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Published: 2011-12-18 13:16:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 8358; Favourites: 409; Downloads: 0
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Not representative of the whole city, obviously, but it's quite a classic view. The Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) at sunset, with the christmas tree all lighted up. The tree also briefly plays christmas songs every 30 minutes throughout the night, which is nice. At 9 pm every Saturday they put on a show with fireworks. It's a shame about the grey clouds, really, but not much I can do about them. D:More pictures from this shoot will be gradually uploaded for the next few days.
Canon 7D.
Taken at Tania's house.
Critiques are welcome.
Contest Results: 1st place winner in the #feel-art contest with theme: "Emotions and City Lights" .
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Absolutely perfect! I am jealous of that view!
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Thanks! So am I, actually... xD My friend gets this every day while I get trees and sides of buildings! Very unfair.
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Haha, well if it's any consolation, I get only buildings, whichever window I choose...
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Buildings all around are no fun. Oh well.
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Yep, but oh well, a short walk soon gets me to some great places
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"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." 
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Awesome! An LOTR fan I see
Very true! Exploration tends to provide the most memorable moments 
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Haha, indeed - are you an LOTR fan as well? xD
They do! Ah, tell me about it, I've had many - good and bad - memories of past explorations...
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I am indeed, though sadly enough, many people would not consider me worthy of that title (rightly so), since I haven't read the books yet
Which is strange since I love reading haha
Hmmm, I see you are from Brazil! You certainly have much more to explore than I do!!
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Oh, you should definitely read the books! And read The Hobbit while you're at it, so you're ready for when the movie comes out!
Hehe, Brazil is a huge country, so yes there is a lot to explore... But sadly the big cities are dangerous so it's wiser not to take my camera to some places.
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I definitely need to do that, yes!
And how about the countryside? Safer or more dangerous? My hunch is that it is more dangerous but rarer for something to happen?
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Let me know what you think of the books when you've read them!
The countryside... Well, it depends. In areas of conflict, it's more dangerous, but generally in very rural areas it's far less dangerous. Sadly in those parts people are too ignorant to even know what a camera is worth, but in a way it's an advantage to those wanting to avoid getting mugged.
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Will do. I had started LOTR twice, but for some reason, I never got round to finishing them
It's a real pity that on such a beautiful continent as yours, crime rates are so high
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Aw, try again when you can, it's worth the read.
In this specific case, it really is.
Luckily for me, speaking of this continent, I'll be going to the Argentinean Patagonia soon, and there I'll be free to photograph all the time. Should be a great experience!
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Hmmm, maybe I'll start it today haha, Just finished a book this morning, so....
Aww you lucky girl! Enjoy it and the freedom of taking photos!
I can't wait for the day when I manage to escape to your beautiful continent!
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Ah, do start!
Come and visit Rio when you do, it's a nice city to come to as a tourist.
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I'll do my best to visit Rio at some point!
Do all Brazilians speak English as well as you do?
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No, no... I was educated since I was 3 years old in a British School. Most Brazilians can't even speak English. Our first language is Portuguese. So when you visit, I'd recommend always being with a translator or friend who speaks Portuguese. In big cities, you might need a driver - the traffic in Rio and SΓ£o Paulo can be insane. Also, I don't know about Malta, but here we drive on the left side, unlike the British.
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I know that your first language is Portuguese, but your English is so amazing that I thought it might be a second language or something
Portuguese would definitely be a difficult language for me. I'm studying Spanish at the moment, so adding another language would be extremely hard
In Malta, we drive on the left side of the road just like the British... well, we do that because of the British. haha. They occupied these islands for a very long time!
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Haha, thank you!
Ah, I assumed you would. Personally I like all things British, so I believe that's the 'right way' of driving, if there is such a way. 
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welcome.
I suppose Portuguese is a bit similar to Spanish, but I am sure that it will confuse me. I find Spanish (at least Latin American Spanish) relatively easy to understand but I'm still struggling with speaking. Oh wells, I'll get there
Portuguese is a code, not a language... hmm, I like the sound of that
All things British... then that would have to include the comedy too
Mind if I ask why you have all this love for the British?
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It is very similar, it's just the grammar which is a lot harder.
