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  • Tijuca means swamp in Tupi-Guarani...It is one of the most traditional districts of Rio de Janeiro and has the largest urban forest in the world, the Tijuca Forest. Mainly a middle class district, it has been historically inhabited by Portuguese immigrant families and the families of military officers.
    Tijuca.tif
  • Fine art photography.<br />
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A favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. In the late 18th century, the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighbourhoods). This was the place where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many freed black slaves moved in.<br />
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Even before the first "favela" came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from downtown and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s, due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Without finding a place to live, many people ended up in a favela.<br />
Census data released in December 2011 by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) shows that in 2010, about (6%) of the population lived in slums in Brazil. It means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people lived in the country areas of irregular occupation and lack of public services or urbanization - called by the IBGE of "subnormal agglomerations."<br />
The original favela was erected on the Morro de Castelo in Rio de Janeiro by the families of soldiers returning from the Canudos Campaign of 1897, to beg for their salaries.<br />
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The term favela was coined in the late 1800's. At the time, 20,000 veteran soldiers were brought from the conflict against the settlers of Canudos, in the Eastern province of Bahia, to Rio de Janeiro and left with no place to live. When they served the army in Bahia, those soldiers had been familiar with Canudos's Favela Hill — a name referring to favela, a skin-irritating tree in the spurge family indigenous to Bahia, Jatropha phyllacantha (or else the related faveleira tree, Cnidoscolus quercifolius). When they settled in the Providência [Providence] hill in Rio de Janeiro, they nicknamed the place Favela hill from their common reference, thereby calling a slum a favela for the first time.
    Wall of houses.tif
  • Fine art photography.<br />
<br />
A favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. In the late 18th century, the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighbourhoods). This was the place where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many freed black slaves moved in.<br />
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Even before the first "favela" came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from downtown and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s, due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Without finding a place to live, many people ended up in a favela.<br />
Census data released in December 2011 by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) shows that in 2010, about (6%) of the population lived in slums in Brazil. It means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people lived in the country areas of irregular occupation and lack of public services or urbanization - called by the IBGE of "subnormal agglomerations."<br />
The original favela was erected on the Morro de Castelo in Rio de Janeiro by the families of soldiers returning from the Canudos Campaign of 1897, to beg for their salaries.<br />
<br />
The term favela was coined in the late 1800's. At the time, 20,000 veteran soldiers were brought from the conflict against the settlers of Canudos, in the Eastern province of Bahia, to Rio de Janeiro and left with no place to live. When they served the army in Bahia, those soldiers had been familiar with Canudos's Favela Hill — a name referring to favela, a skin-irritating tree in the spurge family indigenous to Bahia, Jatropha phyllacantha (or else the related faveleira tree, Cnidoscolus quercifolius). When they settled in the Providência [Providence] hill in Rio de Janeiro, they nicknamed the place Favela hill from their common reference, thereby calling a slum a favela for the first time.
    High Houses.tif
  • Fine art photography.<br />
<br />
A favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. In the late 18th century, the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighbourhoods). This was the place where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many freed black slaves moved in.<br />
<br />
Even before the first "favela" came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from downtown and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s, due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Without finding a place to live, many people ended up in a favela.<br />
Census data released in December 2011 by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) shows that in 2010, about (6%) of the population lived in slums in Brazil. It means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people lived in the country areas of irregular occupation and lack of public services or urbanization - called by the IBGE of "subnormal agglomerations."<br />
The original favela was erected on the Morro de Castelo in Rio de Janeiro by the families of soldiers returning from the Canudos Campaign of 1897, to beg for their salaries.<br />
<br />
The term favela was coined in the late 1800's. At the time, 20,000 veteran soldiers were brought from the conflict against the settlers of Canudos, in the Eastern province of Bahia, to Rio de Janeiro and left with no place to live. When they served the army in Bahia, those soldiers had been familiar with Canudos's Favela Hill — a name referring to favela, a skin-irritating tree in the spurge family indigenous to Bahia, Jatropha phyllacantha (or else the related faveleira tree, Cnidoscolus quercifolius). When they settled in the Providência [Providence] hill in Rio de Janeiro, they nicknamed the place Favela hill from their common reference, thereby calling a slum a favela for the first time.
