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L738 of December 14th 2025 featured a blast from the past in form of three YN2 Dash 8s leading the way, all facing north elephant style. These are three of four YN2 Dash 8 locomotives currently cycling through the power pool of locals between Brownsand and Waycross, running daily anywhere between those yards as L737, L738, L740, and perhaps other symbols as applicable.
Shooting here reminded me of the last time I'd shot here, nine years ago when we'd followed a grain train off the CSX Brunswick branch. That train had a YN2 SD70MAC leading, at the time the best thing you could catch on CSX it seemed: flic.kr/p/PvrXxD. That November, a pair of YN2 Dash 8s wouldn't have been so special, a trio certainly cool, but comparatively a such lashup in 2025 is unheard of. This sure invokes some though if maybe we should be paying more mind to matched tri-sets of YN3 GEVOs, most cool things were once so common.
I'm starting to sound a little like Forrest Gump. You know the scene when he's on the bench waiting for the bus, chatting away;
"they invited me and the ping-pong team to visit the White House.
So I went, again.
And I met the President of the United States again."
"So I went to a parade and I saw the president, again.
Got threatened by the police again."
Yep. I decided that would take pictures of this years Oxi day parade so I went down to the seafront and snapped away, and managed to get pictures of the president of the Greek republic, Karolos Papoulias, the leader of the main opposition party, Giorgos Papandreou and other assorted political bigwigs.
At some point all the cameramen and photographers were shooed off to the side and I ended up amongst them. A little later I saw some guys arguing with a teenager who'd climbed up some scaffolding to get a better view. He clambered down but then jumped up onto another wall for some reason reluctant to move. Intrigued I decided to take some pictures and quickly I realised that people were hemming me in, discreetly trying to block my view of what was happening. Despite that I took a couple of shots and then returned to follow the parade.
Next thing I know two rough looking guys, wearing mirror shades start beckoning to me, telling me that I had to delete my photos. When I told them that I wasn't as I had every right to take pictures in a public place they turned nasty and said that as they were cops they could take me in for questioning and confiscate the camera.
Next they said something that scared the hell out of me. They said that they knew exactly who I was from what happened last year (see here for the full story of that little encounter) and that ,"I was known to the authorities". "You mean after I got the crap kicked out of me by the riot police?"
teacherdudebbq.blogspot.com/2007/09/full-story.html
I don't know why but they managed to push all my buttons and bring out stubborn streak in me. So I argued that I wasn't going to do anything till I saw some ID. Eventually they showed me it and demanded again that I delete the photos, which I did. Once again they invoked this mythical law that the no one is allowed to take photographs of the police on duty. No lawyer I've talked to or media professional has ever heard of such legislation.
To tell you the truth, I only brazoned it out them as I know they'd be loathed to make a scene in such a public place. Other photographers have not been so lucky in their dealings with the police. For example leading French photographer, Olivier Jobard, who was beaten and arrested by police in Patras this year when he refused to hand over his camera (see here for the full story).
www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27770
I stuck around for another hour or so and then before the parade ended ducked into the crowd and got out of there as quickly as possible. People, especially foreigners, have a strange way of becoming very clumsy in the presence of the police. They trip and land on window boxes resulting in weeks of hospitalisation, fall off balconies in cafes or find themselves dead at the bottom of river beds.As you can imagine I wasn't about to get myself involved in a delicate legal debates with these guys.
teacherdudebbq.blogspot.com/2006/11/you-have-right-to-be-...
www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,501121,00.html
www.pr-inside.com/greece-migrants-protest-alleged-police-...
Hundreds of freight trains stranded. Thousands of passengers left with nowhere to go. This was the scene as a series of unprecedented rail blockades saw the wheels of Canada's economy screeching to a halt. But in the middle of it all, the Ontario Northland Railway stepped up to keep it all on track.
On the ninth day of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation rail blockade in Ontario - a day after CN announced it would "shut down its Eastern Canada network" - a handful of trains took the scenic route over the Ontario Northland Railway to reach their respective destinations of Toronto (southbound) and Northern Quebec (northbound). Here, on the morning of February 14th, 2020, detoured CN stack train no. 149 is seen curving through the town of Cobalt, Ontario.
