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The Western Wall, also known as the "Wailing Wall" or the "Kotel," is one of the most significant religious and historical sites in Jerusalem, Israel. It holds deep spiritual and emotional importance for Jews worldwide, and it has also become a symbol of the complex and often contentious nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Western Wall is a remnant of the ancient retaining wall that once surrounded the Second Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. After the temple's destruction, the Western Wall became the closest accessible site for Jewish prayer and pilgrimage. For centuries, Jews from around the world have come to this sacred site to pray, lament the destruction of the temple, and express their connection to Jewish heritage.

The name "Wailing Wall" originates from the 19th and early 20th centuries when Jews would gather at the site to mourn the destruction of the temple and express their sorrow through prayers and tears. The term "Kotel" means "wall" in Hebrew and has become a popular and endearing name for the site.

Over time, the Western Wall has evolved into a focal point of religious and nationalist tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. The site is located in the Old City of Jerusalem, which is also part of the contested area between Israel and Palestine. Its significance to both Jewish and Muslim communities has led to disputes and occasional clashes.

The Western Wall plaza is divided into two sections: one for men and the other for women, following Orthodox Jewish tradition. The prayers and rituals conducted here are a mix of individual devotion, communal worship, and celebrations during religious holidays.

In addition to its religious importance, the Western Wall draws millions of tourists and visitors from various backgrounds each year, offering them a glimpse into the rich history and cultural diversity of Jerusalem.

Despite the ongoing complexities surrounding the Western Wall and its geopolitical context, it remains an essential and cherished place for Jewish people, symbolizing resilience, faith, and the connection to their shared heritage.

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Poppies, River Gade, Watford (Hertfordshire). 7Artisans manual lens at F1.2.

The image represents a true situation, but it is not the 'full' truth. You can't see the context (or, the environs). In fact, the Poppies were planted as a border to one of the car parks of Cassiobury Park, a scenic tourist location. Just behind, there are cars - plenty of them.

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A Walk in the Woods (with a nod to Bill Bryson), can be very fruitful photographically. Not that we just stumbled upon this. This was part of our exploration of Jim Day's property near St. Andrews, NB.

It is said "context is everything". So without context, what do you see? A vertical rock face with deep fissures? Or perhaps, a close-up section of an old tree trunk?

It is, in fact, the latter.

The base of a Western Red Cedar tree (Thuja plicata), with its characteristic vertical fissures.

Olympus EM1 + Olympus 12-50mm.

Yesterday's post in a larger context.

I don't know if they have a building inspector in Quadeville, but that electrical wiring does not seem up to code to me, heh heh. It seems that someone has fallen onto hard times here.

So, what's special about Quadeville? Well, they do have a Pentecostal church, and a sign in the window of the chip 'n' poutine shop across the road from this place indicated that they are eager to save our souls.

There is also The Beryl Pit (Quadeville East Mine) owned by a company called Aquarose, where for a fee rock-hounds can look for and collect beryl. Collection permits may be purchased at Quadeville's MacEwen gas station where they will also give you directions to The Pit. - www.mindat.org/loc-6641.html

But, Quadeville's biggest claim to fame is that Al Capone's Canadian hideout is alleged to have been in the area. We did ask for directions, and tried to find it, to no avail, however. Here's a link to the blog of someone who apparently did find it and photographed it for posterity: simpsonecofarms.blogspot.ca/2014/09/al-capone-hideout-in-...

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Potrei fare solo un gessetto a memoria.... mi passi quel cartoncino nero.....

Attenzione non potrà essere perfetto....non c'è ragionamento.....

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Here is a photograph of Gibbon Falls in Yellowstone within the surrounding mountains of that lovely caldera.

COmposition Series

Extract from the context volumes, colors and shapes by subjectively creating a new self-sufficient harmony.

