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Richmond Beach Park in Shoreline, Washington. Joining a lot of area's in using Goat's for getting rid of BlackBerry vine's and overgrowth.
Set off on foot yesterday late afternoon with just 45 minutes or so remaining on the daylight clock. Wanted to be outside as the sky began the transition from daytime to nightfall. We're a couple weeks past the winter solstice, and the sun is now setting noticeably (though not significantly) later. The twilight phase is still dramatically short in comparison to summer. Even after all these years, it is still exhilarating to witness the process unfolding, to literally watch as night descends upon the village. In those moments, everything changes, light, shadow, backlighting, color...and it all feels simultaneous and continuous. Familiar scenes can take on weird appearances. A dramatic scene pops up right before you then vanishes within seconds, all because the lighting changed. I love the energy of these moments and find it a great time to shoot. It's a very impulsive time for me; I'm looking here, suddenly I'm distracted and looking over there. I seldom remain in one spot for more than a minute or so. I prefer to keep moving and adapting. What attracted me to this scene was the sense of silhouetting. Put me in mind of a cutout, like paper dolls. My visual sense of depth perception seems to fade with the daylight. Space is compressed as the foreground texture is lost. There's a sense of simplification as all that remains is light and dark.
Introduced to the LMS by Henry Ivatt after WWII, the 4MT design eschewed elaborate curved designs for an economical and maintenance-friendly - some might say, ugly - simplified design wtih high running boards. Albeit built to an order placed by the LMS, this locomotive was actually built well into the British Railways era at the former LNER Darlington Works, entering service in 1951. The Ivatt 4MT, or "Flying Pig" as it's nicknamed, was one of the first locos to arrive on the fledgling Severn Valley Railway in 1968, arriving under its own steam and taking part in the official opening in 1970.
The Severn Valley Railway runs through some spectacular scenery in the British Midlands as it follows the Severn River between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth. Stations along the line have been restored in spectacular fashion, such as this example at Hampton Loade.
Feilai Feng, or "the Peak that Flew Hither", also commonly translated as "Flying Peak" (Traditional Chinese: 飛來峰石窟; Simplified Chinese:飞来峰石窟), is located in front of the temple proper. The peak is so-named because it is made of limestone, giving it a craggy appearance very different from the surrounding mountains. Legend holds that the peak was originally from India (with some versions suggesting that it is Vulture Peak), but flew to Hangzhou overnight as a demonstration of the omnipotence of Buddhist law. A large number of grottoes can be found on the peak, such as Qinglin Grotto, Yuru Grotto and Longhong Grotto. Many rock reliefs dot the peak surface, and more are located in the various caves and grottoes throughout the peak. Within the main cave, dedicated to the bodhisattva Guanyin, there is a crack in the ceiling of the cave that stretches up to the surface, so that a person standing at a certain position can see a sliver of sunlight. This is known as the "one thread of heaven" (Traditional Chinese: 一線天; Simplified Chinese: 一线天; Pinyin: Yīxiàn Tiān).
The stone carvings on Feilai Feng are located in an area measuring 600 meters long and 200 meters wide. In total, there are 153 shrines and more than 470 pieces of carvings, among which 338 are relatively well-preserved, 96 carvings from the Yuan Dynasty as well as several from the Ming Dynasty.
Around 11 carvings date to the late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. These carvings dot the top of the peak and the mouth of Qinglin Grotto and they all prominently feature the “Three Saints of the West”, which refers to the triad of Amitābha Buddha and the Bodhisattvas Guanyin and Mahasthamaprapta from Pure Land Buddhism.
A total of 222 carvings were produced in the Northern Song Dynasty period, which feature a diverse range of Buddhist figures including the Six Patriarchs of Chan (or Zen) Buddhism, various arhats, Bodhisattvas and Buddhas such as Vairocana. One of the more prominent carvings from this period is a shrine to Budai, a monk who is traditionally regarded as an incarnation of Maitreya, surrounded by the Eighteen Arhats. This shrine stands at 3.6 meters high and 9.9 meters long, making it the largest shrine on Feilai Feng.
