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Rising moon near closing five days ago. Hasn't been visible since due to heavy rains. Have a beautiful day and thanks for stopping by!
... Or blown away by the Sphinx de Vallières.
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‘Twas a bleak morning and something was very wrong. Part of our “strange contraption” - the carrelet, a major landmark - had vanished into thin air, leaving only a stilted platform looking like an offshore helipad for naval choppers. It was also the first day of April ;-)
All sorts of things immediately sprang to mind including: Candid Camera and David Copperfield who, incidentally, was nowhere to be seen. And that in itself was rather suspicious, don't you think?.
View in lightbox, then zoom in while on full screen, to notice that the Sphinx de Vallières is an illusion created by the meticulous alignment of two separate pieces of rock – the head and the rest of the body - nearly 100 yards apart, see here (new tab). It’s where you stand that counts; tide and weather permitting of course.
You may also have noticed that, unlike the Great Sphinx of Giza with its disproportionately small head, our sphinx has a head big enough for two faces! Can you spot them? They're numbered 1 & 2 for the visually impaired. I must admit that the first one does look a bit stony-faced and the second a little apish. wouldn't you agree? (ツ)
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Take that little extra care my friends and many thanks for calling,
Colin ... (ツ)
Back to photo page : Le Sphinx de Vallières en silhouette
A short walk near Hebden Bridge which starts at 'PECKET WELL', where there is a stone War Memorial...
I discovered a couple of years ago that it looks as though it is in 'alignment' with Heptonstall Church (middle) and Stoodley Pike Monument (far distance), the latter of which was re-built to celebrate the end of the Napoleonic wars in Europe 1815.
(Ironically I took this picc on the eve of the Summer solstice too, but am unaware of any 'connection' - perhaps just 'happenstance' :-)
Walking Pal, John, sidles past foxgloves and nettles... We didn't walk the whole distance by any means (only about 5 miles) and my other (walking) Pal, Dennis was close behind (HWW :-)
The sites at Carnac form the largest collection of megalithic stones in the world. More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and erected by the early Celtic people of Brittany. The alignments are believed to be related to astronomical observations at the solstices. This image is of an impressive upright among several smaller stones of the Ménec alignment.
Hope you have a lovely weekend! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind support.
© Melissa Post 2016
Bits of very cheap jewellery, you align these and put a wire through them. One would be 1 inch long. I placed it on pink paper.
Ancient people respected the sun. In fact they worshipped it as the source of life. So in many places observatories were set up to track the movements of the sun. Stonehenge is quite possibly such a place.
This photograph wasn't planned, but as soon as I saw what was happening I set up the tripod to capture the sun in perfect alignment.
* REMEMBERING JOHN OLSEN (1928-2023)
Today we learned that Australia's greatest living artist is alive no more. John Olsen has died at the age of 95. The grand old man of Australian painting left a huge legacy, and I for one would like to pay him a tribute (painters, even abstract ones, have always influenced me more than photographers). Several years ago I posted a photograph of his 1964 painting "Me the Gardener" in the QVMAG Collection. www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/49616768471/in/album-72...
He was most definitely the last of a great generation of Modernists that included Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Margaret Olley. www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/olsen-john/
This alignment of arches and chapels, along the aisle of the church of Saint Bavo, shows the harmony and beauty of Gothic art. It will also close this small series and I we’ll have to choose the next theme to share!
The bright star on the lower left is actually the planet Saturn. The middle star is Altair and the top right star is Vega. The line up in a perfect diagonal line above the Temple of the Sun. This images is full of natural wonders. Stars, Planets, Milky Way galaxy, air glow, and our home.
Alignment in the Meudon Observatory Park in Ile de France
Alignement dans le Parc de l'Observatoire de Meudon en Ile de France
... somehow these all got aligned there on my desk at work ... and had my camera around for a ... snap :)
The light on the desk from the computer monitor.
Gracias a todos por vuestra visita, amables comentarios y fav/ Thank you all for your visit, kind comments and fav
Cámaras Nikon D850 con lente 24-120 F4/G-VR y Canon 60D con lente 70-200. Capturas editadas con ACR y PS-CC 2019.
Recomiendo hacer doble click sobre la imagen y ver en grande.
I recommend see in larger clicking double on the image.
This image came together really nicely - there is a flow from bottom right to top left - starting with the small pebble, supporting the bigger rock, the flow of rocks leads to water flowing out to see, the silhoutte of the Surfer heading out towards the breaking wave - moody skies, this has to be one of my favourite images taken so far this year.