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Kujirushi Buddha Temple is a famous temple located in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo.
On the day I visited, the vast precincts of 120 thousand hectares got colored red, orange and yellow.
Back Shot from April 2017
On a walk around the city catching up on what's happening with the rebuild. April 22, 2017 Christchurch, South Island New Zealand.
All About the new Building: i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/91881732/christchurch-centrals-k...
Jaigarh Fort is situated on the promontory called the Cheel ka Teela (Hill of Eagles) of the Aravalli range; it overlooks the Amer Fort and the Maota Lake, near Amer in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Raja Kakil Dev captured the Amber region from the Mina tribes and began construction of Jaigarh fort around the middle of the eleventh century. Over the centuries, the Fort was augmented by subsequent rulers, including Maha Raja Jai Singh II, who added palace apartments to the complex.
The fort, rugged and similar in structural design to the Amer Fort, is also known as Victory Fort. It has a length of 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) along the north–south direction and a width of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi). The fort features a cannon named "Jaivana" (Jaivana Cannon), which was manufactured in the fort precincts and was then the world's largest cannon on wheels. Jaigarh Fort and Amer Fort are connected by subterranean passages and considered as one complex.
Not all the locals apprecate the benefits of tourism!
The medieval town of Santa Pau is located in the southeast of the llano de Olot, in the heart of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, between the mountains of Sant Julià del Mont and Santa Maria de Finestres.
The municipality of Santa Pau, the richest and most varied in volcanic phenomena in the entire Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, has points of special interest such as the Santa Margarida volcano, the Croscat volcano or the Hayedo de Jordá, the beauty of which it offers new nuances in any time or circumstance.
The town preserves the very interesting precincts of the old town, with a very marked medieval physiognomy and characteristics. The Plaza Mayor or Fair of the Bulls stands out: a porticoed square with an irregular profile and uneven arches, which has an undeniable personality and which is located around the castle, a large, compact and robust building that rises at the highest point of the town.
The sober church of Santa Maria and the entire group of narrow streets, with sudden angles and steep descents, that lead to the Portal del Mar are also noteworthy.
The Portal del Mar offers a perspective of the beautiful and tempting valleys of the surroundings which, as often happens in La Garrotxa, are the setting for some interesting Romanesque church. Highlights include Our Lady of the Arcs, Sant Vicenç del Sallent, Sant Martí Vell and, in an idyllic corner, Sant Miquel Sacot
From Sant Julià del Mont, where you arrive after a walk of medium difficulty, the perspective of the valleys and volcanoes is fascinating.
To improve accessibility in the old town, two new ramps and a new section of railing have been installed in the alleyways around the castle and the porticoed square, in order to facilitate pedestrian access with reduced mobility.
I start a new set at Flickr a very lengthy series Ajmer Urus 2009 , 3 cards of 4 GB each.. shot in two days , I had a 16 GB card too, but I did not use it, the reason being photography is totally banned within the precincts of the Dargah..
Permission is given on the whims of the Dargah authorities..the criteria of color is important ..racism exists in Holy Places too..
I applied for permission, presented my Press Card , my Pan Card two photographs, but as you see I dont look like a photographer so it was turned down as the Dargah authorities give permission to a white man first, the Indian photographer is deemed a terrorist according to the mind set of the people in charge..dogs and Indian photographers are not allowed at the Ajmer Sharif Urus..
My Belgian photographer friend was lucky enough to get the permission.
I have continuously stayed at the house of Peersaab Fakhru Miya Hujra no 6 my host, benefactor and patron every trip that I made to Ajmer Urus from 2005 to 2009, ..and I have shot Ajmer with the sincerity of my soul and Ajmer is my pictorial gospel, of the Message of Peace as expounded in love and brotherhood by the Holy Saint Khwajah Gharib Nawaz Moinuddin Chishty Al Sabri.
I call this Tablike Khwajah Gharib Nawaz..his message of humanity, this is the only Shrine that has millions of pilgrims from all over the world..no bar on caste color or community ..Hindus throng to seek the Holy Saints blessings you ask for a single wish he extends it to your unborn child too, such is the bounty of the Khwajah Gharib Nawaz.
I am not an adherent of Sufism,but I am touched by the Holy Saint who beckons me year after year, I am going through very bad times in my business this trip was not happening, but he pulled me across ..I shot for two days that made a moment seem like a life time.
I hold no grudge towards the Dargah authorities , but I would like to display my inner hurt publicly so one can read in black and white, as in some cases Indian photographers are allowed at the Dargah with cameras and arc lights only if Katrina Kaif comes in as she generates the hoopla for commercialism in spirituality.
This is Truth as I see it..and it should hurt those whom the cap fits..