    Wall of houses.tif
  • Downtown Rio. Carioca view.
    Downtown Rio.tif
  • Pearl district at night.tif
  • PDX color layers.tif
  • End of autumn miracle sunrise.tif
  • Fall tones.tif
  • Night coming through.tif
  • Rose city's Pearl district sunset.tif
  • Warm cold .tif
  • Willamette river and Ross Island bri...tif
  • Fine art photography.<br />
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Kombi is an old type of RV from Volkswagen. Although old there is still a lot circulation in Brazil's traffic
    Kombi.tif
  • Landship. Fine art photography of Downtown Rio de Janeiro.
    Landship.tif
  • December 2010: The summer started yesterday and the temperatures are already as high as 35ºC/95ºF. I sure hope it doesn't get as hot as last year when we had 45ºC/113ºF in January.
    Downtown heat.tif
  • The Divine Lorraine Hotel, also known as the Lorraine Apartments, stands at the corner of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Willis G. Hale and built between 1892 and 1894, the building originally functioned as apartments, housing some of Philadelphia's wealthy residents. Lorraine Apartments was one of the most luxurious and best preserved late 19th-century apartment houses in Philadelphia. In 1900 the building became the Lorraine Hotel when the Metropolitan Hotel Company purchased the apartments. Later it would become the first hotel in Philadelphia to be racially integrated under Father Divine.<br />
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The Lorraine, at ten stories tall, was one of the first high-rise apartment buildings in the city. The building's architect, Willis G. Hale, also designed an earlier high-rise apartment building at 22nd and Chestnut Streets, which stood from 1889 until its demolition in 1945. Hale designed many other buildings around the city, but quickly fell out of favor at the turn of the century when most patrons rejected his highly stylized Victorian designs for the sleeker style of modern skyscrapers, and most of his landmarks had been torn down after the Great Depression.<br />
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The building was closed in 1999 and sold in 2000 by the International Peace Mission. In May 2006 it was resold to Lorraine Hotel LP. to be converted into apartments. Development has stalled however, and the building remains in a dilapidated state, covered with graffiti, with windows boarded up or open to the weather.
    Lorraine Apartments - Divine Lorrain...tif
  • Royal Portuguese Reading<br />
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The institution was founded in 1837 by a group of forty-three Portuguese immigrants, political refugees, to promote culture among the Portuguese community in the then capital of the Empire. It was the first association of this community in the city.<br />
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The current headquarters building, designed by Portuguese architect Rafael da Silva e Castro, was erected between 1880 and 1887 neomanuelino style. This architectural style evokes the exuberant Gothic-Renaissance effect at the time of the Portuguese Discoveries, known as Manueline in Portugal for having coincided with the reign of King Manuel I (1495-1521).<br />
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The interior also follows the style neomanuelino doors, wooden shelves for books and memorials. The roof of the Reading Room has a beautiful chandelier and a skylight in the iron structure, the first example of this type of architecture in Brazil. The lounge also has a beautiful monument of silver, ivory and marble (the Altar of the Fatherland), 1.7 meters high, which celebrates the time of discovery, performed at Kings & Sons in Port Antonio Maria Ribeiro by the goldsmith, and purchased in 1923 by the Royal Cabinet.<br />
Among its distinguished visitors, past, are the names of Machado de Assis, Olavo Bilac and John in Rio<br />
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The Office publishes the magazine Real Convergence Lusíada (biannual) and promotes courses on Literature, Portuguese Language, History, Anthropology and Arts, aimed mainly at college students.<br />
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The history of the Brazilian Academy of Letters is attached to the Royal Cabinet, since the first five solemn sessions of the Academy, under the presidency of Machado de Assis, were held here.
