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Raijin
[LANEVO] SHINYAKURAIKO DRUM
"RAIJIN" (Thunder god) Drum NEW @ Japanese Horror event KAGAMI on February 19th
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The two wheels connected to the "WADAIKO" (Japanese drum turn).
The front wheel is drummed by a cracker and wooden rear wheels spin in the opposite direction of the front wheels.
And, cloth entwined around the wheels has a passage from an "KOJIKI" about the god of thunder written on it.
The single color version will have the left threefold tomoe markings on the small and large drums.
In the Fatpack version, the big drum and pellet drum are marked with Kanji.
The pellet drum is marked with Kanji that represent the eight human emotions.
The Kanji for "JINRAI" is written on the large drum, meaning
Fierce thunder.
If you are interested in learning more about the ”RAIJIN” and "KOJIKI","TOMOE", please refer to wikipedia.
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Raijin is said to kidnap and gobble up children who do not hide their belly buttons....word of warning.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qupswFhMCxI
[LANEVO] SHINYAKURAIKO DRUM
"RAIJIN" (Thunder god) Drum NEW @ Japanese Horror event KAGAMI on February 19th
Kagami2021 website
kagamicreation.wixsite.com/sl-kagami2021
Event Open : February 19, 2021
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hakoniwa/122/128/50
The two wheels connected to the "WADAIKO" (Japanese drum turn).
The front wheel is drummed by a cracker and wooden rear wheels spin in the opposite direction of the front wheels.
And, cloth entwined around the wheels has a passage from an "KOJIKI" about the god of thunder written on it.
The single color version will have the left threefold tomoe markings on the small and large drums.
In the Fatpack version, the big drum and pellet drum are marked with Kanji.
The pellet drum is marked with Kanji that represent the eight human emotions.
The Kanji for "JINRAI" is written on the large drum, meaning
Fierce thunder.
If you are interested in learning more about the ”RAIJIN” and "KOJIKI","TOMOE", please refer to wikipedia.
RAIJIN
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raijin
TOMOE
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoe
KOJIKI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojiki
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A fine tulip, with color variegation, perhaps due to somatic mutation. Tulip flowers are three-parted. The three-lobed stigma is clearly visible. There are three inner petals, and three outer sepals, looking just like the petals, except for their position.
Isn't God a great artist?
"Huis Verwolde", te Laren, The Netherlands
Huis Verwolde is a classicist nobleman's house from 1776 on the estate of the same name in the former municipality of Verwolde, northeast of Laren. Verwolde belongs since 1854 to Laren, which since 1971 belongs to the municipality of Lochem in the Dutch province of Gelderland. Despite the corner tower it is not a castle, but more a stately country house. It is one of the former recognized manors of the Kwartier Zutphen.
History
The earliest written record dates back to 1346 when Derck II van Keppel is the owner of Verwolde. In that year, Varenwolde was split off from Keppel by brotherhood, while it remained a loan from the Heeren van Keppel. Probably Verwolde was founded in the 12th century by one of the Lords of Keppel as a hunting lodge because of the wild environment. In 1182 Wolter I van Keppel is mentioned in connection with Verwolde. Derck III had his own fortified house built on the property.
Around 1500, the castle became involved in the political battle between the Heeckerens and Bronckhorsten, with Derck IV supporting the Heeckerens. In 1505, Duke Charles of Gelre took castle Verwolde because Derck IV of Keppel and Verwolde had broken the oath of allegiance to the Duke. Karel used the castle as a defense fortress on the border with the Oversticht, and placed a rhythm master with twenty men on the house. He had it thoroughly reinforced to a castle with canals and piles planted with thorn bushes. In 1510 it was attacked by the bishop of Utrecht Frederik van Baden with an army of 1600 horsemen and 300 foot soldiers, where the castle was demolished, the threefold canals were filled up and the walls were demolished.
In the 16th century a new house was built under the Van Keppels. In 1546 the Van Keppel van Verwolde family died in male line. Verwolde entrusted to the only daughter of Frederik van Keppel, Cunegonde van Keppel, who was married to Alart (de Cocq) van Haaften. The new castle was occupied by the Spaniards during the Eighty Years' War in 1583. A drawing from 1600 of the damaged complex shows that it consisted of a rectangular core surrounded by a polygonal ring wall with wall towers. Archaeological research from 2003 confirmed that the castle had a rectangular head castle of 34 by 37.5 meters, with a weather wall and a gatehouse, surrounded by two canals. Furthermore, there were a front castle of 17 by 35 meters and a few small buildings. The whole was moated with a third canal. In 1658 it came into the possession of the Ripperda family.
