The backdoor to Universal Studios Theme Park, California.... The gates are neither alarmed nor locked. :p

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The Lych Gate

The name of these covered gateways at the entrance to a churchyard is derived from 'Lych', or 'Lich', the old english term for 'corpse'. The covered gateway was where coffin bearers could wait, under shelter, for the minister to arrive to begin the funeral proceedings.

I am submitting this photograph to the Digital Challenge Group for this weeks 020 challenge

I figured it doesn't matter about the whites being blown...you wont need anything but the covered gateway.

Sony A7 II

Zeiss Batis 25/2

Golden Gate (Lu Dhowka) in Durbar Square, Bhaktapur, Nepal. The gate is the principal entrance to the Fifty-Five Window Palace (Pachpanna Jhyale). Installed in 1753 by King Ranajit Malla (Jaya Ranjit Malla), the last Malla king of Bhaktapur.

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The Gates, Central Park,

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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Entrance to Thelema Mountain Vineyards, Helshoogte, Stellenbosch.

On our last full day of visiting, we spent some time checking out the Golden Gate Bridge.

Angels Gate Park.

By the Cyclone Fence Company of Fort Worth, Texas. Geez, it seems like in the 19th century we would have had a company that could make a doorknob a little bit closer than Texas.

Snow in my garden

In Sonemarg, Kashmir, India

these gates that let people go through but not sheep are called kissing gates.

awww.

Front gate leading up to a farmhouse built with solid brick walls. The clay was dug from the farm and built using the wet style where bricks are not fired. It was constructed in 1892. It sits on the banks of the Potomac River in WV

Co Founder of Microsoft Corporation, Software developer and an American Business man William Henry Gates (Bill Gates) was born on 28 October 1955. He is one of the renowned business persons, entrepreneurs and the first person who started microcomputer revolution of 1970s and 1980s.

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The path to holiness

A gate prohibiting entry into the old fortress in the Colonial Zone in Santo Domingo. The reflection of the blue light is created by the river Ozama.

Hells Gate is an abrupt narrowing of British Columbia's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge toward each other forcing the waters through a passage only 35 metres (115 ft) wide.

The gate leading from the gardens into the outer courtyard of the palace.

View "Gate Portal" on black or on white.

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Alamogordo, NM

Fooling around with the camera while waiting for a bus to the zoo.

looking west at sunset towards the golden gate bridge from eastshore state park - albany, california

Gates Chili @ Jamestown 3-13-2010

The hills near Biggar in Lanarkshire Scotland. Very peculiar lighting that day, like spotlights.

Steins Gate

Gate dividing the US/Mexico border. This section is right on the beach and actually goes about 200 meters into the Pacific Ocean.

Looking up at the sky just above the entrance to the Old City

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behind closed doors...

The gates at the main drain sluice which opens to the tidal River Nene are being replaced. Here you can see the new gate installed and being protected by a semi circular coffer dam.