Faith is Funny
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Margerethenkapelle on top of the Wiehengebirge. One of my special places since I visited a concert on a Winter evening here many years ago. October waved goodby with sunshine and warm tempereratures and we used the perfect weather for an extended hiking tour on the Wittedindsweg, a crest trail on the Wiehengebirge from Porta Westfalica in the East to the Osnabrück area in the West. Before the sun went down we visited the most interesting spots of the Eastern part of the trail.
I'd say the timing of this capture was pretty spot-on in that regard!!!
I haven't seen one up close for several months so this moment was very special on an unseasonably warm fall day
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Created for Award Tree Challenge 220.0 ~ Mystical Light ~
All work done in MidJourney and Photoshop Beta23 .
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”Shakkin’ Briggie” (St Devenick’s Bridge) over the River Dee from Ardoe to Cults, Aberdeen - opened in 1837. Funded by Rev Dr George Morison to give 700 parishioners on the north bank access to his church on the south bank (they were crossing the river by boat). You would need more than a prayer to cross on it now!
San Francisco dream cityscape about our strongly held beliefs and paradigm shifts.
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Why not a happy song too ? ;)
Kenta - Just idag är jag stark (Exactly Today I'm Strong)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCRj-pOR3o
Exactly Today I'm Strong
Exactly today I'm strong,
exactly today I feel good.
I am carried forward by strong winds.
Exactly today I'm strong,
exactly today I feel good.
I have the belief in myself by my side.
I have waited so long for exactly this day,
and it's so nice that it finally comes.
Waited so long for exactly this day,
it gives joy when it comes.
I watch the escape of the gulls.
I watch the dance of the sun rays.
I look forward to lovely times.
I watch the step of the women.
I watch the gloss of the eyes.
I have the belief in myself by my side.
I have waited so long for exactly this day,
and it's so nice that it finally comes.
Waited so long for exactly this day,
it gives joy when it comes.
I hear laughing children.
I hear the roar of the sluices.
I belong to the few who can live.
I hear inner music.
I hear the soughing of the winds.
I have the belief in myself by my side.
I have waited so long for exactly this day,
and it's so nice that it finally comes.
Waited so long for exactly this day,
it gives joy when it comes.
***Taken at my (new) home***
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVQKUSdZre4
It doesn't matter if you're white, black, brown, or even yellow, purple, green, pink, blue. It doesn't matter where you live, how you speak, what you do for a living, how you make your money, if you're religious or political, if you're gay or straight, if you're right or wrong, if you're young or old, if you're rich or poor or what you're beliefs are.
All life is precious.
All lives matter.
Five years ago if someone would have told me that I'd be shooting rebuilt CP SD9043AC's in maroon and grey paint in St Paul, I'd have thought they were nuts. Or high.
But here we are, doing just that on a beautiful Fall day. And these engines look GREAT! I gotta give them credit, CP really nailed it with these two Heritage units. They're on their first revenue run with train 197. Still can't believe what I saw today.
Barbed-wire in Belfast, segregating the Protestant and Catholic communities. Religion has a lot to answer for in the suffering of people throughout the world.
Seeing artist Barbara Kruger's installation at MoMA yesterday reminded me that I had seen her work installed at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC in 2016.
From the museum's website: "Large areas of the installation are devoted to open-ended questions (“WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO SPEAKS? WHO IS SILENT?”), while the section occupying the bookstore explores themes of desire and consumption. At once addressing the individual, the museum, and, symbolically, the country, Kruger’s penetrating examination of the public sphere transforms one of the Hirshhorn’s key public spaces."
Au pays Toraja on n’enterre pas ses morts. On creuse généralement un vaste orifice dans une falaise ou dans un bloc rocheux afin d’y disposer le cercueil. Si le défunt est de sang noble, une figurine en bois à son effigie dénommée Tau Tau sera disposée sur la falaise.
Ces rites s’expliquent par la religion traditionnelle des Torajas, appelée Aluk To Dolo, dont sont issues leurs croyances animistes ancestrales. To Dolo signifie « les gens qui sont partis ». Cette religion consiste donc en une croyance aux ancêtres, en un mélange complexe de cultes, de mythes et de rituels ancestraux.
