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The Norooz holiday season includes several symbolic and meaningful celebrations and rituals begining with the last Wednesday of the year, called the Chahar Shanbe Soori (translation yields "Wednesday Fire").On Tuesday evening (the night before the last Wednesday) every family celebrates the Chahar Shanbe Soori.
At the center of this traditional celebration is giving thanks for the fortune of having made it through another healthy year and to exchange any remaining paleness and evil with the life and warmth of the fire. Chahar Shanbe Soori is deeply rooted in Iranians' Zoroastrian past (Persian people's dominant religion prior to Islam). The part of this night especially popular with the youngsters is the bonfire. Every family gathers several piles of wood or brush to be lit shortly after the sunset.
All family members line up and take turns jumping safely along (and over) the burning piles, singing to the fire:
"Sorkheeyeh toe az man; zardeeyeh man az toe."
This translates to:
"Your redness (health) is mine; my paleness (pain) is yours."
Although a recent addition and generally against the law in the urban areas, the sights and sounds of fireworks are very common to this night.
Another routine of the Chahar Shanbe Soori festival is the Iranian version of Trick or Treating associated with the Western Halloween night. Flocks of often young trick or treaters, hidden under a traditional Chador (veil) go from door to door banging a spoon against a metal bowl asking for treats or money.
Another old and almost obsolete Chahar Shanbe Soori ritual is Falgoosh (fortune hearing!) This ritual was carried out usually by young women wanting to know their chances of finding the "Mr. Right" in the coming year. Falgoosh is the act of standing in a dark corner spot or behind a fence and listening to the conversations of the passers by and trying to interpret their statements or the subject of their dialogue as an answer to one's question(s)! This is analogous to calling a psychic reader to find out your fortune!!!
In the past several decades falgoosh has gradually become an almost unacceptable and "politically incorrect" ritual and is seldom practiced in the major urban areas.
Eclipses Yield First Images of Elusive Iron Line in Solar Corona
This image of the solar corona contains a color overlay of the emission from highly ionized iron lines and white light taken of the 2008 eclipse. Red indicates iron line Fe XI 789.2 nm, blue represents iron line Fe XIII 1074.7 nm, and green shows iron line Fe XIV 530.3 nm. This is the first such map of the 2-D distribution of coronal electron temperature and ion charge state. (Release No.: 10-1) (01/05/2010)
Credit: Habbal/NASA
For more information go to:
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2010/aas-eclip...
Weston-Super-Mare in September 2014 yielded an incursion by First Devon & Cornwall into what was always traditional First Somerset & Avon's territory. This was in the form of an extended Service 21 (Taunton-North Petherton-Bridgwater-Highbridge-Burnham-on-Sea) further up the coast via Brean to form a half hourly Weekday Daytime through service taking about two and a half hours end to end.
Vehicles came from both FD&C's Taunton and Bridgwater depots, mostly in the form of Plaxton President and Alexander ALX400-bodied Dennis Tridents that had originated in the London fleets, which were beginning to receive the very attractive two-tone green and fawn Buses of Somerset livery.
Needless to say, the initiative was only short lived, no doubt hampered by timekeeping issues at the major towns along the route. The green buses now only venture as far north as Burnham, with First West of England's Weston depot once again covering the Burnham to Weston section as a re-introduced Service 20, with partly open-top operation in the Summer months.
My first shot is of President-bodied 32844, new as T844 LLC, but sporting dateless plate MIG 3844, as she swings on to Beach Road when taking the circuitous route around the town centre to the terminus in Regent Street.
The Plaxton President is undoubtedly one of my favourite low-floor double-deck bodies, especially when fitted with bonded glazing.
Juvenile Gannet and Gull, the biggest one has the priority!
Chausey islands, Normandy, France
A last shot "on the road", with limited Internet access, I will be able to comment more in the next few days!
Mamiya M645 1000s
Mamiya Sekor C 80mm f/1.9
Fujifilm Fujichrome Velvia 50 RVP 120, expired 1992-12
Tetenal Colortec E-6
Epson v850 Pro
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019
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Shoal Creek seems like it just would like all this construction to maybe slow down a tad.
Downtown
Austin, Texas
February 2020
This multi-purpose trail used to be the TH&B Railway line, now people, bicycles and horse riders use it.
Located in Dundas Ontario.
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Shooting in the rain ... yields nice bokeh :-)
I used the simplest flash backlight possible, just one speedlite (with a warm gel), bare, on a lighstand, pointing directly to the lense... like a little pocket sun. => nice drops in the air, nice flares and rim and hairlight, what more could you hope for... Reason for this dirty trick: It was freezing cold and I got only perhaps 10 minutes left because of the rain and my shaking model.
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1st: Bare speedlite with full CTO (you see this one ...no, it's not the sun, too low .- ), I removed the lightstand in Photoshop
2nd: Front left, speedlite in white shoot-thru brolly, no gel
Both triggered via YN-602.
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LIGHTING DIAGRAM
from the side, as i approached, the paper bag taped to the sign said "take me" but then i stepped into the street to take this, and the white paint on the wall said "run away, run away!"
I made this quilt for my son's 8th birthday using the Yield pattern by Ollie and Olive (www.oliveandollie.com/2010/11/yield_29.html). The fabrics are all Kona Solids: Azure, Zucchini, Coal and Mango. I stippled it.
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Nikon D810 Beautiful Ballerina Goddess Dancing Ballet!
