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The city of Nam Dinh wakes up to a stunning sunrise as seen through a gap in the Lying Dragon Mountains. The name "Lying Dragon," reflects its shape, which resembles a dragon lying in repose - a powerful symbol in Vietnamese culture representing strength, protection, and prosperity.
On a hill just outside the site of the ancient city of Segesta lies an unusually well preserved Greek Doric temple. It is thought to have been built in the 420's BC by an Athenian architect and has six by fourteen columns on a base measuring 21 by 56 meters, on a platform three steps high. Several elements suggest that the temple was never actually finished. The columns have not been fluted as they normally would have been in a Doric temple and there are still tabs present in the blocks of the base (used for lifting the blocks into place but then normally removed). It also lacks a cella and was never roofed over. The temple is also unusual as the city not mainly populated by Greeks. It can also be noted that this temple lacks any painted or sculptured ornamentation, altar, and deity dedication. This temple escaped destruction by the Carthaginians in the late 5th century.
A little hommage to "Film Noir"
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My praying mantis babies continue to grow- some are completely green now and as big as 2 knuckles. I go look for them every day and there are still at least 5 or 6 around.
a return to the bay today looking for the snow bunting a 3 hour plus wait around resulted in some good shots ,this one taken from a flat out on the beach position ,hence the title worth lying(down) for
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La fondation de l'hôpital de Benon semble avoir été liée au souvenir de la deuxième croisade, à laquelle avait pris par le seigneur de Lamarque en Médoc. En souvenir de ce croisé, son fils de passage sur le chemin de Compostelle en 1154, donna une donation plus ancienne aux chevaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem pour le salut de l'âme de son père. L'hôpital et sa première église datent donc, au plus tard, de la seconde moitié du 12e siècle. Benon était le chef-lieu de la commanderie qui se développa jusqu'au 14e siècle. La première église (actuelle sacristie), trop exigüe, fut complétée par une seconde qui semble avoir été construite vers 1200. Elle se compose d'une nef rectangulaire voûtée, à cinq travées, et chevet plat. Le porche est formé de trois arcs en plein cintre dont les voussures moulurées retombent sur des colonnes à chapiteaux lisses. Au-dessus, une corniche sur modillon forme l'assise d'une arcature composée de cinq arcs cintrés supportés par des colonnes géminées flanquant un pilastre. Elle est elle-même surmontée d'une autre corniche à modillons au-dessus de laquelle s'élève un pignon triangulaire ajouté en 1768.
Elle est classée monument historique par arrêté du 21 mars 1972.
The beguinage in Lier has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998.
It is a typical 13th century street beguinage with 11 narrow streets and 162 small houses. The front doors of the houses feature the name of a saint or a biblical scene. Most of the houses date from the 17-18th century.
Time for a girl to lie back and think of England..... So good to have my wedding dress draped all over the bed.
Small, nearly frozen hole in the snow revealing the Upper Provo River underneath. Uinta Mountains, Summit County, Utah.
[Lier, België]: Break 353 rijdt door Lier onderweg als L 2863 naar Leuven. Aan het uiterlijk te zien heeft dit treinstel recentelijk een opknapbeurt gekregen.
The slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) is a critically-endangered species of crocodile from Africa. Traditionally placed in Crocodylus, recent studies in DNA and morphology have shown that it belongs in its own genus, Mecistops, and that it should be split into two species.
Slender-snouted crocodiles are native to freshwater habitats in central and western Africa. They are medium-sized crocodiles, typically slightly smaller than the Nile crocodile, but are larger than several other species of crocodilians. Adults are typically about 2.5m long, but have been known to reach 4.2m. They weigh between 125 and 325 kg. They have a slender snout used for catching prey, hence their name.
The diet of the slender-snouted crocodile consists mainly of fish, amphibians and crustaceans. Adults occasionally take smaller mammals, aquatic snakes, turtles and birds.
This species is relatively poorly known with few studies of the wild populations. Consequently, it was rated as Data Deficient by the IUCN in 1996. Following a review in 2014, it was moved to Critically Endangered. It appears to have been entirely extirpated from several countries where formerly present and declined elsewhere. Although threatened overall, relatively robust populations remain in parts of Central Africa, especially Gabon. In contrast, it is extremely rare in West Africa where on the verge of disappearing.
