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colossal metal-working factory housing the largest hydraulic presses west of the mississippi river. manufactured artillery shells for the military from WW2 until about 2010. the site has since been demolished and replaced by logistics warehouses.
nikon coolpix 8700. processed in adobe camera raw & PTlens.
One of a series of six sculptures mounted on the central columns along the west colonnade at Lumen Field, Seattle, Washington. The sculptures are titled Colossal Head's and were created by artist Claudia Finch in 2002.
Jorenji Temple (乗蓮寺).
Established : 1394 (創建：1394年).
Relegion : Jodoshu, buddhism (宗派：浄土宗).
Location : 5-28-3 Akatsuka, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都板橋区赤塚5−28−3).
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He is called "Tokyo Buddha(東京大仏)". He is one of the three greatest colossal Buddha in Japan. :) 1st:Nara, 2nd:Kamakura, 3rd:Tokyo.
Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq
Neo-Assyrian, about 883-859 BC
Protection for the royal palace from the forces of chaos
This is one of a pair of guardian figures that flanked one of the entrances into the throne room of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC). Stone mythological guardians, sculpted in relief or in the round, were often placed at gateways to ancient Mesopotamian palaces, to protect them from demonic forces. They were known to the Assyrians as lamassu. This winged lion has five legs so that when viewed from the front it is standing firm, and when viewed from the side it appears to be striding forward against any evil. It wears ropes like other protective spirits. Between the legs is inscribed the 'Standard Inscription' of Ashurnasirpal which is repeated over many of his reliefs. It records the king's titles, ancestry and achievements.
This colossal figure was excavated by Austen Henry Layard who worked in Assyria between 1845 and 1851. He suggested that these composite creatures embodied the strength of the lion, the swiftness of birds indicated by the wings, and the intelligence of the human head. The helmet with horns indicates the creature's divinity.
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A freight train from Kajaani to Lauritsala is hauling a colossal freight consisting of slavic wagons. Now, the colossal train has a top in a red signal, and at the same time, the nearby neighbourhoods are falling asleep.
North-West Palace throne room of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud (Kalhu), in modern-day Iraq, dated 883–859 BCE
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Colossal Planet
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: Supermoon of April 8, 2020 (Beautiful Full Moon Rise Through) - Canon
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Ghost Recon Wildlands : NVIDIA Custom Resolution @ In-game Photo Mode (freecam, fov, tod, timestop and filters)
Polaroid px 70 - color shade
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I saw 817 bison in one day. There were two that stood out as clearly the largest of them all. This one in particular was about the length of a minivan and taller than a minivan. To me, it looked like somewhere between the size of an adult bison and an elephant. I was super impressed.
Image taken with a Z9 and Z 50mm f/1.8 lens.
No layers, masks, additions, object editing, sky changes, etc used.
[Update: this photo made it past the first round of judging for the 2025 Annual Nikon Film and Photo Contest sponsored by Nikon. To me, that's huge. :)]
Colossal granite statue of Amenhotep III
The colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III is a granite head of the 18th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Dating from around 1370 BC, it was found in the temple enclosure of Mut at Karnak in Upper Egypt.
Kolossale Granitstatue von Amenophis III
Die kolossale rote Granitstatue von Amenhotep III ist ein Granitkopf des ägyptischen Pharaos Amenhotep III der 18. Dynastie. Sie stammt aus der Zeit um 1370 v. Chr. und wurde in der Tempelanlage Mut in Karnak in Oberägypten gefunden.
An empire so great that 2000 years later the ghosts still preside over modern life. There is no such thing as too big to fail. [Rome, Italy 2014]
Jorenji Temple (乗蓮寺).
Established : 1394 (創建：1394年).
Relegion : Jodoshu, buddhism (宗派：浄土宗).
Location : 5-28-3 Akatsuka, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都板橋区赤塚5−28−3).
