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Looking up at the ceiling of the structure in the previous photo. It has the 12 astrological signs around the outside, and 9 images in the center that I'm not so sure about. They might be a depiction of "the nine virtues attributed to the Buddha" but that's just a wild guess, and I'm not exactly sure what that even means. I can see the "sleeping Buddha" which is a famous sculpture in Bangkok, and what looks like Buddha under the Bhodi tree, which as the story goes, is where Buddha attained enlightenment, so by best guess is that it's depicting the various stages of Buddhas life.
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St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church | Washington, DC | www.saintstephensdc.org
Camera: Halina Pix 110F (which has a very unreliable viewfinder)
Film used: Lomography Tiger 110 format film
Olympia, Washington
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Choir - altar, reredos and baldacchino by Charles Nicholson, 1936. All-over gilding in 1970 by S E Dykes Bower
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic cathedral and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah. Savannah's first parish was established by French Catholic émigrés and called it the Congrégation de Saint Jean-Baptiste. They came to Savannah in the aftermath of the Haiti uprising, and included nobles fleeing the French Revolution. The cathedral as it stands today is the second church, which is of French Gothic style with imposing naves and transepts. It was almost destroyed by fire and 1898 but was rebuilt.
The Plänarsaal in the Reichstag has an impressive roof. Light is brought in by means of a big dome on the roof. The spike in the middle is the ventilation system removing the heated air from the room. Because of the extreme light differences I made three exposures and combined them in this hdr shot.
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The Erawan Museum on the south eastern outskirts of Bangkok is an unforgettable sight, taking the form of a giant statue of Erawan, an enormous three-headed bronze elephant, standing upon an elaborate plinth, both of which contain stunning halls that are more shrine than museum.
The main hall is an ornate space located within the pink-hued pedestal, filled with heavily ornamented staircases and crowned by a stained glass ceiling. Above this, in the belly of the bronze behemoth above, is a beautiful contemporary style Buddha shrine, containing various bronze Buddha images and abstract mural decoration, reached by a lift in one of the statue's legs!
Inside the mausoleum of Habib ibn Ali Bourguiba, Tunisia. See reflection on granite floor at - www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/229233897/in/set-7215759416...
Het museum is genoemd naar Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778), een zeer rijke laken- en zijdefabrikant. Als aanhanger van de Verlichting liet hij in zijn testament opnemen dat zijn collectie en vermogen in een stichting ondergebracht zouden moeten worden. De stichting zou tot doel moeten hebben kunst en wetenschap te bevorderen.