    Color Royal Portuguese Reading Chamb...tif
  • Plum blossom in the Chinese Garden, Portland, OR
    Plum blossom.tif
  • Green city.tif
  • Portland's Pearl distric dawn.tif
  • Center City skyscrapers reflected in the Comcast building in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
    Center City reflexes.tif
  • Skyline view of Center City, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
    Afternoon Philly.tif
  • Capture of a lightning striking Center City, Philadelphia, USA.
    Lightning striking Center City.tif
  • Koi sky.tif
  • This is listed as one of the Peace Monuments dedicated in 1950-1954. It is a memorial to the aviators of Pennsylvania killed in World War I. Paul Manship (1885-1966) was the sculptor and Joseph Patterson Sims (1890-1953) was the architect. The sculpture is made of bronze and limestone it is shaped like a celestial sphere, the outer structure suggests an astronomical instrument, and the figures illustrate signs of the zodiac. First proposed during World War I by the Aero Club of Pennsylvania, the memorial was commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association. It was donated to the City of Philadelphia in 1950.
    Aero Memorial World War I.tif
  • City Hall is the largest municipal building in the United States, containing over 14.5 acres of floor space. It is an architectural treasure inside and out. The public rooms are among the most lavish in the City. The City Council Chamber, the Mayor’s Reception Room, Conversation Hall and the Supreme Court Room are the most ornate.<br />
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The exterior is covered with sculpture representing the seasons and continents, as well as allegorical figures, heads and masks. All of the sculpture was designed by Alexander Milne Calder, including the 27-ton statue of William Penn atop the tower. The tower was the tallest building in Philadelphia until 1987. Its observation deck, which is open to the public, provides a panoramic view of the city.<br />
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The present City Hall on Center Square was begun in 1871 and took over 30 years to complete. John McArthur Jr. was the architect and supervised construction with the assistance of Thomas U. Walter. The first floor is built of solid granite — 22 feet thick in some places — supporting a brick structure faced with marble. The 548-foot tower is the tallest masonry structure in the world without a steel frame.
    City Hall lights.tif
  • Pearl district at night II.tif
  • Portland's autumn aerial ride.tif
  • Portland Aerial Tram Vintage.tif
  • Marquam Bridge from above.tif
  • PDX Pearl distric lights.tif
  • PDX evening lights.tif
  • The Divine Lorraine Hotel, also known as the Lorraine Apartments, stands at the corner of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Willis G. Hale and built between 1892 and 1894, the building originally functioned as apartments, housing some of Philadelphia's wealthy residents. Lorraine Apartments was one of the most luxurious and best preserved late 19th-century apartment houses in Philadelphia. In 1900 the building became the Lorraine Hotel when the Metropolitan Hotel Company purchased the apartments. Later it would become the first hotel in Philadelphia to be racially integrated under Father Divine.<br />
<br />
The Lorraine, at ten stories tall, was one of the first high-rise apartment buildings in the city. The building's architect, Willis G. Hale, also designed an earlier high-rise apartment building at 22nd and Chestnut Streets, which stood from 1889 until its demolition in 1945. Hale designed many other buildings around the city, but quickly fell out of favor at the turn of the century when most patrons rejected his highly stylized Victorian designs for the sleeker style of modern skyscrapers, and most of his landmarks had been torn down after the Great Depression.<br />
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The building was closed in 1999 and sold in 2000 by the International Peace Mission. In May 2006 it was resold to Lorraine Hotel LP. to be converted into apartments. Development has stalled however, and the building remains in a dilapidated state, covered with graffiti, with windows boarded up or open to the weather.
