Dedicated to all the lovers of ladybirds, or whatever you call them in your country...

Chedis dedicated to the Four Kings

Wat Pho

Bangkok, Thailand

www.lloyedvalenzuela.com

Dedicated to my good flickr friend, and excellent photographer, Jacques Freund, in Belgium.

Anglesey Abbey, formerly a priory, is a stately home in the village of Lode, 51⁄2 miles (8.9 km) northeast of Cambridge, England. The house and gardens, as well as the Lode mill are open to the public.

Photo taken on July 29, 2010.

Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανασης Φουρναρακος

Professional Photographer, retired.

Athens, Greece

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Dedicated to Brenda who has the habit of "stealing" (e.g ripping of...) other peoples' flowers. She made such a confession publicly! The real fact is that these flowers were already the subject of maltreatment and were "saved" in a way by Brenda!

The photo is not copyrighted or password protected, but dedicated to a friend.

[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]

Work with Aluminium Foil

Gigaset GS290

ƒ/2

3.5 mm

1/33 Sec

ISO 530

Zinoviy G. Kolobanov (Зиновий Г. Колобанов) (died 1995) was a tank commander and veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He commanded a KV-1 tank and is frequently considered the second top scoring tanker ace of the Soviet Union.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviy_Kolobanov

1941年8月18日一批KB-1重戰車,在指揮官卡羅巴諾夫(Kolobanov)領導下,在列寧格勒週邊地區的克拉斯諾伐迪斯克(Krasnogvardeysk)鎮附近構工偽裝,把持住了通往琴斯普(Kinigsep)的要道而另外四輛KB重戰車則奉命把守另外兩條道路,五輛KB重戰車皆攜帶了雙倍的彈藥,並有三分之二的彈藥為穿甲彈(AP),這批KB重戰車剛好駐防在德軍第八裝甲師的攻勢方向內,它們分別隱藏良好的躲在丘陵和森林之中,而交通要點的十字路口則位置偏低以及在沼澤間.

隔天19日,德軍機械化偵蒐單位/半履帶車還有輕型卡車通過這個地段,稍後德軍戰車縱隊出現並塞滿了整條道路,紅軍首先開火擊毀領頭戰車,隨後兩發以上的砲彈擊毀了第二輛德軍戰車,卡羅巴諾夫也隨之開火擊毀德軍縱隊最末端的戰車,德軍裝甲單位受到了嚴重的震撼,甚至無法查明蘇軍戰車開火的位置,而只能死命的潰逃,其中一些戰車驚慌滴開進了沼澤而動彈不得,公路上一片混亂,這批蘇軍KB重戰車在半小時內擊毀了二十二輛德軍戰車,當德軍戰車也開火瞄準反擊時,德軍乘員驚訝的發現己方的戰車砲無法貫穿KB重戰車的裝甲,砲彈命中的撞擊聲只能帶給蘇軍戰車兵噪音而已!

在伏擊之後KB重戰車開出原埋伏點進行掃蕩作戰,並發現十字路口中有兩門德軍拖曳火炮(應當是中大口徑之野戰砲),擊毀其中一門旦另一門則擊傷了KB重戰車的潛望鏡,但是這門野戰砲還是逃不過慘遭摧毀的命運,在彈藥幾乎用盡的狀況下,卡羅巴諾夫收到了無線電傳來的撤退命令以及祝賀,不過此時另外三輛KB重戰車在擊毀二十多輛德軍戰車後已離開了戰場.

這五輛KB重戰車殲滅了整支四十二輛戰車的德軍縱隊以及兩門拖曳火炮,而卡羅巴諾夫的座車(車體編號864)上竟然有多達135個受創痕跡,旦沒有一發能貫穿KB重戰車的裝甲!

卡羅巴諾夫後來獲頒列寧勛章,而駕駛烏索夫(Usov)則獲頒紅旗勳章

Dedicated to Bootcrease

Watching today's Memorial for Michael the poem below made me think of him. I will miss you, when I was a child, you were the love of my life, I will never forget that or forget you... thank you for those wonderful memories. Love Always... Amy.

No, I promise this is not about my own death or me wanting to die. It is a poem I found that reminded me of a very close loved one I lost when I was 14. It is a reminder that although she is gone, I know deep in my heart she is never very far away when I need her.

"Death is nothing at all.

I have only slipped away into the next room.

I am I, and you are you.

Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name,

speak to me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference in your tone,

wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,

let it be spoken without effect,

without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same that it ever was;

there is unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you, for an interval,

somewhere very near, just round the corner.