On May 30, 1738, Evert Jan Benjamin of Goltstein is leased - Verwolde was a loan from Keppel - with the 'house', which then was probably only a simple farmhouse, and a third of the glory Verwolde. He bought the house for his daughter Reiniera Charlotta from Goltstein and son-in-law Allard Philip van der Borch who was loaned on July 4, 1738. Van der Borch needed to be able to be published in the Knighthood of Zutphen. In 1772, his son and heir, Frederik Wilhelm van der Borch, bought the remaining two thirds of the glory of Assueer Jan Torck (1733-1793), Lord of Rosendael. Thus the glory came again in one hand.
Various renovations took place in the following centuries. In 1775, the then owner of the Verwolde glory, Frederik Willem van der Borch, decided to build a new house. The architect Philip Willem Schonck carried out this assignment in nine months. Schonck also designed the gardens for the estate. In 1926, the owner, Line baroness van der Borch of Verwolde-Voûte, lady of Verwolde (1887-1966), built a large corner tower, which gave the house a castle-like appearance. Also that year the house was completely modernized to the latest requirements of that time. During the Second World War, the baroness of the Hague Sanatorium was set up in the building in order to avoid occupation by the occupiers.
Museum
The house was sold to the Geldersche Kasteelen Foundation in 1977 by Allard Baron van der Borch of Verwolde (1926-2008). The former owner moved that same year to the hunter's house on the estate. Nowadays the youngest daughter Julie Baroness van der Borch of Verwolde lives with her husband Gijs Baron van Heemstra and their two children at the hunting lodge. She was 12 years old when she moved to the hunting lodge with her parents and is since 2011? back again.
After restoration of, among other things, the precious wallpaper in the Chinese room, the house has been in good condition since April 2012. The Geldersche Kasteelen Foundation has made the castle accessible to the public and has given it a museum function.
The garden and the forest of the estate are open to walkers. The rest is privately owned. By means of colored poles various routes have been set out that lead past monumental farms. A walk along the "Dikkeboompad" leads past the Dikke Boom, an ancient oak tree.
FOTF = Freestyle on the Fifth, a themed challenge of the FFF+ group. This month the theme is "Beauty in Decay".
This is my last post for today. I decided three photos in one day is more than enough. The decay here is threefold: the old spoon, which has many markings and some great patina on it; the old baking tray upon which it sits; and the little thingies which sit in the spoon.
I can't tell you what they are, except that they fell off some tiny little flowers which sit dying in a vase on my table. I think they were some kind of outside protection which cradled the petals. Not sure. But they are dried up, dead, yet they retain a sheen and some gorgeous colour which I thought was beautiful.
This was a summer day in Srinagar, where I saw this old Muslim man probably holding his grandchild in his lap, sitting outside the Hazratbal Shrine of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. His son sitting next to him waiting for the bus to arrive to take them to their destination. They look tired, but the old man has a slight smile while looking at the child.
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The flowers are in groups, supported by two large foliage-like, narrow, ciliate bracts. The hermaphrodite, radial-symmetrical flowers are threefold. The three overgrown sepals are 2 to 3 mm long. The three only grown at the base petals are ovate-blunt, pink to purple and 5 to 9 mm long. The six equally sized stamens are violet hairy. Three carpels have become a top permanent ovary grown. They form capsule fruits that contain gray-brown seeds.[5]
The Temple area sits between Victoria Embankment and The Strand/Fleet Street and is home to a large number of barrister's chambers. It is a warren of small alleyways and cul-de-sacs and as I can vouch for, very easy to get lost in. But that doesn't matter because the whole area is dotted with small squares and sitting areas and to get lost there is no bad thing. There's also a lovely old 12th century church in the area and an assortment of historic buildings, some open to the public, some not. The image here is of a tiny alleyway running between some buildings and leading into one of those tranquil little squares. In fact the buildings you see are actually threefold although the one straight ahead and the one on the right are attached. This little entrance is small to say the least but I really liked the different textures it throws up as well as that single lamp on the wall to give it a little bit of interest.
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Die Schachblume (Fritillaria meleagris), auch Schachbrettblume oder Kiebitzei genannt, ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Liliengewächse(Liliaceae) und ist geschützt.Die Schachblume wird in der Roten Liste der gefährdeten Arten als "stark gefährdet" eingestuft. Schachblumen gedeihen auf feuchten Wiesen.