Two years to the day after this photo was taken, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act in an unprecedented effort to "quell the ongoing Freedom Convoy demonstrations and blockades" across Canada. The photographer, nor anyone else, could have imagined the global strife that would soon unravel following that fateful morning in Northern Ontario.
Takakkaw Falls is a majestic waterfall plunging 373 m from a steep rock cliff. During spring runoff it sounds like a jet aircraft taking off. The surrounding environment is a vibrant, healthy coniferous forest, with tall, dark green evergreen trees covering the slopes and flanking the river below the waterfall.
A simple, green metal pedestrian bridge spans the Yoho River, the wide, shallow, glacial river in the foreground. Two people are visible standing on the bridge; presumably admiring the waterfall. They are relatively small in the image, emphasizing the scale of the natural landscape.
The atmosphere is awe-inspiring, reflecting the raw power of nature and the beauty of the undisturbed wilderness. The mood is one of wonder; the vastness of the landscape invokes a feeling of insignificance yet appreciation for the natural beauty of the surroundings.
The mountain peaks to the east of us which had been shrouded by mist/cloud almost as we arrived at Loch a' Chroisg started to reappear shortly after sun-up. We had left the lochside and had commenced our transit to the next planned location when I spotted this scene. This is the 'full colour', nearly SOOC image (minor contrast tweaks but no colour correction/B+W conversion). This conical peak, which I believe to be Meallan nan Uan, with the silhouetted trees invoked a Japanese scene in my wife's mind, hence the title. The 2 Scots Pine are a bit of a give-away though!
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I like this one because of the family in front, smiles.
Sadly, the first One Pillar Pagoda was destroyed during the French War. The new Vietnamese government rebuilt the temple in 1955. It was originally constructed by Emperor Ly Thai Tong to commemorate the long awaited birth of an heir. He believed that the luck had been foretold in a dream about the Goddess of Mercy handing him a male child on a lotus flower. He then built the original small wooden pagoda to resemble a lotus blossom to pay tribute to his good fortune. Locals believe that if you pray here, it will invoke well-beings and prosperity.
Du col de Roccapina, sur la route nationale 196 qui longe le littoral entre Bonifacio et Sartène (Corse du Sud), se détache la saisissante silhouette d’un lion couché et couronné, qui semble surveiller la Méditerranée. La légende raconte qu’il s’agissait d’un puissant seigneur si craint de ses ennemis sarrasins qu’ils le surnommèrent le "lion", et qui, repoussé par une bergère dont il était épris, invoqua la Mort, qui le pétrifia… sous l'apparence d'un lion. D'où la citation : "Ton coeur est de pierre, lion de pierre tu seras !"
Roccapina est également un lieu chargé d’histoire. La côte majestueuse symbolisant l’extrême sud de la Corse est également le lieu de fréquentes tempêtes où les bateaux se retrouvent souvent en difficulté. Dans la nuit du 16 au 17 avril 1887, sous l'œil du lion, le Tasmania (paquebot à vapeur anglais) ayant quitté Bombay deux semaines plus tôt pour se rendre à Londres, alla s’éventrer sur le Rocher des Moines. Le navire avait en sa possession de nombreux présents d'une valeur inestimable dont de l'or, de l'ivoire, et de la joaillerie, trésors du maharajah de Jodhpur, cadeaux destinés à la reine britannique Victoria, devant célébrer son jubilé. Une tout autre légende raconterait qu'une partie de ce trésor aurait ensuite été retrouvée par un bandit, puis caché dans une grotte, dans le vaste maquis de Roccapina. Mais la plus grande partie du butin serait encore dispersée dans l'immensité de la mer Méditerranée…
The lion of Roccapina: halfway between Sartène and Bonifacio, between Legend and History
From the Col de Roccapina, on the national road 196 that runs along the coast between Bonifacio and Sartène (South Corsica), stands out the striking silhouette of a reclining and crowned lion, which seems to be watching the Mediterranean. Legend has it that he was a powerful lord so afraid of his Saracen enemies that they nicknamed him the "lion," and who, repulsed by a shepherdess he was in love with, invoked Death, which petrified him. in the guise of a lion. Hence the quote: "Your heart is of stone, you will be a stone lion!"