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He is called "Tokyo Buddha(東京大仏)". He is one of the three greatest colossal Buddha in Japan. :) 1st:Nara, 2nd:Kamakura, 3rd:Tokyo.
Head of a colossal statue, surmounted by the traditional Egyptian hairdress nemes, bearing both Greek and Egyptian features.
The face is that of a youthful subject and is naturalistic in appearance, thus suggesting a Greek rather than Egyptian model. The inclusion of the hair is not Egyptian, but a feature that appears on many of the Ptolemaic Statues with Greek features. Right over the forehead is a worn Egyptian uraeus. There are two holes in the nemes which would have once supported a diadem.
The similarity of this particular statue with others recognized as late Ptolemaic suggests that this subject is a late king of this period. The youthful appearance would be attributed to Cleopatra's elder son, Ptolemy XV, whom she had by Caesar and who was named Caesarion by the Alexandrians.
This Group of Ptolemaic statues, bearing both Egyptian and Greek features, began to be produced during the reign of Ptolemy V (204-180 BC) and continued to be made until the time of the last Ptolemaic ruler, Ptolemy XV. Some Roman Emperors even continued this tradition, but only sporadically and often in Rome.
There are also several statues of male rulers with youthful features, often interpreted as images of the first-century princes, wearing either the traditional nemes or diadem.
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, 1st cent. BCE
Provenance: Lower Egypt, Alexandria, Eastern Harbor
Grey granite
BAAM 1079
Submerged antiquities
Bibliotheka Alexandrina
Built between 72 and 80 AD, the Colosseo (originally "amphitheatrum flavium") seated more than 50,000 people, so it is not only a marvel of architecture, but also one of logistics. Getting so many people in, to their seats and out again was an admirable feat. it was built for the purpose of letting spectators watch people being killed. It remained in use for 450 years, during which it saw the death of countless human beings and animals in its arena for the amusement of the crowds. From the early middle ages it was being used as a huge apartment block, and after that as a convenient upright quarry for other building projects, so part of it is now lost for ever. What remains is still impressive, massive, but also sinister. It can teach us a lot about human creative genius, but also about human depravity.
Camera: Nikon FM2n
Lens: Cosina Voigtländer Ultron 40 f/2 SL II ASPH
Film: Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Saturn’s auroras put on a dazzling display of light.
Scientists first observed Saturn’s auroras in 1979. Decades later, these shimmering ribbons of light still fascinate. For one thing they’re magnificently tall, rising hundreds of miles above the planet’s poles. And unlike on Earth where bright displays fizzle after only a few hours, auroras on Saturn can shine for days. Auroras are produced when speeding particles accelerated by the sun’s energy collide with gases in a planet’s atmosphere. The gases fluoresce, emitting flashes of light at different wavelengths. Watch the video (1.usa.gov/IFW5o7) to see an edge-on view of Saturn’s northern and southern lights courtesy of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a massive galaxy cluster glowing brightly in the darkness. Despite its beauty, this cluster bears the distinctly unpoetic name of PLCK_G308.3-20.2.
Galaxy clusters can contain thousands of galaxies all held together by the glue of gravity. At one point in time they were believed to be the largest structures in the Universe — until they were usurped in the 1980s by the discovery of superclusters, which typically contain dozens of galaxy clusters and groups and span hundreds of millions of light-years. However, clusters do have one thing to cling on to; superclusters are not held together by gravity, so galaxy clusters still retain the title of the biggest structures in the Universe bound by gravity.
One of the most interesting features of galaxy clusters is the stuff that permeates the space between the constituent galaxies: the intracluster medium (ICM). High temperatures are created in these spaces by smaller structures forming within the cluster. This results in the ICM being made up of plasma — ordinary matter in a superheated state. Most luminous matter in the cluster resides in the ICM, which is very luminous X-rays. However, the majority of the mass in a galaxy cluster exists in the form of non-luminous dark matter. Unlike plasma, dark matter is not made from ordinary matter such as protons, neutrons and electrons. It is a hypothesised substance thought to make up 80 % of the Universe’s mass, yet it has never been directly observed.