    Derelict Divine.tif
  • The Divine Lorraine Hotel, also known as the Lorraine Apartments, stands at the corner of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Willis G. Hale and built between 1892 and 1894, the building originally functioned as apartments, housing some of Philadelphia's wealthy residents. Lorraine Apartments was one of the most luxurious and best preserved late 19th-century apartment houses in Philadelphia. In 1900 the building became the Lorraine Hotel when the Metropolitan Hotel Company purchased the apartments. Later it would become the first hotel in Philadelphia to be racially integrated under Father Divine.<br />
<br />
The Lorraine, at ten stories tall, was one of the first high-rise apartment buildings in the city. The building's architect, Willis G. Hale, also designed an earlier high-rise apartment building at 22nd and Chestnut Streets, which stood from 1889 until its demolition in 1945. Hale designed many other buildings around the city, but quickly fell out of favor at the turn of the century when most patrons rejected his highly stylized Victorian designs for the sleeker style of modern skyscrapers, and most of his landmarks had been torn down after the Great Depression.<br />
<br />
The building was closed in 1999 and sold in 2000 by the International Peace Mission. In May 2006 it was resold to Lorraine Hotel LP. to be converted into apartments. Development has stalled however, and the building remains in a dilapidated state, covered with graffiti, with windows boarded up or open to the weather.
    Lorraine Apartments.tif
  • Center City skyscrapers in Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Skyscrapers deconstruction.tif
  • Center City skyscrapers in Philadelphia.
    Center City architecture.tif
  • Fine art photography of Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Bay and the Sugar Loaf.
    Rio de Janeiro and the colors of Bra...tif
  • Pearl and Mount.tif
  • Moon rising through the Comcast building in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
    Moon rising.tif
  • Flattering city lights in this night portrait in front of Comcast Building in Center City, Philadelphia.
    Portrait in Center City.tif
  • Falling Maple.tif
  • Fine art photography.<br />
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Royal Portuguese Reading<br />
<br />
The institution was founded in 1837 by a group of forty-three Portuguese immigrants, political refugees, to promote culture among the Portuguese community in the then capital of the Empire. It was the first association of this community in the city.<br />
<br />
The current headquarters building, designed by Portuguese architect Rafael da Silva e Castro, was erected between 1880 and 1887 neomanuelino style. This architectural style evokes the exuberant Gothic-Renaissance effect at the time of the Portuguese Discoveries, known as Manueline in Portugal for having coincided with the reign of King Manuel I (1495-1521).<br />
<br />
The interior also follows the style neomanuelino doors, wooden shelves for books and memorials. The roof of the Reading Room has a beautiful chandelier and a skylight in the iron structure, the first example of this type of architecture in Brazil. The lounge also has a beautiful monument of silver, ivory and marble (the Altar of the Fatherland), 1.7 meters high, which celebrates the time of discovery, performed at Kings & Sons in Port Antonio Maria Ribeiro by the goldsmith, and purchased in 1923 by the Royal Cabinet.<br />
Among its distinguished visitors, past, are the names of Machado de Assis, Olavo Bilac and John in Rio<br />
<br />
The Office publishes the magazine Real Convergence Lusíada (biannual) and promotes courses on Literature, Portuguese Language, History, Anthropology and Arts, aimed mainly at college students.<br />
<br />
The history of the Brazilian Academy of Letters is attached to the Royal Cabinet, since the first five solemn sessions of the Academy, under the presidency of Machado de Assis, were held here.
    Royal Portuguese Reading Chambers.tif
  • Center City, or Downtown Philadelphia includes the central business district, and central neighborhoods of the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. <br />
Center City is home to most of Philadelphia's tallest buildings, including Philadelphia's City Hall, the second tallest masonry building in the world and until 1987 the tallest in Philadelphia, as well as the tallest building in the world for seven years. In March 1987, One Liberty Place broke the gentlemen's agreement not to exceed the height of the statue of William Penn atop City Hall.
    Center City night shine.tif
  • 2013 Diamond Derby Crystal City<br />
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The Crystal City Diamond Derby is a unique cycling event that combines speed, and high-energy fun in a cool urban environment, in the center of an underground parking garage. The Crystal City Diamond Derby features a variety of different race formats including a non-competitive open course ride, a head-to-head speed race, a courier-inspired scavenger hunt, team relays, and a special children’s course.
