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Grandad & Grandaughter. Perfect together, happy together & mutual devotion personified. Just a joy to record.
Ever wonder why there are so many of these geese? Then it hit me. It's all about being devoted parents. I've also heard that when they find a mate it's for life. You usually always see them in pairs.
Glass jewelry design: AMP Lasismi/Joonas
Finishing: Ivary Vimm
Hair & Make Up: Miia Leppäaho
Model: Sara
Assist: Marko O
A shout out to Noelani for setting up this great shot. This is our interpretation of the her wonderful photo seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/niqolettevendetta/53126675684/in/da...
I am fascinated by the Krebs cycle and photosynthesis, by the migration of the Red Knot and the monarch. I am fascinated by the internet, TV and radio. I am fascinated by the devotion a dog has for his master.
submitted to ODC/ topic ~ fascinating
Ellora Cave 16: the Kailasanatha Temple. 8th century.
Mesmerising. This does not even begin to describe what i felt when i first saw this work of art. I do get emotional when i get to see good engineering - good engineering is also great art - but this was something else altogether. I remember repeating 'oh my god, oh my god', as I circumbulated the stucture in awe.
Dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, this temple is a vertical excavation of a single rock, meaning that the artisans started at the top of the original rock, and excavated downward, and scooped out all through from outside to inside. The temple covers an area of over 60000 square feet, and at its tallest point is about 90 feet high.
It is considered one of the most remarkable cave temples in India because of its size, architecture and sculptural treatment.
From Wikipedia, a reason for its vertical excavation:
"... the local king suffered from a severe disease. His queen prayed to the god Ghrishneshwar (Shiva) at Elapura to cure her husband. She vowed to construct a temple if her wish was granted, and promised to observe a fast until she could see the shikhara (top) of this temple. After the king was cured, she requested him to build a temple immediately, but multiple architects declared that it would take months to build a temple complete with a shikhara. One architect named Kokasa assured the king that the queen would be able to see the shikhara of a temple within a week's time. He started building the temple from the top, by carving a rock. He was able to finish the shikhara within a week's time, enabling the queen to give up her fast... "
Conceptualizing an idea that would take 200 years to complete, take 7500 people to finish, with buy-in from 10 generations of stake holders, detailing it to the T (a house of god cannot have a wrong cut), excavating 400000 tonnes of rock, all of these could only have been possible because of the sheer brilliance, love and devotion of those involved.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa_temple,_Ellora
Ellora Caves Album:
The Shot was taken at Gangasagar Fair 2017. The devotee was asking for blessings before taking bath in the river.
2017
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For two Marches in a row, I ended up in Varanasi. This year I am not going. Yet today I am feeling nostalgic, theres a want to go and yet not go. Varanasi is something else. you'll need to be there to understand.
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Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Faithful pilgrims light candles in a dark and quiet corner of the church. Thank goodness for high ISO! No flash in this shot.
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Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikon 18-70 mm
Focal Length: 56 mm
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/80 seconds
ISO: 900
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Processing: Nikon Capture NX 2 and Photoshop Elements 9
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