81669 pictures at display on my Flickr photostream, of all religions I have shot , is my testimony as a blogger showing you a world within the narrow corridors of another world.
This year I shot the Hijras . I shot the Malangs at the graveyards of Char Yar, I shot the Bawas of Char Yar.,.I shot the gemstone markets, the beggars, Dhai Din Ka Jhopda, and on the last day shot a Mehfil on the eve of Chatti on the terrace of the house of my host Peersaab Fakhru Miya Hujra No 6 one of the specil spontaneous events was the Whirring Dervesh of Ajmer a sight you normally dont see in public but at privately..
I had traveled barefeet and remained barefeet till I reached Mumbai this morning at 7 am..my feet bled , I could barely walk, but I knew I would overcome the frailty of my flesh.I removed shards off glass in the evening from my tortured feet, and I did not carry my diabetic medicine or my insulin syringe at Ajmer , I felt if I come to a Spiritual Healer like Khwajah Gharib Nawaz why must I carry medicines , his love and affection protected me at all times.
I have a vardan of Hijras they cross my path at all times ..I must mention this significant detail..
I was boarding the train for Ajmer I was accosted by Hijras of Gharib Nagar Bandra ..and when I got off at Bandra Terminus I met hijras from Bombasy Central, who touched my feet and asked me to bless them..
Metaverse
it is not religion
But a racist system that
I curse .
wounds on my soul
an inner angst I nurse
humility the only currency
to reimburse
spirituality sometimes
is bartered for a purse
Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode, also known as --
Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Honolulu Hawaii Police Department Chevy Impala
Jada Diecast "Hero Patrol Precincts"
These Impalas feature opening doors and trunk, prisoner screens and laptops, but are way too big... they make my 1/50 scale vehicles look too small in comparison.
Chakrapani Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu located in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India. In the temple, Lord Vishnu appears in the form of a discus or Chakra to put down the pride of Surya(the Sun), who subsequently became his devotee
The temple is noted for its exquisite pillars. The presiding deity, Chakrapani has 8 arms. There is a bronze image of king Serfoji II worshipping the lord as he is said to have been cured an illness by the grace of this God. A panchamukha(five-faced) Hanuman is erected in the prakaram (outer precincts of the temple)
In 1620, when Govinda Dikshitar, divan-administrator for the Nayaks, constructed the Ramaswamy Temple, Kumbakonam, he added a commercial corridor between the new temple and the older Chakrapani temple
This temple is situated on the southern bank of Cauvery in Kumbakonam Railway station, Thanjavur district, Tamilnadu. It is the second Vaishnavite temple in Kumbakonam town. Here the main deity is Chakraraja and Sudharshana Chakra.
The Eastern and Western entrances of this temple are known as “Thatchinaya Vayil” and “Utharavana Vayil” respectively and outer Prakara of this temple is made in the form of balcony. Agampara Vinayakar, Panchamuga Aancheneyar and Vijayavalli are the important idols located in this temple.
Sliders Sunday 17.10.2021
The "Donauinsel" is an artificial island in the River Danube extending for 21.1 kilometres from the Vienna's northern-most precincts to its southern limits. It is part of a flood-prevention scheme promoted by Vienna's Socialist City Council ("Das Rote Wien") in the 1960s and actually fought by opposition parties. Work started in 1972 and lasted until 1988. From the beginning it was planned as a nature reserve and recreational zone, A million trees were planted The Island has become not only a popular place for sport and relaxation, but also a resort for birds, plants and even wildlife - beavers for example.. This photo was taken at the southern tip of the island after a delightful cycle tour.
Amoung some of the many Pentax features that I value are the in-camera post-processing possibilites: a RAW-converter and so-called digital filters, as well as cropping and compression etc. The filters can be used in different degrees and can be combined to create a wide range of effects.
For this image I developed a jpg from RAW, adusting parameters such as exposure, ISO, contrast, and then applied a "Watercolour" filter - the intermediate setting gave the best result this time. The out of focus areas are nicely wishy-washy, while the sharp zones have received a clear outline. The image was finalised in SILKY PIX Developer Studio Pro 9, where I reduced the contrast to bring up the background, added some black to bring up the outline of the flowers, and worked on individual colours. I hope you like the result!
HD Pentax DA Limited 35mm f:2.8 Macro
PENTAX K-1
HSS!!!
Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode.
Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Vier Jahre lang hatte es das traditionelle Alt-Marzahner Erntefest nicht mehr gegeben Erst musste es wegen Corona ausfallen, dann sagte die Firma, die bislang das Fest organisiert hatte, ihre weitere Mitarbeit ab. Dieses Jahr gab es einen Neuanfang. Aber hatte das Erntefest früher den Charakter eines großen Bauernmarktes, ergänzt durch einige Fahrgeschäfte vor allem für Kinder, so war es dieses jahr eher ein großer Rummel, der Bauernmarkt fehlte fast zur Gänze. Nur einige soziale Organisationen und Kleingartenvereine sowie Parteien stellten sich vor.