Die Blütezeit reicht von April bis Mai. Die meist einzelnen, selten zu zweit stehenden Blüten sind nickend[3] bis nach unten hängend. Die zwittrigen, dreizähligen Blüten sind fast geruchlos und breit glockenförmig. Die sechs gleichgestaltigen, etwa 4 Zentimeter langen Perigonblätter, deren stumpfe Spitze meist etwas umgebogen ist, sind schachbrettartig purpurrot-weiß oder grünlich-weiß gefleckt. Selbst bei der völlig weißen Form Fritillaria meleagris f. alba ist die namensgebende Musterung noch schwach zu erkennen.
Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family.[2][3][4] Its common names include snake's head fritillary, snake's head (the original English name), chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily.in Germany it is under nature protection
The flowering period runs from April to May. The mostly single, rarely in pairs standing flowers are nodding [3] to hanging down. The hermaphrodite, threefold flowers are almost odorless and wide bell-shaped. The six equal multiform, about 4 centimeters long tepals whose blunt tip is usually somewhat bent, are checkerboard mottled purple-white or greenish-white. Even with the completely white form Fritillaria meleagris f. Alba the eponymous patterning is barely recognizable.
(Wikipedia)
Impressive display of Collared Earthstar fungi (Geastrum triplex) on a woodland floor. These are the most common and the largest earthstar fungi, each could have between 4 to 8 arching rays that cracked away leaving the spore sac laying in a collared ‘saucer’. The characteristic shape of the fruit body earned the Collared Earthstar fungus other common names including the Triple Earthstar and the Saucered Earthstar. These phenotypic features also reflected in the scientific name: “geo” and ”aster” meaning ‘earth’ and ‘star’, respectively, and the epithet “triplex” meaning ‘threefold’. Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England, U.K.
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I really appreciate them!
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Snowdrop.
Just a quick one for Mittwochsmakro this week.
I thought it might be fun to take more images of flowers seen from the other end. This was one of the first attempts in my garden, back in February.
All blurrilicious.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Wednesday :)
[Handheld in daylight.
Developed in Capture One with a bit of highlight toning.
Processed in Affinity with a bit of sharpening and a crop, rotating the original a bit.]
Antananarivo (Madagascar) - Je ne sais pas où va cette petite famille, ni ce qu'elle fait. Elle déménage ? Va vendre son chargement au marché ? Je n'ai pas la réponse. Toujours est-il que s’ils n'ont pas de boeufs ou des zébus pour tracter leur charrette rustique et lourdement chargée, au moins, ils ont des chaussures. Même si le père qui tire à l'avant n'a pas le dernier modèle d'une célèbre marque américaine. La mère et le fils sont mieux lotis. Mais je pense, sans risquer de me tromper, que leurs chaussures sont de fabrication chinoise.
Ils sont sur le marché de la digue à Antananarivo, dont les commerçants commencent à peine à ouvrir boutiques. C'est là que l'on trouve concentré en un seul endroit, tout l'artisanat malgache. Ces derniers temps en raison des crises mondiales successives, les prix ont été multipliés par trois.
We are not bullocks!
Antananarivo (Madagascar) - I don't know where this little family is going, nor what they are doing. She moves out ? She's going to trade at the market? I do not have the answer. Still, if they don't have oxen or zebus to tow their heavily laden rustic cart, at least they have shoes. Even if the father who pulls up front doesn't have the latest model from a famous American brand. Both mother and son are better off. But I think, without risk of being mistaken, that their shoes are of Chinese manufacture.
They are on the dike market in Antananarivo, where traders are just starting to open shops. This is where we find concentrated in one place, all Malagasy crafts. In recent times, due to successive global crises, prices have increased threefold.
These spectacular looking fungi commonly found in late summer and earlier autumn but is said that ‘fruits’ can appear throughout the year. So, here is the top view of a January fruiting body. There were few Collared Earthstars (Geastrum triplex) in the local beechwood during the visit but this one looked most appealing. It also nicely shows its threefold structure that is reflected in its epithet ‘triplex’, while the scientific name Geastum is translated from two Latin words ‘geo’ and ‘aster’ meaning ‘earth star’. Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England, U.K.
Thank you for your visit, favs and comments.
Thee huge blooms, so layered, their petticoats unfurling and displaying all the beauty... it NEVER ceases to amaze me.
These three goldies are just so opulent, perfect for YELLOW WEEK!
