Casa Batllo [Contest Finalists May 2013]
Uploaded: June 07, 2010 06:43:31
Casa dels ossos (House of Bones)is an another remarkable building designed by Antoni Gaudi. It was built in 1877. It has a skeletal organic quality, facade decorated with a mosaic of broken ceramic tiles, arched roof linked to the back of a dragon or dinosaur and all the building is a flowing sculpted stone work. The house was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona. The common theory claims that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George, that is a patron saint of Catalonia, which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.
Barcelona, Spain.
Sharon C. Hinze June 07, 2010
Another glorious piece of architecture! Love the colors and clarity here.Janice Mezzacappa June 07, 2010
Outstanding architectural capture love the shapes, textures and colors...awesome work Renata!! #8671062Randy A. Myers June 07, 2010
Nice job of capturing the oddity of this place. Good job. #8671090Husain Akhtar June 07, 2010
Amazing structure and history! Fantastic image! #8671101Bojan Bencic June 07, 2010
Amazing place and a great capture, Renata. Thanks for the info - it is remarkable. #8671122Jeff Robinson June 07, 2010
Fantastic capture Renata! Jeff #8671326Patrick Rouzes June 07, 2010
Exceptional tones, colors, detail, clarity, textures, pov & lovely lighting here, Renata! Glorious image & work, as always! Thanks for another teaching lesson too! #8671381Douglas Pignet June 07, 2010
Beautiful structure and wonderful capture, great lighting and colors, well done #8671438JudyAnn Rector June 07, 2010
Very interesting, Renata... you captured it beautifully! #8671580Mariann Kovats June 07, 2010
Beautiful building and you captured its beauty very well, Renata! I love your POV, comp. colors, and details! I hope we'll see this again. #8671603John Connolly June 07, 2010
A supeb capture of this fantastic architecture Renata! The color and textures are just amazing! #8671802David Phalen June 07, 2010
Terrific light, tones and details!! #8674731Barbara Waldoch June 08, 2010
Beautiful wall and capture, Renata!Randy D. Dinkins June 09, 2010
Very cool, great capture, perfect MT entry! #8682937Patti Coblentz June 11, 2010
Remarkable building and story behind it...great work on your presentation of it, Renata!Patti #8688527
Anna Krukowska June 20, 2010
Beautiful building and postprocessing! #8707081Laurence Saliba June 29, 2013
So Lovely!!! Congrats again!! #10748805Merna L. Nobile July 08, 2013
With half of the year gone, I am sure that many beautiful photographs have been taken and entered on Better Photo, including yours.
CONGRATULATIONS for a successful month of May, 2013. Merna
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Renata Gusciora July 14, 2013
Thank you everybody a lot for such kind comments!!!:-) #10767078Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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