Most of the nearly 100 carvings produced during the Yuan Dynasty are located on the southern bank of Lengquan Stream and on the cliff near Qinglin Grotto and Yuru Grotto. The carvings from this period resembles the art styles of the Tang and Song dynasties, while also reflecting influences from Tibetan and Mongolian art.
www.viajeachina.com/atracciones-de-hangzhou/templo-lingyi...
www.thechinaguide.com/es/sight/lingyin-temple
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin_Temple
Feilai Feng, o "el pico que voló hasta aquí", también traducido comúnmente como "pico volador" (chino tradicional: 飛來峰石窟; chino simplificado:飞来峰石窟), está situado frente al templo propiamente dicho. El pico se llama así porque está hecho de piedra caliza, lo que le da un aspecto escarpado muy diferente del de las montañas circundantes. La leyenda sostiene que el pico era originario de la India (algunas versiones sugieren que se trata del Pico del Buitre), pero voló a Hangzhou de la noche a la mañana como demostración de la omnipotencia de la ley budista. En la cima hay un gran número de grutas, como la Gruta Qinglin, la Gruta Yuru y la Gruta Longhong. Numerosos relieves rocosos salpican la superficie de la cima, y hay más en las diversas cuevas y grutas que la recorren. En la cueva principal, dedicada al bodhisattva Guanyin, hay una grieta en el techo que se extiende hasta la superficie, de modo que una persona situada en una determinada posición puede ver un resquicio de luz solar. Esto se conoce como "el hilo del cielo" (chino tradicional: 一線天; chino simplificado: 一线天; pinyin: Yīxiàn Tiān).
Las tallas de piedra de Feilai Feng se encuentran en un área de 600 metros de largo y 200 metros de ancho. En total, hay 153 santuarios y más de 470 tallas, de las que 338 están relativamente bien conservadas, 96 tallas de la dinastía Yuan y varias de la dinastía Ming.
Unas 11 tallas datan de finales de la Dinastía Tang y del Periodo de las Cinco Dinastías y los Diez Reinos. Estas tallas salpican la cima del pico y la boca de la gruta de Qinglin y en todas ellas destacan los "Tres Santos de Occidente", que hacen referencia a la tríada del Buda Amitābha y los bodhisattvas Guanyin y Mahasthamaprapta del budismo de la Tierra Pura.
En el periodo de la dinastía Song del Norte se produjeron un total de 222 tallas, en las que aparecen diversas figuras budistas, como los Seis Patriarcas del budismo chan (o zen), varios arhats, bodhisattvas y budas como Vairocana. Una de las tallas más destacadas de este periodo es un santuario dedicado a Budai, un monje que tradicionalmente se considera una encarnación de Maitreya, rodeado de los Dieciocho Arhats. Este santuario mide 3,6 metros de alto y 9,9 metros de largo, lo que lo convierte en el más grande de Feilai Feng.
La mayoría de las casi 100 tallas producidas durante la Dinastía Yuan se encuentran en la orilla sur del arroyo Lengquan y en el acantilado cercano a la Gruta Qinglin y la Gruta Yuru. Las tallas de este periodo se asemejan a los estilos artísticos de las dinastías Tang y Song, aunque también reflejan influencias del arte tibetano y mongol.
First of my drawing illustrations. I only started practicing drawing couple of months a go but I liked this one.
Lake on the Historic Carl Sandburg Property in Flat Rock, North Carolina. added a little Topaz Simplify
"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think." Eleanor Roosevelt
sure i can paint!! ;-) sorry I put too much coolant in the water..haha ;-p
Large in black bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=3197213306&size...
Lingyin Temple (simplified Chinese: 灵隐寺; traditional Chinese: 靈隱寺; pinyin: Língyǐn Sì) is a Buddhist temple of the Chan sect located north-west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The temple's name is commonly translated into English as Temple of the Soul's Retreat, which is a literal translation of the Chinese. It is one of the largest and wealthiest Buddhist temples in China, and contains numerous pagodas and Buddhist grottoes.
The monastery is the largest of several temples in the Wulin Mountains (Chinese: 武林山; Pinyin: Wǔlínshān), which also features many grottos and religious rock carvings, the most famous of which is the Feilai Feng (Traditional Chinese: 飛來峰石窟; Simplified Chinese:飞来峰石窟; literally: "the peak that flew hither").
According to tradition, the monastery was founded in 328 AD during the Eastern Jin dynasty (266–420) by an Indian monk, named Huili in Chinese. From its inception, Lingyin was a famous monastery in the Jiangnan region.
During the Cultural Revolution, the temple and grounds suffered damage at the hands of red guards, but the students of Zhejiang University tried to protect the temple. The temple managed to avoid large scale destruction partly because of the instructions of Premier Zhou Enlai.
Today the temple is thriving as a destination for both pilgrims and tourists. It is regarded as one of the wealthiest monasteries in China, and regular pilgrims have included former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.