THANX for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
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Explore #57
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BANTEAY SREI
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Banteay Srei (o Banteay Srey) es un templo camboyano del siglo X dedicado al dios hindú Shivá. Ubicado en la zona de Angkor en Camboya, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1992, cerca de la colina de Phnom Dei, a 25 km al noreste del principal grupo de templos que en el pasado pertenecieron a las capitales medievales de Yasodharapura y Angkor Thom. Banteay Srei está construido principalmente de arenisca roja, un medio que permite en sí unas decorativas y elaboradas tallas en los muros que aún hoy en día pueden observarse. Los edificios en sí son miniaturas a escala, algo inusual cuando se les mide con el estándar de las construcciones de Angkor. Estos factores han hecho del templo uno extremadamente popular entre los turistas, y ha llevado a que sea ampliamente alabado como una «gema preciosa», o la «joya del arte jemer»."
Este templo es el único del complejo que fue construido por mujeres a finales del siglo X y dicen de él que es probablemente el más bonito de todos. Para su construcción se eligió una piedra de arenisca rojiza y aunque es un templo mucho más pequeño que los demás, es sin duda una visita obligatoria dentro de Angkor. Sus relieves y esculturas están trabajadas al detalle y entre sus muros se pueden contemplar figuras tridimensionales magnificamente conservadas.
Este templo hindú dedicado a Shiva es considerado la obra maestra dentro del arte clásico jemer y está formado por varios recintos en los que en sus frontales se pueden encontrar relieves narrativos que ilustran episodios de leyendas sagradas.
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El enorme templo de Angkor Wat puede ser impresionarte, pero el entrañable templo de Banteay Srei es del que te enamorarás. "Banteay Srei" significa "ciudadela de mujeres" y está situado a 30 km al noreste de Angkor. Banteay Srei es la joya de la corona de los templos de Angkor, de hecho merece su apodo "joya de arte Khmer". Sorprendentemente pequeño en tamaño, es un templo que sorprende a todos sus visitantes por su gran belleza. Los edificios en su complejo central son las únicas estructuras Khmer completamente cubiertas con tallas. No es solo la cantidad de bajorrelieves, es su excelencia, refinamiento y buen gusto lo que deleita a los visitantes. Los relieves escultóricos más intrincados, por supuesto, son aquellos en dinteles y frontones. Son mucho más detallados e incluso más grandes que en otros estilos de arte Khmer, esto es aún más sorprendente ya que contrasta con el pequeño tamaño de los edificios.
Banteay Srei es el ejemplo más significativo de lo que es un templo privado, es decir, no fue construido por orden de un rey y no servía para fines estatales. Banteay Srei fue fundado en 967 por un importante erudito y dignatario llamado Yajnavaraha, sirvió durante el reinado de Rajendravarman II como consejero y fue maestro del sucesor de Rajendravarman, Jayavarman V. Las inscripciones de la puerta informan que el hermano y la hermana de Yajnavaraha lo apoyaron. Pero aunque no es un templo de estado, Banteay Srei tiene algunos indicios que simbolizan afirmaciones cuasi imperiales, no solo su riqueza, sino también su distribución, ya que se parece al templo estatal Prasat Thom en Koh Ker, que había demostrado el poder de un rival de Angkor.
El conjunto Banteay Srei fue restaurado y ampliado en el siglo XI. El templo fue ocupado y mantenido continuamente hasta el siglo XIV, pero, a diferencia de Angkor Wat, nunca fue asumido por la nueva religión predominante en Camboya, el budismo Theravada. Banteay Srei fue redescubierto aún en 1914. En 1923 Andre Malreau, más tarde ministro francés, saqueó cuatro Devatas y fue arrestado, pero nunca cumplió su condena. En la década de 1930, Banteay Srei fue restaurado, era la primera vez que el método de anastilosis, inventado para la reconstrucción de la famosa estupa de Borobudur en Java, se utilizaba en Camboya.
El templo estaba dedicado a Shiva como "Señor de los Tres Mundos", otra alusión a Prasat Thom en Koh Ker, que estaba dedicado al mismo dios. Este "Tribhuvanamaheshvara" fue venerado en forma de Linga en la torre central de Prasat. No obstante, Banteay Srei era un templo de Shiva y Vishnu al mismo tiempo. Las estructuras de la mitad sur prefieren Shiva, mientras que la mitología de Vishnu predomina en las de la parte norte del recinto, pero no simétricamente, ya que el centro es para la devoción de Shiva. Originalmente, el templo estaba rodeado por un pequeño pueblo llamado Ishvarapura, otra referencia a Shiva.
Banteay Srei está construido en gran parte con una piedra arenisca roja especial que se puede tallar fácilmente, pero es resistente a la intemperie. Además de Banteay Srei, solo hay dos ejemplos a pequeña escala en el área de Angkor para el uso de este material. El ladrillo y la laterita se usaron para las paredes del recinto.
