name of the Rose as a tribute to the abbey and its famous library "Adso von Melk".
Oh, en "de naam van de Roos" kan ik je ook aanbevelen!
p.s. prachtig, prachtig, prachtig!
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Glorious! The intricacy of the ornamentation is astonishing. Beautifully photographed.
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ONE-DER-FULL ;o)
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Wow again :-) +favs too
Great architecture!
Great architecture!
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