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Piazza del Popolo - Roma
Domes & Helmets
Technical notes: Minolta CLE with Voigtlander Nokton 40mm MC F1.4 on film. Digitised with a Nikon Coolscan V Ed (LS-50) + VueScan.
100% Natural Pigments/Homemade Paints, Tanned Goat Hide,Foraged/Found Materials on Wall.
Ibrahimpasa Village, TURKEY 2012
Der Kuss der Sphinx:
Die Sphinx ist eine tolle Frau
mit Loewenweibchen-Koerperbau.
Sieht sie eine stolze Loewenmaehne,
fletscht sie gleich luestern ihre Zaehne,
benutzt recht gern die Krallen auch,
am Ruecken fest, mehr sanft am Bauch,
doch schaetzt sie auch den Kurzhaarschnitt,
man nennt das Loewenfraufehltritt.
Sie wird sich selbst noch freudvoll paaren,
mit Maennchen gaenzlich ohne Haaren,
dabei zeigt stolz sie ihren Ruecken,
und laesst sich fauchend so begluecken.
Nur Dummheit mag die Sphinx gar nicht,
da wird der Mann für sie zum Wicht,
den sie verspeist mit Haut und Haaren,
ganz ohne Chance sich zu paaren.
Sie gibt uns manches Raetsel auf,
in ihrem bunten Lebenslauf.
Ihr Maenner, koennt ihr es nicht loesen,
seid ihr für sie nur noch gewesen.
Ich verrat euch hier die ganze Kunst,
wie ihr gewinnt der Sphingen Gunst.
In ihrem Geiste muesst ihr lesen,
tief in der Seele liegt ihr Wesen,
dort ruht die Sphingen Raetselloesung.
Ich bin heut Nacht bei ihr gewesen,
und konnte manches Raetsel loesen,
doch anders als einst Oedipus,
statt Tod, wollt ich den Sphingenkuss.
ernst raser 10.01.2009
Moro-sphinx - Macroglossum stellatarum - Hummingbird hawk-moth
Le Moro-sphinx est une espèce paléarctique de lépidoptères de la famille des Sphingidae.
Bien qu’appartenant à une famille de papillons nocturnes, le moro-sphinx a des mœurs diurnes.
Appelé aussi Sphinx colibri ou Sphinx du caille-lait, ce papillon est connu pour leur faculté à butiner en vol stationnaire à la manière des oiseaux-mouches. En action, les ailes battent si rapidement qu'elles sont presque invisibles.
Ce petit papillon au grand corps trapu possède une très longue trompe qui lui permet de butiner le nectar des fleurs que les autres insectes ne peuvent atteindre. Le dessus des ailes antérieures est brun beige et celui des ailes postérieures est orangé.
On le rencontre dans toute l’Europe et l’Afrique du Nord, notamment les endroits ensoleillés, secs, et les jardins. L’espèce est d'ailleurs plus abondante les années chaudes.
Avec 2 générations par an, ce migrateur peut voyager sur de longues distances et traverser toute l'Europe, avec une vitesse pouvant aller jusqu'à 55 km/h.
Je trouve ce papillon fascinant : il est comme un hybride entre un colibri, un papillon de nuit et un papillon de jour.
Head of the Sphinx in front of the pyramid of Khafre. In the New Kingdom, the Sphinx was associated with the sun-god Hor-em-akhet or "Horus-at-the-Horizon".
This is a White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata). They are also called the Hummingbird Moth. There were several of them feeding on the Giant Hyssops flowers (Agastache cana) here in the Chatfield Farms section of the Denver Botanic Gardens in Littleton, Colorado on this day.
Literature indicates that they feed near the end of the day, but we saw them in early afternoon.
As adults, they locate flowers for the nectar using both their olfactory and visual senses. They procure the nectar using their long proboscis.
Montfort-l'Amaury - 2020
my website: the street as it is
L'oiseau-mouche, vif et surprenant avec sa trompe démesurée qui lui permet d’aspirer le nectar au plus profond des corolles.
Ennery Val d'Oise 06-18
Nikon D610
En voir plus sur les Insectes via mon site : www.didiermasse.com/-/galleries/animaux/insectes
Representation of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, as a sphinx located in Gilgal Garden.
Gilgal Sculpture Garden is a small public city park, located at 749 East 500 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The park, which is filled with unusual symbolic statuary associated with Mormonism, notably to the Sphinx with Joseph Smith's head, was a labor of love designed and created by LDS businessman Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. (1888-1963) in his spare time. The park contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems and literary texts. Gilgal Sculpture Garden is the only designated "visionary art environment" in the state of Utah.
The name "Gilgal" is sometimes translated to mean "circle of standing stones," an appropriate appellation for a sculpture garden. Gilgal is also the name of a city and a valley in The Book of Mormon, a sacred scripture in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. -- Courtesy Wikipedia
The Sphinx is the best-known sculpture in Gilgal Garden. It is also, Child wrote “the basis of thought or inspiration for all that is built around it.” The contrast of the unhewn stones arranged to suggest a crouching animal with the finely carved face of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith makes this a remarkable piece. Child carefully selected the huge quartzite stones to form the Sphinx’s body and hired sculptor Maurice Brooks to create the face using an oxyacetylene torch.
The Sphinx represents Child’s belief that the answers to life’s great questions cannot be discovered with the intellect, but only through faith. The sphinx is an ancient symbol of riddles and mystery. Joseph Smith’s face symbolizes Child’s conviction that the LDS Priesthood reveals to mankind the answers to life’s mysteries.
To see more of this quirky but fascinating sculpture garden check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/721777203075209...
The paws of the Sphinx are 15 metres (50 feet) long and have been restored many times over the course of the Sphinx's long life.
To celebrate artist Fernanco Botero's 90th birthday his sculpture Sphinx is on display in the Meatpacking District
One of two Sphinx (and half a moon) on along the wall at Chatsworth.
A couple more shots in the comment below.
Hyles lineata, the white-lined sphinx moth usually called a hummingbird moth, nectaring on an unlabeled flower at the Wildflower Center Austin.
Egypt-1971
In 1971 I participated in a mission trip that took me around the world. On that trip I took pictures with a point and shoot camera using 35 mm slide film. I recently had the slides digitized to use in a blog series about the trip. With more adjustments I am posting some of the better photos here. If you would like to see more photos check out the articles in the series "Around the World on a Mission" at Batteredsuitcase.net
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a giant 4,500-year-old limestone statue situated near the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. Measuring 73 meters long and 20 meters high, the Great Sphinx is one of the world’s largest monuments. It is also one of the most recognizable relics of the ancient Egyptians, though the origins and history of the colossal.
A sphinx is a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human, with some variations. It is a prominent mythological figure in Egyptian, Asian, and Greek mythology.
In ancient Egypt, the sphinx was a spiritual guardian and most often depicted as a male with a pharaoh headdress and figures of the creatures were often included in tomb and temple complexes.
Enjoying the Black Eyed Susan Vine as the sun is going down..
Many Thanks for stopping in, I always appreciate your visit!! Big hugs♥
Last weekend I visited the area of Huizen, where 5 residential buildings with in total 65 apartments called the Sphinxes are situated on the waterline. I've seen some beautiful sunsets from this place here on Flickr. But I was there in the morning. So my plan was to use a circular polariser and a ND filter to create a dreamy mood. This is how it turned out...
Enjoy!
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Ilford SFX 200
Redfilter
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