One or More Towers: December Photo Contest

I suggest we compete with photos of towers. No magic tricks or potter’s wheels—we’re talking about "tour" as in the feminine noun. So, a kind of tall building, round, square, or polygonal, or a high structure that could be metallic, or a flat-topped bell tower (campanile), or a high-rise building (building)... You can find them almost everywhere in the world and from all eras. The tower(s) must be the main subject of the photo. Examples: The first photo, which is Saint Mark’s Square (with the Campanile), won’t be accepted. The second one, where the Campanile tower is the main subject, will be accepted.



Have fun and surprise us! Photos of computer towers are excluded 😏

I forgot the practical details! Photos can be posted until Wednesday, December 24th at midnight, following the usual rules: one per message, numbered from 1 to 3, with the location where the photo was taken and, if you'd like, a few notes.

Voting, where you explicitly assign 3 to 1 points to your 3 favorite photos, will take place from Thursday the 25th at midnight and one minute until Wednesday the 31st at midnight. Results will be published on January 1st if possible ;).

It's up to you ;)

Good evening,

Photo 1: the Islam Khodja minaret in Khiva.



C.

Jojoone 1 Photo 1

Tour of an ancient Thai kingdom, in Singburi province, nestled in lush greenery. Dating back to before the 14th century, no less.

Photo No. 1

Watchtower in Rees, Germany Along the Rhine

Photo 2: the tower where Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, wrote the Essays.



"I usually answer those who ask me the reason for my travels that I know well what I’m fleeing, and not what I’m seeking."

C.

Good evening,

my photo no.1 (scanned): The Space Needle in Seattle (US)



hgb

I was planning to suggest the Khiva minaret, but it was already posted by Unamilanese... so let's play along—I’ll post mine with different lighting and sky! Photo 1: Islam Khodja Minaret in Khiva, Uzbekistan

When I saw this month’s theme, this tower immediately came to mind 😊

Photo 1: Belém Tower in Lisbon

A stop in Venice Photo 2: The Campanile of St. Mark's in Venice

A pixelated skyscraper, the MahaNakhon under construction in Bangkok Photo 3: MahaNakhon Building Bangkok

Jojoone 1 Photo 2

In Bangkok, bursting from the depths and the gloom, highlighted by the last glimmers of daylight piercing through the clouds.

I had planned to suggest the Khiva minaret, but it was already posted by Unamilanese... let's be playful, I’ll post mine with a different light and sky!

Alright, alright... I’ll change the perspective then.

Photo 3: Islam Khodja Minaret in Khiva.



Catherine 😛

Hello

I'm giving it a go

Photo 1 - Tam Coc (Vietnam). Stupa at the top of one of the Dragon Mountain peaks overlooking Mua Cave

I'm continuing

Photo 2: Kuala Lumpur Two towers in one tower! 😛 Reflection of the Petronas Towers in a KLCC building

Photo #1: Tokyo Tower (in... Tokyo! 😏)

Photo 1: Bell tower of the Santa Caterina d’Alessandria Church, South Tyrol, Italy

Photo #2: from La Pelosa beach (Sardinia)

Photo 2: Gran Torre Santiago, the tallest skyscraper in South America (Chile)

Photo 3: Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse, Denmark

Photo No. 2 Towers of the Palace of the Knights in Rhodes

500 years after the Belém Tower, much more modern,

Photo 2: One World in Manhattan

xrctn-1 - Sky City Tower. Auckland, New Zealand

xrctn-2 - The Flame Towers, Baku, Azerbaijan

And for my last photo, two towers—one built in the 1500s and the other in the 2000s.

Photo 3: The Gherkin overlooking St. Andrew’s Church in London

Photo No. 3 Observation and defense tower, Lacataye Keep in Mont-de-Marsan

Here's my photo no. 3: tower of the church in Labeaume (Ardèche)

Hi,

Photo 1: tour of Moritzburg Castle, Dresden.

