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Nature photography is a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups of natural scenes and textures. Nature photography tends to put a stronger emphasis on the aesthetic value of the photo than other photography genres, such as photojournalism and ...
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Wealthy landowners began the tradition of relaxing at the seaside, and Russian army officers came here to rest after the Napoleonic Wars, returning later with their families. The peak of the Jūrmala area's development was the opening of the Riga - Tukums railway in 1877 (which still passes through Jūrmala) that gave a great boost to the ...
F. Percy Smith pioneered [4] the use of time-lapse in nature photography with his 1910 silent film The Birth of a Flower. [ 5 ] Time-lapse photography of biological phenomena was pioneered by Jean Comandon in collaboration with Pathé Frères from 1909, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] by F. Percy Smith in 1910 and Roman Vishniac from 1915 to 1918.
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Ramsgate Sands, also known as Life at the Seaside, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Powell Frith, who worked on it from 1851 to 1854.The painting, which depicts a beach scene in Ramsgate, was Frith's first great commercial success: it was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1854, and bought by Queen Victoria.
The Mediterranean seaside town of Cap d'Agde has a large naturist village with sandy beach, several swimming pools, but also nude shopping. Aphrodite Village, [52] Oasis Village, [53] Village camping Ulysse, [54] Eden Plage, [55] are open 300 days per year.
Covering an area of 190 hectares, the park features blooming flowers around the year. [1] The park has become known for its baby blue-eyes flowers, with the blooming of 4.5 million of the translucent-petaled blue flowers in the spring drawing tourists.