As for the British... Yes, the comedy is brilliant! In fact, I listen to BBC Radio 4 comedy online very often, and it makes me laugh every time. xD
As for why I love it so much... I guess that by being brought up with it (my school), I just took on this enormous respect for their culture (so much more interesting than the Brazilian culture) and history (got to love the medieval and Victorian ages we didn't have), which in turn lead to this overall adoration for everything relating to them.
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I guess I'll have to take your word then
You have definitely have had more exposure to the British culture than me it seems. I might have been brought up speaking in English at home, but that is about it. We were not taught all that much about British history, though we did mention it at school. Oh wells. The British culture is pretty cool. But I also love my own culture. We have quite an interesting history for such a small island
What's wrong with the Brazilian culture though?
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Have you been to England?
Brazilian culture... Well, our history is basically our colonization by the Portuguese, which isn't exactly glorious, then slavery, and then a period of some ridiculous monarchy, followed by the country becoming a republic... The traditional culture (traditional tales, stories, etc) are based on the indigenous culture, mainly, which is extremely boring to me - our native indigenous tribes, that is - and the modern culture is just plain shallow.
But, tell me more about Malta, if you can. I love hearing about other places.
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I have been to England twice. I haven't seen that much of the place though... only spent a total of 3.5 days there. I went to London and to Birmingham. London is a beautiful place to go to as a tourist, but I wouldn't want to live there. It's way too crowded for my liking.. I prefer the countryside.
Yea, the way that the Americas were colonised is def. not glorious. Bleh. Unfortunately, that was the way people reasoned things out back then
The traditional culture is what I am most interested in. The modern stuff for the Americas is, as you put it, shallow.
Well, sure, I can tell you about Malta. In brief, we have been colonised by various nations due to the strategic position of the islands (centre of the Mediterranean sea).
Our islands were first colonised by people from Sicily, around 7000 years ago, then we get the Phoenician/Punic period, Romans, Arabic, Medieval, Knights of St John (aka the knights of Malta), French, British (thanks to whom, Malta ended up playing quite a role during world war II:S ), and finally, we became a republic.
All of these cultures kinda rubbed off on the Maltese in some way or another. Our language is comprised of 3 languages - arabic, british and italian (approx 60:20:20)
Well I'll stop there for now. I tend to get carried away
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I'm used to the big cities and to overcrowding, so London is fine by me, but I'd still personally rather live in Cambridge, which is much, much smaller and much calmer.
As for Malta - wow. I didn't know you guys had such a broad range of mixed up cultures and history! It must surely be very interesting to live somewhere where you get three completely different languages being used constantly - are they separated geographically, though? I would assume that in given regions a language is more common than in another? Do you speak all three of them?
You can go on forever, if you like, I was finding it quite fascinating. ^^
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No no wait, let me clarify something
we have 2 official languages in Malta - Maltese and English. Maltese is made up the 3 languages which I mentioned previously. It's 1 language which has the Arabic grammar rules, and vocab from all 3 languages. We still write with the phonetic alphabet though.
I speak English, Maltese, understand Italian and a bit of French, and can speak and understand a bit of Spanish and Arabic.#
It is quite interesting to live here, however, it's too small, and unfortunately, rather overcrowded. I love the place to bits though
Malta is not really split into regions; it's way too small for that - 316km^2.
There are 3 main inhabited islands - Malta, which is the largest, Gozo (much smaller - with a population of around 31,000) and comino - minute - about 5-10 people live there... 1 family.
Try compare those sizes with the size of Brazil. All of Malta would fit very comfortably just in Rio... in fact, Malta is 4 times smaller than Rio
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Ooooh, that explains a lot. xD To be very honest I had never known that there was a language from Malta. But the mixture of those three must be very interesting. 
I used to speak French too but, alas, I forgot just about everything...
That is really tiny.
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Lol, to be quite honest, I didn't expect you to have even heard of Malta
It is interesting and somewhat strange. It's also not the easiest of languages and most Maltese people struggle with writing.
Papiamento from Curaçao... now I've never heard of that place or that language!
Yea, as with all languages, practice is very important, both while learning, and also after... I never practised the languages... except reading and listening (when I was younger, we had many Italian channels on tv). Spanish... well, I spent quite some time studying the language with some Colombians and Venezuelans and Peruvians. Should be starting again soon.
