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Model: Lexi Haddad
"Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she draws her golden bow, rejoicing in the chase, and sends out grievous shafts. The tops of the high mountains tremble and the tangled wood echoes awesomely with the outcry of beasts: earth quakes and the sea also where fishes shoal. But the goddess with a bold heart turns every way destroying the race of wild beasts: and when she is satisfied and has cheered her heart, then the huntress who delights in arrows slackens her supple bow."
Artemis, Goddess of the hunt, fertility, and the moon, was one of the most highly respected Greek deities. She was the daughter of Zeus and Leto as well as the twin sister of Apollo. A woman of many trades, Artemis appeared wherever she was needed. She often served as a midwife to ease childbearing pains but also became a patroness to young children and regarded herself as a guardian to her twin brother Apollo. Deer and bears were sacred beings to the huntress, so they often joined her on adventures. Artemis was well-known for her fierce protectiveness and fiery temper, especially when one of her animals or nymphs was harmed. For example, Artemis forced Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter after he killed a stag in her grove.
Here, we see her nearing sundown, poised and aiming at her next target with her prized bow and arrows made by Hephaestus and Cyclops. Her quiver and hunting knife are at the ready, but perhaps the most telling and dangerous of all is the smirk on her lips. She knows just what she'll do should anyone dishonor her, and it certainly won't be a happy ending.
Belgian postcard offered by Ri-Ri Demaret Chocolatiers Confiseurs. Photo: M.G.M.
Monica Lewis (1922-2015) was an American jazz singer and film actress. Her films include such MGM entertainment films as The Strip (László Kardos, 1951), Everything I Have Is Yours (Robert Z. Leonard), , and Affair with a Stranger (Roy Rowland, 1953), and she later appeared in some 1970s disaster films such as Earthquake (Mark Robson, 1974), Rollercoaster (James Goldstone, 1977), and both Airport '77 (Jerry Jameson, 1977) and The Concorde ... Airport '79 (David Lowell Rich, 1979). Lewis was also the longtime voice of Chiquita Banana in the company's animated ad TV campaign, beginning in 1947.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
KYUDO, the modern Japanese martial art of archery.
京都 三十三間堂の通し矢 / 大的全国大会 弓引き初め
Located : Sanju-sangen-do Temple, Higashiyama, Kyoto.
Jan 17, 2016.
Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
In the age of TV and computer games, it was cool to see this kid entertained by his own imagination. I say this as I sit glued to my computer screen, in the dark, wide eyed from my hopeless Flickr addiction. Join me in the darkness - view on black.....
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A candid snapped at the Rekawka Festival ground, the Slavic medieval gathering in Krakow, Poland. This scene was a spontaneous one, not part of the reenactment show.
This sculpture is also known as "Cupid's Span" by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. It is located in Rincon Park along the Embarcardero. The sculpture is made of stainless steel, structural carbon steel, fiber-reinforced plastic, cast epoxy, PVC foam and painted with a polyester gelcoat.
You can read the statement by and interview with the artists. Interestingly, the interview is conducted by one Ida Gianelli. No relation.
We took a Sunday run up to South Haven, MI for lunch at Clementine's and then did a boat cruise on the Black River. We took a different route back that took us thru Kalamazoo and some finds. This giant bow and arrow was along the highway at an Archery business.
The humor in this postcard is dependent, of course, upon the fact that "beau"--a boyfriend or sweetheart--is pronounced the same as "bow."
To My Affinity From One Who Has No Bow
If of me you sometimes think, send to me a bow of pink.
If for me your love is right, send to me a bow of white.
If for me your love is true, send to me a bow of blue.
If for me your love is dead, send to me a bow of red.
If for me your love is keen, send to me a bow of green.
If you have another miss, send to me a bow like this.
“Then, upon one knee uprising,
Hiawatha aimed an arrow;
Scarce a twig moved with his motion,
Scarce a leaf was stirred or rustled.”
