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На улице Студеная Гора в городе Владимир возвышается храм Архистратига Михаила, который в свое время был построен согласно завещанию капитана Федора Григорьевича, что произошло в 1893 году. Проект храма был составлен губернским архитектором Афанасьевым А.П., а также инженером Карабутовым И.О. Освящение храма было произведено в середине 1893 года. В то время храм был выстроен в византийском стиле и имел отличительный от остальных наружный вид. На Владимирской земле до появления храма Михаила Архангела не существовало подобного архитектурного облика, выражающего столь четкие акустические свойства.
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I recently came back from an 8 day trip to India. It was my first time there, and a relatively short one at that considering the primary reason for my trip was for a friend's wedding. It meant I had to be a bit creative to cram in as much as possible into the trip. For a country that is roughly 1/3rd the size of the U.S., but with just over 4x the population, I largely just scratched the surface. But every once in a while, I think I got beneath it, to take a look at the real life, and how people are living.
As of 2014, 58% of the population were living on less than $3.10 per day. While different organizations use different methods to calculate the poverty line, you can say that roughly 12-18% of the population lives below the poverty line. For a country as populous as India, that means that roughly 20% of the world's poorest people live in India.
One such concentration of those poor is in the Dharavi slum. Located in Mumbai, it is the largest slum in Asia - the other Asian slums being in neighboring Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Walking through the slum, you can see the cramped conditions people live in. While the slum does have some basic services for electricity, water, police, and so on, it's safe to say that the standards of those services, notably sanitation, are not great.
Photography inside Dharavi is a bit of a touchy subject. Some residents dislike being photographed, and tour companies come under pressure to not be seen as exploiting the poor. It's a bit ironic since elsewhere in India, namely in the Andaman Islands, the indigenous Jarawa tribe is showcased as if they're in some sort of human zoo. I just want to document the current state of life, and hope that's what I'm achieving.
One of the things I've found over the years is that if you carry a big dSLR or interchangeable lens camera with big zooms, besides standing out, people will assume you are a professional photographer. Sometimes that can work to your advantage, but in situations like this, it almost never does. Using a smaller camera is disarming in comparison, and will let you get the shots you want without causing as much grief. This is exactly the reason why I'm a huge fan of the Sony RX1 series of cameras. While it might not have a zoom, getting full-frame, 35mm quality in a tiny package is amazing. I used the Sony RX1RmII to shoot throughout Dharavi. Hope you will enjoy my photos from Dharavi and throughout India in the posts ahead.
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View of the magnificient frescos depicting Bible stories, inside the main prayer hall of Vank Cathedral (Holy Savior Cathedral, Church of the Saintly Sisters), in Isfahan, Isfahan province of Iran.
The cathedral was established in 1606, dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees that were resettled by Shah Abbas I during the Ottoman War of 1603-1618.
The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden. Pendentives throughout the church are painted with a distinctly Armenian motif of a cherub's head surrounded by folded wings. The ceiling above the entrance is painted with delicate floral motifs in the style of Persian miniature. Two sections, or bands, of murals run around the interior walls: the top section depicts events from the life of Jesus, while the bottom section depicts tortures inflicted upon Armenian martyrs by the Ottoman Empire.
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In Piazza Sant'Ambrogio, near the eponymous basilica, lies the Tempio della Vittoria dedicated to the Milanese war casualties. It was built between 1927 and 1930 based on a design by Giovanni Muzio, who collaborated with the architects Gio Ponti and Tommaso Buzzi. The monument, which is inspired by sixteenth century architecture, is the sum of various styles of funerary and monumental art, from the mausoleum of Teodorico in Ravenna to the Tower of Winds in Athens. The various sculptures are a sample of the aesthetic tastes of the '30s. The most famous work - by Adolfo Wildt - is located in the alcove opposite the entrance and depicts S. Ambroggio. The walls around the central nucleus of the crypt display bronze plaques with the names of ten thousand Milanese who died during the war. The temple is crowned by an electric light beam with four rotating rays, visible more than ten miles away.
