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Through the gate, please visit the shrine.
It is a shrine at the foot in Mt. Fuji.
Some of these shrines are around Mt. Fuji as a trailhead to Mt. Fuji.
If you want, how is climbing to Mt.Fuji...!?
浅間大社の御神山はもちろん富士山です。
富士山の周辺にいくつかございます。
ここでお参りをして富士登山へ！？
Fujisan Hongu Sengentaisya Shrine
富士宮本宮・浅間大社
fuji-hongu.or.jp/sengen/index.html (Japanese, English)
Fujinomiya city, Shizuoka Pref, Japan
Touch of Class offers both its commercial and residential clients with strong and durable metal gates. It offers both iron as well as aluminum driveway gates for protecting the property and value to property.
Family and I headed down to the Florida for a couple of weeks and took the kids to Disney World (of course). They had a blast.
Took about 800 - 900 photos total between the 6D and GR. A ton to go through. Will be posting several here over the next little while.
Starting with this one. Shot through the car window on the way into the park...
Canon 6D / 24-105mm f4L
The coolness of the riverbank
And the whispering of the reeds
Daybreak is not so very far away
Enchanted and spellbound
In the silence they lingered
And rowed the boat
As the light grew steadily strong
And the birds were silent
As they listened for the heavenly music
And the river played the song
[Chorus]
The wind in the willows
And the piper at the gates of dawn
The wind in the willows
And the piper at the gates of dawn
Florence Baptistery (Firenze, Italy).
The massive doors—seventeen feet high—were created by the eminent Florentine goldsmith, sculptor, and designer Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1380–1455).
Ghiberti placed ten brilliantly visualized scenes from the Old Testament amid surrounding frames that include twenty-four heads and twenty-four statuettes of Biblical heroes, heroines, prophets, and sibyls, all enclosed within a lush frieze of the flora and fauna of Tuscany. All offer proof of Ghiberti's unique ability to combine compositional strength with the utmost delicacy, creating rich pictorial effects and perspectives that were unprecedented. He employed various grades of relief in combination—some figures are shown nearly in the round, while others barely rise above the surface—a subtly intricate modeling technique that he practiced magisterially. The whole was enhanced through the use of fire gilding. It took twenty-seven years (1425–52) for Ghiberti's workshop to design and make the massive doors; the recent conservation effort to bring them back to their original splendor has taken an equivalent amount of time.
Vast areas of the Scottish hills are fenced in for cattle and sheep farming. Luckily enough, there was free access to this farm, although there were no four-legged friends to be seen anywhere!
These falls are on Gates Mills Creek, which continues to flow meeting the Chagrin River in Gates Mills, Ohio. There was once a small bridge over the ravine, but it was demolished some years ago, presumably to help the ravine be restored to its original form. The county still maintains an easement where the bridge once stood, but there is no place to park a car. The falls can still be viewed by those willing to hike or ride a bike to the area, then climbing down a rocky and slippery escarpment. The ravine can also be viewed from above the falls by walking toward the ledge of the falls (see link below) but I would advise using the strongest of caution if doing this. The creek bottom is extremelly slippery, and going over the falls would not be a pleasant experience.
Secret tip of top notch photography when not in the mood to drag out a tripod, use the flash on auto focus and let it focus! After that turn on manual focus and put the flash down without moving the camera.
Gates
Why build gates? Do we think
we are chaining something
out, or something in? Rust
brings reason to them; winter
tests their welding. Let’s
face it: they sag open, like
unsutured wounds. Their struts
hang like shards of crumbling
structures: which they are.
I’d like to build a gate before
my knowing. That would bar
the way, and half-disrupt
my going. There would be
no shame in bodgy building:
the worst would be redeemed
by rust and bleeding.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2012.
The Hotel van Eetvelde, one of Victor Horta's most famous buildings. Nicely set just above the Square Marie-Louise, for the enjoyment of passers-by.
A panel from the "Gates of Paradise" the doors to the Florence Baptistry in Italy.
The panels are by Ghiberti and depict scenes from the Old Testament.
These doors were dubbed by Michelangelo "the Gates of Paradise" because of their beauty, and they were said to have begun the Renaissance.
"NATION GATE"
East gate of Apadana palace, Perspolis, Shiraz, Iran.
Especially uploaded for persia and persian monuments group:
Taken at the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, Free State, South Africa with a Pentax K1000; scanned negative