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Witnessing living history in Yamaguchi City. This festival features a 650-year-old tradition centered on Furukuma Shrine.
The main attraction is a magnificent procession of 300 people, recreating the "Sankin-kotai" (feudal lords' journey) from the Edo period. Centered around the sacred carriage of the deity Sugawara no Michizane, the parade looks just like a scene from an ancient picture scroll unfolding in the modern city.
Ancient Witnesses
As the stars rise, the stone remains — quiet, enduring, timeless.
These formations have watched the passage of millennia in silence, bearing witness to the slow arc of the cosmos above. I often wonder what stories they’d tell if they could speak — stories of fire, wind, and water… of creatures long gone… and now, of a lone photographer beneath their gaze.
Captured under a moonless sky, this is one of those nights where everything aligns — the air still, the Milky Way rising, and the sense that you’re standing in a place where time barely matters.
I return to these places not just to photograph them, but to feel something deeper — the connection between earth and sky, between the ancient and the now.
In the crisp embrace of an October morning, New River Gorge National Park unveiled its autumnal glory, a resplendent quilt of fall finery stretching across the Appalachian expanse. This panorama, once shrouded in dawn's fog, emerged in vivid detail as the sun climbed higher, casting a luminous dance of light upon the river's winding path. The foliage, ablaze with ephemeral flames of red, orange, and yellow, whispered the transient tales of autumn, a fleeting masterpiece of nature's design, witnessed from the serenity of a lookout, once disappointed by fog, now rewarded with splendor.
Near Cayucos, San Luis Obispo County, California. Captured Jan 2, 2016. Captured with Canon EOS 7DII, EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM at 10mm, f 11 @ 1/400 ISO 160. Tripod. Post Processing with CCLR2015, CCPS2015, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Image Borders), Viveza 2.0, SilverEfexPro 2.0 and PhotoMatix 5.1.1
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My previous work has won a Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest, Single Image Award in Black and White Magazine 2014 and Excellence Award in Black and White Magazine 2014 Portfolio Contest. I have received a 2nd place and (6) Honorable Mentions in the 2016 Moscow International Foto Awards and (3) 2016 Fine Arts Photography Awards nominee from London. A Single Honorable Mention and (2) Honorable Mentions for series from the International Photo Awards 2016 and an Honorable Mention from ND Magazine & Neutral Density Awards 2016. I have also been honored with other local, national and international awards.
I have also been published in the May, 2016 issue of MonoPix Magazine with a 8 page spread.
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And the May, 2016 issue of SHOT! Magazine.
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Silent Witness
On a small road trip behind Whale Rock Reservoir on Cottontail Creek Road, I find many interesting things to photograph. Whale Rock Reservoir is behind the Central California Coast beach town of Cayucos.
Yes, I know it's truly spring, and I'm posting a truly autumnal piece. Well, I've never been one to stand on ceremony (I'm not even sure that that metaphor is appropriate), but I came across a backup drive for my Windows 7 PC that finally gave up the ghost a year ago this week. That drive has some of my favorite shots from the last 23 years. Today, I'll start with January 2000...
Just kidding. It may be quite a while before there's a method to my madness. We have Monday Dogs (and a new one that I just took yesterday); Wednesday Woodpeckers, and on the drive, there are at least a dozen fairly good Nuttall's from a separate file I made for the year I was able to witness the female making the nest, then the two parents rearing the two chicks, and then them fledging and disappearing from this territory. With the other surprise of a whole file of butterflies, maybe Fridays should be Fluttering Friday. And on and on.
Anyway, there are a few very things that I miss about growing up in Massachusetts. Lobster, fried clams, blue jays, and autumn in a house surrounded by sugar maples. When I found this tree at the beginning of the pandemic, it brightened my mood, but I soon realized that one maple tree does not make for autumn. Still, it's better than nothing.
A word to the wise: If a 1T USB Flash Drive by SanDisk or Western Digital or some other established firm is selling it for $75, and you find a sale by a company whose name you can't pronounce (but think it sounds like one of the medicines you take) is selling it for $28.50, do not go by the price. Soime "USB 3" are "USB 2" and some won't even plug in. That's all I'm going to say, but if someone wants to buy two 1T drives, I'll sell them at the same price I got them for: $28.50.
