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St James, Cooling, Kent
The opening scene of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, when Pip meets the convict Abel Magwitch, takes place in Cooling churchyard. A group of children's anthropomorphic gravestones beside the south porch provided Dickens with the inspiration for Pip's poor dead brothers in the novel. In fact, they are to members of the wealthy Comport family, some of whom lived at Cooling Castle, today home of the television personality Jools Holland.
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine - who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle - I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence."
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861
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A group of five actresses dressed as the Charles Dickens’ character Miss Havisham, walking across Westminster Bridge, ahead of a special screening of Great Expectations to be aired this bank holiday weekend on the UKTV Drama television channel.
PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday May 22, 2014.
Each model spent over three hours with a team of stylists, costume designers, make-up artists and dressers to recreate the Miss Havisham character which was recently voted the most haunting literary character of all time in a poll by the channel.
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Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeremy Irvine and Holliday Grainger attend the Gala Premiere of 'Great Expectations' which closes the 56th BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square on October 21, 2012 in London, England.
Rock Tombs;
Six rock tombs on the Dalyan river (4th - 2nd century BC), which are Dalyan's prime sight
The façades of the rock tombs resemble the fronts of Hellenistic temples with two Ionian pillars, a triangular pediment, an architrave with toothed friezes, and acroterions shaped like palm leaves.
The Kaunos city walls
The spectacular Kaunos city walls were erected during the reign of Mausolos in the 4th century BC. They are extraproportional in relation to the size of Kaunos and its population, presumably because the satrap had high expectations of the city's future as a marine and commercial port. The city walls start west of the inner port and run along the hills N and NW of the city, to the top of the steep cliff opposite Dalyan centre. There is a walking track along the wall, starting at the Çandır water station. The regularly-shaped rectangular blocks and the way the blocks have been positioned give a fine impression of Hellenistic building techniques. Parts of the wall are well-kept, other parts have been taken down and rebuilt.
UNESCO Tentativelist.
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Ancient City of Kaunos
Turkey
Date of Submission: 15/04/2014
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
Category: Cultural
Submitted by:
Permanent Delegation of Turkey to UNESCO
State, Province or Region:
City of Mugla, Mediterranean Region
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Description
The property within boundaries of District of Koycegiz is located in the face of Dalyan City and on the right shores of Dalyan Stream (Calbis) which connect Koycegiz Lake to Mediterranean. It was the capital of the ‘Kaunos Region’ between the Caria and Lycia until the beginning of the 4th BC.
The existence of Kaunos had known by the scholars but its location was a mystery until English archaeologist Hoskyn discovered it in 1842. Swedish archaeologist P. Roos defined the independent state boundaries of Kaunos as follows: “Starting from the Fethiye Bay at the north and Ancient City of Krya at the north of the bay; extending till Tlos at the 35 km east of Fethiye, Idyma at Gokova Bay at the west and Çamkoy located in the west of Urla which is little forward to north.” In today’s context, the coastal area starting from the south plains of Mugla and extending till the mountains between Mugla and Antalya was under the sovereignty of Kaunos. Kaunos has kept this borders until the 4th century BC but then lost its statue of sovereign state after the Persian invasion. It was one of two cities resisting against Persian invasion (other is Xanthos) such that they paid high taxes to prevailing states many times in order to keep their independency as a port city.
Kaunos was mentioned as Ksibde in Lycian scripts, while as Kbid in the scripts of other surrounding cities. Life style and language of Kaunos people share similarities with Carian people except five letters in their alphabet are not seen in latter which makes Kaunos language is unique to them. Heredot reveals in this respect that “There is Carian influence in their language or their influence in Carian language. This is an issue which I couldn’t clarify.” In fact, epigraphic materials in Carian language are found mostly in Kaunos today. Kaunosian could not be understood until very recently just because Carian language was not decoded. However, by virtue of a stela written in Greek and Carian, it has been possible to unravel Carian language and a little of Kaunosian due to Greek language had already been known.
Kaunos was an important sea port city with two ports; one is in the south at the southeast of Küçük Kale (Small Castle) and the inner port at its northwest, the present Sülüklü Göl (the Lake of the Leeches). The southern port was used from the foundation of the city till roughly the end of the Hellenistic era, after which it became inaccessible due to its drying out. The latter was used till the late days of Kaunos, but due to the silting of the delta and the ports, Kaunos had by then lost its important function as a trade port and started becoming poor. After Caria had been captured by Turkish tribes and the serious malaria epidemic of the 15th century AD, Kaunos was completely abandoned.