And all is well."

-Henry Scott Holland

There is a lot of stuff in my stream which is only dedicated to open minded people ;-)

Some of my pictures may not be shown in the original in some countries (including Germany), hence the censorship.

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By the way, for me, "Flickr friends" should be friendly, non-homophobic people who can stand the sight of naked men ;-) My "Flickr family" consists exclusively of gay men who I either know personally or whose photos particularly appeal to me.

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Westminster University, Salt Lake City Utah, USA Payne Gymnasium building. Built in 1928 and dedicated in 1929. Besides decades of use for the community and the university, it served as the practice facility for the Utah Jazz from 1979 to 1999

Shot with Mamiya Universal Press - Mam-goose, with 100mm f/3.5 lens at f/11 and 1/250. Shot on Polaroid I-type instant film.

I shot this semi shadowed from behind a bit too fast. Learning now to avoid this particular combination of lighting with Polaroid 600-type film. I could have shot it one stop slower I think.

Shot with the LoFi Mamiya polarid back. The characteristics of the back means the image is reversed in positive.

British Airways dedicated terminal at Heathrow designed by Norman foster- love this building but oh my how crowded it was in September en route to Belfast . This is the outside atrium from bus stop and car park

IMG_8175 1400x1050

This church, dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, was a real surprise to me. The single nave structure was probably erected within the 12th century. It was built in a "walking distance" off the pilgrim routes (like "San Pedro de Echano"), as the hamlet Artaiz is just about 10kms north of the "Camino Aragonés". San Martin will have been for sure a stopover for pilgrims, who had visited the tomb of Saint Martin of Tours, following the "Via Turonensis".

The portal of Saint Martin is extraordinary in the specific iconography, that in parts may reflect the relations to the Islamic neighbours (Reconquista). Here is a script by German arthistorian Hedda Finke about this subject.

art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium/presenter.php?year=2009&am...

Close to the very artful and complex capitals, just seen, next to the door, under the lintel is this bearded face. The face of the gatekeeper. It seems simple and kind of "abstract", but it is well composed. Nose and eyebrows form a crossbow.

Dedicated to my niece Sarah... she has such wonderful inner eyes looking at and commenting my photographs!

"Love, myths and other stories" is the exhibition celebrating the bimillennian of Ovidio (Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale) and dedicated to the life, work and legacy of Ovid.

Words and verses: this is what remains of Ovid. Even his face is known to us only through evocations in Mediaeval manuscripts and Renaissance books that provide us with imaginary likenesses: the poet appears on the frontispieces either standing or seated at his desk, represented according to the canons of a man of letters of the period, often wearing a laurel wreath.

More is known about Ovid's personality which can be construed from his vast literary output, and has come down to us in manuscripts, giving him the immortality that he himself prophesied at the end of Metamorphoses. The poet tackled all the main styles in literature, grappling with and mastering very different genres, modernizing both the content and the form.

The romantic elegy features in his poetry from the early years: in the “Amores” the poet writes of earthly love for young girls, matrons, slaves and freedwomen; in the “Heroides” he explores the feelings of the mythic heroines betrayed and abandoned by deceitful or simply inattentive lovers; he adopts yet another register for “Ars amatoria”, where passion and desire become the subject of an educational guide. He then went on to tackle civic and epic poetry, creating the poem that would make him famous for generations, the “Metamorphoses”. Ovid occupies a special place among the great poets of the Latin world for the size and variety of his literary production and his role in handing down the great tradition of classical mythology. Thanks to him the enthralling tales of the gods, heroes, youths and nymphs have been imprinted in our collective memory.

Through his poetry, the word that overcomes the oblivion of time, Ovid achieved the immortality he so desired.

Me vatem celebrate, viri, mihi dicite laudes,

cantetur toto nomen in orbe meum

[ars 2, 739~740]

Celebrate me the prophet, O ye men:

sing my praises, let my name be sung

in all the world

Me ev'ry youth shall praise, extol my name,

And o'er the globe diffuse my lasting fame.

Ovid was an acute observer of contemporary Rome. He wrote of made—up women, ardent lovers, assignations and the sybaritic pleasures of banquets and theatrical performance. He frequented the intellectual circles and the most exclusive salons in the city where his instructive playful approach was particularly appreciated, although it made him unpopular with the emperor, who was engaged in a campaign of moral reform. For a crime, the precise nature of which remains unknown, Augustus exiled the sophisticated interpreter of Greek and Roman myth to Tomis, present-day Costanta in Romania. His later years were marked by the pain of exile and the vain hope that his sentence would be reduced.