Roccapina is also a place steeped in history. The majestic coastline symbolizing the extreme south of Corsica is also the site of frequent storms where boats often find themselves in trouble. On the night of April 16-17, 1887, under the lion’s eye, the Tasmania (English steamer) having left Bombay two weeks earlier to go to London, went to tear itself apart on the Rock of the Monks. The ship had in its possession many gifts of inestimable value, including gold, ivory, and jewelry, treasures of the Maharajah of Jodhpur, gifts to the British Queen Victoria, to celebrate her jubilee. A very different legend would say that part of this treasure was later found by a bandit and then hidden in a cave in the vast maquis of Roccapina. But most of the loot would still be scattered in the vastness of the Mediterranean Sea…
Compositionally Challenged Week 15 Film Noir for Photography
So here's a second attempt at some kind of Film Noir style. I've tried to invoke the feeling of looking through a door peephole, but what you're actually seeing is the inside of a lens... that tiny Xenon lens focuses so close, that the point of focus is inside the lens... hence it has to be stopped down A LOT in order to get anything in focus. That's the reason for the aweful image quality, which I liked for this challenge.
Shot with a Schneider Kreuznach "Xenon 16 mm F2" on a Canon EOS R5.
Sagrada Família, Barcelona, España.
El Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia, conocido simplemente como la Sagrada Familia, es una basílica católica de Barcelona (España), diseñada por el arquitecto Antoni Gaudí. Iniciada en 1882, todavía está en construcción (noviembre de 2016). Es la obra maestra de Gaudí, y el máximo exponente de la arquitectura modernista catalana.
La Sagrada Familia es un reflejo de la plenitud artística de Gaudí: trabajó en ella durante la mayor parte de su carrera profesional, pero especialmente en los últimos años de su carrera, donde llegó a la culminación de su estilo naturalista, haciendo una síntesis de todas las soluciones y estilos probados hasta aquel entonces. Gaudí logró una perfecta armonía en la interrelación entre los elementos estructurales y los ornamentales, entre plástica y estética, entre función y forma, entre contenido y continente, logrando la integración de todas las artes en un todo estructurado y lógico.
La Sagrada Familia tiene planta de cruz latina, de cinco naves centrales y transepto de tres naves, y ábside con siete capillas. Ostenta tres fachadas dedicadas al Nacimiento, Pasión y Gloria de Jesús y, cuando esté concluida, tendrá 18 torres: cuatro en cada portal haciendo un total de doce por los apóstoles, cuatro sobre el crucero invocando a los evangelistas, una sobre el ábside dedicada a la Virgen y la torre-cimborio central en honor a Jesús, que alcanzará los 172,5 metros de altura. El templo dispondrá de dos sacristías junto al ábside, y de tres grandes capillas: la de la Asunción en el ábside y las del Bautismo y la Penitencia junto a la fachada principal; asimismo, estará rodeado de un claustro pensado para las procesiones y para aislar el templo del exterior. Gaudí aplicó a la Sagrada Familia un alto contenido simbólico, tanto en arquitectura como en escultura, dedicando a cada parte del templo un significado religioso.
The Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, known simply as the Sagrada Familia, is a Roman Catholic basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Begun in 1882, it is still under construction (November 2016). It is Gaudí's masterpiece and the greatest exponent of Catalan modernist architecture.
The Sagrada Familia is a reflection of Gaudí's artistic plenitude: he worked on it for most of his professional career, but especially in his later years, where he reached the culmination of his naturalistic style, synthesizing all the solutions and styles he had tried up to that point. Gaudí achieved perfect harmony in the interrelationship between structural and ornamental elements, between plasticity and aesthetics, between function and form, between content and container, achieving the integration of all the arts into a structured and logical whole. The Sagrada Familia has a Latin cross plan, five central naves, a three-aisled transept, and an apse with seven chapels. It boasts three façades dedicated to the Birth, Passion, and Glory of Jesus. When completed, it will have 18 towers: four at each portal, making a total of twelve for the apostles, four over the transept invoking the evangelists, one over the apse dedicated to the Virgin, and the central dome tower in honor of Jesus, which will reach 172.5 meters in height. The temple will have two sacristies next to the apse and three large chapels: the Assumption Chapel in the apse and the Baptism and Penance Chapels next to the main façade. It will also be surrounded by a cloister designed for processions and to isolate the temple from the exterior. Gaudí applied a highly symbolic content to the Sagrada Familia, both in architecture and sculpture, dedicating each part of the temple to a religious significance.
