#beautifulLight

2025-08-04
My wife walking across the central hall of château the Seneffe (1768), Seneffe, Belgium, 2025

The château de Seneffe was built between 1763 and 1768 by the architect Laurent-Benoît Dewez for Julien Depestre, a newly wealthy business man who became the Count of Seneffe and Turnhout in 1767. In the nineteenth century it became the property of the Philippson family, who restored the then almost a century old mannor and added modern amenities. After being confiscated during World War II, it served various purposes, including a school, before being abandoned and looted. It eventually was saved from demolition and restored as a museum in 1995. 

In the 18th century, wrought iron saw increased use in stairwell construction, particularly for balusters, alongside stone or wooden treads and handrails. The staircase of château the Seneffe is a fine example of this.

The façade of the dwelling, in Neo-Classical style, was built in blue stone that came from Feluy and Ecaussinnes. It’s courtyard is flanked by two long Palladian galleries with ionic columns, which house statues and vases sculpted in the antique style by Laurent Tamine, and lead to a chapel and living quarters, respectively.

#architecture #contemporaryart #building #chateau #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #contrast #lightandshadow #everydaylife #bnw #bnwphotography
#contemporaryphotography #contemporaryart #architectlovers #newphotography #beautifullight #light #lightandshadows #monochrome #stairwell #staircase #wroughtiron #neoclassical #stairs

Does a stack of books count as a #SundayShelfie? #Books #NatureWriting #BeautifulLight

A writing desk with a lamp, a mug, a candle, a red leaf and a jar with some green foliage next to a dresser with a stack of nature books a frame in a form of open book with two leaves, some black spined books at the back, a tin, a mug, and a frame delivering Finnish lighthouses.
2025-04-27

Does a stack of books count to a #SundayShelfie ?

#Books #BeautifulLight

A writing desk with a lamp, a mug, a candle, a red leaf and a jar with some green foliage next to a dresser with a stack of nature books a frame in a form of open book with two leaves, some black spined books at the back, a tin, a mug, and a frame delivering Finnish lighthouses.
2025-03-13
Rijnstraat 50 (Rhinestreet), opposite of Central Station The Hague, The Netherlands, 2024

Never underestimate the power of the ordinary, for it is the very foundation upon which the extraordinary is built. It is the stepping stone that carries us upwards, the canvas upon which we can paint our unique stories. The most profound joys in live can often be found in the simplest of moments. Embracing the beauty of the ordinary enables one to pause, breathe and appreciate the intricate details that often go unnoticed. Legacies are not limited to the realms of the extraordinary but are determined by the ordinary. It is in the familiarity and the simplicity of everyday moments where the beauty of ordinariness lies.

Although many like to interpret YOLO — you only live once — as an invitation to be careless and wasteful, I like to take it into the direction of existentialism: knowing that life has no meaning, what do we do with it? Once we accept the absurdity of life — that it has no predetermined meaning whatsoever — we are free to enjoy the little pleasures, joys and observations of daily life and give them our own meaning. Embracing the ordinary is living live to the fullest. Meaning reveals itself in the most insignificant moments, in the beauty of everyday life.

While waiting for tram 17 at one of the platforms of The Hague Central Station my eyes where met with this everyday scene right across the street, a seemingly insignificant play of light created by the evening sun projecting its last rays of the day through an empty government office building.

#architecture #contemporaryart #building #blackandwhitephotography #railroad #blackandwhite #contrast #lightandshadow #everydaylife #bnw #bnwphotography
#contemporaryphotography #contemporaryart #architectlovers #
#newphotography #beautifullight #light #lightandshadows #citysidewalk #monochrome #thehague #denhaag #denhaagcentraalstation
2024-11-01

Punk Water Fountain
Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada USA
Olympus OM-D EM-1 MKIII • 2024

A water bottle filling station’s bird spikes eerily glow in the morning light.

#Photography #DigitalCamera #ColorPhotography #Photo
#Olympus #MicroFourThirds #OlympusPhotography

#USA #UnitedStates #Nevada #LasVegas #NPS #NationalPark #DesertNationalWildlifeRefuge
#Sunrise #MorningMoments #Backlit #BeautifulLight #Light #Bokeh #Machine

Plastic translucent spikes glow in the morning sunlight with the fine lines of spider webs interconnecting them on top of a water bottle filling station. The world behind a warm comforting blur.
2024-10-27
#silentsunday in #Wuppertal
... an einer Waldstraße. Schön!
Alle halbe Stunde fährt ein Bus.

#herbst #autumn #nebel #fog #beautifullight #verkehr #publictransport #cityscape #photography
Haltestelle an einer Straße im Herbstwald. Sonnenlicht fällt auf die Wartehalle. Nebel hängt in den Bäumen.
2024-10-09

Beautiful Light's mix of STALKER and Hunt Showdown is masterfully eerie, but I do wish it wasn't an extraction shooter - rockpapershotgun.com/beautiful #Shooter:FirstPerson #BeautifulLight #ScienceFiction #OpenWorld #Horror #PC

2024-06-22
Olympus OM-10 (Kodak Portra 400)
#analogphotography #kodak #olympus #beautifullight
2023-09-20

BEAUTIFUL LIGHT Trailer (2024) Sci-Fi Thriller | New Cinematic 4K UHD

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2023-09-07

The light was beautiful this morning. All hazy, gentle and soft. The path in the middle on the right is the entrance to the #stumpery. Lots of new planting this year, which will only reach full height next year.

#morningLight #beautifulLight #softLight #artistsgarden #imperfectgarden #garden #gardening #gardenphotography #artist #wolfkettler #gardenwiltshire #wiltshiregarden #wiltshire #autumn #biodiversity #natural #naturalGarden #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #pollinatorFriendly

Photograph shows a part of our garden with a fern and a perennials border in the foreground. In the middle distance shrubs and another border and in the far distance a tall evergreen hedge. In the middle ground on the right is a narrow path, which snakes off into the stumpery, which is out of view.
Keithkbfref
2023-01-12

Morning everyone,

Today is overcast and dull where I am, so I'm taking the opportunity to remind myself of beautiful winter sunshine with today's image.

Winter sunshine on the University of Nottingham building at the Lakeside campus.

The foreground of the image is of a lake, there are a few gulls resting on the still waters.  To the left of the image filling the middle third there are tall trees.  The trees stand before a building in the distance that fills the remaining frame horizontally taking up two thirds of the middle of the image.  This is a white stone building with many windows, the building is glowing in golden winter sunlight and in the middle of the image the clock tower of the building stretches up into a blue sky with white clouds.
2022-12-10
2022-11-30

I walked to my local postbox this afternoon. Can you see why the 2.5 mile round trip took an hour and a half? I love how the light plays on the hills in the late afternoon. Highlighting lumps, bumps, mountains and the occasional castle! I also met my new favourite Herdwick ram, I called him Leo. He didn't tell me his name but I will find out. #HeartofArgyll #lochfyne #castlelachlan #arrocharalps #Argyll #Herdwick #ram #Scotland #beautifullight #castles

A view down to Loch Fyne showing the light highlighting the hills and mountains in the distanceA view down to Loch Fyne showing the light highlighting the hills and mountains in the distanceA distant view of old Castle Lachlan from across Loch Fyne. The afternoon sun highlighting the curtain wall. The same view is partially reflected beneath in the dark still water .A Herdwick ram sporting a magnificent mane.

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