The Pravčická brána (German: Prebischtor) is located in the Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic. The narrow rock formation is the largest natural sandstone arch in Europe. With a span of 26.5 metres, an inside height of 16 metres, 8 metre maximum width and 3 metre arch it is one of the most striking natural monuments in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains.

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So, I decided to visit NYC again. My fellow Tomas joined me. On Thanksgiving day we arrived into the city and we’re putting up at a hotel located close to Central Park. Next day’s Black Friday, thus we’re gonna spent whole day shopping as any other bargain hunter would on that day. On Saturday we’re taking a walk through Central Park and its ZOO to Rockefeller Center. Afternoon, we walked down the Financial district, Wall Street, Battery Park and have ended up dining in Chinatown.  Early morning on Sunday, we’re taking a bus to Jersey Gardens where we’re gonna spend last busy day of weekend sales. On Monday, we’re walking the Brooklyn Bridge, then we’re hopping on the ferry taking round trip to Staten Island. Finally, we got few good deals in Century 21 store department. It’s Tuesday, cloudy day with some showers throughout the day. We’re flying back home but before, I mind to spend some time in B&H photo video to get some stuff. At the evening, we’re flying home.

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It’s my pleasure to announce that my very first wedding video has been finally completed and recently became available online. My lovely friends Stanislava and Daniel decided to undertake together a journey of life  starting on June 23th. You can watch now, how was the wedding ceremony going

To find our more details about the course of the wedding follow the link: http://www.stastni.net/svatba

Length: 43min

Language: Slovak/Czech

Download video: SvatbaStastni.mp4 (680MB)

Photo “Denying Kiss” won 7th place in “The Park Photo contest 2011″. The contest attended people with roughly 150 photos and “Emotion” was set as the topic of the contest.

Picture was shot in 2009 in Puskhar, Rajasthan where we begun our short tour around the northern India. Marta, who intended to make a picture of her with a camel named “Krshna“.  Krhsna was having a rest in a shade with the head bedded on a sand. Suddenly, Krhsna turned towards Marta offering to kiss her. Marta, of course, denied it

Denying Kiss

See more info about photo contest www.theparkevents.cz

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a covered double arcade formed of two glass-vaulted arcades at right angles intersecting in an octagon, prominently sited on the northern side of the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, and connects to the Piazza della Scala. Named after Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of united Italy, it was originally designed in 1861 and built by Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877.

The street is covered over by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for nineteenth-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade, London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels (opened 1847), the Passazh in St Petersburg (opened 1848), the Galleria Umberto I in Naples (opened 1890) and the Budapest Galleria.

The central octagonal space is topped with a glass dome. The Milanese Galleria was larger in scale than its predecessors and was an important step in the evolution of the modern glazed and enclosed shopping mall, of which it was the direct progenitor. It has inspired the use of the term galleria for many other shopping arcades and malls. The use of the iron structure has inspired also the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. Below the dome is the centre mosaic shield[Cite] of the mall, and to the west of the design is a tradition that suggests that you have a spin with your right heel on the mosaic bulls “attributes”, one of the 102 glass designs that make up the pavement of the Galleria’s splendid central octagon. Once a gesture to ward off evil, it has become part of the Milanese tradition and has such a following that a deep hole has formed in the pavement.

Source: wikipedia.org