Yea, it's great
It's amazing. nobody is ever happy with what they have. We always want more. I think you are lucky that you live in Brazil, you said I'm lucky that I live in Malta. lol
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I had heard of Malta thanks to my IB Geography classes - I've had to do statistics for every single country too many times...
Curaçao is an island colonized by the Dutch. Papiamento is a confusing mixture of Dutch, Spanish and some other languages. I know that because one of my friends is from there.
I would be sure to travel to Malta and then Italy or Greece, one day - two other places that I really want to go to but never had the chance to. I've travelled to India, which is even further away, so it should be fine, actually. xD
Humans are always, eternally ungrateful and unsatisfied. It's part of our nature, I guess.
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statistics? oh god, that sounds like fun
Cool thanks for the information on Curaçao.
Wow! By the looks of it, you are quite the traveller! Nothing better than travelling
As for far more wonderful things to see, well, it all depends what you are looking for. Brazil has many of the things which Malta has to offer - ex. sun and sea... only here, they are all concentrated in an extremely small area! Then of course, there are also many differences! You've got the mountains, rivers, lakes, nature... need I go on
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I am.
India is incredible for its completely different culture. The place is beautiful too. When you get a chance, you should visit.
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Hmmm, now I'm really jealous. My first time off this rock was in 2007, and I haven't done much travelling yet. This was by far my best year with regards to travel, but I did have to cancel 2 trips
Asia in general is on my travel list... in fact I'm kinda thinking about spending a year there to teach English. I haven't really decided which country to settle down in, but I will make it a point to travel to the neighbouring countries while there. My cousin in currently living in East Timor, so a visit there is also in order
So many places to see, so much culture to experience, so little time
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What my family does is we travel once a year, even if it's somewhere close.
So you are an English teacher?
About the time... It is true. I don't think humans live anywhere near as much as we would need to live at least a fraction of all there is to experience in life.
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And this yeat, it will be Argentina it seems right? I have never managed to travel with my family
what do you mean by progresses? distance/culture/location or what?
Well, I graduated as an archaeologist... I spent around 3 years working in the field - on and off- and realised that it's too hard to make a living out of it. At least for now. So I completed an ESL course so as to teach English to foreign students. I love the job. You get to meet so many different people from different cultures!!!
And how about you? I take it that you are studying something to do with Biology?
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By 'progress' I just meant, visiting a greater number of different places and cultures.
Archeology must be fascinating! When I was a child I wanted to become a paleontologist - I was quite obsessed about dinossaurs - but then I realised that there would be chances of finding human corpses too (which I have never been too fond of), so I turned to biology.
At the moment I just take Biology in school, but I've been doing extra research on skulls (rat skulls) at the state university as well, for my school course's extended essay.
Teaching English to foreign students must be really interesting. ^^ Do you get people from all over the world there in Malta? Do you teach at a school, or someplace else?
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ooo, quite the productive year for you then! That's quite some travel!
Archaeology is fascinating... I love the job too, but unfortunately, finding work is not all that easy. To be quite honest, my original wish was to become a palaeontologist. Here in Malta, palaeontology is not taught, so I went for the closest thing - archaeology. The 2 fields are quite similar, however, if you do find a human corpse in palaeontology, it would be fossilised, so it shouldn't be all that bad. Archaeology is a slightly different matter
Biology is a very interesting science, especially the angle which you would like to take. Animal behaviour...
research on skulls... what kinda research are you conducting?
At the moment, I am teaching English both at a school (a language school - for foreign students) and also on-line. Both are fun, but it's much better to teach in a classroom... feels much more natural.
We get students from various parts of the world... so far, I have taught:
Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Libyan, Russian, Bulgarian, Venezuelan, Colombian, Brazilian, Peruvian, Japanese, Chinese... quite the mix
You should try it as a part time job
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Today was incredibly productive in terms of travel. I was amazed. xD
Well, I mean corpse generally as 'dead', but if there is a more specific technical explanation, please do enlighten me. 
As for my research, I'm examining how cranial proportions change (shouldn't give my exact hypothesis here, but note me if you'd like to know) in different age groups of a specific species of rodent.
As for the teaching - that's quite a lot of different cultures you've been in contact with, then.
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very good exposition , very goog view, i love the contrast ...
wonderfull pics !
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beautiful thank you for allowing me to see the world through your eyes.
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Thank you for the comment. It made my day.
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