Giovan Battista Benvenuti, called l’Ortolano

Ca. 1505-1510

Oil on panel

Exhibition: “Ovidio: Loves, Myths & Other Stories”

Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome

Based on the architecture and the armour depicted in this altarpiece, I'd say the 'official' date by De Backker Medieval Art of the second quarter of the 15th century is too early.

The combination of the overall silhouette of the armour, shape of the pauldrons and tassets, and the pointed 'double'-placard can hardly be seen before 1450. So in my humble opinion I bet we're looking at an altarpiece from ca. 1450 to 1475, or maye even later.

Information from the website of De Backker Medieval Art:

Altarpiece of Saint Michael

3 panels from an altarpiece of Saint Michael

tempera and gold ground on gesso

Spain/ School of Valencia or Granada under Mozarabic influence

2nd quarter of the 15th century

Measures without frame:

2 panels 53 x 100 cm - 1 panel 53 x 106 cm

Measures with complete frame:

w: 70 cm - h: 146 cm

It is most likely that these three panels were once part of a larger retable or altarpiece dedicated to Saint Michael.

The Last Judgment

The first panel represent the Last Judgment. This scene is divided into two registers. Christ sits on a throne in the centre of the upper register, within a shell-shaped nimbus or ‘mandorla’. This is not the traditional representation of the Supreme Judge with one open and one closed hand. Christ shows his stigmata, which refers to the Ecce Homo. He wears an orange robe with exotic-looking motifs. This robe is entirely different from the traditional red of the passion and is unusual in Christian iconography. His posture resembles the Sanskrit ‘Padmasana’ or lotus position. This is a cross-legged position used by Hindus when meditating. The whole scene makes one think of a Hindu painting.

On the left we see the Virgin Mary. She is wrapped in a blue mantle, symbol of the celestial and divine. She wears a white veil around her neck, a symbol of innocence, purity and chastity. As the ‘Salvatrix Mundi’ or advocate for mankind, she raises her hand in a pleading gesture to her son. Her cloak has a red lining, the symbol of her passion.

On the other side is a picture of St John the Baptist. He is not only an advocate, but also the most significant saint from the Old Testament. In contrast to the traditional stance where he points his hands towards Christ, he is holding his arms in front of his lap. He is wearing a red passion cloak. He is not depicted with his traditional camel-hair shirt but with a green tunic. This could possibly refer to the colour of the liturgical green garment worn by priests on the day of remembrance of the Lord’s baptism. What is different from traditional iconography is that this saint is depicted without a beard, an iconography which is more usual with St John the Evangelist.

Six angels are hovering behind Christ. The two above are blowing their trumpets. They are waking the dead and calling both the dead and the living to appear before the Supreme Judge. The other four angels are displaying the instruments of the Passion: the cross, the spear which pierced Christ’s heart, the sponge on the reed with vinegar and the nails of the crucifixion.

The divine dispensation appears in the lower register. The Archangel Michael in armour is standing in the centre. He wields the sword of justice. In his left hand he holds the scales that will weigh the souls of the people who are to be judged. On his shoulder he wears a chlamys or travelling cloak.

On the right hand of Saint Michael – his divine side – an angel receives a soul, depicted as a praying man. On his left side a devilish figure is waiting to receive the soul of a frightened, weeping man. Both mortals are wearing a white gown. Below and above these mortals the dead are crawling out of their graves. They are naked or wrapped in shrouds.

The devils on the right are anthropomorphic or zoomorphic, meaning they look like people or animals or a mixture of both.

Salvator Mundi

The central panel depicts Christ as Salvator Mundi or Saviour of the World. He is represented as a Roman emperor seated on a throne. In Christian iconography this refers to the death by crucifixion of Christ through which He saved the world from original sin.

As tradition has it, Christ is shown holding an orb but, contrary to the conventional representation where Christ makes a blessing gesture with his right hand, here he is holding his hand above the Archangel Michael.

Because of its restrained form, this figure again gives a strong sense of the East. It is striking that he is again robed in an orange gown over a white undergarment. Both of these are decorated with Eastern motifs. The Messiah is placed within a mandorla decorated with stylised clouds between blue angels, the seraphim. They are seen as the angels of light, love and divine fire. From the four attendant angels, Christ chooses Michael. The name Michael means ‘Who is like God?’ He is most often depicted as a knight and bearer of the sword of justice.

