Victoria and Albert Museum
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Natural History Museum
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Pardon me, I can't remember which museum this was. Anyone care to help me?
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Merry-Go-Round, Covent Gardens
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Covent Gardens Piazza
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Other museums and Covent Gardens
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Natural History Museum
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Pardon me, I can't remember which museum this was. Anyone care to help me?
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Merry-Go-Round, Covent Gardens
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Covent Gardens Piazza
Eros and Trafalgar Square
Eros, Picadilly Circus
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Nelson's Column
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Nearby Trafalgar Square
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National Gallery
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Trafalgar Square
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British Museum
British Museum.
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The Great Court was designed by Norman Foster as the Museum's Millennium Project. An astonishing glass roof covers the whole space between the round Reading Room and Smirke's 19th-century building. Read more about tje Great Court: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/greatcourt/intro.html
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A clay-vest which is used when one is mourning.
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The Basalt sculpture known as Hoa Hakananai'a from Easter Island in the South Pacific. Representing an ancestral figure, it was probably first dispalyed out of doors on a ceremonial platform.
Source: John Reeve's The British Museum Visitor's Guide.
The guide should be available from http://www.britishmuseum.co.uk
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A skull-like sculture made from quartz.
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Greek sculpture.
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The Reading Room within the British Museum. It looked spectacular, trust me.
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Egyptian Mummy. This photo was taken by QH onher camera.
Click on this link to read on the process of mummification (Copyright of the British Museum).
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Taken for Crazy Cat:
I took this for Crazy Cat in hope to lend her new inspirations. But I fear it might irk her than please her. Anyway, this is the mummy of a cat. To the Egyptians, cats were sacred to the goddess Bastet.
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Money-making machines. If I had one of those, what would I do with the money? I hope I would choose to use it to benefit others, and then use some to go for further studies.
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Sculpture found in British Museum.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
10 Aug 05: Beach near Beach Ballroom
Ah! The beach.
On 10 Aug 05, I was to attend a concert at Beach Ballroom, in Aberdeen. Since I was early, I walked around to talk photos. It is a pity that my camera and my skills have failed to capture the entire vastness and beauty of the beach. Pardon me please. Meantime, imagine the beauty of the beach.
Watching the tides go by. They hardly wait.
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I wonder what the two gentlemen are doing here. But I suppose they could not help but admire the beauty of the waters?
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Inside Beach Ballroom. I don't quite like this set-up for an orchestral concert.
Beach Ballroom, in the evening.
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The night falls.
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On 10 Aug 05, I was to attend a concert at Beach Ballroom, in Aberdeen. Since I was early, I walked around to talk photos. It is a pity that my camera and my skills have failed to capture the entire vastness and beauty of the beach. Pardon me please. Meantime, imagine the beauty of the beach.
Watching the tides go by. They hardly wait.
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I wonder what the two gentlemen are doing here. But I suppose they could not help but admire the beauty of the waters?
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Inside Beach Ballroom. I don't quite like this set-up for an orchestral concert.
Beach Ballroom, in the evening.
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The night falls.
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Saturday, September 03, 2005
New Kings
A nice place. A pity I don't have many good photos taken at this place. Read 8 Aug 05: First day of festival orchestra's rehearsal for more details.
Cars and buses use this road, which seems to be built for horses to run on in the past. Click this photo to see the enlarged image and you can see that passengers will sure get a bumpy ride when vehicles drive on this road. I truly think it was meant for horses.
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I saw seagulls at New Kings and had fun trying to "follow" those who have landed on the grounds.
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Double bass sectionals were held in one of the rooms in this building.
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A times, the weather would get dull.
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The building in this photo is where we had our rehearsals for the festival orchestra. If you wish to inspect and scrutinise to find out why the grass is so special such that people were willing to sit and lie down on it without using a mat, click on this photo to see the enlarged version of the photo.
Cars and buses use this road, which seems to be built for horses to run on in the past. Click this photo to see the enlarged image and you can see that passengers will sure get a bumpy ride when vehicles drive on this road. I truly think it was meant for horses.
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I saw seagulls at New Kings and had fun trying to "follow" those who have landed on the grounds.
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Double bass sectionals were held in one of the rooms in this building.
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A times, the weather would get dull.
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The building in this photo is where we had our rehearsals for the festival orchestra. If you wish to inspect and scrutinise to find out why the grass is so special such that people were willing to sit and lie down on it without using a mat, click on this photo to see the enlarged version of the photo.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Marischal College
Here's photos that I have taken of the Marischal College when I was in Aberdeen.
Here's a brief introduction of the Marischal College:
Located on Broad Street, the Marischal College was founded in 1593 by George Keith, the 5th Earl Marischal of Dunnottar. It is the second largest granite building in the world after Spain's El Escorial.
Inside the college lies the Marischal Museum. The museum possesses a superb anthropological collection, including exhibits from Egypt, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii and Tibet. However, I read that the main emphasis in the museum in the collection on the north-east of Scotland.
See if its granite material impressed you just like it did to me. Meantime, I shall let the photos do the talking.
Here's a brief introduction of the Marischal College:
Located on Broad Street, the Marischal College was founded in 1593 by George Keith, the 5th Earl Marischal of Dunnottar. It is the second largest granite building in the world after Spain's El Escorial.
Inside the college lies the Marischal Museum. The museum possesses a superb anthropological collection, including exhibits from Egypt, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii and Tibet. However, I read that the main emphasis in the museum in the collection on the north-east of Scotland.
See if its granite material impressed you just like it did to me. Meantime, I shall let the photos do the talking.
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