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Taken for "Active Assignment Weekly" YinYang
ASSIGNMENT: Yin and yang are generalizations of the antithesis or mutual correlation between certain objects or phenomena in the natural world, combining to create a unity of opposites.
WIT: I opened my I Ching to the hexagram of T'ai (Peace). It is made up of two trigrams: the Yin (female/dark/yielding) trigram over the Yang (male/light/creative) trigram. The method of consulting the oracle is tossing 3 coins; that's why the coins are included. The shell looks to me like the stylized YinYang symbol. The image of the two weathered hands, slightly touching and resting peacfully, is from a card I happened to have. It seems to epitomize the YinYang principle in relationships. I put a bamboo mat over a small bureau under a window and closed one of the curtains to give a dark/light effect to reinforce the YinYang theme.
Thank you North60 for the cropping suggestion - as you can see, I used it.
An associate's weekly appointment calendar book. Portions of phone numbers, address numbers and last names have been removed/obscured in Photoshop to protect The Innocent. Please mentally add another 5% of clutter to the mess.
iPhone 4s native camera in HDR mode • Photoshop Elements with Anthropics' Smart Photo Editor and Topaz Labs' Detail plug-ins
Built between 1836 and 1842, this Neoclassical and Mediterranean Revival style church was designed by Hiram Bingham to serve as the primary royal church for the Kingdom of Hawaii. The building, built of approximately 14,000 1000-pound coral blocks quarried from a reef on the south coast of Oahu, was started during the reign of King Kamehameha II (1819-1824) and finished during the reign of Kamehameha III (1825-1854). Affiliated with the United Church of Christ, the congregation was founded by Hiram Bingham I, a Christian missionary from Connecticut whom introduced christianity to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820, initially worshipping in a large grass-covered structure that was constructed according to Native Hawaiian traditions, and could apparently hold up to 4000 people. As the Kingdom of Hawaii grew wealthier and more connected to the outside world, the construction of the present church was intended to give the kingdom its own equivalent to Westminster Abbey, where coronation ceremonies and other important royal religious ceremonies could take place, as well as a place for the royal family and chiefs to attend weekly church services. The church was the site where Kings Kamehameha III, Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V and Kalakaua all swore their oaths of office to the Hawaiian Constitution, as well as baptism of various members of the royal family, even those who worshipped other denominations. The church is a relatively simple rectangular structure clad in rusticated coral stone, featuring an upper row of arched six-over-six double-hung windows and a lower row of rectangular six-over-six windows, a tower at the peak of the roof at the center of the front facade, which originally featured a tall pyramidal steeple and wooden Gothic Revival-style belfry surrounded by a balustrade, which was later removed and replaced with the present stone belfry with arched vents and a crenellated parapet, large clocks on all four faces of the tower, an arched main entry door flanked by two smaller arched entry doors and four doric pilasters, and a rear entrance flanked by two large arched windows. The building sits next to the historic Kawaiahaʻo Cemetery, which includes the mausoleum of King Lunalilo, which sits in front of the church, and the Mission Cemetery, which sits behind the church. The church was later somewhat supplanted by the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the 1870s, which serves as an Episcopal or Anglican Cathedral, as most of the Hawaiian Royal Family were affiliated with the Church of England rather than the United Church of Christ, though ceremonies continued to occur at the church after the construction of the cathedral. The church was also the location where Queen Liliʻuokalani’s body laid in state following her death in 1917, prior to her funeral at ‘Iolani Palace. The church was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Combination of eBay, antique malls and thrift stores. Sitting happily on vintage fabric and a vintage scarf. Happiness ensues.
INGDWAF = I'm not going down without a fight
see it does happen (a lot) that I take a few shots a day and then go through a process of killing off /deleting all but one which gets to be "photo a day" , on rare occasions the losers don't get deleted , they somehow linger , they refuse to get deleted, they are fighters ...
What it took: To be honest, I am not super happy with these. I only have a 40mm and a 50mm, I think if I had a lens with more range I could of done better. I used my pancake lens for this and a little editing in Lightroom. This is a building along a walking path in my town.
I took this for a group I am in called Active Assignment Weekly. www.flickr.com/groups/activeassignment/pool/