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BANTEAY SREI
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banteay_Srei
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Banteay Srei (Khmer: បន្ទាយស្រី [ɓɑntiəj srəj]) is a 10th century CE Cambodian temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva and Parvati. Located in the area of Angkor, it lies near the hill of Phnom Dei, 25 km (16 mi) north-east of the main group of temples that once belonged to the medieval capitals of Yaśodharapura and Angkor Thom. Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today. The buildings themselves are miniature in scale, unusually so when measured by the standards of Angkorian construction. These factors have made the temple extremely popular with tourists, and have led to its being widely praised as the jewel of Khmer art.
History
Foundation and dedication
"Banteay Srei" ("Citadel of Women") is the modern name of a 10th-century CE Khmer temple originally called "Tribhuvanamaheshvara" ("Great Lord of the Threefold World"),[3] an appellation of the god Shiva.
Consecrated on 22 April 967 CE,[4] Banteay Srei was the only major temple at Angkor not built by rulers; its construction is credited to the courtiers named Vishnukumara and Yajnavaraha[5] (modern Khmer: យជ្ញវរាហៈ), who served as a counsellor to King Rajendravarman II (modern Khmer: ព្រះបាទរាជេន្រ្ទវរ្ម័ន). The foundational stela says that Yajnavaraha, grandson of King Harshavarman I,[6]: 117 was a scholar and philanthropist who helped those who suffered from illness, injustice, or poverty.[7] His pupil was the future King Jayavarman V (r. 968 – ca. 1001). Originally, the temple was surrounded by a town called Ishvarapura.
Fungi of beechwood. A pair of Collared Earthstar fungi (Geastrum triplex) in a spore releasing mood. These are most common and the largest earthstar fungi that have between 4 to 8 arching rays that cracked away leaving the spore sac laying in a collared ‘saucer’. The characteristic shape of the fruit body earned the Collared Earthstar fungus other common names like the Triple Earthstar, and the Saucered Earthstar. These phenotypic features are reflected in the scientific name: “geo” and ”aster” meaning ‘earth’ and ‘star’, respectively, and the epithet “triplex” meaning ‘threefold’. Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England, U.K.
Cherry blossoms of Takada Park
高田公園・観桜会
The castle tower is nothing here,
but the lighting of Sanjuyagura (threefold turret) can be enjoyed.
高田城に天守閣はなくても、
三重櫓(さんじゅうやぐら)がお城のようです。
ライトアップ、人も多かったけど綺麗で楽しめました。
Joetsu city, Niigata pref, Japan
Other than the fact that it can actually be grown locally, I love the color of the flowers of this plant. I don't think I have ever seen another plant with teal colored petals surround gold stamen. Puya alpestris is a species of bromeliad native to Chilean Andes. It is native to dry hills, rock outcrops in central and southern Chile at elevations of 0 to 2200 meters.
After many years an upright, loose, paniculate overall inflorescence form, which is composed of numerous racemose partial branching inflorescences. The lower third of the branch contain stellate trichomes. It contains many bright red bracts and many individual flowers. The tips of the partial inflorescences are sterile. The flower stalk is about 7 mm long. The hermaphrodite flower is threefold. The three greenish sepals are about 2.3 cm long and hairy or bald. The three teal petals with blunt tips are about 4.5 cm long and spiral in as they fade. The six stamens have bright orange anthers. The flowers produce a lot of nectar. During the flowering period, one can observe hummingbirds and other birds pollinating the flowers.
Orvieto was already glowing when I settled onto a rampart of Fortezza Albornoz. A ridge of the Apennines held the sunrise for a few heartbeats, then light spilled over the range, bathing the fortress wall in gold and stirring the valley below to life. From this perch you can glimpse the city’s modern edge - highway, rail line, and the Paglia River - yet inside these ancient walls everything feels hushed and timeless.
The day before had been pure Umbrian pleasure: weaving through medieval lanes, studying classical art, lingering over a pizza lunch with a chilled glass of Orvieto Classico, then trading stories over local reds and a final splash of amaro with a growing circle of new friends.
Morning brought its own gentle ritual. We swung the hotel windows wide, letting bells and birdsong ride the cool breeze straight inside. I laced up for a jog but soon drifted into easy wandering. Historic facades, sculptures, and cliff-edge vistas blend art and nature into a single, seamless spectacle. It felt like a saturation point of beauty, the kind that overflows the senses and leaves room only to look up in quiet praise to the Lord.