EDIT: First: Nope - thats not me!! xD Second: You may have noticed I didn't report "back" ... well... I AM but I discontinued Blogging ... so ... nothing new here in a while. Maybe I'll add something soon but not in the context of "blogging" ... :)

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Hey there ... I'm just about to leave for vacation! Finally ... You'll have noticed I didn't do anything here the past few weeks, well, RL consumes a load of time actually, so I won't come up again before coming back in September :D

COmposition Series

Extract from the context volumes, colors and shapes by subjectively creating a new self-sufficient harmony.

Created with Ultra Fractal.....LOTSA LAYERS!!!

Deseret Peak, at least to my eye on this monitor, is still slightly visible in this photo over the spine of the Oquirrh Mountains.

The LDS General Conference was to begin the next morning across the street from the Salt Lake Temple which is clearly recognizable with its six characteristic spires below. If you're interested taking a closer look in that area will yield a very clear idea of the layout of downtown Salt Lake City.

How to include the tree in silhouette on the right was a tough decision for me. I decided my best route was to give some meaningful sense of where this photograph was taken. Moving further left I quickly lost the context that made it a great environment in my view to begin with. It creates a somewhat unusual feel for me but still I decided it worked for my own taste.

The Crazy Tuesday theme is glass. The three pictures in my photostream are each successively larger.

Downtown Charleston, South Carolina, USA

With the context that this Empire Builder detoured from Seattle to Spokane via Portland, they're doing pretty solid schedule wise into Havre at only about 3 hours down. The Milk River wanders north of the tracks through Havre and this was fun spot to see it.

This is taken from behind a run down strip mall on the hill in town and you'd never know this view was there from the highway.

for Sliders Sunday…. It’s amazing what you thought you cleaned but still need to fix when you macro in this closely!!….

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A possibility for the Macro Monday theme of animals for 8/14… size verification later but with both little critters, it’s just under two inches. There’s a slightly different context shot nearby in the photostream.

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ANSH scavenger8 snails

Composing shots of the Natural Bridge at Bryce Canyon National Park can be challenging due to the limitations of the overlook itself. That is, your positions are so limited. Now, after two trips here, I'm finally happy with this one, getting a bit wider view with the bridge arch in its context.

I'm evaluating an old Bessa (Skopar f3.5, used wide open) to see how it performs in this context. Also evaluating my current batch of Bergger Pancro 400, which has misbehaved badly any time I have run it through any of the Pyro developers (totally unusable negs). I made up fresh D-76 last night and ran this test roll through it (1:1, 17 min) and its OK. I get the impression that there's something not quite right with the current Pancro 400 (120 roll) so I will likely avoid it for the foreseeable future.

Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Den Haag, Energiekwartier, Electriciteitsfabriek, Smoke/vapour.

The only trace of the Christiaan Zwanniken exhibition in this frame is the smoke and vapour produced by his ‘Nose patrol’ installation here and another installation. The main element is the glorious context of the exhibition - the upper stories of the gritty cathedral like industrial building of the Electriciteitsfabriek (EF). It’s a storage building (1928), though it’s sometimes called the “turbine hall”, of the The Hague municipal power station, from the time when it was still coal fired. The power station itself is still in operation, nowadays it’s gas-turbine based.

Context image. Macro Mondays - Photographic equipment.

Godox MS300 Strobe.

Dubs Hut - surrounded in the foreground by the residues of its former life and in the background by the mountains which attract its current clientele of hikers.

For a closer look at the hut itself, see the previous upload flic.kr/p/2qvNmJn

Kew Gardens, London. There are sculptures by Marc Quinn on display around the gardens this summer in stainless steel and bronze. This highly reflective one shows the Temperate House in the mirrored image which is behind me and the grounds behind it in the opposite direction including Meena on the other side for context. The lining up of the two footpaths, reflected and natural, was a fortunate coincidence.

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Promised one of my FB buds that I’d show him what the whole cat looked like (see the half face a little bit farther down in the photostream) ... methinks it might benefit from a frame to help position it better

Context shot for Macro Mondays.

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Alan Combining in the next field, bales in this field the North sea over the edge and an Oil & Gas supply vessel sitting offshore. Mains of Slains Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Safety First.

