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The latest photos from our aquascaping showroom. We're still working on our new installations, but come and visit us if you're around.
This ceiling is in the lobby of a building downtown that many doctors, dentist, orthodontist, etc. practice. I went to visit my orthodontist and I finally snapped some photos of it :)
This ceiling light is original to our kitchen, it's mate is a pull-down style lamp shown in another one of my photos. It and a few other touches first attracted me to our1958 rambler home
Ships hang from the ceiling of this church are a nod to the nickname "Sailor's Church." It's proximity to a port made the church very popular with sailors, who stopped in for a sermon and a prayer before leaving for sometimes dangerous sea voyages.
At the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel in Montreal, Quebec
Ceiling Bavo cathedral Haarlem The Netherlands. Taken with Google Pixel 2 metering on the bright sides of the scene. Edited in Photomatix.
in a disused factory building in Worcester.
Киев 88, MC Волна-3В 80mm, f/2.8
Acros 100, R3 Monobath, agitated gently
Man, that is a lot of lodgepole pine.
All of this was saved from slash piles (burning) or was deadfall.
The ceiling is 27 feet above the floor of the Kiva. BIG.
Okay It might look like I'm lying, but here's the inside ceiling. There are only 6 rows of pews which you can't see.
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Malta.Valletta.
Saint John's Co-Cathedral - Kon-Katidral ta' San Ġwann
The cathedral's interior is extremely ornate, standing in sharp contrast with the façade. The interior was largely decorated by Mattia Preti, the Calabrian artist and knight, at the height of the Baroque period. Preti designed the intricate carved stone walls and painted the vaulted ceiling and side altars with scenes from the life of John the Baptist. Interestingly, the figures painted into the ceiling next to each column initially appear to the viewer as three-dimensional statues, but on closer inspection we see that the artist cleverly created an illusion of three-dimensionality by his use of shadows and placement. Also noteworthy is the fact that the carving was all undertaken in-place (in-situ) rather than being carved independently and then attached to the walls (stucco). The Maltese limestone from which the Cathedral is built lends itself particularly well to such intricate carving. The whole marble floor is an entire series of tombs, housing about 400 Knights and officers of the Order. There is also a crypt containing the tombs of Grand Masters like Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Claude de la Sengle, Jean Parisot de Valette, and Alof de Wignacourt.
Since I got bitten by the photography bug, whenever I've been in an airplane, I have looked at the sweeping curves and the hidden lights of the ceilings above the hand luggage compartments and thought that there must be some great abstract shots hidden there.
This time I was seated far back, and I saw the opportunity.
To the rear of the cabin, there was a box hanging from the ceiling - with the "occupied" lights - I held the camera above my head against that, pointed the lens as straight down the aisle as I could and got the shot.
I used this shot in this riddle.
Hehe - according to scout this has been #500 on Explore - barely above the limit :-)
The ceiling of the Hypostyle Hall at Dendera Temple is enriched with an incredible amount of figurative detail carved in low relief and painted in subtle shades against a blue background. The subjects include numerous deities and hybrid figures (some familiar, others much less so) and even astrological elements, such as recognisable figures from the zodiac.
Over the centuries the ceiling had become so darkened by dirt and soot to become heavily obscured and hard to read, and this is how I saw it for the first time in the 1990s, when many visitors probably missed it altogether. Now it has been fully cleaned and restored it shines again not only as one of the glories of the temple but one of the most remarkable surviving decorative schemes of ancient Egypt. The contrast with its previous blackened, unrestored condition is dramatic, giving an entirely different impression from our previous visit.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best preserved and most beautiful ancient shrines. This magnificent edifice dates to the Ptolemaic period, late in Egyptian history, though the site long had been the cult centre for the goddess Hathor for centuries before (the earliest extant remains date to c360BC but a temple is recorded here as far back as c2250BC). Most of the main building dates to the reigns of the last Cleopatras and further decoration and building work within the complex continued in the Roman period up to the reign of Trajan.
The dominant structure in the complex is the Temple of Hathor, an enormous structure with a rectangular facade punctuated by the Hathor-headed columns of the hypostyle hall within. This hall is an architectural wonder, a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian design and decoration, which covers every surface and has been recently cleaned, revealing a superb astrological ceiling in all its original vibrant colours.
Sadly there was much iconoclasm here during the early Christian period and most of the reliefs of the walls and pillars have been defaced. Worse still is the damage to the 24 Hathor-head capitals: not one of the nearly a hundred huge faces of the goddess that once smiled down on this hall has been left unblemished, most with their features cruelly chiselled away.
The main temple building is otherwise structurally intact, and extends into further halls and chapels beyond, again with much relief decoration (much of which is again defaced). In one corner is an entrance to a crypt below, an unusual feature in Egyptian temple architecture consisting of several narrow passages adorned with carved relief decoration in good condition.
There are further sanctuaries and chapels above on the roof of the temple, accessed by a decorated staircase and including the room where the famous Dendera Zodiac was formerly located (today its place in the ceiling taken by a cast of the original, now displayed in Paris). The highest part of the roof complex is no longer accessible to tourists, but I can still recall making the ascent there on our first visit in 1992.
Several other buildings surround the main temple, the most impressive of which is the mammisi or 'birth-house'. This consists of a large rectangluar hall surrounded by a colonnade near the entrance to the site and has some well preserved relief decoration on its exterior. Most of this structure dates to the Roman period, but the ruins of its predecessor built under Nectanebo II (Egypt's last native pharoah) stand nearby.
Dendera temple is one of the most rewarding in Egypt and shouldn't be missed. It is one of the most complete and evocative ancient monuments in the country and its recent restoration has revealed a surprisingly extensive amount of colour surviving within (we were amazed by the dramatic contrast with the soot-blackened ceiling we'd beheld on our previous visit in the 1990s). Despite its relative youth (in Egyptian terms at least!) it is easily one of my favourite sites in Egypt.
The Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere is one of the oldest churches in Rome. A Christian house-church was founded on the site around 220 by Pope Saint Callixtus I. A larger church was built on the site in 340 by Pope Julius I. Major restorations took place in the fifth and the eight centuries. Pope Innocent II razed and re-erected the church in 1140.
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