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I have been translating and now I am trying to get to grips with this new flickr. ...........
Can one still post in comment boxes? Anyone know? Its all a little overwhelming.
Anyway this photograph - a celebration at the mohair manufacture that I have featured before. The women danced in singing, beautiful, then they danced and all in traditional dress. The headgear denotes a married woman, the more elaborate the greater the age of the woman, the towel I think also denotes a married woman.
Hope you are fine in your corner of the world
Happy Jashan-e-Shahi 2016 to all! Leading up to the celebrations, members of Mehdi Foundation Pakistan posted a message regarding Jashan-e-Shahi in cities all over Pakistan. They posted messages in Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Jhang, Karachi and Lahore.
The writing reads '15th Ramadan: the Day of Mehdi. Imam Mehdi is Syedna Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi. - Mehdi Foundation International'.
Balloons being released on the opening of a new Buddhist temple in Shanghai and the 2251st anniversary of Lord Buddha. A storm had brewed that morning and thunderheads pierced the sky.
These gazanias have been tight buds out in my planters for the past 3 weeks.....never opening up...either too cold...or not enough sun....I cut a few....and put them in warm water....and under a light....and they are rejoicing...!!
The Babe in Bethlehem's manager laid, In humble form so low; By wondering angels is survey'd,Thro', all_His scenes of woe.
A BEAUTIFUL MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR YOU ALL IS WISHED
Guy Fawkes November 5th celebrations.
Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Crossley Heath Grammar School in the background.
Twas a night to celebrate. A great night at Disneyland with some old friends, Albert, Kyle and new ones Michael & Joey. Fun was had by all.
Family taking group picture in front of their loved one's dead body before the cremation at Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi
Manikarnika Ghat is the primary cremation ghat in Varanasi. The place where every one found bit scared to shoot or planned to shoot while travel to Varanasi. The place of chaos, where one can witness the life and death in a different way. The family takes a group photo in front of the dead body, Kids running behind their kites. Cows and Buffalow eating the flowers over the bodies, Dogs are searching for bits of burnt flush & bones. The only place where the burnt body didn't smell bad. Crowds are watching the events like a gallery show. and photographers are hiding themselves and shoot their dream Varanasi Clicks. And yes a place of Enlightment.
It is one of the oldest ghats in Varanasi. It is revered in Hindu religion. Lord Brahma performed a yajna (Vedic ritual of fire sacrifice) to please Shakti and Shiva. Goddess Shakti emerged, separating from Shiva and helped Brahma in the creation of the universe. Brahma decided to give Shakti back to Shiva. Therefore his son Daksha performed several yajnas to obtain Shakti as his daughter in the form of Sati. It was then decided that Sati was brought into this world with the motive of getting married to Shiva.
However, due to Lord Shiva's curse to Brahma that his fifth head was cut off due to his lie in front of Shiva, Daksha started hating Lord Shiva and decided not to let Lord Shiva and Sati get married. However, Sati got attracted to Shiva and finally one day Shiva and Sati got married. This marriage only increased Daksha's hatred towards Lord Shiva.
Daksha performed a yajna with a desire to take revenge on Lord Shiva. Daksha invited all the deities to the yajna except Lord Shiva and Sati. The fact that she was not invited did not deter Sati from attending the yajna. She expressed her desire to attend the yajna to Shiva, who tried his best to dissuade her from going. Shiva eventually relented and Sati went to the yajna. Sati, being an uninvited guest, was not given any respect at the yajna. Furthermore, Daksha insulted Shiva. Sati was unable to bear her father's insults toward her husband, so she immolated herself.
Enraged at the insult and the injury, Shiva in Virabhadra avatar destroyed Daksha's yajna, cut off Daksha's head, and later replaced it with that of a male goat as he restored him to life. Still immersed in grief, Shiva picked up the remains of Sati's body, and performed the Tandava, the celestial dance of destruction, across all creation. The other Gods requested Vishnu to intervene to stop this destruction, towards which Vishnu used the Sudarshana Chakra, which cut through the Sati's corpse. The various parts of the body fell at several spots all through the Indian subcontinent and formed sites which are known as Shakti Peethas today.At all the Shakti Peethas, the Goddess Shakti is accompanied by her consort, Lord Bhairava (a manifestation of Lord Shiva). Shakti is an aspect of the Supreme Being Adi parashakti, the mother of the trimurti, the holy trinity in Hindu mythology. At Manikarnika ghat, Mata Sati's Ear's ornament had fallen here.
Manikarna in Sanskrit means Ear Rings.
There are 51 Shakti, each temple have shrines for Shakti. The Shakti of Manikarnika is addressed as Vishalakshi & Manikarni.
Hindu mythology teaches that the ghat is especially sacred and that persons cremated there receive moksha. As the myth goes, Vishnu, after several thousand years of tapasya, trying to please Shiva, to convince him to not destroy the holy city of Kashi when he destroys the world, managed to do so. Lord Shiva along with Parvati came to Kashi before Vishnu to grant him his wish. Vishnu dug a kund (well) on the bank of Ganaga for the bath of the couple. When Lord Shiva was bathing a Mani(Jewel) from his earring fell into the kund, hence the name Manikarnika(Mani:Beads Karnam:Ear Angad: Ornament). There is another myth about the ghat : the ear jewel from lord Shiva fell down while he was dancing angrily, which fell on the earth and thus Manikarnika Ghat formed.
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Lockdown, social distancing celebrations for V E Day.
A day of celebration at a difficult and uncertain time during the Covid19 pandemic.
Our parents were stoic and survived, we will too.
#AbFav_CELEBRATION
It is people that make a site what it is org group, as so many have said before me, like a big social circle, you make friends...
I enjoy the fact that it is so very international.
On top of everything else, here the common factor, a love for photography.
We share our images, each time giving a little bit of ourselves away.
It is amazing what photos often tell about the person who took them!
I thank you for sharing your images and your time.
Wishing you ALL THE VERY BEST! Magda, (*_*)
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Seen SOMEwhere in the bowels of a casino in Las Vegas! NO idea really where we had gotten off to, nobody else down there, but some fabulous art to peruse! :)
"Dirigible" is not a word or description that would have come to mind for me, with this work . . . but whatever.
Kris Kuksi
American, 1973, Springfield, Missouri
"Celebration Dirigible" 2010
Mixed media assemblage
Despite the years, despite the crowd walking on you, despite your children ignoring you, despite the sad songs of your past you hum, you always give your laugh, your kindness, your trust.
Celebration of life.
Yes, 20 years ago, we launched INDIGO2PHOTOGRAPHY. How time flies when you are having fun! I 'made' this flowerwork and turned it into firework for the celebrations.
A composite of several images.
Wishing you all the very best and thank you, M, (*_*)
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Happy New Year to you all.
I had this shot in mind over Christmas but my daughter was unwell and had a temperature every day so had to put it on hold.
Got round to it today.
We saved all the Christmas sweetie wrappers specially, not sure how the chocolate got round her mouth though lol.
For the lighting I used
1 x softbox to my daughters left (Nikon SB600) 1/16th power
1 x softbox to my daughters right (Elemental strobe) 1/16th power
1 x Beauty dish with honeycomb grid to camera right (Elemental strobe)1/2 power
All lights where fired off camera using Yongnuo RF-602 trigger + receivers
The two softboxes where just outside the picture and level with my daughter so they was very close to her.
The beauty dish was beside myself and about three foot away from her.
I think portraits are one of the hardest things to do in photography so kudos to all you guys and gals who do an excellent job.
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