East to West Hardknott Pass runs from Eskdale to the Duddon Valley in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England. A view into an early morning of a slow Winter dawning.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Hardknott Roman Fort English Heritage
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/hardknott-roman-...
Hardknott Roman Fort
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardknott_Roman_Fort
The Fort at River's Bend
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fort_at_River%27s_Bend
Roman Lake District Audio Guides
English Heritage Audio Guides
soundcloud.com/ehaudio/sets/roman-lake-district-audio-guides
Hardknott mentioned in this Sonnet.
William Wordsworth
From, The River Duddon, A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. Numbered XVII 17
A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew,
Perched on whose top the Danish Raven croaks;
Aloft, the imperial Bird of Rome invokes
Departed ages, shedding where he flew
Loose fragments of wild wailing, that bestrew
The clouds and thrill the chambers of the rocks;
And into silence hush the timorous flocks,
That, calmly couching while the nightly dew
Moistened each fleece, beneath the twinkling stars
Slept amid that lone Camp on Hardknot’s height,
Whose Guardians bent the knee to Jove and Mars:
Or, near that mystic Round of Druid frame
Tardily sinking by its proper weight
Deep into patient Earth, from whose smooth breast it came!
Un "cake" littéraire.
Thilo Folkerts de 100landschaftsarchitektur & Rodney Latourelle.
Berlin/Allemagne, Germany.
Copié intégralement du livret de présentation :
En introduisant le livre comme matériau à part entière, ce jardin examine les processus de transformation, entre nature, culture et savoir. Les murs, les bancs et les planchers en livres usagés structurent une suite d'espaces qui sont à la fois cadrés et dissous dans leur environnement. Le dessèchement et l'altération des livres s'organisent entre des planches de couleur, qui sont comme des séparateurs. Cette détérioration est stimulée et accentuée par la présence de variétés de champignons qui sont cultivés sur certaines éditions de livres. Le jardin devient alors une salle de lecture sensuelle et mythique.
By introducing the book as a material in the garden, Jardin de la Connaissance offers an evocative cultural frame to examine transformational processes inherent in nature. Invoking the mythic relation between knowledge and nature, integral to the concept of ‘paradise’, we invite the emotional involvement of the visitor by exposing these fragile and supposedly timeless cultural artefacts to the processes of decomposition. Walls, benches and floors form a series of rooms at once framing and dissolving into their environment. The withering and weathering books are organized between structural coloured plates—bookmarks—, while their deterioration is further stimulated and accentuated by varieties of mushrooms that are cultivated on selected editions. The garden becomes a sensual reading room; a library; an information platform; an invitation to a provocatively foreign realm of knowledge.
patron Saint of
the dead, contemplative nuns, travelers, cats, widows, and the West Indies, cities of Naples, Italy, Urbino, Italy, and Tarrangona, Spain, and the diocese of Magdeburg, Germany; and she is often invoked for souls in Purgatory.
I visited Great Sand Dunes National Park for the first time, and what really impressed me about the park was the scenic variety in a relatively small area. As the sun rose and painted the landscape, the scenic features really began to stand out.
I'm not sure any of the photographers who were with me on the workshop took any shot like this. The instructor himself was slightly puzzled about what I was going for. As I gazed upon the scene in front of me, I was struck by the layers of landforms that comprised the park. The strips of sky, alpine peaks, forested mountains, and the sand dunes, which seem so foreign in this environment. While not a photograph that would invoke the admiration of a judge in a photo contest, it nailed what I was going for. The one improvement I wish I'd made was to wait a couple minutes for the swath of sunlight to make a wider layer of lit dunes. I was busy taking a panorama during that moment. I'll reshoot on a future visit, whenever I can work out the timing.
mde
O people, an example is presented, so listen to it. Indeed, those you invoke besides Allah will never create [as much as] a fly, even if they gathered together for that purpose. And if the fly should steal away from them a [tiny] thing, they could not recover it from him. Weak are the pursuer and pursued.
Quran (22:73)
Created for DU Challenge ~ November 2024
Thanks to Temari 09 for starter image.
