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After a period harassed by the wind and the furious waves, the rocks have succumbed to their wear and tear, giving rise to this natural beauty that looks more like a hand raised from the water, offering an offering to Mother Nature to ask for calm, calm, before the unstoppable invested climatology ...
Despues de un periodo hostigado por el viento y las olas enfurecidas, las rocas han sucumbido a su desgaste dando lugar a esta belleza natural y que mas bien parece una mano alzada del agua, ofreciendo una ofrenda a la madre naturaleza para pedirle sosiego, calma , ante la imparable investida climatologica...
OLYMPUS
Old lava fields cover the area towards the southern end of Lanzarote, where the sea meets Timanfaya Park. The sun was sinking behind me, under a bank of clouds and offering some great light.
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Des
For those who are sick of my floral shots, i apologize... I promise when the flowers are gone, you won't see them :)
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This small 2.50" x 2.50" bag holds prayer beads. HMM, everyone.
at the Yap Kongsi Temple .
The celebration of the lunar new year lats for ten days.
It has been the year of the rooster, seen in Penang, Malaysia in 2017!.
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Nature's Offering is actually a remake of a picture I made about two years ago: Lord of Winter.
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However, I was never really happy with it. But this one? Well "Nature's Offering" is more of the vibe I was aiming for. Add in "Frozen Tides" (link below), the feel was complete!
Worthy of note is the pose I'm using: Mirror, Mirror from Be My Mannequin? Pose Store. The pose comes with a special mirror prop (not shown in picture) and I adjusted the head angle slightly.
Go DEMO it for yourself in the main store or check it out on Marketplace!
Additionally, click for HD to see the brand new stunning, icy Avalanche eyes from Pariah which is coincidentally right next door to Be My Mannequin?! Also the pale skin is by them as well: Virus White Body Powder from the Virus pack!
And honestly I really need to give a shout out to Studio Skye for the background (which I pieced together) using Enchanted Woods set and Water System. I am seriously in love with how detailed and the variety of options that come with all their products!
Electus & Michael St Laurent - Frozen Tides
Daily offering of flowers, sake and rice at a small shrine within Gyogan-ji temple, Kyoto. Hasselblad X1D.
The Devils blood
The curse of salvation
The odious essence
Of His holy revelation
It floats from the garden of eden
In malevolent grace
The Devil's blood
Through the pentagram's maze
I like this shot of someone offering a banana to the passing marathon runners taken towards the end of the day - someone did take it.
A devotee offering coconut water outside the temple as a mark of tradition towards the god
Tirupati,India
Autumn Offering
“I shall be Autumn
this Halloween,
with leaf draped skirt,
and folds of
boysenberry velvet wine
flowing to the ground.
Brown stained face,
eyes rimmed in gold,
nails dripping sunset,
a crown of twigs
to cover my head.
You may gather from me
the spring of my youth,
my summer of maturity,
and hold onto with me,
the solace of these days
of remembering
before the frost.”
— Judith A. Lawrence, editor/publisher of River Poets Journal
This was taken at the temple at the Nirvana Memorial Gardens. These fruit and the cupcakes (a kind of bread) are commonly offered to the temple guardian known as "Tuah Pek Kong"
Trois-Riviere, Quebec, Canada
Unfortunately I couldn't find the plaque with the name of this striking sculpture author - neither on site no on the Internet. My French is probably not good enough for that. But I'd like to know... what are these offerings, what is the story?
Mark 12:32-33 King James Version (KJV)
32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Pulling up an old image that has been sitting around - this was taken at the Meskwaki Settlement Tama Pow-wow in Iowa a couple years ago. He was offering up prayers following a ceremony for their fellow Indian Veterans.
These common, daily offerings to both good and evil spirits are called "canang sari" by the Balinese. They are handmade works of art in their own right and can also be seen on the altar of the shrine I posted earlier. This time, I took a whole series of photos featuring them in various places. The materials, herbs, flowers, food and money in each offering have much religious symbolism and purpose; for further reading : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canang_sari
A Royal Tern with an offering in its beak. More on the offering and related antics to follow.
I have over 100 folders of unprocessed photos from the past 6 years which I’m currently going through, this is one of the photos from that group. Many of these re-visit an already posted subject. I've finished folder 13 - that had 1428 photos! This photo was in the second 1/3 of that folder. I'm on Folder 14 which has far less photos.