The city was constructed on terraces; significant religious structures like Baselius Kaunios Temple, Apollon Sanctuary and Demeter Sacred Rocks on one side and Bath, Theatre and other structures including Palaestra on a large terrace which is called Upper City on the other. The monumental terrace on which the Upper City situated connects Baliklar Mountain with the Acropolis by extending the city into Mediterranean like a tongue and naturally creating a second harbour basin in the east.
In many places in the ancient city, it has been found stone cutlery and arrowheads from Palaeolithic era. The finding and remains in Kaunos reveal the prosperity of the city as a great power of its time and that it was a sovereign state which minted on its behalf. The coins printed in this region especially in the first half of the 5th century BC are of great importance since a winged figure is displayed on the front side while pyramidal formed monoliths on the back. Besides, letters of K and B found on the coins are important due to they are the first two letters of the first name of Kaunos, Kbid.
The oldest find at the Kaunos archaeological site is the neck of a Protogeometric amphora dating back to the 9th century BC, or even earlier. A statue found at the western gate of the city walls, pieces of imported Attic ceramics and the South – Southeast oriented city walls show habitation in the 6th century BC. Although none of the architectural finds at Kaunos itself dates back to earlier than the 4th century BC, history of Kaunos is believed much earlier than that.
Because of the paleogeographic formation of Dalyan Delta and the silting of the former Bay of Dalyan (from approx. 200 BC onwards), Kaunos is now located about 8 km from the coast.
Model - Teagan
Strobist Info - Mainly natural window light coming from above the taps plus the was a 580EX Speedlite on camera left and aimed towards the bottom end of the bath. There was also a silver reflector used.
We want good things in life. We expect good results from our hard, honest work but end up in bad situations. I can think of times when I gave my all to things I loved but I ended up getting hurt and disappointed by them. I didn't get what I was expecting. Doesn't it happen to all of us sometimes? So, what's the best way to respond when things go wrong and we end up getting the short end of the stick?#attitude #happiness #shortendofthestick #expectations #angry #failing #attitude #failingforward #improving #life #toys #legos #success #photography #365photochallenge #365project #project365 #365_today #Project365 #camera #365photos #photos #daily #dailypics #photooftheday#success #photography #365photochallenge #365project #project365 #365_today #Project365 #camera #365photos #photos #daily #dailypics #photooftheday
Zu Heiligabend habe ich mir das hübscheste der noch verbliebenen Weihnachtsmotive ausgesucht. Gepuzzelt wieder im Glashaus.
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Hersteller: SunsOut
Jahr: 2014.
Artikelnummer: 59415
Anzahl Teile: 500 (regelmässige)
Masse: 33x48 cm
Bild: Chrissie Snelling.
Kaufdatum und Ort: Puzzleonline.de, Januar 2016.
CHF 12.90 (inkl. Porto).
Datum gelegt: 24. Dezember 2016.
Legezeit: 142 Min.
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Brand: SunsOut
Year: 2014.
Item no.: 59415
Measures: 13x19 in.
Number of pieces: 500 (regular).
Image by Artist/Photographer: Chrissie Snelling.
Date and place of purchase: Puzzleonline.de, January 2016.
Date of completion: Dec. 24, 2016.
Time for completion: 142 min.
Sarah's World Des Moines Farmer's Market Photowalk.
Miss Sarah Jean came to the big city to shop and tour.
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uncorrected fisheye (Nikkor 16 mm f/2.8)
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Detail from the back of my gorgeous wedding dress (I know I've laced it wrong, I have NO idea how it should have been done!) for HPAD, the Precious Things challenge and Great Expectations for the Scavenger Hunt!
05.04.09
What was billed as "Sperm Dance - Phosphorous light performance" was a crushing disappointment. I had envisioned people dressed up as sperm dancing around an egg and instead we found a bunch of white ropes tied to a string between two poles illuminated by a black light that were made to 'dance' by someone jiggling the guy wire while a few people in the background made haunted house noises. It was so lame that I still don't know whether I should laugh or cry. :)
New osv owned by Edison Chouest and operated by John W. Stone as a fuel carrier servicing deep-water drilling rigs
I won't soften or whiten, remove or reshape
I've grown tired of feigning an untrue portrayal
Here I am, unedited, blissful and unashamed
The freckles, the marks, the scars, and complexion
In photos, in self-hood, I cannot and will not keep up with these unrealistic depictions
With this picture, I had my two friends pretend that they had a father-and-son type of relationship and took it at one of their houses. I took it really only to be funny and portray that you can make a story out of any two or more people. I edited it by making it black and white and boosting the clarity. By using two people instead of just one, I was able to make the portrait into more of a story rather than just a portrait.
Model: Larisa, Shooting in Fischl/Klagenfurt
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