Later we stepped into a thousand-year-old church perched on the opposite wall of the city - another moment of threefold splendor: art-filled interiors, distinctive architecture from an earlier age, and wide natural vistas of Umbrian countryside where stone cottages and cypress spires dotted the rolling green like a living postcard.
This photograph, one of many from my time there, tries to hold on to those layered moments: ancient stones, new friendships, and a sunrise that filled the soul.
„Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Calvert Avenue, Bethnal Green
The posters in the window refer to the local campaign to persuade Tower Hamlets council not to raise rents threefold and so force the closure of this and other shops on Calvert Avenue.
Vast, deep and quite overwhelming in its simplicity, the church’s Cistercian austerity confronts us as we stand on the threshold of the bare, threefold nave, without either an ornament or a side-chapel to distract us.....Still retaining its authenticity, the Monastery of Alcobaça has been spared any major alterations in almost 900 years of its existence. And in the words of UNESCO (who declared the building a World Heritage Site in 1989), ‘its size, the purity of its architectural style, the beauty of the materials and the care with which it was built make this a masterpiece of Cistercian Gothic art’.
Monte Brasil is seen across the bay from Forte de São Sebastião (Fort of San Sebastian) in Angra do HeroÃ-smo on the Island of Terceira, Azores, Portugal. Also known as the Castelo de São Sebastião or simply Castelinho, this fort lies along the Bay of Angra on the east side of the Porto de Pipas (Port of Barrels). Construction stared in 1572 on the order of King Sebastian I and a garrison housed there by 1580. The fort sits on the opposite side of the port from fortifications on Monte Brasil, some of which can be seen in this photo. The fortications are the larger Forte de São João Baptista. The range of fire of São Sebastiãoâs cannons overlapped with the ranges of the guns on Monte Brasil creating an effective defensive system for the port.
Constuction on the fort on Monte Brasil started around 1592, on the order of Philip II of Spain (at the time also King of Portugal). The fortification was named initially named Castelo de São Filipe after the king. Designed by Giovanni Casale, Tibúrcio Spanochi and Anton Colla the fortifications involve the entire Monte Brasil. Intended to protect ship coming from the West Indies, it is the largest Spanish fortress ever built outside Spain and one of the largest enclosed fortresses on the planet. Threefold ramparts with turrets and trenches were built on a length of more than 4 kilometers around the mountain.
The Portuguese revolt of 1640 gave rise, here, to a memorable epic siege, involving nearly 7000 men, from different islands, commanded by captains João Bettencourt de Vasconcelos, Francisco Ornelas da Câmara and João de Ãvila. The Spanish were eventuallu defeated and surrended. On fortâs tower, the blue and white liberal flag was raised for the first time on land. The name of the fort was changed to Fortress of São João Baptista and a new church was built within the fortâs walls.
Today the fort is known as Military Building nº 001/Angra do HeroÃ-smo, but is also referred to as the Castelo de São João Baptista, Fortaleza de São João Baptista or simply Fortaleza do Monte Brasil.
Monte Brasil is the remnants of a tuff cone (volcano) that formed just off the south coast of island of Terceira in the central Azores. Flanked by two bays: the Bay of Angra to its east, and the Bay of Fanal to its west, the crest of the volcano rises above the city of Angra do Heroísmo which made it a strategic location for defense of the city. Geologists tie the cone to eruptions of the Guilherme Moniz volcano, a large central volcano on the island of Terceira which was active around 23,000 years ago.
Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone? Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
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One of the often overlooked wonders of New York City in part due to its location is found in the borough of the Bronx the New York Botanical Gardens and its center piece is the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory which is what was captured in this image. When England in 1888 Columbia University botanist Doctor Nathaniel Lord Britton and his dear wife Elizabeth also a botanist visited the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew just outside London where they were inspired that New York would have one of the world’s great botanical gardens. Upon their return to the states, they began their campaign in earnest. The Brittons and Torrey Botanical Club published a public appeal to establish within New York City a classic botanical garden and started to actively fundraise and campaign. The New York State legislature proposed an act to establish a garden within New York City and New York Governor David Hill approved the act and the establishment of the corporation of ‘The New York Botanical Garden’ was formed in 1891 to build said public botanical garden on 250 acres of land in New York City. Calvert Vaux, yes of Central Park fame would do the layouts for the garden grounds which New York City acquired from the primarily the Lorillard Family who owned most of the land that would become the botanical garden and the zoo. The garden’s first board was formed in 1896 with Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton becoming the first director of the New York Botanical Garden and a board consisting of non other than New York Central’s Cornelius Vanderbilt, Banker J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. The ground was broken for the conservatory in my image in 1897. The museum which is now known as the library opened in 1901 and the conservatory in 1902, itself a magnificent structure composed of 11 connected greenhouses and the 90 foot high Palm Court which is the main structure captured in my image. The gardens mission has always been threefold. First to lead in the field of research to the plants of the world, studying them with the goal of protection and preservation where they live in the wild. Second to catalogue and maintain gardens to the highest horticultural standards. The last primary purpose was to use these beautiful grounds and gardens to educate the public about botany, horticulture and the natural world.