Photo 2: Bayterek Tower, Astana, Kazakhstan

Photo 3: Sarzay castle towers, France

Photo 3: New York The majestic Empire State Building in the middle of Manhattan's skyscraper forest. In the distance, the One World Trade Center.

Photo 1: Vijay Stambha (Victory Tower), Chittorgarh Fort, Rajasthan.

This stunning 15th-century tower, standing 37 meters tall and made of sandstone and white marble, has the unique feature of leaning slightly...

photo 2: ESB by night

Good evening,

my photo no.2: the main church in Ulm (Ulmer Münster), the tallest steeple in Germany (and for 135 years, until recently, the tallest in the world); 25 km from my place (photo taken this afternoon).



hgb

Here’s a tower that should appeal to Taamaden!

xrctn-3 - La Tour d'Afrique (The Tower of Africa), Bamako, Mali

Hi,

my photo no.3 (scanned): the minaret (with its pyramidal shape) of the Sankoré Mosque (built from earth, straw, and palm wood), one of the three great mosques of Timbuktu (Mali). It’s one of the architectural gems of the Sudano-Sahelian style in West Africa; all three mosques are listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites...



hgb

Hi there,

Photo No. 1



Gopuram (tower) of the Venkataramana temple, located within the Gingee Fort (Tamil Nadu, India)

Photo 3: Zaragoza, Basilica of El Pilar



And the photo is fresh! [;)

Hi there,

Before it's too late:

Photo No. 2

Cleaning the windows of Tomorrow Square, home to the JW Marriott Hotel in People's Square, Shanghai

Photo No. 3

Let’s stay in Shanghai and cross the Huangpu River to reach the "new" district of Pudong, where towers have sprouted like mushrooms since the 1990s.

The Jin Mao Tower (420 meters tall), whose most impressive feature is definitely the Grand Hyatt Hotel’s atrium, rising over thirty floors.

Hi everyone,

Phew, not very many entries, but almost all of them are stunning—so much postcard-perfect beauty! That made voting pretty tough. In the end, here’s how I decided:

3 points: Attila no.1 (Italy)

2 points: Poste42 no.2 (Greece)

1 point: Envallis no.3 (United States)

Happy holidays to all!

hgb

My turn! 3 points - Rouquine38-3 (London) 2 points - UnaMilanesa-3 (Khiva) 1 point - Attila-1 (bell tower in the water, Italy) Merry Xmas

Hello

Hope everyone had a great Christmas! 🙂

Alright, here we go:

🙂🙂🙂 Rouquine38 – 3 London. Stone and glass, old and new 🙂🙂 Montagnard74 – 1 India. The leaning tower that isn’t leaning… or is it? Maybe it’s just the photographer 🙂🙂 Attila3 – Denmark. The lighthouse rising from the sand (I hesitated with the other one, the bell tower rising from the water)

Here’s my vote:

Unamilanese photo 2 – 3 points Taamaden photo 2 – 2 points Ragamuffin photo 3 – 1 point

A little late, here's the slideshow !

Hi there! Here’s my vote for this month:

Rouquine 38 photo 1 (Lisbon): 🙂🙂🙂 Attila photo 1 (Italy): 🙂🙂 Ragamuffin photo 3 (Shanghai): 🙂

Thanks for the slideshow, but you’ve got two photos labeled Rouquine 38 2. The glass tower in London with a church in front is number 3. It’d be good to fix that—those photos are doing well in the votes…

It's my turn to vote! Photo 1: 3 points for Rouquine 3. Love at first sight (framing, lighting, juxtaposition of different-era architectures) for me, since I don’t know London. 2 points for xrctn 3 for the strangeness of that tower with those huge arms sticking out! 1 point for Ragamuffin 3: a graphic design you have to decipher to realize it’s the inside of a tower.

Error corrected! !😉

Here’s my vote:

Rouquine38 1 🙂🙂🙂 Rouquine38 3 🙂🙂 Ragamuffin 3 🙂