The traditional Old Marzahn Harvest Festival had not been held for four years. First it had to be cancelled due to coronavirus, then the company that had previously organised the festival cancelled its further involvement. This year there was a new start. But while the harvest festival used to have the character of a large farmers‘ market, supplemented by a few rides, especially for children, this year it was more of a large funfair, the farmers’ market was almost completely missing. Only a few social organisations, allotment garden associations and political parties presented themselves.
Street vendors lined up in the temple grounds. For some reason, second-hand clothing stores are popular. But I don't know if I will buy it.
The new Bus Interchange on a walk around the city on a damp grey day August 29, 2015 Christchurch, New Zealand to catch up on what's happing.
The western arch gate into the courtyard of St Gayane Church in the Armenian religious capital, Etchmiadzin. The gate was built while Vahan Bastameants was abbot of the church, ca. 1866-1882.
Saint Gayane Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Գայանե եկեղեցի or Surb Gayane) is a 7th Century Armenian church in Etchmiadzin, the religious center of Armenia. Located just south of the perimeter of the large precincts that belong to Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of Armenia. It was originally built in 630, and its design has remained unchanged despite partial renovations of the dome and some ceilings in 1652.
It is part of the ‘Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots’ UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It was built on the site of an existing shrine to the eponymous nun and martyr at the spot where she is said to have been killed by King Tiridates III of Armenia in 301, during the events that led to the country’s conversion to Christianity.
It consists of a three-nave domed basilica with an octagonal drum resting on four internal pillars that divide the interior of the church into three naves. The exterior has a cruciform-plan gable roof with the drum and dome placed central to the main structure.
An airy, triple-arched portico was added to the western façade of the church in 1683 as the burial place for prominent Armenian clergymen. It is situated in a substantial external courtyard surrounded by thick and sometimes ornately carved walls which date from ca. 1866-82.
It was a grand temple which will have erection, branch temple 18, and temple territory 500 stones by the hand of the way Hisashi Showa of south capital Gangoji by Emperor Kotoku's command in white pheasant 5 (654 years).Nobunaga Oda contributes black seal impression 50 stone and forest 500,000m2as the chip box of worship, and a temple of omen protection of kiyosu castle in Eiroku 8 (1565). Togugawa Period also continued having a temple territory.It has area 330,000?m2(100,000 tsubos) now.All approaches are the Tokai nature trails. The precincts-of-a-temple whole region is Hida-Kisogawa Quasi-National Park.
I Jakko-in was taken a walk and the photograph of the autumnal leaves of autumn and the rows of houses around Nagoya was taken.
Cairnwood. A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn [ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn [ˈkʰaːrˠɲ]).
Cairnwood is the burial place of a chieftain of the Ulaid of Dalriada. But in all fifty plus years of roaming these woods .... I have never found it.
The branch railway from Mungar on Queensland Railways North Coast Line passed through a number of old but important rural towns like Biggenden, Gayndah, Mundubbera, Eidsvold and Monto where it ran head on into another branch from Gladstone also on the North Coast Line forming a lengthy inland loop. As country branch lines go, it was relatively busy with freight also. While the two lines joined head on, they tended to be worked as two independent branches. From an enthusiasts point of view, they were extremely interesting and included some rather decent bridges and tunnels also.
This from Wikipedia " The Mungar Junction to Monto railway line is a 267-kilometre (166 mi) railway in Queensland, Australia. Progressively opened in eleven stages between 1889 and 1928 the line branched from the North Coast line at Mungar Junction a short distance west of Maryborough and followed a westerly route towards Biggenden and Gayndah before turning north via Mundubbera and Eidsvold to Monto. It is also known as the Gayndah Monto Branch Railway. In 2012, the line was officially closed. The line continued from Monto through Many Peaks (think mountainous territory) to Gladstone".
It is still by-passed by the main North Coast Line.
The closure was mourned by the community and resulted in much infrastructure being retained and small railway precincts being set up in the main towns. This is what's left at Mundubbera which has a steam locomotive (C17 class) in the park and a wagon, station building and sheds, cranes and tracks to remind residents and tourists of what has been lost.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mungar_Junction_to_Monto_railway_...
Nanzen-ji (南禅寺 Nanzen-ji), or Zuiryusan Nanzen-ji, formerly Zenrin-ji (禅林寺 Zenrin-ji), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Emperor Kameyama established it in 1291 on the site of his previous detached palace. It is also the headquarters of the Nanzen-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. The precincts of Nanzen-ji are a nationally designated Historic Site and the Hōjō gardens a Place of Scenic Beauty. (Wikipedia)
As part of the temple ground, there is a little garden. If I remember correctly, you had to pay an entrance fee. I really liked this garden.