The banishment to hell

The final panel shows the Archangel Michael banishing the fallen angels to hell. Again he is depicted as a knight in armour with a travel cloak and a sword in hand. An angel with a sword and an angel with a spear help him. The firmament is again represented above the stylised clouds with brilliant gold stars. The archangel is standing on earth and banishes the fallen angels into the cracked earth down to the burning inferno. Some of these anthropomorphic or zoomorphic demons have a dog’s head. The lance with Michael’s crossed staff drive them to hell.

Conclusion

We can conclude that the altarpiece is devoted to the holy Michael. Although the image corresponds to Christian iconography, the work nevertheless exhibits a few peculiarities. To begin with we have Christ in oriental dress. Furthermore, the various saints are adorned with green garments in addition to white (purity) and red (passion) clothing, a colour which does not have immediate significance in Christian iconography. In the world of Islam the colour green was reserved for the clothing of Muslims. Foreigners who stayed in the Islamic world and who had not adopted the Muslim faith were not allowed to wear green. It is possible that the artist wanted to tell us that this colour could also be worn by Christians.

This work has been executed in tempera paint on a soft, thickly applied gesso ground, which has been reinforced with cloth. The flat rendering of the clothing, the grey colouring, the aureoles applied layer upon layer in relief and especially the onion-shaped arches of the Gothic fretwork enable us to assign this work to the Spanish school.

Subdivision into bands and a background decorated with relief fretwork are found all over Spain until the 16th century. An example of this is the St Michael retable from Corrales de Duero (at present: Valladolid, Museo Diocesano y Catedralicio).

Southern Spain

The iconography clearly shows that we are dealing with a work of art that shows influences from South-Central Spain, the region above Andalusia. Andalusia was occupied by the Moors until the middle of the 15th century. We can already see in the 8th century that because of the Muslim conquest of territories in the Far East, there was a connection between Andalusia and India. The road from Andalusia to the Far East was opened up. Musicians, performers, artists and architects learned about each other’s culture on the road there and back through the Islamic world. Not only do we see the Indian influence on the Iberian peninsula in the visual arts, this influence is also evident in other branches of the arts. A clear example of this is Spanish dance and music, such as Flamenco, which was strongly influenced by Hindu music. This work of art too has an Indian influence including the lotus posture and the clothing of the Christ figure.

Muzarabic influences

Over the centuries a relationship of trust grew between the Christian north of Spain and the Muslim south, to such an extent even that Granada more or less became a vassal state of Castile in the 14th century. Islamic Granada fought on the Castilian side against rebellious Muslims. The Muzarabs made up the indigenous Christian population in the Islamic kingdom and were predominantly Catholics practising the Visigothic or Muzarabic-Latin rites. They were in a small majority and were on the whole farmers, masons and translators, as well as artists. In addition to their own Spanish dialect, they also spoke Arabic. Although it would have been relatively easy to take Granada, the Christian rulers probably refrained from conquering it for a long time because of the lucrative trade they enjoyed with the Islamic world via Granada.

It is evident that the creator of this work of art was familiar with Muzarabic artists. The Gothic style of this work shows that he had mastered the Christian arts and iconography and that he worked in the tradition of the International Style.

The International Style

On further examination the St Michael retable shows the influence of the 14th century Gothic style, among other things passages in the decorative clouds which we encounter not only in High Gothic miniatures and painting, but even in the art of tapestry (for example the Angers Apocalypse). The balanced shapes and the Mannerist style also recall the 14th century. We also notice an interest in the representation of naturalistic environments and the potential of livelier rhythmic patterns where awareness of the real model is crucial. These elements are of paramount importance in the Spanish International Gothic style.

We can see a quest for profundity in this work. In spite of the limitations of the empirical and conventional perspective, we sense an impression of depth and space which brings every element of the composition to life. The painter also displays an exacting attention to detail. These characteristics are typical for the style of Bernat Martorell (died 1452), as a result of which we may assume that the art of this St Michael retable follows a tradition from the second quarter of the 15th century. In his scene of St Michael as the weighing master, we can see that this artist goes somewhat further and shows the influence of the nascent realism of Flanders.

On the basis of the technique, we can say that the triptych with the scenes from the legend of St Michael was painted in Spain. Its Hindu elements as well as the elements which refer to Islamic art (onion-shaped arches) lead us to locate the artist in the Iberian Peninsula. This art still follows the International Style but the landscape already betrays the emergence of realism, which enables us to date this altarpiece in the half of the 15th century.