Threats include hunting (skin and bushmeat), habitat loss, overfishing (it mainly feeds on fish) and general disturbance (it is very shy). There is considerable uncertainty about the size of the wild population, but it is estimated that between 1,000 and 20,000 remain.
This specimen was seen at Colchester Zoo in 2009.
Lying on the beach in a sunny afternoon...
Enjoying the breezy wind... next to the grand Okanagan Lake....
London Dada archive-filler, from 2017.
" Bright with artificial promise in the pre-election night
once in office serves to cover truth's exposing bright daylight "
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This is inspired from Proverbs 8
I’m closing my mouth,
nothing filthy is coming out.
No more judging words,
or putting others down..
No more lies.
I will no longer crave evil,
but love the taste of the truth.
Speak what is true and right,
the words of God.
God made my mouth.
He made it to speak wisdom,
and to tell others about Him.
I will speak the truth.
The diversity of styles in the Archibald Prize over 100 years is quite remarkable. Not all these portraits were winners, but then even to be chosen in the finalists is quite an artistic achievement. To win usually means to go on to fame and fortune. In this final glimpse at the show (now touring regional galleries around the country) I’ll draw your attention to these portraits (from left to right):
The late 70s and early 80s saw a spate of gigantic portraits (a similar thing happened in artistic photography too). Bigger may not be better, in fact one of the most beautiful portraits in this show is the smallest, Natasha Bieniek’s “Wendy Whiteley” (2016). A stunning piece I admired but didn’t photograph. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/archie-100/the-art-wo...
But the largest is Geoff La Gerche’s 1979 entry, “‘A true Territorian’: Portrait of Grandma Lum Loy”. Lim Lee See (c1884–1980), known as Granny Lum Loy – the matriarch of Darwin’s Chinese community – was a pioneering market gardener. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/archie-100/local-hero...
Fiona Lowry’s 2014 Archibald Prize winner was her monochromatic painting of “Penelope Seidler”. Brilliant as an architect in her own right, Penelope was married for many years to perhaps the most famous of Modernist Australian architects, Harry Seidler (1923-2006). She was also the niece to one of the most famous and controversial of Australian politicians, “Doc” Herbert Vere Evatt (1894-1965). www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/archie-100/what-lies-...
I should add that I couldn't help noticing how this viewer's dress is very similar to the one worn by Seidler in her portrait, and she also has her hands behind the back. These coincidences occurred throughout my shoot.
In the next photograph I want to single out the most famous painting in the scene. It is a portrait of the great poet Mary Gilmore (1865-1962). www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/archie-100/courting-c...
Gilmore is featured with Banjo Paterson (the Bush Poet) on the Australian $10 banknote. But even more remarkable than the sitter is the story behind this painting. Some of you will recognise this the moment I mention the artist’s name, Joshua Smith (1905-1995). In 1943 we had the most controversial moment in the history of the Archibald Prize. William Dobell was awarded the prize for a portrait of Joshua Smith. This was challenged in a grubby court case which accused Dobell of painting a caricature of fellow artist Smith. Part of the evidence was a scandalous “medical” analysis of Joshua Smith’s facial features in a way not witnessed since the worst days of the pseudo-science Physiognomy (look it up). The result was a broken friendship between Dobell and Smith, even though Dobell and the Archibald Trustees won the case. Fittingly though, the unassuming Joshua Smith did win the Archibald Prize in 1945. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146249304
On the right of my photograph is a bright green portrait of a man watering his lawn. It is by Davida Allen, and it won the Archibald Prize in 1986. The subject is “Dr John Arthur McKelvie Shera”, her father-in-law and retired physician. Allen’s choice of pose was decided as soon as she arrived to begin the process:
“One day I arrived unannounced while he was pottering about in the garden half naked! Instead of him quickly disappearing, he kept watering; unperturbed! On this day I was struck by an intimacy that was the linchpin to my returning with pencils and drawing pad to examine more closely the subject for a painting. I noticed his back was covered with seborrheic keratosis, which in turn I painted as thick brown blobs of paint. The final touch was bashing the green paint background of the painting with a branch off his celtis tree! It was a painting driven by emotion …”
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/archie-100/the-intima...
That final phrase “driven by emotion” is the way I’d like people to see art in all its forms.