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Shame about the damage to its face. It's an amazing thing to behold. Don't know what sort of bird is tagging along for the ride.

The butt end of the sphinx, look how close Cairo has crept

So yeah, I recently received Rocka and was in love with the amazing parts, so I knew I had to do SOMETHING with them. 'Tis a shame I didn't get Tarix cause it would be much easier, but what's building without a challenge? So the idea of this is to make a Sphinx-like version of Rocka.

 

Also my camera refuses to take a focused pic :(

Kairo/Egypt (2010)

Out of bounds image using a photo of the Sphinx taken in Egypt 2008

 

If you have a moment take a look at my newly updated website www.lucyhillphotography.com

 

(thanks to lomokev for lending me the camera!)

Seated female sphinx

3rd century BC, from Massafra (Apulia).

MNC 17.

 

A Siren

3rd century BC, Apulian production?

Cp 4571

 

Louvre Museum

This small sphinx found in Memphis is a minature of the larger sphinx in Giza, Egypt.

Sphinx (obviously) in the rain (obviously).

 

Had the chance to spend a few days in London last spring while J was there for work.

 

If there's anything better than wandering through London for a day with a camera and a few dollars/pounds in your pocket, I don't know what it is.

 

Tried to add some grain to this shot with Silver eFex. I love the combo of the ancient sphinxy-ness with the Victorian (I think) serpent light poles with the surreally large London merry-go-up-and-down with the way cool, way delicate bridge supports.

 

In other words, I love London and the way so much comes together there at the same time.

This Sphinx Moth was sucking the nectar out of one of my Fragrant Evening Primroses(Oenothera fragrans) in my flower garden. This is what all the beauty and fragrance of flowers is all about, seducing a pollenator to stop by, get a little nectar, and unknowingly pollinate them. Flower sex in action.

This is the biggest sphinx.

Parc de l'arquebuse à Dijon

Detail of decoration for a silver vase

V&A

Made of D-toys magnetic geometric shapes: www.dtoys.ro/forme-geometrice.html

 

Chenille mature de Sphinx du pin (Sphinx pinastri, Sphingidae, Sphinginae, Sphingini) trouvée en phase mobile prépupation. L'animal semble passablement maigre pour cette phase, mais a refusé toute nourriture et s'est enterré dès qu'il avait eu de la terre à disposition.

A 13th century BC sphinx reflected in a mirror - Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy.

Of the luxurious Siphnian treasury, another rich island of the Cyclades, Naxos, sends a grandiose offering to Apollo of Delphi: the statue of the mythical Sphinx. It was seated on the capital of a very tall Ionic column, regarded as the oldest element in the Ionic order at Delphi.

Delphi Museum, Greece.

The Sphinx in front of the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas.

The Sphinx is a 110-foot (34 m)-tall re-creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza.

 

December 29, 2011

 

Camera Canon EOS 50D

Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)

Aperture f/6.7

Focal Length 31 mm

ISO Speed 100

Exposure Bias -1/2 EV

 

Morning sun on the Sphinx and Pyramid of Khafre

   

Sphinx and the second pyramid at Giza

A clay sphinx, an incense-burner.

From the offering ditch at Kerameikos. 660-650 BC.

y/XI/VI

 

Museum of Kerameikos, Athens.

The clearance of the Luxor Sphinxes.

I'm told the buildings to the right are soon to go!

Sphinx helped me clear out the Hermit crab tank of the bristle worm invasion today, he was very helpful and sat in the sink after, like you do !

Sad sphinx on a cold grey day in Crystal Palace.

Agfa APX 100 in Rodinal 1:50

The sphinx guarding the pyramids.

Le moro sphinx ou sphinx colibri ou sphinx du caille-lait (Macroglossum stellatarum) est un insecte appartenant à l'ordre des lépidoptères, de la famille des Sphingidae. C'est une des rares espèces diurnes de sa famille. Le moro sphinx possède une très longue trompe pour butiner les fleurs, souvent violettes ou blanches, en vol stationnaire comme les oiseaux-mouches. Il butine généralement le nectar des fleurs que les autres insectes ne peuvent atteindre. Il aime la sauge. Son vol est d'une précision et d'une rapidité peu communes.

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a statue of a reclining lion with a human head that stands on the Giza Plateau in Giza on the west bank of the Nile, near modern-day Cairo, in Egypt. It is the largest monolith statue in the world.

 

Will you answer its riddle?

Sphinx and London Eye

Italic, Etruscan, Archaic Period, about 560 B.C.

Nenfro

 

and a 40 year old motorcycle jacket.

Sphinx ligustri

/ Ligustersværmer /

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