From the South Pylon on the Harbour Bridge with the moon rising just behind the Opera House. The lower blue movement was from a yacht's mast and then they parked in front of the Opera House to watch the projections. The projections cannot be seen as the very long exposure means that the colour movements blend to approximately white.
Canon 7D, 10-22mm @10mm, 4 x 3 minute shots (ISO100, f/22) stacked in Starstax lighten+gap- fill mode. I seemed to have more success this way rather than layering in PS especially as the layers were quite well aligned (another set needed aligning... post later...)
One of the light installations is to have lights on the boats in the harbour which change colour when the boat loves to a different area. Blue in bottom-left, green in the middle and red near the quay.
www.vividsydney.com/event/light/harbour-lights
Make sure that you shoot in the middle of the South Pylon. Firstly because the walkways either side vibrate a lot with the traffic and also the wire fence has larger holes to shoot through.
Inspiration and information from Ian Moore
www.flickr.com/photos/ianmoore13/17627325254
For a unique perspective (non-public location) then see Alex's shot at
The fortified evangelical church of Valchid was built in the 14th century, on the site of a much older Romanesque basilica.
Situated on a small tributary of Târnave Mari, the settlement of Valchid owes its first documentary mention to a conflict of 1345 in which the peasants from Valchid were interrogated in the process of robbing the Saxons from Curciu and other villages belonging to the neighboring localities, the Nou Sasesc and Roandola. .
The church is long and narrow, surrounded by ten buttresses erected specially to support the walls of the hall. The enclosure has a gray-yellow color, a color given by the reddish-brown sandstone from which it is built. The walls were dated to the beginning of the 16th century.
The watchtowers are located in the middle of the sides of the walls, the watchtower continuing on their façades. This is completely different from most fortified churches that have towers usually located at the corners of the precincts. The main portal on which a finely carved embrasure is seen, similar to the western portal of the evangelical church in Sibiu, is located on the blackened facade of smoke on the west side of the church. The church itself was never fortified, due to the height of the curtains of about 10 meters which led to the deterrent of the attackers.
The original vault of the ship was destroyed by the 1916 earthquake and was replaced by with a baroque vaulted vault that shows the ornaments in the stucco, with double arches. The boys' grandstand built in the west was built in the 19th century and was renovated in 1922 when another grandstand supported by two brick arches was erected along the north wall.
Located in the preserved historical district of Shikemichi in the city of Nagoya, one can find this inari statue (Shinto fox god) within the precincts of the Sengen Shrine that has been in the area since it was relocated here in 1647.
Built in 1720 as an inn, which provided income for the monastery and its surrounding buildings. Designed by architect Ion Mincu, the building that now stands in the church precincts was erected in the early 20th century.
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Seen on the side of St Bartholomew's Church in Cloth Fair, London. Also known as Great St. Bart's, in order to distinguish itself from another St Bartholomew's church founded at a similar time in the precincts of St Bartholomew's Hospital nearby.
The building was originally built in 1123 as an Augustine priory.
More information here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bartholomew-the-Great
These ruins are within the precincts of the grand theatre in Pompei, Campania, Italia.
In the background the dastardly villain who did them all in, which wasn't in anyone's script.
I recommend travelling to the region in January rather than summer. The weather is much more pleasant and you can visit a lot of the sights without having to put up with throngs of tourists.
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Nikkor AI-S 50mm 1:1.8 manual focus lens
Film: Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film exposed at 200 ISO
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Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode, also known as --
Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Nanzen-ji (南禅寺 Nanzen-ji), or Zuiryusan Nanzen-ji, formerly Zenrin-ji (禅林寺 Zenrin-ji), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Emperor Kameyama established it in 1291 on the site of his previous detached palace. It is also the headquarters of the Nanzen-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. The precincts of Nanzen-ji are a nationally designated Historic Site and the Hōjō gardens a Place of Scenic Beauty. (Wikipedia)
Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode, also known as --
Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Byron Bay is a beachside town located in the far-northeastern corner of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 772 kilometres north of Sydney and 165 kilometres south of Brisbane. Cape Byron, a headland adjacent to the town, is the easternmost point of mainland Australia. At the 2021 census, the town had a permanent population of 6,330. It is the largest town of Byron Shire local government area, though not the shire's administrative centre (which is Mullumbimby).
Byron Bay and surrounds are located on traditional lands of the Bundjalung Nation of the Arakwal, Minjungbal and the Widjabul people who have lived by the coast for at least 22,000 years. Traditional custodians of the region believe that the land and people were created by Nguthungulli, who rests at what is now called Julian Rocks. The traditional name of the township area was Cavvanbah, meaning "meeting place". Significant totems for the area include Wajung and Kabul.