Nikon D810 Ballet Photos of Pretty Ballerina Dancing in Malibu! Captured with the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens and the 50mm Sigma Art Lens !
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I'm working on an anthology of classic, epic poetry, which begins with selections from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey! :) I've replaced the Roman names with the Greek names: "RAGE, Sing, O goddess, the rage of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Greeks. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another."
All the best on your epic hero's odyssey into the art of photography!
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St Peter, Stutton, Suffolk
The Ipswich to Manningtree road cuts off a long tongue of land from the rest of Suffolk. As the great Rivers Orwell and Stour roll towards the sea, the edge inexorably closer to each other, until at Shotley gate they meet before emptying into the North Sea. This huge natural harbour is now home to England's largest container port, but you wouldn't think anything of the kind could be so close in the gentle woods and lanes of the Peninsula, except for the cranes which occasionally peep above the treetops, of course. The setting of St Peter is idyllic: you head down through Holbrook, and then into the woods. It sits in a close with several awesomely grand houses for company, and the Stour estuary is below, wild Essex beyond.
The appearance of the church is a little unusual, and requires some investigation. This is one of the south towers found commonly in the Ipswich area. No south aisle was ever built beside it as at neighbouring Holbrook, but several successive Victorian restorations saw the addition of a long south transept which contains an organ chamber and a vestry which is largely invisible from inside the church, and the rebuilding of the chancel with the addition of a north aisle and transept. But the original tracery of the chancel east window was moved into the chancel aisle, which explains why such an overwhelmingly 19th century extension has a medieval window.
None of the restorations were the work of a major local architect. There seems to have been a rolling programme of refurbishment throughout the 1840s and 1850s, probably at the behest of a Tractarian-minded Rector. The two major restorations came in the 1860s and 1870s, and although Richard Phipson, as Norwich Diocesan Architect, certainly oversaw the work, the combination of, first, Hawkins of London, and then the firm of Francis, has left something unusual and interesting.
Stepping inside, this is an almost-entirely early Victorian interior of some high quality. The furnishings are the work of the great Ipswich woodcarver Henry Ringham, who, despite going bankrupt after overspending on his infamous Gothic House, was still sufficiently highly thought of some decades after his death to have an Ipswich road named after him. If they really date from 1842 then they are the major example of his early work.
An outstanding feature of the west end is Stutton's millennium window. These were installed in many churches at the turn of the century, and are too often kitschy and dull. No such charge could possibly levelled against Stutton's. The window is absolutely outstanding of its kind, at once enthralling, theologically articulate and inclusive. The artist was Thomas Denny, whose work is more familiar in the west of England. The upper part depicts a passage from Isaiah: And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind and a covert from the tempest; as rovers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. The lower part depicts the counterpoint passage from the book of Revelation: And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Either side of the west end are memorials to 17th century Jermys. These are rather striking - they were moved here at the time the chancel was rebuilt, and depict Sir Isaac and Lady Jane Jermy on the south wall, with their son Sir John and Lady Mary Jermy opposite. The verses are well worth a second glance for an insight into 17th Century eloquence.
A remarkable memorial from more than a century earlier is at first sight rather unexciting. It is under the carpet at the east end of the nave, commemorating John Smythe of Stutton Hall, who died in 1534. It is a brass plaque in English, reading O(f your charity pray for the soule) of John Smythe, Knight. John deceased the XIIIIth day of August in the year of Our Lord MCCCCCXXXIIII O(n his soul)e Jesus have mercy. There is no figure, no heraldic devices, no trimmings at all. So what makes it so interesting? Well, at some stage, probably in the late 1540s, possibly in the early 1640s, or perhaps at some time between or shortly afterwards, all the parts of the inscription that reflect Catholic theology and doctrine have been viciously raked out, with either a sword-tip or chisel. So, we have lost f your charity pray for the soul and, at the end, n his soul. A fascinating document of the protestant intolerance of early modern England.
The chancel has been reordered in a curious manner. The rood screen is almost certainly also by Henry Ringham, making it a work of some significance, and was installed here before the chancel arch was rebuilt in 1862. It has been set further east, with the altar brought forward, and now provides an elegant backdrop to the sanctuary.
All the 19th Century glass is worth a look, being a record of work through the decades of the 19th century. Some is the 1840s work of Charles Clutterbuck, which as Pevsner points out makes them rare survivals in Suffolk. As often on the peninsula, the church suffered blast damage during the last War and several windows are lost, but these losses are recorded in their replacements. The Ward & Hughes-style window of St Helen and St Peter appears to date from the 1850s, and if so it is a remarkably early example of such a thing in Suffolk, where such papistry would have been controversial until well into the 1860s. Powell's glass of the post-Resurrection Christ greeting his Disciples on the shores of Galilee of a couple of decades later must have struck a chord of familiarity in this coastal parish, and remains a good example of the workshop's early work in Suffolk.
There is more good work in the north transept and chapel, but unfortunately this is now used as a meeting room, and is kept locked. You can see it through the glass partition, but it is impossible to photograph. Otherwise, this is a interesting and welcoming church, with a beautiful setting and a strong sense of continuity.
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Paysage islandais. Le temps est variable mais, enfin la pluie cède le passage au soleil !
Nouvelle vague (oui, c'est une reprise de AMP)
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Icelandic landscape. The weather was changeable but, at last, rain is yielding to sun !
Nouvelle Vague (yes it is a cover of AMP)