Further examination will show which Spanish master created these panels. Further research will certainly reveal us his name.

Dedicated to Natalia

The John Richard Bathe Neale Memorial stained glass window may be found in the southern wall of St Jude's Church of England in Carlton. The window was dedicated by Mr. Neale's parents in 1892. According to a member of the parish whom I met whilst on my visit, Mr. Neale was a chemist in Carlton and a well known member of the St Jude's Parish; and the window was made at great expense by the Melbourne stained glass manufacturers, Rogers and Hughes. The window features the story of Christ at the Pool of Bethesda which appears in the Gospel of John from the King James Bible. The words "Saith Unto Him Arise Take Up Thy Bed and Walk" appear in elegant amber Art Nouveau style script at the base of the window. Jesus stands amid the blind, lame and paralysed. All are depicted in classical Renaissance style. The palate of this window is filled with soft hues not unlike a watercolour painting.

In 1866 the original St Jude's Church of England was simply a temporary wooden structure erected for worship on a triangular block of land between Lygon, Palmerston and Keppel Streets in the busily growing working class suburb of Carlton, in Melbourne's inner north. However, between 1866 and 1867 the church's chancel, four bays of the nave, and vestry of the church that we see today were erected. St Jude's Church of England was built to the designs of Melbourne architects Reed and Barnes. The contractor awared the building of St Jude's was John Pigdon. Between 1869 and 1870 the remaining four bays of the nave, balcony, narthex and crypt were erected. In 1874 the south porch and steps and area wall were erected, and the iron railings and Lygon Street gates were erected in the same year.

Designed in Gothic style so popular with the Victorians, St Jude's Church of England is a beautiful polychromatic brick ecclesiastical building erected on a bluestone plinth with dark hawthorn brick walls and red and cream brick quoining, diaperwork and window surrounds. The plastered interior includes a western gallery, an 1868 George Fincham pipe organ, and stained glass by several prominent glass designers and makers, including Melbourne based stained glass window manufacturers Ferguson and Urie, Rogers and Hughes, Brooks Robinson, and William Montgomery. St Jude's Church of England is of architectural significance as it is an early example of Gothic-polychrome and one of the first fully polychromatic brick churches in Australia, and the building is heritage listed.

In 2009, after much fundraising from the parish, St Jude's Church of England went under a full restoration at the cost of one million dollars, which included painstaking picking out of the bricks with newly laid mortar and a renovated slate roof. On the 18th of October 2014 in the wee hours of the morning, a fire was deliberately started in St Jude's basement. The fire was noticed around four o'clock in the morning when flames were seen engulfing the roof, chancel windows and basement. Fifty Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade trucks were required to bring the blaze under control, which they managed to do in around an hour. Whilst the fire was contained to the chancel and did not burn down the vicarage built against the chancel, St Jude's Church has lost several of its largest and most stunning original Victorian windows which were installed in the chancel. The damage bill is still estimated to be around $500,000.00 and the congregation has been forced to temporarily give up their beautiful place of worship. At the time of writing this, an appeal has been established to raise funds to restore the church and the congregation is meeting in various places within close proximity of St Jude's.

On a personal note, I was very fortunate to have visited St Jude's Church of England on my birthday, just over a month before the fire, after being granted a special request to photograph their stained glass windows in detail. I am very grateful to the staff of St Jude's for granting my request, even more so now that some of the windows are no longer there to admire. It is to the staff and congregation of St Jude's Church of England that I dedicate this set of photographs of their beautiful church; both inside and out.

• тαкєи вч : мy friєиd .,

• мσdєι : мє.,

كل شي في دنيتي له طعم ثاني .. الليالي طولها طول الثواني

والعمر مره وانا عمري معاك .. ياعساني ما انحرم شوفك عساني

ابتدى عامي وشمسك ماتغيب .. لو يغيب الكون كله ماتغيب

من خريف القلب لك ببني قصور .. تآمر وكل الأماني لك تجيب

في شتاء عمري ألاقي بك دفا .. ياللي نظراتك تعلمني الوفا

وآخر فصولك ربيع مزدهر .. مايل بغصنه لوردك تقطفه

يدري إن اسباب ضعفي نظرته .. يدري إني ما أقاوم ضحكته

يدري إن الروح ما تغلى عليه .. لو دعاها جت تلبي دعوته

Dedicated to the Christians died for their belief in a house of worship. Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left at least 44 dead.