The Wuling Mountains area is a major centre of Chan Buddhism in south-eastern China. A number of smaller temples are also located in the area. Today, Lingyin and the surrounding areas are marketed as the Lingyin-Feilai Feng Scenic Area, with ticketed admission.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin_Temple
www.viajeachina.com/atracciones-de-hangzhou/templo-lingyi...
www.thechinaguide.com/es/sight/lingyin-temple
El templo de Lingyin (chino simplificado: 灵隐寺; chino tradicional: 靈隱寺; pinyin: Língyǐn Sì) es un templo budista de la secta Chan situado al noroeste de Hangzhou, en la provincia china de Zhejiang. El nombre del templo se traduce comúnmente al inglés como Temple of the Soul's Retreat (Retiro del Templo del Alma), que es una traducción literal del chino. Es uno de los templos budistas más grandes y ricos de China, y contiene numerosas pagodas y grutas budistas.
El monasterio es el mayor de varios templos de las montañas Wulin (chino: 武林山; pinyin: Wǔlínshān), que también cuenta con numerosas grutas y tallas religiosas en la roca, la más famosa de las cuales es el Feilai Feng (chino tradicional: 飛來峰石窟; chino simplificado:飞来峰石窟; literalmente: "el pico que voló hasta aquí").
Según la tradición, el monasterio fue fundado en el año 328 d.C. durante la dinastía Jin Oriental (266-420) por un monje indio, llamado Huili en chino. Desde sus inicios, Lingyin fue un famoso monasterio de la región de Jiangnan.
Durante la Revolución Cultural, el templo y sus terrenos sufrieron daños a manos de los guardias rojos, pero los estudiantes de la Universidad de Zhejiang intentaron protegerlo. El templo logró evitar la destrucción a gran escala en parte gracias a las instrucciones del primer ministro Zhou Enlai.
En la actualidad, el templo prospera como destino tanto para peregrinos como para turistas. Está considerado uno de los monasterios más ricos de China, y entre sus peregrinos habituales se encuentra el antiguo líder supremo Deng Xiaoping.
La zona de las montañas Wuling es un importante centro del budismo Chan en el sureste de China. En la zona también hay varios templos más pequeños. En la actualidad, Lingyin y sus alrededores se comercializan como Zona Escénica de Lingyin-Feilai Feng, con entrada.
I was recently updating some of my Topaz filters and was looking through the presets in the Topaz Simplify filter. I decided to try out the "Painting" presets on a view of St Martin's Bay taken during a recent trip to Barbados. I liked the result so have decided to post it.
El Templo del Buda de Jade es un templo budista de la ciudad de Shanghái en la República Popular China. El templo original fue construido en el año 1882 y contiene dos estatuas de Buda realizadas en jade.
Durante la dinastía Qing, un monje de nombre Hui Gen realizó un viaje de peregrinación al Tíbet. De regreso a China, el monje paró en Birmania; ahí, un emigrante chino le regaló cinco estatuas de jade que representaban a Buda. Hui Gen construyó un templo para albergar las estatuas gracias a los donativos que recibió. Sin embargo, el templo original fue ocupado en 1911 y las estatuas, y el templo, se trasladaron a su ubicación actual desde 1928.
En el Gran Salón de la Magnificencia se encuentran tres estatuas que muestran a Buda en diferentes formas: Amitābha, Siddhartha Gautama y el Buda de la medicina. Están representados también los veinte arhats, guardianes del budismo, representados en dos grupos de nueve. El salón es el centro de las oraciones y en él se celebran múltiples ceremonias.
La Cámara del Buda del Jade contiene una imagen de Buda sentado; pesa 3 toneladas y mide 1,95 metros. Otra sala contiene la figura del Buda de Jade reclinado que representa la muerte de Buda. En la actualidad, el templo contiene también una imagen de Buda reclinado donada por Singapur que no debe confundirse con la original.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templo_del_Buda_de_Jade
The Jade Buddha Temple (simplified Chinese: 玉佛禅寺; traditional Chinese: 玉佛禪寺; pinyin: Yùfó Chán Sì; Shanghainese: Niohveh Zoe Zy, literally Jade Buddha Chan Temple) is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Myanmar by sea. These were a sitting Buddha (1.95 meters tall, 3 tons), and a smaller reclining Buddha representing the Buddha's death. The temple now also contains a much larger reclining Buddha made of marble, donated from Singapore, and visitors may mistake this larger sculpture for the original, smaller piece.
The legend behind the transport of the Buddha statues from Myanmar led to the popular usage of Burmese-style Buddha statues in Chinese temples.