In 1770 Lieutenant James Cook found safe anchorage and named Cape Byron after a fellow sailor Vice Admiral 'Foul-Weather Jack' John Byron, circumnavigator of the world and grandfather of the poet Lord Byron. European settlement in the area took place in the 1830s. A massacre took place in the 1850s, south of Suffolk Park where the quarry is today.
The first industry in Byron was cedar logging from the Australian red cedar (Toona ciliata). The timber industry is the origin of the word "shoot" in many local names – Possum Shoot, Coopers Shoot and Skinners Shoot – where the timber-cutters would "shoot" the logs down the hills to be dragged to waiting ships. Timber getting became insignificant after World War I. As a result, many former timber workers became farmers.
Gold mining of the beaches was the next industry to occur. Gold was discovered in Byron Bay in 1870. Up to 20 mining leases set up on Tallow Beach to extract gold from the black sands around the 1870s.
Byron Bay has a history of primary industrial production and was a significant, but hazardous, sea port. The poet Brunton Stephens spoke of cattle grazing on the "mossy plains" of Cape Byron in a poem he penned in 1876.
The first jetty was built in 1886, and the railway was connected in 1894, and Cavvanbah became Byron Bay in 1894. Dairy farmers cleared more land and settled the area. In 1895, the Norco Co-operative was formed to provide cold storage and manage the dairy and processes meat industry. The introduction of paspalum grass improved production, and Byron Bay exported butter from its depots at Murwillumbah and Lismore to the world.
The Cape Byron Lighthouse was built in 1901 at the most easterly point on the Australian mainland. Its construction destroyed a significant Arakwal men's ceremonial ground.
In 1930, the first meatworks opened. The smell from the meat and dairy works was appalling and the annual slaughter of migrating whales in the 1950s and 1960s made matters worse. Sand mining for monazite (zircon, uranium and thorium) between the World Wars damaged the environment further. Mining ceased in 1968 and processing in 1972.
Longboard surfers arrived in the 1960s and used natural breaks at The Pass, Watego's, and Cosy Corner. This was the beginning of Byron Bay as a travellers' destination, and by 1973, when the Aquarius Festival was held in nearby Nimbin, its reputation as a hippy, happy, alternative town was established, although tourism facilities remained minimal. From the 1980s, tourism began to develop in earnest, with the cash-poor surfers and hippies supplemented, and to a degree supplanted, by cash-rich conspicuous consumers who in turn stimulated the development of retail precincts and accommodation more tuned to their needs.
In 1994, a native title claim was made by Arakwal Elders Lorna Kelly, Linda Vidler and Yvonne Graham. After seven years of negotiation, an Indigenous Land Use Agreement was formed with the State of New South Wales in 2001, a national first and precedent for subsequent agreements around Australia. Two further local agreements also followed.
Today, Byron Bay is one of the most up-market residential areas on the Australian east coast with the growth in multi-million dollar mansions now pushing the median value of house sales up beyond AU$1.5 million in 2017, over a 100% increase since 2013, based on 2018 data from realestate.com.au. At the same time, the town has not lost its attraction to a diverse range of visitors including surfers, backpackers and general tourists interested in the natural attractions of the area, and also supports a healthy cross section of creative persons including artists, craftspersons and musicians, while its more recent hippy/new age past is reflected to a degree in a prevalence of alternative "new-age" shops, "spiritual" services such as meditation and yoga classes, and holistic healing/"wellness" retreats. As at 2018, the town is cited as having around 5,000 permanent residents, while being visited by 2 million tourists each year.
A number of shipwrecks litter the bay and surrounding areas. A total 16 are known with the most famous of these being the 'Wollongbar' which due to bad conditions sank off the eastern tip of Belongil beach, it now rests about 150 metres from the coast and is still visible above water during low tide.
境内には愛を誓いに来たであろう数組のカップル。
静かな浅草寺はロマンチックです。
私の脳味噌は古い記憶から奇妙な歌を作り出しました。
「街の明かりがとても綺麗ね浅草、Blue light Asakusa♪」
There are several couples in the precincts who may have come to swear their love.
The quiet Sensoji Temple is romantic.
My brain created strange songs from old memories.
"The city lights are very beautiful, Asakusa, Blue light Asakusa ♪"
Isa Khan's Tomb is situated just outside the Humayun's tomb precincts in New Delhi. It was built in the honor of Isa Khan, a brave and valiant noble under Sher Shah, the Afghan ruler who had overthrown Humayun. It was built in 1547, in an octagonal pattern. It is an architectural gem in the Islamic art in India and remained a model tomb amongst the ruling families in its time. Said to be inspired by the tomb of Sikandar Lodi, which is 300 years older than the Isa Khan tomb, it can boast of having more graceful proportions. The 'chhatris' or small kiosks and pinnacles around the dome that were introduced here look quite elegant.