Drawing down the Moon (also known as drawing down the Goddess) is a central ritual in many contemporary Wiccan traditions. During the ritual, a coven's High Priestess enters a trance and requests that the Goddess or Triple Goddess, symbolized by the Moon, enter her body and speak through her. The High Priestess may be aided by the High Priest, who invokes the spirit of the Goddess. During her trance, the Goddess is supposed to speak through the High Priestess.
Inspired by Henri Matisse
All work done in Photoshop 2025
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There are people still streaming to baths and enjoying a visit now without warming rooms and cold plunges. There is great sunshine an intense rain in the current climate that bathes the tourists in the remains of the Auxiliary Garrison. Outside of the strictly prescribed fort there would be settlements beyond the fort and the baths are out of the fort structure in part to limit and contain the fire hazard.
The bath house has older signs built into the ruins of the extant compartmental foundations and then there are newer attributions on the sign immediately above the sauna type bathing remains.
Thermae from the Greek Θέρμαι Thermai for hot springs and hot baths from the Greek adjective thermos for hot used to describe warm springs and also baths of warm water.
Thermae from Greek θερμός thermos “hot” and balneae from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion, “bath” also “bathing-vessel” the Romans used their term thermae based on Greek origins.
Hardknott named after Harthr Knutr hard craggy hill that is Hard Knott fell.
East to West Hardknott Pass runs from Eskdale to the Duddon Valley in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England. A view into an early morning of a slow Winter dawning.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Hardknott Roman Fort English Heritage
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/hardknott-roman-...
Hardknott Roman Fort
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardknott_Roman_Fort
The Fort at River's Bend
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fort_at_River%27s_Bend
Roman Lake District Audio Guides
English Heritage Audio Guides
soundcloud.com/ehaudio/sets/roman-lake-district-audio-guides
Hardknott mentioned in this Sonnet.
William Wordsworth
From, The River Duddon, A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. Numbered XVII 17
A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew,
Perched on whose top the Danish Raven croaks;
Aloft, the imperial Bird of Rome invokes
Departed ages, shedding where he flew
Loose fragments of wild wailing, that bestrew
The clouds and thrill the chambers of the rocks;
And into silence hush the timorous flocks,
That, calmly couching while the nightly dew
Moistened each fleece, beneath the twinkling stars
Slept amid that lone Camp on Hardknot’s height,
Whose Guardians bent the knee to Jove and Mars:
Or, near that mystic Round of Druid frame
Tardily sinking by its proper weight
Deep into patient Earth, from whose smooth breast it came!
Festival complètement Cirque 3 Géants- 3 Giants
LES 7 DOIGTS on the PVM Esplanade, Place Ville Marie
Montreal, Qc July 2022
The giant changes the proportions of our universe. He can become a figure of the artist, an allegory of knowledge, or a metaphor for superhumanity.
A group of workers who thrive on hard work and who flourish when together have stormed this construction site for several moons. These men and women are put to work in a highly acrobatic way to finalize this titanic undertaking and give life to this scrap metal giant. Together, they work with perseverance, authenticity, passion, conviction, stubbornness and resilience. The heart, the apparent focus of emotional turmoil, becomes the allegorical representation of the creative drive. Inspired by the intuitive movement of Les Automatistes, we offer a show that celebrates creativity in its most instinctive and visceral form. A metaphor invoking the power that collectivity can wield. A praise of the greater than self, these giants exist because we create them, because we make them live.
LES 7 DOIGTS sur l’Esplanade PVM, à Place Ville Marie
Montréal, Qc Juillet 2022
Le géant est celui qui change les proportions de notre univers. Il peut devenir figure de l’artiste, allégorie du savoir, ou métaphore de la surhumanité.
Un groupe d’ouvriers qui carbure au labeur et se nourrit d’être ensemble, a pris d’assaut ce chantier depuis plusieurs lunes. Ces hommes et ces femmes, sont mis à contribution de manière hautement acrobatique pour finaliser cette titanesque entreprise et donner la vie à ce géant de ferraille. Ensemble, ils travaillent avec persévérance, authenticité, passion, conviction, entêtement et résilience. Le cœur, foyer apparent des ébranlements émotionnels, devient la représentation allégorique de la pulsion créative. S’inspirant du mouvement intuitif des Automatiste, nous proposons une œuvre qui célèbre la créativité dans sa forme la plus instinctive et viscérale. Métaphore invoquant la puissance que peut exercer la collectivité. Louange du plus grand que soi, ces géants existent par ce que nous les créons, parce que nous les faisons vivre.