Tempio della Vittoria - это мраморный мемориал, который находится рядом с казармами Гарибальди. Он был открыт 4 ноября 1928 года в 10 - ю годовщину Витторио Венето-битвы, выигранной итальянцами в Первой мировой войне. Этот памятник увековечивает память погибших в миланской войне. Мемориал был причиной для споров с самых первых дней проекта, возглавляемого Джованни Музио в сотрудничестве со своей командой, состоящей из Каби Оттавио, Альберто Новелло Альпаго и Джио Понти. Структура имеет восьмиугольную форму и три этажа. Впечатляющий ассортимент материалов был использован во время строительных работ Tempio della Vittoria. Внутри есть много красивых памятников, таких как Мавзолей di Rosa dei Venti Teodorico или di Atene. Сигнальный фонарь с верхней части здания можно увидеть ночью и на расстоянии 15 км. Во время Второй мировой войны мемориал получил значительные повреждения из-за бомбардировок.
View of the magnificient frescos inside the main prayer hall of Vank Cathedral (Holy Savior Cathedral, Church of the Saintly Sisters), in Isfahan, Isfahan province of Iran.
The cathedral was established in 1606, dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees that were resettled by Shah Abbas I during the Ottoman War of 1603-1618.
The interior is covered with fine frescos and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of the creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden. Pendentives throughout the church are painted with a distinctly Armenian motif of a cherub's head surrounded by folded wings. The ceiling above the entrance is painted with delicate floral motifs in the style of Persian miniature. Two sections, or bands, of murals run around the interior walls: the top section depicts events from the life of Jesus, while the bottom section depicts tortures inflicted upon Armenian martyrs by the Ottoman Empire.
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The gate church of Nile Stolobensky was built in 1751-1755 by the Selizhar peasant Foma Pavlov. He took the gate Tikhvin Church of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow as a model. This can be seen if we compare the two lower tiers of these temples. The upper part of the church of Nile Stolobensky was completely rebuilt in 1832-1838 in order to give it a resemblance to the new Epiphany Cathedral. Instead of the two upper tiers, a domed rotunda with a small dome was built.
Надвратную церковь Нила Столобенского построил в 1751-1755 гг. селижаровский крестьянин Фома Павлов. За образец он взял надвратную Тихвинскую церковь Донского монастыря в Москве. В этом можно убедиться, если сравнить два нижних яруса этих храмов. Верхнюю часть церкви Нила Столобенского полностью перестроили в 1832-1838 гг. для того, чтобы придать ей сходство с новым Богоявленским собором. Вместо двух верхних ярусов была сооружена купольная ротонда с небольшой главкой.
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It's just after 8:30pm, and the sun is still a good deal above the horizon. Can I really call it sunset? I'm not sure, but with the midnight sun in Iceland, it never really truly gets dark. It's kind of a weird phenomena.
On the upside, your touring day can be as short or as long as you want since you always have a good deal of light available. Things do close, but nature is still open for business. It can be a bit eerie at times if you're out at say 12am, taking photos when no one else is around an otherwise busy location. Then again, you're out at 12am because you want to take photos when no one else is around an otherwise busy location!
There's not a whole lot to see and do in Akranes, besides this lighthouse. For me, it was a place with a few more dining options than some others villages in the region, and made for a nice stopping point for me that day. A visit to the Akranes Lighthouse was my post-dinner stroll.
If you're off to explore more of West Iceland, there's an undersea tunnel connecting Reykjavik and Akranes that shaves off a good 40 mins or so of driving. I generally found it to be quite pleasant to drive anywhere in Iceland, except for when I got closer to Reykjavik. Then there were more traffic circles to deal with, which posed a challenge for me as a new stick-shift driver not yet confident in my manual driving prowess.
Overall, the lighthouse is one of those 10-15 min stops. It's unlikely to be a place you're going to spend an hour or so exploring - for which, Iceland is filled with those. If I was short on time, I'd definitely choose a waterfall or volcano or any number of crazy amazing natural sights that are so common in Iceland over a lighthouse. If, like me, you just need somewhere peaceful to wind down your day, a visit to the Akranes Lighthouse is a nice way to catch the "midnight" sunset.
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