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Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
— Hermann Hesse
An ancient tree in another world... ツ ツ ツ
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Ancient Bristlecone
They are some of the oldest trees on the planet. Some have been found to be more then 4000 years old. They grow between 9,000 and 11,000 feet in elevation. This is about 340 frames of star trails. My friend Shaun and I set of our cameras and then hiked back down to his rig, ate some sandwiches from Schat’s Bakery and watched The Hunt for Red October, good movie. After that we hiked back up to get our cameras. The tree was lit by the moon.
Excavations made from 1922 by Swedish archaeologists found the acropolis of ancient Asine surrounded by a Cyclopean wall and a Mycenaean era necropolis with many Mycenaean chamber tombs containing skeletal remains and grave goods.
Young bull bison enjoying a full body scratch in South Dakota's Badlands National Park (see photos in comment section).
"There is little in the way of hiking in the Badlands National Park. Instead, a decent gravel road makes it way up and over the small mountains on the edge of the prairie. I suspect the reason for this is because the Park doesn't want backcountry hikers stumbling into the herd and getting trampled by a 1500 to 2000 pound wild animal. Bison are not enlarged horses!
Unlike Yellowstone National Park, where it seems someone each year gets trampled by an angry bison because the person got too close, the Badlands has avoided this problem by keeping all visitors in their cars. However, in the event you ignore their rules and end up face to face with a Buffalo (like me... I had pulled off the road to stretch my legs), here's how to determine their mood.....
A bison's tail is often a handy warning flag. When it hangs down and is switching naturally, the animal usually is unperturbed. If it extends out straight and droops at the end he/she is becoming mildly agitated. If the tail is sticking straight up, they are ready to charge and you should be somewhere else....but do not run... jump back into your Jeep, turn the engine on, leave the car in park, and start clicking away." (some from the National Bison Range website)
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Nikon D700
AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II
Nikon 2X teleconverter
Texture and frame, FX Photo Studio
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Ancient Sagalassos....is an active archaeological site in southwest Turkey which contains mostly Hellenistic and Ancient Roman historic ruins, some of them very well preserved. In particular, the Fountain of Antoninler at Sagalassos still has its pretty facade. There are also the remains of a 9,000 seat theatre, a council hall (bouleuterion), a library, rock carved tombs, temples and baths. Part of the Phrygian kingdom from the ninth century BC and then part of the Lydian kingdom, Sagalassos became more urbanized under the Persian Empire from 546BC, becoming a focal point in the region of Pisidia over the course of two centuries. In 334BC, Alexander the Great arrived in the region and attacked Sagalassos, eventually succeeding in destroying it, although its citizens did put up a good fight. Over the coming centuries, the Pisidia region - including Sagalassos - changed hands several times, finally coming under Roman rule in 129BC. The prosperity of Sagalassos fluctuated over the end of the first century BC, but slowly it became more successful, particularly because of the fertility of its land and the production of a material called Sagalassos Red Slip Ware, a type of tableware. Much of this affluence translated into the construction of buildings and monuments, especially during the second century AD, under Hadrian, and up to the third century. Sagalassos began to fall into decline in around 500AD and this was accelerated by a devastating earthquake in 590AD. Although abandoned for a long period of time, the area was further inhabited from the tenth century AD.
Acropolis | Old Temple of Athena 02/05/2018 10h16
The Old Temple of Athena was an Archaic temple located on the Acropolis of Athens between the old Parthenon and Erechteion, built around 525-500 BC. Until its destruction by the Persians in 480 BC, it was the shrine of Athena Polias, the patron deity of the city of Athens. It was located at the center of the Acropolis plateau, probably on the remains of a Mycenaean palace. The complex is sometimes described by the name "Dörpfeld foundations", after the archaeologist who found the location of the temple. It was referred to as "Archaios Neos" (Old temple) by the Greeks.
Source: Wikipedia - Old Temple of Athena
Acropolis
An acropolis (Ancient Greek: ἀκρόπολις, tr. Akrópolis; from ákros (άκρος) or ákron (άκρον) "highest, topmost, outermost" and pólis "city"; plural in English: acropoles, acropoleis or acropolises) was in ancient Greece a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground—frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense. Acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Athens, and for this reason they are sometimes prominent landmarks in modern cities with ancient pasts, such as modern Athens.
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The ancient theater of Sparta and a view of the modern city, under Mt Taygetos
Το αρχαίο θέατρο της Σπάρτης και μια άποψη της πόλης, με τον Ταΰγετο στο βάθος
In this area, between what is called the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline Hill -- the Roman civilization started. It started in 1000 B.C, about three thousand years ago. That's three hundred centuries ago.
Visible in this shot is part of the Temple of Castor and Pollux.
Roman Forum - South Side
Rome, Italy
This model is my take on a subject of ancient roman architecture. It does not represent any particular real building. Instead I took inspiration from them and I tried to model features that I thought are the most prominent. I mixed them with more unusual ones like placing columns in groups instead of using a regular grid pattern or using several smaller stairs from three sides of the building instead of a single and wide ones leading only to the main front doors.