flitting about |
des lucioles dansent devant mes yeux |
The glowing bits |
Alison Ashwell's Adventures as a Digital Artist.
flitting about |
des lucioles dansent devant mes yeux |
The glowing bits |
The strongman was also a fire-eater, he managed to produce some huge plumes of smoke and fire.
I suppose he must be used to the taste but the smell of the fuel was really quite pungent.
Hotel Negresco's famous dome on an overcast day.
This was taken a few weeks back when we had snow in Nice - very unusual weather for the South of France. Normally, we have blue skies most days, even in winter.
Nice and the South of France were originally winter holiday resorts as the Victorians wanted to escape the dreary Northern winters.
The dome of the Negresco pictured here was supposedly designed by Gustav Eiffel but I'm not sure if that has ever been definitely proven. Edouard Niermans was the architect for the whole hotel.
The luxury hotel opened in 1912 but was requisitioned in 1914 and used as a war hospital for wounded WW1 soldiers . The lack of high paying guests during the war and the vast expenditure on the building work bankrupted the original owner, Henri Negresco.
The Negresco Hotel is now classed as a Historic monument .
Some atmospheric shots of the Nice observatory wreathed in clouds with a rainbow stretched over it.
The full rainbow wasn't visible but the clouds and light were very dramatic.
The rainbow didn't last long - it just faded over a cuple of minutes . The clouds around the observatory dissipated quite quickly too.
I've had the Rainbow theme tune stuck in my head since I took these photos the other evening. Its always some madly annoying song , never something I actually like.Rainbow was the UK's answer to Sesame Street in the 70s and 80s and it now has a sort of cult following. There are lots of clips on YouTube of the puppets Zippy, Bungle and George and the very odd-seeming human presenters.
You can even find the infamous risqué 'twanger' sketch that was filmed as an in-house joke but never ever broadcast.