~ There are 4 things you cannot recover in life: the stone after it's thrown ... the word after it's said ... the occasion after it's missed and the time after it's gone !
Forever Capture Time in a shot !
I got up very early in the morning and headed to Emerald Bay, a picturesque bay at Lake Tahoe in northern California. I first stop at the small pier. It was still dark when I took this long exposure panoramic scene of the lake, shoreline, cabin, and snowy mountains in the back.
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Created from around 35 pieces of oak and carved with words taken from seven poets of the First World War. A memorial by sculptor John Merrill, inspired by the paintings of Paul Nash, in Langley Vale Centenary Wood.
47593 'Galloway Princess' passes White Birch cottages near Ais Gill with the early morning EC working, the 06.50 5Z40, Appleby to Skipton. Behind, still shrouded in some mist, is Wild Boar Fell and I was the only one there to witness this working. Perhaps it was because the midges were biting so well this particular morning. Still itching hours later but the biting was worth the result. 6/8/2020
One of the nice things with Flickr is that you have the Lightbox view. Just click L on your keyboard! (because of course you're not watching photographs on an uncalibrated little telephone...!). This one really works best with the darker background you get then.
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Witnessing the unfolding of a new day in fjord Norway... It was a true spectacle watching the sunrise come and illuminate this fairytale valley. Not another sole around this early during summer...
I never can choose what impresses the most with this part of Norway... the fjords or their valleys...!
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Boone Hall Plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1743 son of Major John Boone planted live oak trees arranging them in two evenly spaced rows. Originally 86 trees were lining road to the house. Two of them were destroyed by lightening. It would take over two centuries to grow them into spectacular, moss draped majestic trees that create a natural tunnel. They are the witnesses to two different worlds. The world of prosperity, wealth and the misery of slavery. In their beauty and glory they are a quite witnesses of the history.
The miracle witnessed by the greatest number of people was the feeding of five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fish. This miracle is described in all four Gospels (see Matthew 14:13–21; Mark 6:34–44; Luke 9:12–17; John 6:5–14).
Диво, свідками якого стало найбільше людей - насичення п'яти тисяч чоловік п'ятьма хлібами і двома рибами. Це диво описується у всіх чотирьох євангеліях (див. Матвій 14:13–21; Марк 6:34–44; Лука 9:12–17; Іван 6:5–14).
«Насичення п'ятьма хлібинами п'яти тисяч».
Церква преподобних Антонія і Феодосія Києво-Печерської лаври (1910). Художник Георгій Іванович Попов.
«Вагомим внеском в оформлені ансамблю лаврської Трапезної є ікони, створені для іконостасу та храмових кіотів художником Г. І. Поповим - загальною кількістю 32. На сьогоднішній день 26 ікон вважаються втраченими. Проте і розглянути, і, у певній мірі, вивчити деякі з іконних творів можливо. [8, 92]
Відомо, що всі ікони для іконостаса та кіотів Трапезної церкви написав саме Г.І. Попов. Він працював у Лаврі з 1894 року і близько 16 років розписував інтер’єри лаврських споруд, серед яких відомі великі картини розпису вівтарної апсиди у Трапезній церкві та розпис великих кіотів у тій же церкві. [1, 184] живопису ансамблю Трапезної, ім’я Г. І. Попова фігурує в документах впродовж 1902-1910 рр.»
Джерело:
Пітателєва О. Монументальний живопис та іконопис Г.І. Попова в лаврській Трапезній палаті та церкві /О. Пітателєва /Лаврські мистецтвознавчі студії. Збірник наукових праць. – К., 2015. – С. 51-97
“Спаситель здійснив це чудо зі співчуття до людей. Марко писав: оглянувши натовп людей, які жадібно слухали Його слова, Ісус “зжалився над ними, тому що вони були, як вівці, які не мають пастиря” (Марка 6:34). , що “часу пройшло багато”, а місце було безлюдне (див. Марка 6:35), і тому людям ніде було дістати їжу.
Однак Ісус не відразу виявив Свою силу, щоб здійснити чудо, а спочатку вирішив випробувати Своїх учнів. “Сам знав, що хотів зробити” (Іван 6:6) усвідомили, що не можуть нагодувати стільки людей на наявні у них гроші і за такий короткий час.