A large jenga-style structure which monkeys sit on or walk greets viewers as the walk into the gallery housing Stephanie Quayle’s installation. Some of her clay monkeys watch us from atop planks of wood, as if waiting our reaction – and subsequent reaction – to their plight. The jenga emits a palpable threat of instability, compounded by Quayle’s use of decaying joists from timber barns and old
wooden beams. As with the game of jenga, it appears the installation could collapse at any moment. Quayle invokes the instability inherent in jenga to highlight the precarious situation human hands have wrought upon wildlife as a result of deforestation and consequence loss of habitat.
Sagrada Família, Barcelona, España.
El Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia, conocido simplemente como la Sagrada Familia, es una basílica católica de Barcelona (España), diseñada por el arquitecto Antoni Gaudí. Iniciada en 1882, todavía está en construcción (noviembre de 2016). Es la obra maestra de Gaudí, y el máximo exponente de la arquitectura modernista catalana.
La Sagrada Familia es un reflejo de la plenitud artística de Gaudí: trabajó en ella durante la mayor parte de su carrera profesional, pero especialmente en los últimos años de su carrera, donde llegó a la culminación de su estilo naturalista, haciendo una síntesis de todas las soluciones y estilos probados hasta aquel entonces. Gaudí logró una perfecta armonía en la interrelación entre los elementos estructurales y los ornamentales, entre plástica y estética, entre función y forma, entre contenido y continente, logrando la integración de todas las artes en un todo estructurado y lógico.
La Sagrada Familia tiene planta de cruz latina, de cinco naves centrales y transepto de tres naves, y ábside con siete capillas. Ostenta tres fachadas dedicadas al Nacimiento, Pasión y Gloria de Jesús y, cuando esté concluida, tendrá 18 torres: cuatro en cada portal haciendo un total de doce por los apóstoles, cuatro sobre el crucero invocando a los evangelistas, una sobre el ábside dedicada a la Virgen y la torre-cimborio central en honor a Jesús, que alcanzará los 172,5 metros de altura. El templo dispondrá de dos sacristías junto al ábside, y de tres grandes capillas: la de la Asunción en el ábside y las del Bautismo y la Penitencia junto a la fachada principal; asimismo, estará rodeado de un claustro pensado para las procesiones y para aislar el templo del exterior. Gaudí aplicó a la Sagrada Familia un alto contenido simbólico, tanto en arquitectura como en escultura, dedicando a cada parte del templo un significado religioso.
The Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, known simply as the Sagrada Familia, is a Roman Catholic basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Begun in 1882, it is still under construction (November 2016). It is Gaudí's masterpiece and the greatest exponent of Catalan modernist architecture.
The Sagrada Familia is a reflection of Gaudí's artistic plenitude: he worked on it for most of his professional career, but especially in his later years, where he reached the culmination of his naturalistic style, synthesizing all the solutions and styles he had tried up to that point. Gaudí achieved perfect harmony in the interrelationship between structural and ornamental elements, between plasticity and aesthetics, between function and form, between content and container, achieving the integration of all the arts into a structured and logical whole. The Sagrada Familia has a Latin cross plan, five central naves, a three-aisled transept, and an apse with seven chapels. It boasts three façades dedicated to the Birth, Passion, and Glory of Jesus. When completed, it will have 18 towers: four at each portal, making a total of twelve for the apostles, four over the transept invoking the evangelists, one over the apse dedicated to the Virgin, and the central dome tower in honor of Jesus, which will reach 172.5 meters in height. The temple will have two sacristies next to the apse and three large chapels: the Assumption Chapel in the apse and the Baptism and Penance Chapels next to the main façade. It will also be surrounded by a cloister designed for processions and to isolate the temple from the exterior. Gaudí applied a highly symbolic content to the Sagrada Familia, both in architecture and sculpture, dedicating each part of the temple to a religious significance.
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The rain clouds are gathering in the sunset-lit sky over the Bolsa Chica invoking all kinds of crazy coloring only the nature can produce... @ Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite poets, His "The Raven" inspired this photo I took it invokes such powerful feeling deep within
This image is included in 3 galleries :- 1) "Stoned and Rocked" curated by Sandra Mahle, 2) "Earth" by stephenhjcole and 3) "Images Invoking Receptive Energy" by Janine (JApplequist).
