#PalacesAndGardens is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 118 people shared 384 posts with it — around 13 a day. Activity is up 48% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 6 with 80 posts.

Posts with #PalacesAndGardens

Landguy

@landguyminor.bsky.social

9 months ago

The golden hour #palacesandgardens #eastcoastkin #trees #japanesemaples #fall #gibbsgarden #northgeorgia #bloomscrolling #trees

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Landguy

@landguyminor.bsky.social

9 months ago

Autumn delight #palacesandgardens #eastcoastkin #photography #fall #autumn #japanesemaples #gardens #water #bloomscrolling #trees

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Landguy

@landguyminor.bsky.social

8 months ago

Fennel covering daylilies #palacesandgardens #daylily #fennel #redgreengold #gardening #bloomscrolling

Green Fennel covering red and gold colored daylilies.

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Robyn

@handcranked.bsky.social

about 24 hours ago

Don't forget to look up This is the amazing Sala de Dos Hermanas at the Alhambra. #PalacesAndGardens #PalaceTops #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #photography #architecture #ArtYear

Looking up in an elaborately decorated room at the Alhambra from just outside under a carved arch. The walls are shades of cream and beige and covered in decorative tiles. There are 6 arched windows below the ceiling. The tiles below that look like they're dripping from the surface.

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P Pekka

@prepekka98.bsky.social

1 day ago

Palms stretch towards the top of the tropical conservatory, Denver Botanic Gardens. #PalacesandGardens #PalaceTops #Photography #MobilePhotography

8 17 156

Landguy

@landguyminor.bsky.social

5 months ago

A Tulip garden below leads to the daffodil fields in the background at Gibbs Gardens in North Georgia. #palacesandgardens #aboveandbelow #eck #gardens #gardening #spring #tulips #photography #digitalart

Tulip garden below the daffodil fields in the background. A deciduous forest separated the two but allows a view of both. A small gazebo sits to the right for seating when walking between the two garden areas. The photo has been edited to give it a painterly feel.

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Brock’s Photographic Journey

@bar44.bsky.social

7 months ago

Castle De Haar, outside of Utrecht, Holland - 2023 #Photography #PalacesAndGardens #ThroughTheFrame #Holland📷

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Landguy

@landguyminor.bsky.social

9 months ago

Zen. For real. #enchatedautumn #palacesandgardens #trees #japanesemaples #eastcoastkin #photography #scape #landscape #autumn

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾

@alinagrafik.eurosky.social

1 day ago

#PalacesAndGardens #PalaceTops Statue of Sveta Sofia in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is holding a wreath in one hand, and an owl sits on her left arm. She replaced a statue of Stalin in the year 2000. #ECK #Bulgaria #SvetaSofia #Statue

I found this statue to be a bit disturbing and scary with its stiff posture and black robe. She is standing up very straight, her legs and knees locked in a straight line. Her arms reach out in front of her, also stiff and straight in posture. Her neck is very long and her face also has a stern look about it. She is wearing a long black robe and a gold crown. Her skin is gold, and her hair is stiff and black. Only her gown shows any sort of movement. A black wreath in her right hand (I didn't know what it was until I researched it) is also black and stiff. A small black owl stands on her left arm, its wings spread. Adorned with the symbols of power (crown), fame (wreath) and wisdom (owl). She stands on a very high pedestal, so pale blue sky serves as the background.

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Sabine Shutterbug

@sabineshutterbug.bsky.social

1 day ago

Build to impress #PalacesAndGardens #ArtYear #PalaceTops #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ECK

The photograph presents the Grotto Hall of the Neues Palais as an immersive Gesamtkunstwerk, a total decorative environment in which architecture, nature, and illusion dissolve into one another. Shells, minerals, fossils, coloured stones, and glass are arranged across the walls, vaults, and pillars in dense ornamental patterns, while the black-and-white marble floor introduces a crisp geometric order beneath this fantastical abundance. The room does not merely imitate a grotto; it transforms the palace interior into a theatrical cabinet of wonders.

This opulence carries a distinctly political meaning. Frederick II commissioned the Neues Palais between 1763 and 1769, immediately after the Seven Years’ War, as a highly visible demonstration that Prussia had emerged powerful rather than exhausted. He called the palace a fanfaronade, a boast or grand display, and the Grotto Hall gives that boast an especially vivid form: the costly materials proclaim access to distant natural treasures, while their lavish arrangement displays the king’s command over resources, craftsmanship, and artistic imagination.

At the same time, the hall reflects the Enlightenment fascination with collecting and classifying the natural world. Yet here knowledge is subordinated to spectacle: minerals become ornament, shells become rocaille, and geological fragments are theatricalized as symbols of abundance. The result is a room in which Frederick’s political ambition is expressed not through military imagery, but through the extravagant mastery and aesthetic transformation of nature itself.

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BelleAB

@belleab.bsky.social

1 day ago

Hogwart’s Castle? Not exactly, but similar Gothic Revival architecture - Taken at the US Military Academy at West Point, in New York. Washington Hall serves as the main cadet dining facility for the academy. #PalacesandGardens #PalaceTops #architecture #westpoint #newyork #photography

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Mick Lister

@listermj.bsky.social

1 day ago

#PalacesandGardens #PalaceTops The barbican gatehouse at Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland (Sept 2024). The stone figures positioned on top of the towers are known as the Watchmen of Alnwick Castle. #alnwick #northumberland #castles #classicmono #photography #eastcoastkin