Norwich Cathedral has the largest monastic cloister in England. It was constructed as a covered walkway enclosing an open quadrangle, or garth, and connected the Cathedral with the various monastic buildings. To the north the cloister is bounded by the Cathedral nave, into which there are two doors, one from each of the cloister's northern corners. To the east was the Chapter House, long since demolished, the entrance to which now leads out into the Cathedral Close. A doorway, now bricked up, led to the stairs to the monks' dormitory above. On the south side were the refectory and the infirmary. Nothing remains of the latter, but a stunning new Refectory, opened in 2004 and combining medieval and modern architecture, now stands on the site of the former. Open seven days a week it serves refreshments and light lunches, and is well worth a visit. From the west walk a door led into the priory's guest hall, or hostry, and now leads into the new Hostry building, partly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and completed in 2009.
The original Norman cloister was mostly destroyed during the riot of 1272, which was the culmination of a period of unrest over what the townspeople perceived as the unfair granting of landholding rights to the priory. Some of the land involved fell outside the Cathedral precincts, yet citizens living within these areas were expected to pay taxes and tithes to the priory. By the summer of 1272 things had come to a head and a state of siege existed. Efforts to reach a peaceful settlement failed when the Prior brought in armed mercenaries from Yarmouth who arrived by boat directly into the Cathedral precincts. They subsequently sallied forth into Norwich at night, burning and looting as they went. Several citizens were wounded and one was killed. The next day the city authorities called for a muster of men, and a raid on the priory ensued, and it is said that flaming arrows were fired from the nearby tower of the church of St George Tombland. One of the Cathedral gates was burned down to gain access, and several buildings within the precinct, including the church of St Ethelbert and the priory's bell tower, were ransacked and burned. Most of the monastic buildings, including the cloister, were destroyed and the fire spread to the Cathedral itself.
Evidence of this can still be seen inside the
Cathedral in places where the stonework has
taken on a pinkish discolouration caused by the
extreme heat.
As dusk settles over the ancient precincts of Thuparamaya, believed to be the first Buddhist dagoba constructed in Sri Lanka around the 3rd century BC, golden twilight softly caresses the revered stupa. The shrine is most notable for housing one of Lord Buddha’s relics – his right collarbone, drawing worshippers to its calm presence. The image radiates both serenity and devotion, making it not just a pilgrimage site but a living embodiment of Sri Lanka's Buddhist soul.
A Wheatfield with Cypresses is any of three similar 1889 oil paintings by Vincent van Gogh, as part of his wheat field series. All were exhibited at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental asylum at Saint-Rémy near Arles, France, where Van Gogh was voluntarily a patient from May 1889 to May 1890. The works were inspired by the view from the window at the asylum towards the Alpilles mountains.
The painting depicts golden fields of ripe wheat, a dark fastigiate Provençal cypress towering like a green obelisk to the right and lighter green olive trees in the middle distance, with hills and mountains visible behind, and white clouds swirling in an azure sky above. The first version was painted in late June or early July 1889, during a period of frantic painting and shortly after Van Gogh completed The Starry Night, at a time when he was fascinated by the cypress. It is likely to have been painted "en plein air", near the subject, when Van Gogh was able to leave the precincts of the asylum. Van Gogh regarded this work as one of his best summer paintings. In a letter to his brother, Theo, written on 2 July 1889, Vincent described the painting: "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a thick impasto like the Monticelli's, and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme heat, very thick too."
Van Gogh had to take time off painting in order to deal with some severe problems due to mental illness in late July and early August, but was able to resume painting in late August and early September 1889. After making a reed-pen drawing of the work, now held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, he copied the composition twice in oils in his studio, one approximately the same size and a smaller version. The larger studio version was probably painted in a single sitting, with a few minor later adjustments adding touches of yellow and brown. Van Gogh sketched out the design with charcoal underdrawing; he applied thin paint on the cypress trees and sky, with the ground allowed to show in places, and thick impasto for the foreground wheat and the clouds above. Characteristically, he preferred the brilliant white of zinc white (zinc oxide) for the white clouds rather than lead white, despite its poor drying qualities, with his palette also including cobalt blue for the sky, shades of chrome yellow for the wheat field, viridian and emerald green for the bushes and cypresses, and touches of vermilion for the poppies in the foreground and also synthetic ultramarine. The July "plein air" version was much more heavily worked, and may be considered a study for the more considered September studio painting. He sent the smaller and less accomplished studio version to his mother and sister as a gift.