    Diamond Derby Crystal City 5.tif
  • 2013 Diamond Derby Crystal City<br />
<br />
The Crystal City Diamond Derby is a unique cycling event that combines speed, and high-energy fun in a cool urban environment, in the center of an underground parking garage. The Crystal City Diamond Derby features a variety of different race formats including a non-competitive open course ride, a head-to-head speed race, a courier-inspired scavenger hunt, team relays, and a special children’s course.
    Diamond Derby Crystal City 3.tif
  • 2013 Diamond Derby Crystal City<br />
<br />
The Crystal City Diamond Derby is a unique cycling event that combines speed, and high-energy fun in a cool urban environment, in the center of an underground parking garage. The Crystal City Diamond Derby features a variety of different race formats including a non-competitive open course ride, a head-to-head speed race, a courier-inspired scavenger hunt, team relays, and a special children’s course.
    Diamond Derby Crystal City 1.tif
  • Gloria is a neighborhood of middle class and upper-middle of the city of Rio de Janeiro, located at the northern end of Praia do Flamengo. Previously it was called Urucu-Mirim (little bee).<br />
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The neighborhood owes its name to the Church of Nossa Senhora da Gloria do Outeiro, one of the first city built in the eighteenth century, around which the settlement was consolidated in the region.<br />
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Until the 1930s was considered the Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) Rio, because since the end of 1880 was home to hotels that served as the residence deputies, senators in office in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital. Much of its architectural and urban models were inspired by Paris, just consider the Paris Square, a true French garden. It was in this neighborhood that Machado de Assis among other artists, musicians and personalities created the famous Beethoven Club, a select group gathered to hear the works of German composer.<br />
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Between 30 and 60 years of the twentieth century, the mansions in eclectic style and a good part of workers' villages give way to buildings, which ended up giving the neighborhood the look it has today.
    Gloria tree.tif
  • 2013 Diamond Derby Crystal City<br />
<br />
The Crystal City Diamond Derby is a unique cycling event that combines speed, and high-energy fun in a cool urban environment, in the center of an underground parking garage. The Crystal City Diamond Derby features a variety of different race formats including a non-competitive open course ride, a head-to-head speed race, a courier-inspired scavenger hunt, team relays, and a special children’s course.
    Diamond Derby Crystal City 44.tif
  • 2013 Diamond Derby Crystal City<br />
<br />
The Crystal City Diamond Derby is a unique cycling event that combines speed, and high-energy fun in a cool urban environment, in the center of an underground parking garage. The Crystal City Diamond Derby features a variety of different race formats including a non-competitive open course ride, a head-to-head speed race, a courier-inspired scavenger hunt, team relays, and a special children’s course.
    Diamond Derby Crystal City 4.tif
  • 2013 Diamond Derby Crystal City<br />
<br />
The Crystal City Diamond Derby is a unique cycling event that combines speed, and high-energy fun in a cool urban environment, in the center of an underground parking garage. The Crystal City Diamond Derby features a variety of different race formats including a non-competitive open course ride, a head-to-head speed race, a courier-inspired scavenger hunt, team relays, and a special children’s course.
    Diamond Derby Crystal City 6.tif
  • 2013 Diamond Derby Crystal City<br />
<br />
The Crystal City Diamond Derby is a unique cycling event that combines speed, and high-energy fun in a cool urban environment, in the center of an underground parking garage. The Crystal City Diamond Derby features a variety of different race formats including a non-competitive open course ride, a head-to-head speed race, a courier-inspired scavenger hunt, team relays, and a special children’s course.
    Diamond Derby Crystal City 2.tif
  • 2013 Diamond Derby Crystal City<br />
<br />
The Crystal City Diamond Derby is a unique cycling event that combines speed, and high-energy fun in a cool urban environment, in the center of an underground parking garage. The Crystal City Diamond Derby features a variety of different race formats including a non-competitive open course ride, a head-to-head speed race, a courier-inspired scavenger hunt, team relays, and a special children’s course.
    Diamond Derby Crystal City 22.tif