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In Toraja country, people do not bury their dead. A large hole is usually dug in a cliff or boulder to place the coffin. If the deceased is of noble blood, a wooden figure of him or her, called Tau Tau, is placed on the cliff.
These rites are explained by the traditional religion of the Torajas, called Aluk To Dolo, from which their ancestral animistic beliefs originate. To Dolo means "people who have gone away". This religion consists of a belief in ancestors, a complex mixture of cults, myths and ancestral rituals.
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En el país de los Toraja, la gente no entierra a sus muertos. Se suele cavar un gran agujero en un acantilado o una roca para colocar el ataúd. Si el fallecido es de sangre noble, se coloca en el acantilado una figura de madera de él o ella, llamada Tau Tau.
Estos ritos se explican por la religión tradicional de los torajas, llamada Aluk To Dolo, de la que proceden sus creencias animistas ancestrales. To Dolo significa "gente que se ha ido". Esta religión consiste en la creencia en los ancestros, una compleja mezcla de cultos, mitos y rituales ancestrales.
Created for KP December 2021 contest - Shades of Gray.
(Winner 1st PL) Tied
Weird plant/flower purchased from Dover.
Metal clock, purchased from Fotolia.
Pet Mouse (Inside gray bubble) from my private collection, purchased.
Clock and Flower on hat, purchased from Renderosity.
Bubbles from PNGWing.
All other Steampunk, grunge, illustrations & metal elements etc., purchased from DS.
Cloud brush and frame, mine.
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Pride is simply your belief that you should exist as you are or as you believe you should be. Free yourself from the dogmatic view that before the church can save you, it has to curse you. We are all free to follow our hearts, and love who we want, that is a fundamental right.
I don’t normally place much belief in dreams, but this time it was so powerful I actually got out of bed to start working on it before I forgot. I was “told” that I had to create several images that are black and white (not monochrome) with the emphasis on white, framed, contain people, and a bit of color. Oh yeah, the titles had to start with L, M, F, B, Q, or A (that’s the order I was given). After a couple of days, this collection is what I came up with. I also threw in a couple starting with S and T just for shits and giggles.
For the color part of this image, it is kind of small and hard to see. Click the pic to enlarge and check out the lips.
It is my ardent belief that we can all find beauty, wherever we go, if only we open our eyes and see it. I had to take a trip to see my doctor the other day and as I was waiting for the tram to go home after my consultation, I happened to notice a few pretty pink ornamental flowering almond blossoms poking through a hedge as I waited. They appeared to be saying: "peek-a-boo - we see you. Do you see us?" I'm so glad that I did see them, as I love the pink and white blossoms of the flowering almond, and they gave me a much needed smile. They are so delicate and pretty, how can one not smile when seeing them?
Spring is slowly returning to Melbourne, not that you would think so today, with extremely low temperatures and gusty winds, but when I took this photo earlier in the week, it had been a cool, yet sunny day which is typical of early spring days in Melbourne.
A spring-blooming shrub, flowering almond is a beautiful addition to any garden with sweet pink double blossoms. Sometimes the flowers are followed by small round red fruit coveted by squirrels. This shrub can grow ten to fifteen feet tall, but there is also a dwarf flowering almond (Prunus glandulosa) with pink or white flowers that grows only four to five feet tall.
Amsterdam - De Cuserstraat
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With mists hanging over the open ground, the sun coming up on the horizon, and a herd of ponies ambling across the scene; I just had to find a high vantage point to set up the camera and enjoy the start to the day. (Note to Sir R – I believe that since the dawn (weak pun intended) of Enlightenment the start of the day has been set by the periodic rotation of the Earth on its axis, and not measured by the fullness of one’s bladder. Apart from the deepest parts of Derbyshire, where old pagan beliefs in the natural spirits are still strong).
Equipment: Nikon D7000, Nikkor 70-300mm @300mm, ISO 400, F6.3, 1/400sec. Manfrotto tripod
Post-production: Curve adjustment layer to correct the exposure
There are so many questions one may have on any given day. This is a new day in a new year, but although the numbers have changed, it is just another day.