Vincent sent the larger July and September versions to his brother in Paris later in September 1889. The July version was sold by Theo's widow in 1900 to artist Émile Schuffenecker. It passed through the hands of collector Alexandre Berthier and art dealer Paul Cassirer in Paris, where it was first exhibited and photographed at Galerie Eugène Druet in November 1909. It was sold to banker Franz von Mendelssohn (1865–1935) in Berlin in 1910 and remained with the Mendelssohn family in Germany and Switzerland until it was sold to industrialist Emil Bührle in Zurich in 1952. His son, Dieter Bührle, bought the painting in 1993, and subsequently donated it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, for $57 million using funds donated by publisher, diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg.
The National Gallery in London holds a similar version painted in Van Gogh's studio in September 1889, bought with the Courtauld Fund in 1923. It is unlined, and was never varnished or waxed.
The third smaller version is held by a private collection (sold at Sotheby's in London in 1970; in the US in 1987).
It was a grand temple which will have erection, branch temple 18, and temple territory 500 stones by the hand of the way Hisashi Showa of south capital Gangoji by Emperor Kotoku's command in white pheasant 5 (654 years).Nobunaga Oda contributes black seal impression 50 stone and forest 500,000m2as the chip box of worship, and a temple of omen protection of kiyosu castle in Eiroku 8 (1565). Togugawa Period also continued having a temple territory.It has area 330,000?m2(100,000 tsubos) now.All approaches are the Tokai nature trails. The precincts-of-a-temple whole region is Hida-Kisogawa Quasi-National Park.
I Jakko-in was taken a walk and the photograph of the autumnal leaves of autumn and the rows of houses around Nagoya was taken.
Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode, also known as Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode, also known as --
Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
The fortified evangelical church of Valchid was built in the 14th century, on the site of a much older Romanesque basilica.
Situated on a small tributary of Târnave Mari, the settlement of Valchid owes its first documentary mention to a conflict of 1345 in which the peasants from Valchid were interrogated in the process of robbing the Saxons from Curciu and other villages belonging to the neighboring localities, the Nou Sasesc and Roandola. .
The church is long and narrow, surrounded by ten buttresses erected specially to support the walls of the hall. The enclosure has a gray-yellow color, a color given by the reddish-brown sandstone from which it is built. The walls were dated to the beginning of the 16th century.
The watchtowers are located in the middle of the sides of the walls, the watchtower continuing on their façades. This is completely different from most fortified churches that have towers usually located at the corners of the precincts. The main portal on which a finely carved embrasure is seen, similar to the western portal of the evangelical church in Sibiu, is located on the blackened facade of smoke on the west side of the church. The church itself was never fortified, due to the height of the curtains of about 10 meters which led to the deterrent of the attackers.
The original vault of the ship was destroyed by the 1916 earthquake and was replaced by with a baroque vaulted vault that shows the ornaments in the stucco, with double arches. The boys' grandstand built in the west was built in the 19th century and was renovated in 1922 when another grandstand supported by two brick arches was erected along the north wall.
location : Kyoyochi Pond ,Ryoanji temple ,UNESCO World Heritage Site , Kyoto city , Kyoto Prefecture ,Japan
京都 龍安寺 鏡容池
Kyoyochi means "Mirror shaped" in Japanese
Kyoyochi Pond located on the left of the precincts is a kind of the Chisen Kaiyu style garden 池泉回遊式庭園 ,a style of Japanese garden with a path around a central pond.
This pond was made in the late 12th century,and has been very famous for the beauty of lotuses and ducks since then.
Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode, also known as --
Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Emperor Kameyama established it in 1291 on the site of his previous detached palace. It is also the headquarters of the Nanzen-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. The precincts of Nanzen-ji are a nationally designated Historic Site and the Hōjō gardens a Place of Scenic Beauty.
Nanzen-ji (南禅寺 Nanzen-ji), or Zuiryusan Nanzen-ji, formerly Zenrin-ji (禅林寺 Zenrin-ji), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Emperor Kameyama established it in 1291 on the site of his previous detached palace. It is also the headquarters of the Nanzen-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. The precincts of Nanzen-ji are a nationally designated Historic Site and the Hōjō gardens a Place of Scenic Beauty. (Wikipedia)
It was a grand temple which will have erection, branch temple 18, and temple territory 500 stones by the hand of the way Hisashi Showa of south capital Gangoji by Emperor Kotoku's command in white pheasant 5 (654 years).Nobunaga Oda contributes black seal impression 50 stone and forest 500,000m2as the chip box of worship, and a temple of omen protection of kiyosu castle in Eiroku 8 (1565). Togugawa Period also continued having a temple territory.It has area 330,000?m2(100,000 tsubos) now.All approaches are the Tokai nature trails. The precincts-of-a-temple whole region is Hida-Kisogawa Quasi-National Park.
