Light Is All Around - Photoblog - Miro Bartanus

Festum Aeternum show

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:45 +0100

Festum Aeternum show

The picture was taken during live performance of dancing group
Festum Aeternum
based on motives from Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy - Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven
(Italian: Divina Commedia - Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso).

Eiffel Flower II

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:03 +0100

Eiffel Flower II

Eiffel tower or "La Tour Eiffel" or "La dame de fer" or "The Iron Lady". A bit unusual look to this iconic symbol of Paris and industrial architecture.

Eiffel Flower

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:12 +0100

Eiffel Flower

Eiffel tower or "La Tour Eiffel" or "La dame de fer" or "The Iron Lady". A bit unusual look to this iconic symbol of Paris and industrial architecture. Is it tower or flower? ;p)

Fountain of joy

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:20 +0100

Fountain of joy

Fallow Deer (Dama dama)

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:55 +0100

Fallow Deer (Dama dama)

The Fallow Deer (Dama dama) is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. This common species is native to western Eurasia, but has been introduced widely elsewhere.
The male is known as a buck, the female is a doe, and the young a fawn.
Adult bucks are 140–160 cm long and 85–95 cm shoulder height, and 50–80 kg in weight,
does are 130–150 cm long and 75–85 cm shoulder height, and 25–45 kg in weight.
Fawns are born in spring at about 30 cm and weigh around 4.5 kg.
The life span is around 12–16 years.
All of the Fallow deer have white spots on their backs, and black tips at the ends of their tails.

Source: Wikipedia

Total Eclipse of the Moon, 15.6.2011

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:54 +0100

Total Eclipse of the Moon, 15.6.2011

A total lunar eclipse took place on June 15, 2011. It was the first of two such eclipses in 2011. The second will occur on December 10, 2011. This was a relatively rare central lunar eclipse, in which the center point of Earth's shadow passes across the Moon. The last time a lunar eclipse was closer to the center of the earth's shadow was on July 16, 2000. The next central total lunar eclipse will be on July 27, 2018.

Battle of Vavrisovo 1709

Wed, 04 May 2011 23:19 +0100

Battle of Vavrisovo 1709

The Fight at Vavrišovo took place in August 1709, at the time when the class uprising of František II. Rákoci was approaching its final stage. Although the fight is one of the smaller fights of the class uprising of František II. Rákoci, the way of defence and the outcome of this fight are ranked among a number of curiosities of the military history of Slovakia. Read more about this on www.bitkaprivavrisove.sk and sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitka_pri_Vavrišove

Coronation Festival, Bratislava

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:14 +0100

Coronation Festival, Bratislava

The first from series of photos from the coronation of King of Hungary, 13 year old King Ferdinand IV, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (played by actor Filip Tůma) and his first wife Maria Anna of Spain, Queen of Hungary (played by dancer Ivana Surovcová). Ferdinand IV take St. Stephan Crown 16th of July 1647 in Bratislava. During Bratislava's 300 years lasting coronation history, between 1563 and 1830, there were 18 Austro-Hungarian Kings and Queens crowned in Bratislava. For the last 8 years, during the first weekend of September, Bratislava reenacts one of the crowning.

Finding Christopher Columbus birthplace, Rue Colombe, Calvi, Corsica

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:51 +0100

Finding Christopher Columbus birthplace, Rue Colombe, Calvi, Corsica

Port of Bastia, Corsica

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:48 +0100

Port of Bastia, Corsica