This image was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide-Field Camera 3 as part of an observing programme called RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey). RELICS imaged 41 massive galaxy clusters with the aim of finding the brightest distant galaxies for the forthcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, RELICS, CC BY 4.0
"... and I'm going to get a colossal donut!"
aka Insomnia, for J. Star and her recent (superior) Aching Insomnia ... post! ^_^
Looking towards the entrance of the Mee Canyon Alcove.
5 photo panorama. Difficult to capture the shear size of this place with a camera.
By the renown South African Artist-Sculptor Mr Anton Smit, it is titled as per above by the Artist himself.
On display in the beautiful gardens of the Lourensford Wine Estate, located in the coastal town of Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa.
The sculpture with it's plinth is over 3 x metres in height.
Two at once for Crush a Can day.
Members of the We're Here group are crushing cans today as they join the group Crushed cans and bottle tops
The colossal statue of Amenhotep III and Tiye is a monolith group statue of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III of the eighteenth dynasty, his Great Royal Wife Tiye, and three of their daughters. It is the largest known dyad ever carved. The statue originally stood in Medinet Habu, Western Thebes.
The statue is made of limestone, its width is 4,4 m, its height is 7 m. The almond shaped eyes and curved eyebrows of the figures are of typical late 18th dynasty style. Amenhotep III wears the nemes headdress with uraeus, a false beard and a kilt; he is resting his hands on his knees. Queen Tiye is sitting on his left, her right arm is placed around her husband's waist. Her height is equal to that of the pharaoh, which shows her prominent status. She wears an ankle-length, close-fitting dress and a heavy wig with a vulture headdress, modius and double uraei. The cobras and the vulture are crowned, the proper right cobra wears the white crown of Upper Egypt, while the proper left one wears the red crown of Lower Egypt.
The three smaller figures depict three of their daughters. Princess Henuttaneb, standing between her parents, is depicted as a grown woman, in a close-fitting dress and a full wig with modius and plumes but without uraei (this is the only difference between her mother's headdress and hers). Next to Amenhotep stands the damaged figure of a younger daughter, Nebetah, while next to Tiye stands the even more damaged figure of another princess, whose name has been lost. The dyad is one of only two statues depicting Henuttaneb, and the only one of Nebetah.
The statue is likely to have been carved around the first sed festival of Amenhotep III. Arielle Kozloff writes that the age of the daughters depicted on the monument, especially that of Henuttaneb, and the style of Queen Tiye's wig, which was "at its most developed, nearly shrouding her face" suggests that the statue was made during the third decade of the king's reign. It is possible that it was made from the good quality limestone which was removed to create the open courtyard of TT192 – a huge tomb belonging to Queen Tiye's steward Kheruef, work on which was started around this time.
The eldest daughter of the royal couple, Sitamun is absent from the statue group, probably because she was elevated to the rank of great royal wife by Year 30 of Amenhotep's reign. Henuttaneb was the second or third daughter, born either before or after Iset, who became queen in Year 34. Henuttaneb is nowhere mentioned as a queen, but on this colossus she is described as "the companion of Horus, who is in his heart". This is the only instance of this queenly title being given to a princess, and her name is sometimes written in a cartouche, which may indicate that she was elevated to queen like Sitamun and Iset. The third princess on the statue, whose name is destroyed is sometimes tentatively identified as Iset, but Amenhotep may have had as many as sixteen daughters, not all of whom are known to us.
The statue belonged to the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, which has been mostly destroyed since, but during its time was the largest temple complex in Thebes, surpassing even the Karnak temple. As it was built too close to the floodplain, less than two hundred years later it already stood in ruins and most of its stones were reused by later pharaohs for their own building projects. The place where the statue was found is likely to have been the south gate of the mortuary temple complex, as it is as far from the temple as the Colossi of Memnon at the east gate.