So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the blasts in Tanta and Alexandria on Palm Sunday.

The group has targeted Copts in Egypt recently and warns of more attacks.

PSYCHOS/ DFLL/decay for lou lou/ WORLD 15 by malga kubiak the ego trip, dedicated to all dead poets

NOT FOR MINORS ACCIDENTALLY

regi script edit producer malga kubiak

camera malga kubiak

assistant Douze

NYC CENTRAL PARK, maria sochaniewicz, ewa maraszkiewicz

& a home life

harry hoppe

last day at my nyc apartment

Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by missmess film.

dedicated to my son Fynn;

today he has his 18. birthday !

for all who feel the mondayblues :=)))

Nainativu Island, Nagapooshani Amman Temple,

Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple is an ancient and historic Hindu temple located amidst the Palk Strait on the island of Nainativu, Sri Lanka. It is dedicated to Parvati who is known as Nagapooshani or Bhuvaneswari and her consort, Shiva who is named here as Nayinaar. The temple's fame is accredited to Adi Shankaracharya, a 9th-century Hindu philosopher, for identifying it as one of the prominent 64 Shakti Peethams in Shakti Peetha Stotram and its mention in the Brahmanda Purana. The temple complex houses four gopurams (gateway towers) ranging from 20–25 feet in height, to the tallest being the eastern Raja Raja Gopuram soaring at 108 feet (33 meters) high. The temple is a significant symbol for the Tamil people, and has been mentioned since antiquity in Tamil literature, such as Manimekalai and Kundalakesi. The present structure was built during 1720 to 1790 after the ancient structure was destroyed by the Portuguese in 1620. The temple attracts around 1000 visitors a day, and approximately 5000 visitors during festivals. The annual 16-day Mahostavam (Thiruvizha) festival celebrated during the Tamil month of Aani (June/July) - attracts over 100,000 pilgrims. There is an estimated 10,000 sculptures in this newly renovated temple.

The Raja Raja Gopuram is the largest of the four gopurams that adorn this temple. The largest of its kind in Sri Lanka, it soars to the height of 108 feet and appears to scrape the clouds. It has over 2000 intricately sculpted and painted figures on all four sides. It has 9 passages and 9 golden kalasams (pot-like spires). From a distance it appears to crown the much older East Gopuram, and hence it adequately deserves the name of "Raja Raja Gopuram" ("king of kings tower"). It was constructed from 2010-12 with the efforts of artists from Tamil Nadu, India. Mahakumbhabhishekam (great temple revival ceremony) was held in late January 2012. This event was attended by 200,000 devotees from various cities and towns as far as India, Europe, Australia, and North America.

(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nainativu_Nagapooshani_Amman_Temple)

ELR Volunteers at Bolton Street Station, Bury on the East Lancashire heritage line...

As they say - find themselves.

Dedicated to all of you..now you know what I look at through the window right next to where I sit at my computer. Outside you can see the window box full of geraniums, impatins, lobelia, pansies, violas and night scented stocks.

As flowers are the language of love this is particularly dedicated to newly Weds Alan and Dennis who were had a civil rights partnership on 9th July. (see Alan Teddington) or go into my favourites as I have saved their wedding day photos to there.

This is also dedicated to those of you that love flowers...so i am sending you all love by sending you these flowers today.

Dedicated in 1897, Orange County Park was the County's first park. Its name was changed to Irvine Park in 1928. The Boat House was built in 1914 and is now the oldest structure in the park.

There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. All future uses of this photo should include the courtesy line, "Photo courtesy Orange County Archives."

... dedicated to my friend

For Guess Where NYC. Where is this historical plaque that is nearly 100 years old?

"This tablet is dedicated to the horses that shared in valor and devotion and with mighty speed bore on the rescue".

Quel giorno ero in anticipo e così ho allargato un pò il giro passando da una via nuova per arrivare in ufficio..felicissima di averlo fatto...si,

..Sorpresa e felice come una bambina nel camminare sopra ad un dorato tappeto di foglie, quasi infinite davanti a me; avanzare alzando lo sguardo su questo splendido tetto giallo oro, così vivo, che dall'alta cima degli alberi scendeva giù come un sipario ad incorniciar una scena quasi fiabesca....Buon giorno *Starlight*, buon giorno a tutti ! :))

e...

da una sorpresa ad un altra accaduta per il mio compleanno...è successo di nuovo (!) :-O...questa volta da oltre oceano, senza parole, mi sto chiedendo ancora il perchè voi tutti siete così cari con me...beh questa foto è dedicata a TY che mi ha regalato per compleanno un anno di pro su flickr !!!!!