The garden became a national landmark in 1967 and continues with it threefold mission, it is a beautiful place and if you don’t have a whole day to visit, then make your way to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the collections within are truly magnificent.
Taken with Olympus E-5 with Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD lens handheld processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Driving along a dirt road that I have traversed for decades, I notice an interesting tree. It was not this tree, but it led me to walk a ways back and I found an open area with more than a few big trees just, well, standing around. This is probably the nicest there, though I need to get back to that spot. Amazing! The things you miss that are right under your nose for so long.
Pentax 6x7, SMC 67 75mm f4, Kentmere 400 @ 320, HC110B, 5.5 minutes at 20C. Cropped to square.
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A late fall day at the Tridge in Midland. The extra sand on the riverbank is a result of the May 2020 flood caused by the failure of two dams north of town. At its height, the river crested near the deck and submerged all but the green roof of the pavilion on the other side of the river.
It was a hot, dry, dusty day out there in the west of Victoria (Australia). The countryside almost always looks parched.
The title comes from a beautiful poem written out of love and longing for my country, Australia. Funnily enough, it's called 'My Country' by Dorothea Mackellar and was first published in 1908 when she was only 19. I have this desire to take photos that represent much of what she writes about in that poem. It's quite long so I won't include the entire poem here now, but this is the stanza from which my title comes:
'Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.' - Dorothea Mackellar
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STRANGER 200!!!!
I made it. I am always looking for the perfect balance of stranger, location and light and I was even more keen to do so given this would be my 200th Stranger.
After searching for 3 days (including a few rejections) I finally found Elle having a chat with her friend Heather. She was in this psychedelic jumpsuit and so the scene was set for me to ask. Of course, things wouldn't be right without me bottling it once and walking straight past. However, I strengthened my resolve walked around the block and thankfully when I returned they were still there. I was rusty with my request but they were excited to be a part of my project.
I asked them to pop round to a street round the corner. And took a few shots in classic 100 strangers style which you see here. I also have a few full length shots which I will share later.
Elle is local to the Shoreditch area in which we took this shot and is a musician herself. One of the very reasons that she loves the area is things like this happen.
Looking back I started round 2 of this project in May 2015, so its taken me a while to get to this stage with the pandemic putting a temporary break on my "sprint" to the finish.
It has always and will continue to be an amazing experience. The reason for why it's taken so long is threefold. Firstly my usual fear of approaching strangers is still there. However, that has been combined with the need to maintain a standard of my previous portraits and has meant that if I didn't find the perfect combination of stranger, location and light then I found it easier to let it go. In addition life has also got in the way.
I will probably do a post to reflect more deeply on the project however I know that in this round 2 I have successfully incorporated using more of the environment in a number of my portraits, incorporated of camera flash to give a high level of production but when it comes down to it, I am still in love with the close in portrait.
I will give more of my thoughts in a discussion thread but for now that's round 2 over and done. Adios
Thanks so much Elle for being apart of my project and especially being my 200th stranger . Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the
100 Strangers Flickr Group Page
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or visit my website
-- farmland near Gisborne, in Victoria.
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A poem, that gives a hint of the wide variety of subject matter covered in the poetry of Dorothea Mackellar. Although well remembered for her exceptional insight into the "Beauty and Terror" of the Australian landscape, Dorothea also understood the landscape of the mind. The frustrated hopes of life and love.
My Country
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Dorothea Mackellar
Molle is a locality on Kullahalvön in Brunnby parish in Höganäs Municipality, Skåne County.
The community was originally a fishing village, but came to play a major role in the emerging tourism in Sweden in the late 1800s. This was helped - and help - Mölle's scenic location by the Öresund northern outlet, with Kullaberg background. Gemensamhetsbad for men and women in Ransvik introduced in the early 1900s. The days of glory as a tourist occurred shortly before the First World War, but also in the interwar period were major tourist flows. Still Molle a popular tourist resort with a threefold increase in population during the summer months.
The Hebrew inscription on this synagogue is "Kehilat ahav shalom", meaning “Congregation of love and peace”.