Потім учні принесли їжу, яка була в одного хлопчика, - єдине, що вони змогли дістати: п'ять ячмінних хлібів і дві рибки. щоб турбуватися про себе. Це могло відіграти помітну роль у ретельній підготовці до цього дива.
Перш ніж зробити чудо, Ісус Христос навмисно зробив наступне: Він наказав Своїм учням “розсадити всіх відділеннями на зеленій траві. І сіли рядами, сто і п'ятдесят” (Марка 6:39–40). Чому Він попросив людей сісти саме так? Звісно, Він хотів упорядкувати роздачу їжі. Старійшина Брюс Р. Макконкі (1915–1985), з Кворуму Дванадцятьох Апостолів, допомагає нам ще глибше зрозуміти цей момент: “У задумі нашого Господа і його втіленні не було ніякої неформальності чи неорганізованості. Безліч народу, що зібрався, було розсаджено групами і рядами. Ця добра справа не була широким жестом марнотратства для натовпу. Ні, Він давав необхідну їжу допитливим слухачам, що зібралися навколо. До того ж ні в кого не мало виникнути сумнівів у тому, що тут відбувається. Апостоли мали роздати хліб і рибу організовано, справедливо і неупереджено”1.
І ще: я вважаю, що, як і у випадку з Пилипом, Господь хотів, щоб люди звернули увагу на те, як багато народу зібралося під час чуда. Можливо, Він хотів запобігти суперечкам, скільки людей було при цьому великому диві.
Насправді присутніх було понад п'ять тисяч, бо жінок та дітей не рахували. Так що п'ять хлібів і дві риби чудово наситили набагато більше, ніж п'ять тисяч людей.
Взявши п'ять хлібів та рибу, Спаситель, “поглянувши на небо, благословив і переломив хліби” (Марка 6:41), а потім дав хліб Своїм учням, щоб ті роздали його людям. Потім вони роздали рибу. І люди брали зовсім не помалу, хвилюючись, що іншим може не вистачити. Ні, вони брали “скільки хто хотів” (Іван 6:11), “і їли всі, і наситилися” (Марк 6:42).
Здійснивши це диво, Ісус дав подальші вказівки. Він сказав учням: “Зберіть шматки, що залишилися, щоб нічого не пропало” (Іван 6:12). Учні зібрали дванадцять коробів!
Усім було ясно, що Ісус здійснив чудо Своєю силою. У Євангелії від Івана розповідь закінчується такими словами: “Тоді люди, які бачили чудо, створене Ісусом, сказали: це істинно Той Пророк, Який має прийти у світ” (Іван 6:14).”
/Старейшина Вон Юн Ко. Иисус Христос, Xлеб жизни/
Agatha Christie's childhood doll at her Summer home, re-imagined by me.
“Poirot and I behaved in the customary fashion of people being shown over houses. We stood stock still, looking a little ill at ease, murmuring remarks such as: "Very nice." "A very pleasant room." "The morning-room, you say?”