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That day I was early so I enlarged the walk passing by a new street to get office...glad I did...what a surprise..yes..

...Surprised and happy like a child in finding me walking over a carpet of gold leaves, almost infinite in front of me; continuing go on, eyes up, gazing at this amazing gold roof, so vivid, that from the peak of high trees comes down like a curtain for framing a scene so near to a fable... Buon giorno *Starlight*, buon giorno to all ! :))

and...

from a surprise to another one that happend on my birthday... it's happend again (!), this time from over ocean...really without word, still asking why you are so kind with me...well...

***....This shot is for TY, that for my birthday make me the gift of a one year pro!!

Grazie mille my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, was really a surprise to receive it !! and sure you deserve to be celebrate here. A big embrace!***

*Starlight*

post-proc: selective color + frame

Well, dedicated to the memory of Heliogabalus and those who perished under the weight of his Rose petals

Dedicated to Leley Noronha

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Dedicated to my Hubby. Miss you already.

So check this out guys, for the LONGEST time I've wanted to have a blue room. With white. My bday is coming up shortly and hubby asked me what I wanted for my Bday. I told him I wanted to paint my office room for my Bday. So he took me to LOWES, let me pick the color I wanted and bought me all the supplies. So that's what I have been doing for the past 5 days. Painting. It took a long time because we have that "Popcorn" texture on the ceiling and let me just say, it's a "B" to paint over it unless you have a sprayer. Which uh... we don't have. So anyway... it's finally done! And I love it! It's soooooo pretty and so refreshing going in there. The blue is so calm and perfect. Now I just need a white couch. Maybe Santa will bring that for me this year! ha! Here is a flower I captured in my new "blue" room. One of the flowers from the bouquet hubby bought me. I have the sweetest hubby. I swear.

Hope you're all having a wonderful HUMPDAY!

Dedicated to foxylady stardust (www.flickr.com/photos/15034268@N04/) in order to thsank her for her visits and comments

- Comme de la danse asymétrique...

dedicated to Ahmad Kavousian for his wonderful street portraits.

I am inspiring from his photos and the way he get close to people in the streets…

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This man sells second hand cloths in an old market in Isfahan. He just knows English to say: Hello Mister, How are you ?

This card dedicated to Mbak Dwita in Cirebon...

I know her from www.multiply.com

I love her style to making a card.She can make 50 cards with 50 design and different color too in one week (or maybe 3 days...I cant imagine how she did that)

I like her and since I know her I always tell my sadness and hapinness to her.

She teach me how to be a MORE good person too..thanks Mbak Dwita...here is her Multiply Page : kartucantik.multiply.com/photos

Here is her words in Hero Arts Blog for me:

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Dwita Siregar said:

February 18th, 2009 at 8:37 am

Monika Reeck is a good friend of mine. We met in the internet. Coincidently, we have the same hobby, Card crafting. We adore making cards as well as giving them to friends. We live far from each other, but we always keep in touch, via email or telephone. Though our relationship has only been less than a year, but we feel that we have met long long time ago. I really treasure this friendship by taking her just the way she is. I can find a true and genuine friendship with her. It was she who let me know about Hero Arts and all those challenges. She always spirits me to join HA challenges, as well as asks me to comment on her adorable cards. It was she who inspired me to use the rubber stamps that I hadn’t used for such a long time. Thanks, Monika, for being my friend.

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HOW I MADE:

Stamped the butterfly in a purple DP in black and stamped again at the top of the DP paper and in yellow, cutted the yellow paper 4 times and stick it.

I stamped also the background with Hero Arts Manuscript Background stamp in white and distressed the purple paper.

I have not so much purple paper :) also I printed the sentiment and I gave the white paper with chalk color in purple for the sentiment.

Thanks for looking :)

PSYCHOS/ DFLL/decay for lou lou/ FREEDOM 17 by malga kubiak the ego trip, dedicated to all dead poets

Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by The Ego Trip Label.

dedicated to the most beautiful country and his people....

i love japan

Dedicata a Pandora con tutto il mio affetto e la mia ammirazione.

Venus Eugenia

This mural dedicated to railroad car magnate George Pullman is painted on the north retaining wall at the Metra commuter train tracks over 111th Street at Cottage Grove Avenue. The clock tower is across Cottage Grove to the right. I told Robin that in the movie of his life, George Pullman needs to be played by Victor Garber. This led to a debate about whether Victor Garber is dead. He isn't, but Robin thought he was.

