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Kuingin kau ada

Habibie dan Ainun:
“Seandainya kuterjaga dari tidur dan mimpiku, kuingin kau ada — If I wake up from my sleep and dream, I want you by my side.”
— Trie Utami

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Location: Friday, December 21, 2012, at 14:55 PM, minus 7 °C, Gotland, Sweden

Quote, Gotland, Sweden

This image was taken on Friday, December 21, 2012, at 14:55 PM, minus 7 °C. My hands are still cold now. Initially, I only planned to spend a few minutes out there to catch the stunning sunset but then suddenly sweeping fog covered the landscape, and I became mesmerized by its irresistible mystery and intoxicatingly kept taking pictures until my hands screamed that they could not take the biting cold anymore.

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
— Edward Gibbon

Gotland, Sweden

Tietgenkollegiet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Award-winning Tietgenkollegiet in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the most well-designed and luxurious student apartments in the world.

“Tietgenkollegiet (English: Tietgen Student Hall), named for Danish financier C. F. Tietgen (1829-1891), is a student residence built in new district Ørestad close to the centre of Copenhagen. The building has a conspicuous circular shape, inspired by traditional southern Chinese Hakka architecture,[1] and is designed by Danish architects Lundgaard & Tranberg in 2006. The design has won it a RIBA European Award.”
Wikipedia

“The Hakka were originally immigrants from northern China who settled in the southern provinces. From the 17th century onwards, population pressures drove them more and more into conflict with their neighbours (called punti in Cantonese). As rivalry for resources turned to armed warfare, the Hakka began building communal living structures designed to be easily defensible. These houses, sometimes called tulou 土楼, were often round in shape and internally divided into many compartments for food storage, living quarters, ancestral temple, armoury etc. The largest houses covered over 40,000 m² and it is not unusual to find surviving houses of over 10,000 m².”
Wikipedia

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Tietgenkollegiet, Copenhagen, Denmark, blue hour

Tietgenkollegiet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tietgenkollegiet, Copenhagen, Denmark, blue hour

‎04:20 AM, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

My friend has just told me that now she likes to look up at the sky enjoying the beautiful colors of sunrise and sunset. Living in one of the most crowded metropolitans, she had never done it before, but thanks to my landscape photography, she is inspired to be aware of and enjoy the beautiful divine feast that the Grand Creator presents to us twice a day. I am grateful that my photography has made such a positive contribution no matter how small it is.

It is not hard to see how addictive landscape photography is with all its ethereal offering and grand lessons that teach human beings to be humble and patient.

La pazienza è veramente una virtù.

Enjoy the luxurious views from the most luxurious student apartments in the world, Tietgenkollegiet, Copenhagen, Denmark, at 04:20 AM.

Summer sky, Denmark

Summer sky, Denmark

Quote: “Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light” — Rumi

“Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.”
— Rumi

Yuni, Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia, Rumi quote

Academy Bridge (Ponte dell’Accademia), Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia)

Sunrise, the Academy Bridge (Ponte dell’Accademia), Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia).
If many people left their hearts in Venice, I left my Canon lens cap deep inside the Grand Canal. The cap rolled successfully from the bridge to the canal.

Sunrise, Academy Bridge, Grand Canal, Venice, Italy

Sunset, Rialto, Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia)

Sunset, Rialto, Venice, Italy

Sunrise, The Academy Bridge (Ponte dell’Accademia), Grand Canal, Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia)

Academy, Grand Canal, Venice, Italy

Sunset, Saint Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco), Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia)

Sunset, Piazza Ducale, Venice, Italy

Quote: YOU are the CREATOR of your own destiny

Friends, do you have a favorite one-sentence short quote you would like to match with one of my images that you like? If so, please publish your quote here and show me which one of my images you would like to match with your quote.

The quote “YOU are the CREATOR of your own destiny” is a request from my Italian friend Barbara.

Location: Teatro Romano, Trieste, Italia.

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“The Roman theatre lies at the foot of the San Giusto hill, facing the sea [2000 years ago]. The construction partially exploits the gentle slope of the hill, and much of the theatre is made of stone. The topmost portion of the amphitheatre steps and the stage were supposedly made of wood.

The statues that adorned the theatre, brought back to light in the 1930s, are now preserved at the Town Museum. Three inscriptions from the Trajan period mention a certain Q. Petronius Modestus, someone closely connected to the development of the theatre, which was erected during the second half of the 1st century.”

— Source: Wikipedia

Teatro Romano Blue Hour, Quote

A digital exhibition of Marco Polo—China link, Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia)

Sunrise, the Academy Bridge (Ponte dell’Accademia), Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia).
If many people left their hearts in Venice, I left my Canon lens cap deep inside the Grand Canal. The cap rolled successfully from the bridge to the canal.
Sunrise, Academy Bridge, Grand Canal, Venice, Italy

Sunset at Rialto, Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia).
Sunset, Rialto, Venice, Italy

Sunset magic hour at Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco), Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia).

Foggy sunrise at Saint Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco), Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia).

In just few seconds, I saw nothing as the thick fog covered the San Giorgio Maggiore island across the molo di Piazza Ducale.

It was an amazing experience to witness how the fog and the light changed the whole scenery. It was just that early in the morning while it was still dark, rows of photographers from all over the world already flocked the area. Apparently with 24 million visitors, many photographers have the same idea to wake up early in the morning to capture Venice without tourists.

Foggy sunrise, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy

Elisa at Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale), Venice (Venezia), Italy (Italia) in a vintage 50-year-old hand-embroidered red Chinese jacket, a bridge between the past and the present, East and West, Marco Polo and China, Italian pasta and Chinese noodle, Italian ravioli and Chinese dumplings. And why not a beautiful Italian girl with a vintage delicate red Chinese jacket in Venice, where Marco Polo came from and rested?

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Elisa, PIazza Ducale, Venezia, Italia

The details of the refined hand-embroidery of the vintage red Chinese jacket that Elisa is wearing in the photo above.

Details of the vintage red Chinese jacket

Glacier Lagoon, Jökulsárlón, Iceland

Jökulsárlón, Glacier Lagoon, Iceland

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