Excerpt from the plaque:

All steel windows had to be replaced upon revitalizing and renovating the Mills complex. To minimize the impact on the original building exterior, each new window was crafted using the same technique and materials, while seamlessles incorporating into the overall architectural design. Old window frames were retained and repurposed to become new entry floor signages, showcasing a glimpse of the old factories while turning a new leaf for the Mills.

No Smoking.

Fire Extinguisher.

The Macro Mondays theme for 1/22 is marble(marbles), so I thought I’d add a cats eye to the trivet.

Since I wasn't bold-faced enough to take pictures of all the thin and beautiful families around me, I took lots of pictures of the light bulbs.

Standing before the Viaur railway viaduct, I wanted to move beyond engineering prowess to reveal the dream woven into steel. By framing the structure diagonally and stripping away all context, reducing the scene to black and white, I sought to exalt the raw power of metal, the complex interplay of bracings, and the graphic tension of a suspended work.

My intention is to invite the viewer to see this giant not as a bridge, but as calligraphy traced across the sky—a monumental signature in lines and rhythms, of light and shadow. In this abstraction, matter becomes drawing, and technique transforms into poetry.

Through this gaze, I celebrate the essential: the human gift for shaping—and imagining—the landscape. The Viaur, in this frame, is a symbolic passageway: it joins the force of engineering with the creative breath of the imagination, bridging earth and idea, utility and art.

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The edge of the rise prior to the sprawling Iron Age site of Ulaca is alive with vivid boulders. The shot is taken from before the sites final rise and so still high above the fluvial plane below. One has a throne carved into its top, and the way the natural mineral erratic's, some visible on the horizon of this image, are 'appropriated' by culture and passage coheres with other iron age sites in the greater area.

The site features a sauna, and as you sit in its two well worn stone-carved chairs (see later), aside the larger and still steamy 'changing room', you 'hear' the conviviality and sweat of a pre Roman spirit of cleanliness and pride. The sauna is a practical space that is described on Wiki Fr as an 'initiation' space. If a community of a sample 500 people each use the facility once a week, then everyone could access for 30 minutes for just a 12 hour day, perhaps not the best description of the concept of 'initiation'. Likewise for Wiki Fr, the site's monolithic stairs (see below) are described as being there for 'sacrifices'. Stairs do exist with summits used for sacrifice, but this vivid explanation adds a cold breath over other possible usages, from a meeting point for local 'bigmen' from the valley below, to a vivid waiting space for pre Gladiator specialist warriors; a meeting point for traders, to a loci for spiritual rites of passage and an arena for speech, specific oratory and controlled song - and indeed many of the above according to context and time and date.

The shot is a montage using a Takumar 35mm at the first bounce of dawn. The exposure has been brightened a tad to return the image to my memory of the light.

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In Japanese cuisine, sushi (寿司, 鮨, 鮓, sushi?) is vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients, including fish (cooked or uncooked) and vegetables. Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish by itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes.[1] In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi, as sashimi is the raw fish component, not the rice component. The word sushi itself comes from an outdated grammatical form of a word that is no longer used in other contexts; literally, sushi means "it's sour."

There are various types of sushi: sushi served rolled inside nori (dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or alga) called makizushi (巻き) or rolls; sushi made with toppings laid with hand-formed clumps of rice called nigirizushi (にぎり); toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tofu called inarizushi; and toppings served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice called chirashi-zushi (ちらし).

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A wider view of the area, just providing context for the next shot focusing on the very top.

When photographing wildlife, I really like to show the animal in the context of its surrounding environment. For me, this tells a much more powerful story. It helps the viewer understand where the animal lives, how it behaves, and how their presence complements the beautiful landscape. I was invited to be a guest on the Understand Photography Podcast/Videocast. During this episode, I discuss tips and tricks for photographing wildlife with a landscape focus. I also give out many of my favorite wildlife photography suggestions. I hope you can tune in and I'd love to hear your comments on what you liked and any questions you have!

www.understandphotography.com/shooting-wildlife-with-a-la...