In real life, George Pullman is being played by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

Here's the quick story of George Pullman and why he made this spot on the far southeast side of Chicago significant enough to justify a national monument.

George Pullman was born in 1831 along the Erie Canal in upstate New York. His father was an engineer working on a project to widen the canal, and in the process he invented a system that could lift houses and move them out of the canal project's intended path. When George's father died in 1855, 24-year-old George took over the company. He moved 20 houses away from the canal in 1856. In 1857, he started thinking bigger.

He heard that the City of Chicago, then only 30-someodd years old and festering in a swamp, was trying to come up with some way to fix the problem they had with cholera and dysentery and typhoid and all those diseases brought on by the open sewage running through the streets. The problem was that, being a swamp, the city had a water table virtually at the surface, so they couldn't built an underground sewage system. Well, George Pullman said they could. The key wasn't to dig in the mud, though. It was to lift the city up. And, sure, Chicago already had a bunch of buildings sitting there in its fast-growing grid of streets, but Pullman had a trick for that. Just lift the buildings up five or six or eight feet and fill in the ground all around them. So the city hired Pullman to lift the whole thing into the air, giving them space for underground sewers above the water table.

Which ... yeah. That's the kind of thing Chicago does, historically. Don't like the elevation of the ground? Raise it. Don't like which direction a river flows? Reverse it. Just slice right through a Continental Divide. It's not like God will notice or anything.

The project made George Pullman a rich man, so in the 1860s, he spent some of his money to invent a "sleeping car." Essentially, he created a railroad car with beds in little cabins. Which doesn't sound like all that innovative a thing, but Pullman pulled out all the stops and made his cars fancy "hotels on wheels." He spent the 1860s and '70s buying out factories and patents, manufacturing his famous Pullman Cars in various locations. And he was doing pretty well, but Pullman was a big thinker.

And so, in 1880, he bought 4,000 acres of lakeside swamp then far southeast of Chicago and started building his very own company town. It was centered around the factory, where Pullman would build his cars. His administrative offices were in that clock tower building. And he built an entire town around the factory to house his workers. It was like a real city, only owned by George Pullman, and Pullman was the only employer. Everybody who worked for Pullman lived in Pullman's town, and they bought from Pullman's company store with money Pullman gave them to give right back to him.

And yeah, that always goes well. There's never any downside to the whole Company Town thing. Except that Pullman had all the dumb sorts of rules Company Town guys always have. (Which is why all those Tesla worshippers need to learn a little history before they hop aboard Elon Musk's spaceship to Mars.) There were strict behavioral codes that prohibited people from drinking or carousing, even on their own time, and they had to go to Pullman's church. They worked 16-hour days for little money that barely covered the company store prices. Ultimately, people got tired of it, and they started organizing. Pullman town turned into a time bomb.

Pullman lit the fuse in 1894, when demand started falling off for Pullman's cars. He started cutting wages at the same time he raised the rents, and people who were already living at the margin fell far below it. In June of 1894, they went on strike. Pullman tried to break it, and things turned violent. United States President Grover Cleveland, who loved big industry guys like Pullman, responded by sending in 12,000 U.S. Army troops (ignoring the objections of Illinois Governor John Altgeld), who wound up killing a bunch of people before they finally brought the strike to an end.

Unfortunately for Pullman, Governor Altgeld took President Cleveland's interference personally, and he set out on a mission to topple Cleveland from office. He managed to prevent Cleveland's re-nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention, then pushed a national committee to deem Pullman's company town "un-American." This eventually led the Illinois Supreme Court to force Pullman to sell the town off, and before long the whole thing was annexed into Chicago. And that was the end of Pullman's Company Town.

Dedicated to SGT. Butler, and the other soldiers, past and present, who dedicated their lives for our country.

Sad to hear that 2 firefighters were killed early today in a warehouse fire...a 59 year old Lieutenant and a 25 year old FF. :(

I took this shot on Friday, on my trip to Philly...just an average street shot.... ♥♥

In my teens I was an EMT and took basic fire training, though I really lOVED being on the Rescue squad. Now, my only connection is my boyfriend who is a professional ladder truck driver here in Baltimore and TONS of friends who are volunteer or professional Firefighters. This always makes me so sad... Sending thoughts and condolences to Philly from Baltimore.

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