A Buddhist monk by the name of Kechen later had a new temple built on land donated by Sheng Xuanhuai, a senior official in the Qing imperial court. Sheng's father and uncle were pious Buddhists. They built houses with thatched roofs at Yizhou Pond by the Zhuanghuabang River in the northeast of Shanghai. This can be accounted as the predecessor of the monastery. The construction took ten years, and lasted from 1918 to 1928. Kechen also invited Reverend Dixian from Mount Tiantai to come and lecture on Buddhism in a grand ceremony.
Master Taixu died in the Jade Buddha Temple on March 12, 1947.
The public can board various public buses including Route 16 and can take the Line 13 of the Shanghai Metro to Jiangning Road Station to arrive at the Jade Buddha Temple.
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Sunday...new week, start of a new work week. Hopefully also a week when I will once again start going to bed and getting up at reasonable times before I start resembling a Walking Dead character. I look forward to Sundays for my weekly horoscope from a couple different sources. In addition to my daily and weekly horoscopes that I truly do not believe, but am always amused by, I get my inspirational messages (my daily truths, my messages from the universe, you can say) delivered to my inbox (no wonder there are usually 10s of thousands of messages in my inbox...) So, every once in awhile (read: every other day) a message comes through that I know was written specifically to ME! I'm sure that the zillion other people that get these "personal" messages will just look at it and hit DELETE while I sit there and say "WOW... they nailed it... that's me...")
So there is this... a message that has been hitting me squarely in the face for some time now.... reinforced by friends and co-workers, and even hinted (ha! did I say HINTED? I was being kind!!) by you guys here....
"You can do amazing things with the simplest things. You can have so little and be so happy. You can take small amounts of time and perform life-changing acts.
Is it time to simplify? Is it time to pare your life down to the handful of things that mean the most to you, and let the rest go so that . . . you can give the very best of yourself to the very best things . . . instead of being spread in a too-thin layer all over the place?
Your heart knows when it's time, and you will have the strength to do it. And best of all you will see enormous changes happen in your life when you let the unimportant things go and embrace the things that quietly sustain you and bring you joy.
It may not look like the most glamorous life, but it is one filled with joy, peace and harmony . . . one where laughter is a welcome and frequent companion . . . one where worries are few and where long meaningful conversations are many . . . one that is waiting for you when you are ready to take the steps to get there.
Simplify today, one little thing at time. You can do it. "
Simplify? Yeah... I know it's over due. I can do it? Hmmmm.... not sure. It's hard. I'm trying.
(*sorry...sometimes I write these things as reminders to myself!When they are here, I know where to find them!)
The full name of this installation is
"The road to success is always under construction".
The bottom (green part) is a flexible spiral staircase. It is phantom, plus moving and shaking. Still I see how some brave souls attempt to climb it :)
The top is a very interesting construction. It has a simple visual form, very clear shape and color transformation. But it is loaded with some nasty math. The top 4 layers are 3-dimensional topological maps of geometrical principals.
Simplified idea of this math model is - perfection of incompleteness, inner harmony of instability. That is how I see Second life...
All done by hand and out of head. That is correct, no scripts :)
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Texture layer from les brumes, with many thanks.
www.flickr.com/photos/lesbrumes/3367879600/in/set-7215761...
The first image from a mini-series taken in the quiet back roads of Northamptonshire & Rutland. The great simplifiers (Snow & Mist) were in play, so I knew there would be images that are not normally obvious. As the back roads were pretty much single lane, where the farmers had ploughed a channel through, I ended up not being able to hang about anywhere too long. All the shots subsequently hand-held.
This is a simplified version of my Shamrock Tessellation. You can find the corresponding box with a single molecule at flic.kr/p/WQyELW
Tashkurgan (simplified Chinese: 塔什库尔干镇; traditional Chinese: 塔什庫爾干鎮; pinyin: Tǎshíkùěrgān Zhèn; Uyghur: تاشقۇرغان) is the principal town in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang, China.
Tashkurgan is a Uyghur name that means Stone Fortress or Stone Tower.
Tashkurgan has a long history as a stop on the Silk Road.
Major caravan routes converged here leading to Kashgar in the north, Karghalik to the east, Badakhshan and Wakhan to the west, and Chitral and Hunza to the southwest in Northern Areas of Pakistan.
t is situated at an altitude of 3,600 meters (11,811 ft).
The majority population in the town are ethnic Tajiks.
The majority of people in the region speak Sarikoli.
There is also a village of Wakhi speakers.
Chinese and Uyghur are also spoken.
Today Tashkurgan is on the Karakoram Highway which follows the old Silk Road route from China to Pakistan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkurgan_Town
タシュクルガンのタジク族の女の子。個性的でミステリアスな顔をしていた。緑色の瞳。