Mutitjulu is an Aboriginal Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia located at the eastern end of Uluru. It is named after a knee-shaped water-filled rock hole at the base of Uluru, and is located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. Its people are traditional owners and joint managers of the park with Parks Australia. At the 2011 census, Mutitjulu had a population of 296, of which 218 were Aboriginal. (326 in 2016).
World-renowned street artist Rone’s latest exhibition / installation is in his hometown of Geelong.
Rone said of the installation at the Geelong Gallery; “My show is an ode to abandoned spaces and a reminder to value the original treasure they once were. Influenced by the architecture of the building and the toll of time, the central installation preserves an imagined moment of the space adorned at its finest and left to slowly deteriorate.”
“Featuring a push and pull between light and dark, viewers may be compelled to either end of the experience but are united in the same recognition of overall decay. The damage has been done and my installation invokes a longing for what is lost and cannot ever return.”
My photos will not do justice to the detail included in the work, nor to the beauty of Rone’s artwork. It is truly exceptional.
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Il santuario di Maria Ausiliatrice è una basilica cattolica nella città di Torino. Inaugurato il 9 giugno 1868, il santuario fu commissionato da San Giovanni Bosco. È stato progettato dall'ingegnere Antonio Spezia. La chiesa era dedicata a Maria, invocata da Don Bosco come aiuto dei cristiani. Wikipedia
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Turin, sanctuary of Mary Help of Christians, glimpse of the altar
The sanctuary of Maria Ausiliatrice is a Catholic basilica in the city of Turin. Inaugurated on June 9, 1868, the sanctuary was commissioned by San Giovanni Bosco. It was designed by the engineer Antonio Spezia. The church was dedicated to Mary, invoked by Don Bosco as Help of Christians. Wikipedia
Where does nostalgia for something you have no memory of spring from? My roadtrips through the US have invoked nostalgia in me, but I have grown up in Europe, so I have to guess it's the product of so many movies.
Can he hear me call his name as it reverberates through the midnight sky Invoking the same wind that envelopes me to flow back ................ tonight I wear a new outfit by Virtual Diva Couture called Mimy... It is made for Legacy, Maitreya, Reborn, Juicy Reborn, and Kupra You can find it at the Mainstore after the event @ Exclusive at Tokio Zero.https://sitawriter.blogspot.com/
patron saint of orphans, physical therapists, shepherdesses, abuse victims, unattractive people, peasant girls, handicapped people, abandoned and marginalized people, sick people, victims of child abuse, people disfigured by disease, people with disabilities, particularly those with physical and mental disabilities, and against bullying, impoverishment, and unkind people and her intercession is still sought by many people who are facing difficult life situations and invoked for help with overcoming tremendous physical challenges and invoked against sufferings associated with poverty, illness and the loss of parents.
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In the moonlit glow of Halloween night,
Jack Skellington takes to flight,
With swirling skirts and skeleton grace,
Dancing through shadows, a smile on her face.
Her bony hands hold a pumpkin bright,
A beacon of joy in the eerie light,
For Halloween is the happiest time,
Where mischief and magic perfectly rhyme.
With candy in hand and laughter in air,
She twirls through the darkness without a care,
Ghosts and goblins join her cheer,
For Halloween is the best time of year!
In her top hat, with stripes so bold,
She welcomes the young and the old,
For Jack Skellington knows what’s true,
Halloween’s delight is always new!
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This picture is taken with Minolta AF 16mm F2.8 FishEye A-mount. It is not a Sony version of the Miolta lens.
There are people still streaming to baths and enjoying a visit now without warming rooms and cold plunges. There is great sunshine an intense rain in the current climate that bathes the tourists in the remains of the Auxiliary Garrison. Outside of the strictly prescribed fort there would be settlements beyond the fort and the baths are out of the fort structure in part to limit and contain the fire hazard.
The bath house has older signs built into the ruins of the extant compartmental foundations and then there are newer attributions on the sign immediately above the sauna type bathing remains.
Thermae from the Greek Θέρμαι Thermai for hot springs and hot baths from the Greek adjective thermos for hot used to describe warm springs and also baths of warm water.
Thermae from Greek θερμός thermos “hot” and balneae from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion, “bath” also “bathing-vessel” the Romans used their term thermae based on Greek origins.
