Sentences with phrase «silhouetted against the sky»

Perhaps they were using their long necks to sneak up under schools of fish silhouetted against the sky, suggests marine reptile expert Mike Everhart of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas.

The scourge of edge enhancement is sometimes detectable in exteriors depicting characters and buildings silhouetted against the sky, but it's not troublesome.

Above, a brick facade ended in a broken cupola silhouetted against the sky.

A Moorish fortress or Alcazaba silhouettes against the sky while it wakes over the medieval town.

We know from the titles of the related paintings that these compositions refer to trees, most specifically cypresses, perhaps silhouetted against the sky in favorite places like Calvi and Girolata in Corsica that she visited during summers sailing on the Mediterranean with her companion, painter Jean Paul Riopelle, his daughters and a coterie of friends.

Whose face is silhouetted against the sky beneath tenements at night?

Photographed straight from below the clothes drying in the wind are transformed to organic and abstract forms silhouetted against the sky.

In each of the «Sunsets» pine boughs are rendered as feathery silhouettes against skies streaked with blue and orange in varying degrees of intensity.

We know from the titles of the related paintings that these compositions refer to trees, most specifically cypresses, perhaps silhouetted against the sky in favorite places like Calvi and Girolata in Corsica that she visited during summers sailing on the Mediterranean -LSB-...]

An Exxon Mobil refinery is silhouetted against the sky at dusk in Torrance, California, U.S., on Tuesday, September 18, 2007.

Not exact matches

I follow her story only in part, like a man looking from a lit room at dark hills, silhouetted against navy skies — his own staring face superimposed by a ghostly glare from the light of the room.

Fred Schein walked briskly through the play lot and then to the edge of the sand, where a lone willow tree was silhouetted against the darkening blue of the lake and sky.

These butterflies fly above a field of wildflowers, silhouetted against the late afternoon sky.

Through the pines I can see silhouettes of the famous Crags, a troupe of cones and knobs sculpted against the sky.

In 1611, less than two years after Galileo began examining the skies, German astronomer Christoph Scheiner spotted something silhouetted against the bright disk of the sun.

To the tune of Leo Kottke's acoustical guitar «Enderlin,» their steam locomotive crosses a high suspension / trestle bridge, silhouetted against the partly cloudy blue sky.

The first shot of «Mr. Turner» tracks a pair of women walking past a windmill against the backdrop of shiny blue sky before it pauses to find British Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner (a brilliant Timothy Spall) standing in silhouette on top of an adjacent hill, sketching the luscious scene in detail.

The film is basically one extended shootout sequence with the occasional diversion for a purely stylish interlude of silhouettes against the Italian sky that play out somewhat like a Greek chorus physically commenting on the action.

There are a ton of great shots, from the tracking shot leading the sergeant around the barracks in the beginning to the silhouettes against a blood - red sky in Vietnam.

Heir to the testosterone cinema of Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, Berg's films also find a kind of poetry in opposition, with Friday Night Lights» establishing shots of Texas's huge, glowering big sky country and insensate oil derricks pumping in silhouette set against the mayfly quickening of young men frozen for an instant that is, for many of them, meant to last a lifetime.

And I used the silhouette of the trees against the sky to get my bearings.

She is framed by the picture window, and her silhouette is dark against the sky behind her, its steely canvas broken only by the jagged limbs of the apple tree, Ruth's favorite.

This mountain looks even more impressive during a breathtaking San Carlos sunset, silhouetted against a brilliant red sky — best viewed from your fully furnished private house or condo.

I stare at the ruins, the green grass and the iconic silhouette of Huayna Picchu against the blue sky.

While the sun dipped below the mountains of Baranof Island, the Wilderness Adventurer provided a spectacular silhouette against the cosmic canvas of the evening sky.

Or Stone Town in Zanzibar; it's hard to beat dhows silhouetted against an orange sky.

Due to the close proximity of the beach, the skyline is uncluttered, presenting great views of the Balinese sunsets complete with the palm trees silhouetted against red and purple skies.

Try to be here around sunset when you can see the spectacular sight of hundreds of large flying foxes (Pteropus vampirus), emerge from the forest silhouetted against the reddening sky.

Sunset, a closely cropped silhouette of a tree set against a red sky, presents what might be considered the bare constitutive elements of a landscape.

We see a Gothic church, municipal buildings, and windmills, silhouetted against the cloudy sky.

Just look at the fullness of the sky and those trees silhouetted against it — an effect worthy of Leonardo da Vinci.

Silhouetted against a deep - purple sky, the evoke vertiginous cliffs or a ruined castle.

The warm, emerald shallows of the Persian Gulf gently wash the shores of Saadiyat Island, and dolphins now play on the spot where the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is about to rise in a helter - skelter cubist silhouette against the sun - blazed sky.

The subtle modulations of rich color remind me of palm trees silhouetted against the evening sky, becoming barely discernible as night falls.

Willing translated these themes into a series of carefully constructed images: a knife stuck into a cold, bare wall, a white tree against a pitch - black sky, a dark silhouette against a light, nondescript landscape.

I went in the evening, when the collection of fine bridges, lit from below in a spectrum of changing colours or silhouetted against the darkening sky, teamed with Norman Foster's massive and undulating Sage concert hall — refered to locally as The Slug — lit from within, and the myriad of Christmas lights, illuminated the sluggish black river.

On the other hand, «Four Masted,» a boldly silhouetted ghost ship, strikes one as closer to the work of the visionary Albert Pinkham Ryder, but here the ship hovers trembling above the sea and pier against a glowing mauve sky.

Silhouettes of trees against the sky carry the rhythm of the figures into the upper third of the painting.

Even this landmark of Manhattan had gone entirely dark and was but a silhouette against the night sky.

My favorite things about fall are... the beautiful gold and burnt orange leaves making the perfect canopy against the ultra blue sky... the crunching of dried leaves when I take an evening walk... the smell of pumpkin pie spice and everything nice... AND KariAnne's silhouette pumpkins!