From the Denver Botanic Gardens. The scupture is "Sacred Rain Arrow" by Allan Houser.
After my wide and I went to the Denver Botanic Gardens during the day, I went back that night with this shot in mind. As it did each night we were there, the sky cooperated.
The gardens were very cool, but the scultpures from the Allan Houser collection stole the show.
This is at a native San village where the San folks demonstrated the making of a bow and arrows, fire making and bead work. The gentleman who was our guide is named Hendrik.
“On a strange and savage coast of the Arctic north of Siberia, a son was born to a white doctor and his wife. Their only friend among the wild tribes of the north was the doctor’s educated Indian companion Mokuyi. His parents killed by savages, the white child was brought up by Mokuyi and taught the English of his fathers as well as the Indian arts of hunting and fighting. Named Kioga, the Sea Hawk, the boy grew up to be chief of his tribe, half savage, half civilized. How Kioga comes to love a white girl, how he wins her from her wealthy and jealous suitor, how he escapes the fury of his savage tribesmen, make a tale that is full of sheer romance.”
[From the blurb on the dust jacket]
She has arrived! The Princess of Hyrule...Princess ZELDA!
@hikari_rose never disappoints when they tell me they have a new cosplay they want me to capture. Just check out this Zelda look they put together!
Frieze shows Diana the huntress, surrrounded by her court. It is in the highest status room and above the seating that was used by the Countess and would be used by the Queen if visiting. It was probably a deliberate allusion to Queen Elizabeth I, whom Bess hoped would visit Hardwick. (she never did).
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
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KYUDO, the modern Japanese martial art of archery.
京都 三十三間堂の通し矢 / 大的全国大会 弓引き初め
Located : Sanju-sangen-do Temple, Higashiyama, Kyoto.
Jan 17, 2016.
This is at a native San village where the San folks demonstrated the making of a bow and arrows, fire making and bead work. The gentleman who was our guide is named Hendrik.
---Japanese Archery---
Toshiya Kyudo game at Sanju-Sangendo temple, Kyoto. Jan 12, 2014.
京都 / 三十三間堂 通し矢
My partner for this week's round 10 "Get Pushed" challenge was Cynthia [A Life of Cyn www.flickr.com/photos/cyn2010/ ] who has a wonderfully varied and interesting photo-stream but she does, by her own admission, have a bit of a rebellious streak in her. She did want to challenge me to do a selfie that said something about me but the ban on them this week [annoyingly, she says] forced her into changing this to get me to take a shot of someone else who either looked like me or did something that I did; like a hobby or something.
Well, as some of you will know, I took up the sport of archery about a year ago and then promptly got the bug big time and now I spend more time than I probably should on archery related things. Even down to starting up a sideline hobby of leatherwork where I make items for myself & take commissions from others. Shooting, as I do, an English longbow, I also make my own arrows and bow strings so you could quite literally say that it is another string to my bow!!! LOL The bow in the shot above is not an English longbow of course but what they call a recurve bow which has lots of gadgets on it like sights and stabilisers, etc. Of course, archers using those bows & the even more complex compound bows just about tolerate my shooting of a bent twig with a bit of string on it [their description, not mine] and I would have to confess to getting quite a few arrows sticking up in the green grass. I just tell 'em if they were laying down underneath the target then they would sure be sore after my shooting!!! :>)
Anyway, I do have quite a stock of archery related images in my archives so rather than annoying more of my shooting buddies by sticking my camera up their nose yet again, I thought I would put together a couple of archive images that I took last year at one of our club tournaments before I had actually started the hobby.
Hope you like it and that it serves to meet my challenge this week. And, Cynthia, if this isn't the kind of thing you had in mind then we do still have time for me to get it right. Thanks for the challenge & for being a great partner this week.
"White Eagle, Mightiest of Comanche Braves, Who Fought for His Tribe's Glory -- and for His White Man's Heritage.
A rip-roaring novel of the Frontier West
By Arthur Lawson"