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Winter sunset and Solstice
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12-14-2007, 11:53 PM
I was just in time dropping off my daughter to get some pictures of the sun setting over the Limes in Germania Secunda.
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd28 ... 7small.jpg
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12) 
12-15-2007, 12:43 AM
I wish I could be there...
![[Image: 120px-Septimani_seniores_shield_pattern.svg.png]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Septimani_seniores_shield_pattern.svg/120px-Septimani_seniores_shield_pattern.svg.png) ![[Image: Estalada.gif]](http://webs.racocatala.cat/esteladaanimada/Estalada.gif) Ivan Perelló [size=150:iu1l6t4o]Credo in Spatham, Corvus sum bellorum[/size] 
12-15-2007, 04:59 AM
Beautiful shot. Laud for your trouble.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills) Saepe veritas est dura. 
12-15-2007, 10:27 PM
Seen that I went back two millenias ago
 ... bea....u.....ti.....full.
Remarks by Philip on the Athenian Leaders: Philip said that the Athenians were like the bust of Hermes: all mouth and dick.
12-15-2007, 10:33 PM
Something totally poetic about the sun setting, a Late Roman watchtower in silhouette...you know.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills) Saepe veritas est dura.
12-16-2007, 02:25 PM
Yes, the - how do you say that in English - Lage Landen can be so beautiful...
Valete,
Titvs Statilivs Castvs - Sander Van Daele LEG XI CPF COH VII RAET EQ (part of LEG XI CPF) MA in History
12-23-2007, 12:24 AM
Quote:Yes, the - how do you say that in English - Lage Landen can be so beautiful...That'd be 'The Low Countries' Sander.  Anyway, here's a few pictures of the exceptional Winter Solstice this morning! http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd28 ... CT2184.jpg http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd28 ... CT2189.jpg http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd28 ... CT2175.jpg http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd28 ... CT2172.jpg
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12) 
12-23-2007, 01:06 AM
The third one is splendid!!
12-23-2007, 01:42 AM
...as is your ghostly presence in the fourth one !
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country) "No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton Paul McDonnell-Staff
12-23-2007, 05:11 AM
They're all wonderful. I think I like the second one best, though.
Is there any plan to add to this tower? Like a wooden wall, gate, anything else? It seems so lonely out there. Minas Morgul and suchlike....
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills) Saepe veritas est dura. 
12-23-2007, 08:28 AM
They are all great! They also remind me of winter in Alberta, sans watch tower.... 8)
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours! Titus Flavius Germanus Batavian Coh I Byron Angel
12-23-2007, 02:25 PM
Very nice and poetic pics, Robert. You are a skilled photographer!
What a pity the contemporary elements (car, sign, asphalt, etc...), may I doctor the pics and add something of roman? BTW, seen that the Winter Solstice was just yesterday and today the Sun begins his new rise, have a good Dies Natalis Soli Inuicti. Vale,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo, casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ... Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10 ![[Image: PRIMANI_ban2.gif]](http://web.tiscali.it/iulianevivas/PRIMANI_ban2.gif)
12-23-2007, 05:06 PM
Hello Robert,
They are all beautiful pics. I do agree with Jona...that third pic would make a fine wallpaper for a (ahem...mine...LOL) desktop.
aka: Julio Peña
Quote:"audaces Fortuna iuvat"- shouted by Turnus in Virgil\'s Aeneid in book X just before he is utterly destroyed by Aeneas\' Trojans.
12-24-2007, 12:30 PM
Hi all, thanks for the praise, I agree these came out quite well, considering i was in haste for an appointment!
Quote:Very nice and poetic pics, Robert. You are a skilled photographer! Hi Daniele, Of course, be my guest. The landscape is riddled with modern influences though; roads, farms, even power lines, a railroad in the background and a motorway not a mile off!
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR FECTIO Late Romans THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST (Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
12-26-2007, 12:48 PM
Off duty...
Just little details added and other deleted in the Robert's pic where now we can see Paul Elliott while is just coming back to his family, after his daily job in one of the many Limes Imperii watch tower... Paul, sorry for recruiting you in the Limitanei troops, but I had just your photo with the right light... ![[Image: WT.jpg]](http://web.tiscali.it/iulianevivas/WT.jpg) Valete,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo, casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ... Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
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