Hardknott named after Harthr Knutr hard craggy hill that is Hard Knott fell.
East to West Hardknott Pass runs from Eskdale to the Duddon Valley in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England. A view into an early morning of a slow Winter dawning.
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Hardknott Roman Fort English Heritage
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Hardknott Roman Fort
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The Fort at River's Bend
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Hardknott mentioned in this Sonnet.
William Wordsworth
From, The River Duddon, A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. Numbered XVII 17
A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew,
Perched on whose top the Danish Raven croaks;
Aloft, the imperial Bird of Rome invokes
Departed ages, shedding where he flew
Loose fragments of wild wailing, that bestrew
The clouds and thrill the chambers of the rocks;
And into silence hush the timorous flocks,
That, calmly couching while the nightly dew
Moistened each fleece, beneath the twinkling stars
Slept amid that lone Camp on Hardknot’s height,
Whose Guardians bent the knee to Jove and Mars:
Or, near that mystic Round of Druid frame
Tardily sinking by its proper weight
Deep into patient Earth, from whose smooth breast it came!
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Posting something green for St. Patrick’s Day, despite having nothing especially Irish in the backlog. Feel free to invoke your own parable.
Excerpt from the plaque:
The Green Fairy Storybook 2009
Books and literature have always been central to Dhaliwal’s practice. On her childhood in Southall, she recalls:
My mother disapproved of the multihued fairy story books that I consumed voraciously. For her, reading was a lazy activity. It kept one away from housework and homework.
I picture the child I was when learning to read, sitting on the floor between the stacks in the public library, surrounded by piles of books. The Green Fairy Book, the Yellow Fairy Book, the Red, the Blue, the Lavender Fairy Book. For me this work represents a resolution of sorts; a coming home to the place where all the stories I’ve written began: the child reading in between the stacks of the library learning to love words and the images they invoke.
The latest bridge to open over the River Liffey (2009) in Dublin, IE. The structure is meant to invoke the image of a harp, the national symbol of Ireland.
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Why should I care to find my song?
Why should you care to find yours?
Don’t we vibrate in an Ocean of Sound?
Does the dream of reaching ourselves
To finally know who we are
To finally know where we are going
Delight an Answer in limitless queries?
Don’t our bodies soak in possibility
Within the larger symphony of stars and galaxies
Beyond all mathematical perplexity?
Will our shallow throated emissions
Penetrate the shells still dividing us?
From nowhere and everywhere
This paradoxical quest holds the Tune
We are each an aspect of its vital Harmony
We find our journey waiting and singing to us
To invoke a much deeper throated response
Until we feel ourselves to be Home
© Ganga Fondan, 2010
The quest to find Truth showers its songs upon my life and it is the only way I know to find meaning. We each have a connection to the Poetry of Life. Immersed in this we are invincible. My Blog
Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. It is, in fact, a region called NGC 6357 where radiation from hot, young stars is energizing the cooler gas in the cloud that surrounds them.
This composite image contains X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope (purple), infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (orange), and optical data from the SuperCosmos Sky Survey (blue) made by the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.
Located in our galaxy about 5,500 light years from Earth, NGC 6357 is actually a "cluster of clusters," containing at least three clusters of young stars, including many hot, massive, luminous stars. The X-rays from Chandra and ROSAT reveal hundreds of point sources, which are the young stars in NGC 6357, as well as diffuse X-ray emission from hot gas. There are bubbles, or cavities, that have been created by radiation and material blowing away from the surfaces of massive stars, plus supernova explosions.
Astronomers call NGC 6357 and other objects like it "HII" (pronounced “H-two”) regions. An HII region is created when the radiation from hot, young stars strips away the electrons from neutral hydrogen atoms in the surrounding gas to form clouds of ionized hydrogen, which is denoted scientifically as "HII."
Researchers use Chandra to study NGC 6357 and similar objects because young stars are bright in X-rays. Also, X-rays can penetrate the shrouds of gas and dust surrounding these infant stars, allowing astronomers to see details of star birth that would be otherwise missed.
A recent paper on Chandra observations of NGC 6357 by Leisa Townsley of Pennsylvania State University in State College appeared in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series and is available online. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Chandra program for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra’s science and flight operations.
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