- Agatha Christie, Dumb Witness
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1jG99z7lVY
【Sad and Scary Song】"Come Out And Play" Creepy Music Box】
Remember as a child you
wanted to
run away
TO the Circus
the Big Top
and all the magic it contained
and now …
now you want to
run away
FROM the Circus
the Clowns
and all the painted faces
white like ghosts and ghouls
perpetual grins like Cheshire Cats
that twist into grotesque
gargoyles pouring out
all the venom of the darkest world
oily greasy eyes on stalks
stalking through the jungle
of cemented towers
of demented glowering
demons
devils in disguise
but they cannot hide their eyes
their twisted souls that reek
and nasty games of hide and seek
whispering in corners
let them speak
it amuses me just a little
to hear them as they prattle
coughing their death rattle
cough it up
it may be a gold watch
more likely though it will be
a cockroach
or a deathwatch
beetle like
a Coachman's Staghorn
I stifle a yawn
it is tiring me out
watching the same old faces
in the same old places
sticking in their oars
sticky beaks
opening up their festering sores
no use to resist
no use in fighting
theirs is the proverbial lost cause
and they do not fall on their swords willingly
but their long and blackened tongues
lick the ground I walk upon
and trip them up until one fateful Halloween Night
they lose their fight
at last
they lose
their fight
and as for me
I am far too polite
to tell you where the bodies are buried
but listen out on Halloween
keep hidden; do not let yourselves be seen
and you will see them rise again
dark figures with hollowed cheeks and eyes
bones clanking
rags clinging
mudslinging still despite their untimely foul demise
and if you listen on the breeze
and hear behind you someone wheeze
who knows
that someone may be them
who knows
they may try to still condemn
me or you or anyone
they are not fussed
they do not trust
they lie and cuss
drag chains that rust
but hark, hark
the dogs begin to bark
as nightfalls down like a blackened cloak
somewhere close by
someone begins to choke
stay still
be quiet
throughout the night
for they will come for you
but on the morning after Halloween
if you wake up to see the dawn
and everything that went before was just a dream
stretch out your limbs; a stifled yawn
or was it just your imagination …
that crawling skin; that weird sensation
the tiniest seed of doubt
has only just been born
the tide is turning round about
hurry by the long tall fields of corn
WATCH OUT!!!!!
WATCH OUT!!!!!
the final shout ...
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La Cathédrale de Saint Martin (Basilika Sankt Martin) est une magnifique église romane située au cœur de Bonn, en Allemagne. Ce monument historique, avec ses tours jumelles emblématiques, a résisté à l'épreuve du temps, témoin de siècles d'histoire et de changements culturels.
La structure actuelle du Bonner Münster, construite dans le style roman, a commencé à prendre forme vers l'an 1050. La nouvelle construction a remplacé une église plus ancienne et comportait une basilique à trois nefs avec une disposition à double chœur. Le chœur oriental, construit au-dessus d'une crypte à trois nefs, et le chœur occidental, également avec une crypte, sont des vestiges notables du design du XIe siècle.
Le chœur oriental, étendu par le prévôt Gerhard von Are au milieu du XIIe siècle, présente une façade richement décorée avec sept fenêtres étroitement espacées, une galerie naine et des niches en arc rond peu profondes.
The Cathedral of Saint Martin (Basilika Sankt Martin) is a magnificent Romanesque church located in the heart of Bonn, Germany. This historic monument, with its iconic twin towers, has stood the test of time, bearing witness to centuries of history and cultural change.
The current structure of the Bonner Münster, built in the Romanesque style, began to take shape around 1050. The new building replaced an earlier church and featured a three-aisled basilica with a double choir layout. The eastern choir, built over a three-aisled crypt, and the western choir, also with a crypt, are notable remnants of the 11th-century design.
The eastern choir, extended by Provost Gerhard von Are in the mid-12th century, features a richly decorated façade with seven closely spaced windows, a dwarf gallery, and shallow round-arched niches.
The Cross Slab at Peaceful Shores, Flower of Scotland
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Cross slabs are a mix of Christian and earlier pagan symbols, a reminder of a time when the new Christian religion slowly merged with older folk traditions and gave rise to an extraordinary period of artistic carving mixing and melding the two traditions of symbols.
I recently released a rather large collection of new work on my website (www.michaelbollino.com). These images cover a wide range of subjects and locations while also providing a glimpse into what I currently find visually interesting, at least in my own work. Hope you enjoy these new images as much as I do 🙏
Charlie Burns, known as the King of Bacon Street, died in 2012 at the age of 96. He was born close to Bacon Street and moved to the street itself as a young child. He then lived here for the rest of his life, raising his own family here.
He was a paper merchant as a youngster, and later ran a local boxing club. He would be seen on Bacon Street every day. In his later years he’d be spotted sitting in his daughter’s car watching life around him. He was a great loss to the community when he died as witnessed by the crowds at his funeral and the many warm tributes given.
In 2011, the year before his death, street artist Ben Slow created a portrait of Charlie, and that wall in Bacon Street has since seen several visual tributes to the local hero, each created by a different street artist. As soon as one deteriorates it seems a new one is created.
staff of the Titanic Hotel, Stanley dock, watch as the last remains of the former White Tomkins & Courage grain silo are demolished in a cloud of dust.
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