This Orthodox Hebrew congregation was formed in 1871 and met in public meeting halls until the consecration of this building in 1927. The Supreme Commander of all Commonwealth Forces in WWI, Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., V.D. (1865-1931) was a member of the Congregation and served on its Board of Management.
This heritage-listed, Byzantine-inspired building has a domed roof, brass doors and arched windows. The threefold arches seen here reflect the so-called "Golden Gates" in the walls of old Jerusalem through which it is believed the Messiah will one day walk into the Holy City.
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.“
Shakespeare, King Lear, 1606
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Will-o‘-the-wisps on Pluto
It does not matter, which earthy plagues led to my flight,
but before I forget to speak in human-tongue, I have to share a strange occurance, a weird incident before I have to fall silent again. Please note, that I have to tell it perpetual, so please do not interrupt my flow of speech, I might lose my temper and move back to the dumpy cavern I call mine […]
It must have been in the early awakening of daffodils as I saw two giddly flames,
dancing between a pair of cow horns. They swirled around the dragon knot, getting faster and more aggressive like a ranging storm in late November.
It was impossibile to decide, if they fought or tightly embraced each other,
as they themselves probably made no difference between destruction and reconstruction.
So it was scarcely surprising that those will-o‘-the-wisps descended into trans-Neptunian realm,
sunk down on the loneliest of the nine luminaries.
Between sunlit climes and frozen lumps of rocks, those two light-points entered the atmosphere made of carbon monoxide, a cometary striking of the nocturnal panoply,
before those falling stars ditched into ammonia water.
On sulfur slopes they scattered the hectored seeds with impressive movements. Apelike climbing up the foot of the ice volcano, which we terrestrial consider as the World Mountain.
Whereby breaking natural law and rule, sound waves of sharp words and strict hands travelled through space and entered my ears. Curses breathed out of methane lungs 398 years ago, instantly colliding with my weary heart […]
Where are the climbing aids for those green shoots?
How should they reach those expected heights, when wrongs are flooding the roots and streams of salt
are hollowing the ground, till it collapses?
[…]
When the ashen one, the icy moon Charon, rises the warm sulphureous rivers with tidal force,
the housed waifs would try to catch some warmth.
In arabesque ornaments the steam was ascending and gently warming the frozen surface,
trembling feverish to catch what meets with ravenous hunger.
Torn between immovable vulcanoes of frozen nitrogen and uncontrolled swelltering of will-o‘-the-wisps,
those hectored seeds became geriatric in young age and bizarre forever […]
As it was hardly conceivable to explain how those green shoots finally landed on Earth,
but as I talked with other herdsmen after years of silence, they confirmed the observed event and I got the hint, that there was a threefold meteorite impact on the fairground. What a blessing in disguise! Although the whole surface seemed to burn in many little fire arms, crawling up as they wanted to reach heaven, nobody got hurt, just blades of grass were trimmed and burned in fairy circles. […]
Again they were thrown in the world, entering a strange world with strange conditions and contradictory rules.
[…]
[Excerpt and Translation from my Parentification-Project “Zwischen Feuerfluss und Wasserbrand“]
Three fold drift A longer than required exposure and ICM capture of the moon transitioning across the frame. An interpretation of lunar motion, capturing the moon as if three exposures though there is only one layered by its own movement (and mine 😁) revealing three sequential positions within a single moment. The moon reveals its own pathway — one light becoming many,
fracturing into memory, emergence, and return. The cycle of light in dark continues.
Scenic area Nishizawa ravine is located in the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, and where the country takes pride in its outstanding canyon's beauty.
A clear stream erodes huge granite, and the valley stream which flows through a wildwood makes a built ravine many waterfalls like natural art, and it brims over with mysterious charm.
The canyon's beauty with which various Taki interweaves a threefold waterfall, a waterfall in Ryujin, a waterfall of love thread and a waterfall in teiizumi with a waterfall in five steps of the meibaku and Nanatsugama which were also chosen as "Japanese waterfall hundred pieces" at the head, indeed, highlights!
Molle is a locality on Kullahalvön in Brunnby parish in Höganäs Municipality, Skåne County.
The community was originally a fishing village, but came to play a major role in the emerging tourism in Sweden in the late 1800s. This was helped - and help - Mölle's scenic location by the Öresund northern outlet, with Kullaberg background. Gemensamhetsbad for men and women in Ransvik introduced in the early 1900s. The days of glory as a tourist occurred shortly before the First World War, but also in the interwar period were major tourist flows. Still Molle a popular tourist resort with a threefold increase in population during the summer months. [3]