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Montfort-l'Amaury - 2020
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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.
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.
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.
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!
(do yourself a favour and click L for a full-screen)
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Leica M6 TTL
Voigtländer Ulrtron 21 mm f1.8 Aspherical
Ilford SFX 200
Redfilter
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Sphinx of Bucegi is an anthropomorphic megalith located at 2,216 m altitude. Sphinx origin of the name is due to its resemblance to a human head, namely the similarities Egyptian Sphinx, its formation is due to wind erosion (wind). Consisting of a large block of stone that has taken shape today in a very long time, Sphinx of Bucegi on the Bucegi plateau before measures 8 meters in height and 12 meters in width.
The day I went to see the pyramids, the area was almost completely void of people. It was special, and I won't ever get to experience the place like this again.
Picture taken at the beginning of March 2011, shortly after the Egyptian revolution.
Ensevelie sous des couches de sable au fil des siècles à Louxor, cette allée des sphinx, dite dromos, reliait les temples d'Amon et de Karnak sur près de 2,5 km. Nectanébo 1er, premier pharaon de la XXXème dynastie (-378-360 av. JC) fit remplacer ceux représentant Amenhotep III par des sphinx à son effigie. Mais il n'en reste aujourd'hui que les deux extrémités.
La première trace de l'allée a été trouvée en 1949 avec huit statues près du temple de Louxor. Dix-sept autres statues ont ensuite été mises au jour de 1958 à 1961 et cinquante-cinq de 1961 à 1964, toutes dans un périmètre de 250 m. À l'origine, l'avenue était bordée dans tout son long de 1 057 statues, dont 807 en forme de sphinx et 250 autres avec une tête en forme de bélier.
Celles-ci sont représentées sous trois formes. La première, érigée entre les temple de Karnak et temple de Mout pendant le règne du souverain Toutânkhamon, avait un corps de lion avec une tête de bélier. La seconde avait une statue de bélier complète, construite dans une zone éloignée pendant la XVIIIe dynastie d'Amenhotep III, avant d'être transférée plus tard dans le complexe de Karnak. La troisième comprenait la plus grande partie des statues avec un corps d'un lion et une tête d'homme et s'étendaient toutes jusqu'au temple de Louxor (cf. wikipédia).
The Great Sphinx was most likely built in approximately 2500 BC for the pharaoh Khafre, the builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza. Facing directly from West to East, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The Sphinx is a monolith carved into the bedrock of the plateau, which also served as the quarry for the pyramids and other monuments in the area. The nummulitic limestone of the area consists of layers which offer differing resistance to erosion (mostly caused by wind and windblown sand), leading to the uneven degradation apparent in the Sphinx's face and body.
~ bound and cursed, immortal - the oracle sphinx ~
Credits:
Pants: Gabriel - Wa Sarouel Kokuyou
Sleeves: Static - Count Longsleeves
Necklace: Minimal - Lio Necklace
Collar: Angelicus - Collar #26 Gold
Bracelets: Ysoral - Luxe Bracelet (full set)
Tattoo: GoK - Ael.los
Rope: Contraption - Saturn's Binds
Halo: Garmonbozia - Divinity Halo Eye 2
Crystal: This is wrong - Icy Temptation 17 (Gacha)
Ensevelie sous des couches de sable au fil des siècles à Louxor, cette allée des sphinx, dite dromos, reliait les temples d'Amon et de Karnak sur près de 2,5 km. Nectanébo 1er, premier pharaon de la XXXème dynastie (-378-360 av. JC) fit remplacer ceux représentant Amenhotep III par des sphinx à son effigie. Mais il n'en reste aujourd'hui que les deux extrémités.
La première trace de l'allée a été trouvée en 1949 avec huit statues près du temple de Louxor. Dix-sept autres statues ont ensuite été mises au jour de 1958 à 1961 et cinquante-cinq de 1961 à 1964, toutes dans un périmètre de 250 m. À l'origine, l'avenue était bordée dans tout son long de 1 057 statues, dont 807 en forme de sphinx et 250 autres avec une tête en forme de bélier.
Celles-ci sont représentées sous trois formes. La première, érigée entre les temple de Karnak et temple de Mout pendant le règne du souverain Toutânkhamon, avait un corps de lion avec une tête de bélier. La seconde avait une statue de bélier complète, construite dans une zone éloignée pendant la XVIIIe dynastie d'Amenhotep III, avant d'être transférée plus tard dans le complexe de Karnak. La troisième comprenait la plus grande partie des statues avec un corps d'un lion et une tête d'homme et s'étendaient toutes jusqu'au temple de Louxor (cf. wikipédia).