I Jakko-in was taken a walk and the photograph of the autumnal leaves of autumn and the rows of houses around Nagoya was taken.
Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode, also known as --
Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
A bit of everything in this one: opera house, bridge, luna park North Sydney etc. Taken from Mrs Macquaries Chair/Royal Botanical Gardens. Vivid had started so you can see one boat in the front lit up....
www.vividsydney.com/event/light/harbour-lights
Harbour Lights
Many harbour vessels will be illuminated by 32 Hundred Lighting using brilliant LED lights that change colour as the vessels travel into different harbour zones. Computer-controlled using Intel Galileo boards, these ‘colour precincts’ will create a dazzling spectacle when viewed from the harbour foreshore.
Participating vessels are Sydney's First Fleet Ferries, Oz Jet Boating, Sydney Princess Cruises, Sensational Sydney Cruises, the Australian Cruise Group, Tribal Warrior, Captain Cook Cruises, Manly Fast Ferries and Aussie Legend Cruises.
A modern khachkar in the precincts of St Gayane Church in Armenia's religious capital, Etchmiadzin; this is north-west of the church.
A khachkar is a carved, memorial stele bearing a cross, and often with additional motifs such as rosettes, interlaces, and botanical motifs.
The most common khachkar feature is a cross surmounting a rosette or a solar disc. The remainder of the stone face is typically filled with elaborate patterns of leaves, grapes, pomegranates, and bands of interlace. Occasionally a khachkar is surmounted by a cornice sometimes containing biblical or saintly figures, although this is less common as the art form developed in response to Armenia’s long period being ruled by Muslim powers who were sceptical towards or outright forbad the depiction of human figures.
Saint Gayane Church (Armenian: Սուրբ Գայանե եկեղեցի or Surb Gayane) is a 7th Century Armenian church in Etchmiadzin, the religious center of Armenia. Located just south of the perimeter of the large precincts that belong to Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of Armenia. It was originally built in 630, and its design has remained unchanged despite partial renovations of the dome and some ceilings in 1652.
It is part of the ‘Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots’ UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It was built on the site of an existing shrine to the eponymous nun and martyr at the spot where she is said to have been killed by King Tiridates III of Armenia in 301, during the events that led to the country’s conversion to Christianity.
It consists of a three-nave domed basilica with an octagonal drum resting on four internal pillars that divide the interior of the church into three naves. At the eastern wall of the church's interior is a semicircular apse with a rectangular chamber at either side.
An airy, triple-arched portico was added to the western façade of the church in 1683 as the burial place for prominent Armenian clergymen. It is situated in a substantial external courtyard surrounded by thick and sometimes ornately carved walls.
The Tibetan horn or dungchen (Tibetan: དུང་ཆེན།, Wylie: dung chen, ZYPY: tungqên; Mongolian: hiidiin buree; is a long trumpet or horn used in Tibetan Buddhist and Mongolian buddhist ceremonies. It is the most widely used instrument in Tibetan Buddhist culture. It is often played in pairs or multiples, and the sound is compared to the singing of elephants. Tsultrim Allione described the sound:
It is a long, deep, whirring, haunting wail that takes you out somewhere beyond the highest Himalaya peaks and at the same time back into your mother's womb. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_horn
Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་།
Founding (1580) •Religious Sect > Geluk དགའ་ལྡན་ཐུབ་ཆེན་ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་། > dga' ldan thub chen chos 'khor gling > Ganden Tupchen Chökhor Ling > ལི་ཐང་དགོན། > li thang dgon > Litang Gön Litang Chode, also known as --
Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was founded in 1580 by the third Dalai Lama, and rebuilt recently in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, under the guidance of Litang Kyabgon Tulku Palden Dorje and Shodruk Tulku. The reconsecration was carried out in conjunction with the Litang Horse Festival in July 1996. Entering the main gate from the town, there are five main buildings within the precincts of the monastery. The assembly hall known as Jamchen Chokhorling and the Shakya Tubpa Podrang occupy the centre, to the left a large four storey Tsongkhapa Lhakhang and higher up the hill are the temples Serkhang Nyingba and Lhakhang Karpo. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Nikko Toshogu is a Shinto shrine situated in Nikko, Tochigi . The shrine was listed in 1999 as a World Heritage site. It is the mausoleum of Ieyasu Tokugawa, who founded the Tokugawa Shogunate in early 17th century . The original temple was rebuilt into the spectacular complex by the third Shogun Iemitsu in 1636 to demonstrate the power of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The buildings in the precincts are world-famous for an abundance of colorful and elaborate sculptures depicting plants and animals as well as imaginary creatures.