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This was taken at St. Vitus Cathedral inside the Prague Castle. 3 exposures, handheld.
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Devotion, 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, 2010
All kinds of glass: stained, glitter, Van Gogh, tapestry, iridized, vitreous, dichroic, mirror, Millefiori, Italian Smalti, Paua shell and beads.
With so many different bits of beautiful materials to choose from, I am devoted to them all!
Senhor da Pedra is a small church built on top of the rocky seaside. In stormy days, sometimes this wonderful church is completely surrounded by the sea.
Its a place of devotion and wonder!
Time and devotion have cloaked this guardian in emerald moss, each droplet of water an offering, each prayer a whisper woven into the green. At Hozenji Mizukake Fudoson, worshippers follow the mizukake ritual—pouring water over the statue as a gesture of faith, purification, and good fortune. Over the years, the moisture has allowed nature to take root, transforming the stone into a living symbol of resilience and devotion. Here, belief is not just spoken but nurtured, where moss and prayers grow side by side.
A mother's devotion knows no boundaries. Despite the hardships the poorer Tibetans face, the family unit is still very strong and closely knit.
Gyantse, Tibet
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Here in the Buddha Footprint sala at Wat Phra Phuttabat Si Roy devotional offerings to the Buddha, the teacher.
The character on his knees is doing a pilgrimage, he is going around the stuppa in a succession of stand-bow-lay down. Some of them are doing it from their hometown to Lhassa, for hundreds of kilometers, in the tibetan culture it is good to it at least once in your life.
Had an "urban chic" photo shoot in downtown Kitchener with little rockstar pup Marty. He LOVES his mom and rarely has his eyes off her.
Young man devoting time to reading on his smartphone at a temple after closing hours in Taipei, Taiwan.
Husband and wife: he drives his spouse to her hemodialysis treatment that starts at 5 am three times a week. He takes care of her appointments, medications and meals. They always relish having breakfast out after finishing her treatment .
After a long and at times painful arm injury I felt it was time to pick up Flickr again. Sitting behind a computer is becoming enjoyable again. I thank everybody that mailed me and was interested in my well being. Very good to have such nice friends here.
This is in Chinatown in London, UK. I recently had some time to spare between legs and headed into town. I was walking through Lisle Street - parallel to the touristic part of Chinatown – and saw this chef prepare dim sum dumplings at a yum cha restaurant (飲茶). Her concentration, dedication and devotion with which she prepared the Chiu-chao style dumplings struck me at heart. It was as if the windows acted as some sort of a “warp hole” between two dimensions, as both our worlds where so different yet connected for a couple of minutes.
I took several photos and she never looked up while I – a lengthy westerner – bended forward to get a good peek through the relative low and small window. Luckily I had my wide converter already on my G9, for after three shots she was finished with this lot of dim sums and headed to another part of the restaurant.
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The wonderful combination of a nun and rather eerie twins makes this one of my favourites :)
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The Lerwick registered whitefish trawler devotion hauling gear on the east side of Whalsay.
Devotion LK801
Built
Year: 1993
Yard: Macduff
Hull material: Wood
GT: 206
NT.: 77,96
Length o.a.22,85
Length r.g.21
Breadth(mld)7
Depth(mld)3,9
Engines
Total Bhp.: 689
Total Kw.: 514
MAINCaterpillar
Former name(s)
Endeavour II
Valiant
Margaret Jane
Venture
The Ceiling
The ceiling is a masterpiece of Victorian church decoration, painted from end to end in brilliant colours, with carved and coloured angels, with banners, crowns and shields, all in the medieval style and of a most intricate and detailed finish.
The scheme of decoration is important as it reflects the ecclestiastical devotion of the late Victorian period clergy and their patrons, combined with the heightened liturgical practices of the Oxford Movement.
It was painted by Mildred Holland, the wife of William Holland who was rector for 44 years from 1848 until his death in 1892. The church was closed for eight months from September 1859 to April 1860 while she painted the chancel roof. Tradesmen provided scaffolding and prepared the ceiling for painting but there is no record to show that she had any help with the work, and legend has it that she did much of it lying on her back. We may imagine Victorian ladies wearing tight laced corsets and many petticoats, and wonder how she managed the ladders, scaffolding and hard labour of painting. She had an adviser on her schemes, a Mr. E. L. Blackburne F.S.A., an authority on medieval decoration.
The twelve large panels of the chancel ceiling each show an angel holding either a scroll with the words of the canticle 'Blessed be the Lord God of Israel', or the emblems of the Passion: the cross, the hammer and nails, the scourge, the lance, the crown of thorns and the reed.
Two pelicans in their piety (pecking their breasts to feed their young) are in the last small panels.
Between the beam ends of the chancel roof there are Bible verses in Gothic lettering,
then two tiers of panels; the lower have pictures of the Lamb of God alternating with`the Keys of Heaven. Above, are crowned monograms.
Above the Chancel Arch, the Lamb of God is depicted with the words 'Glory, Honour, Praise and Power unto the Lamb for Ever and Ever', lines taken from the Book of Revelation.
Three years later Mildred Holland began to paint again in the nave. In 1866 her husband William makes a note 'scaffolding finally taken down, September Ist'. The whole cost of repairing the nave roof, preparing it for painting and for materials amounted to £247.10s.7d of which £16.7s.6d was for 225 books of gold leaf and £72 for colours. William Holland's notes show that between 1859 and 1882 a total of £2,034. 10s.0d was spent on the church restoration, of which, apparently, he gave all but £400.
Recent research has found the complete record of William Holland's work in restoring and furnishing the church. These are available for interested students.
The figures on the nave roof are of the twelve apostles and two female saints. Each is painted in the lower tier with their traditional symbols and again in the upper tier clothed in heavenly raiment holding scrolls bearing their names.
Reading from the chancel arch on the north side are the saints with their symbols:
Peter (keys of Heaven)
Andrew (cross on which he was crucified)
James the Great (scallop shells of pilgrimage in hat)
John (chalice and dragon)
Philip (knife)
Bartholomew (unclear what he is holding but possibly his flayed skin)
Margaret of Antioch (dragon)
Reading from the chancel arch on the south side, the saints are:
Paul (sword with which he was executed)
Thomas (spear)
James the Less (mitre and oar symbolizing his bishopric of Jerusalem and his trade as a fisherman)
Matthew (axe)
Simon (pit saw)
Jude (boat)
Ann the mother of the Virgin (three crowns and book)
Note that Saints Margaret and Andrew are both included as there is a tradition that these two saints were specially venerated here. There are niches for statues in the south aisle which may have held statues of them. The cult of St Margaret of Antioch grew in the 10th century and her veneration was brought back to England by crusaders. Her inclusion here may hint at an early date for the church's foundation.
Mildred Holland died in 1878; William served on until 1892, a total of forty years. He gave the font cover in memory of his wife and also the brass lectern with its graceful angels and winged dragons. Their graves are in the churchyard to the west of the entrance gates. Side by side they lie, beneath a table tomb alongside a standing cross.
Today, their roof may be lit up by visitors putting a £1 coin in a meter.
The roof itself
It is natural to speculate about the roof. It is of a single hammer-beam construction, arch-braced principals alternating with hammer-beams ending in carved angels. The angels in the nave carry a crown or a banner, those in the chancel have heraldic shields bearing arms. The question all ask is: are these angels genuinely medieval work which escaped the axes of the post-Reformation Puritans, (and remember that William Dowsing, the arch-destroyer, came from nearby Laxfield) or are they all the handiwork of Victorian craftsmen?
Traditional East Anglian hammer-beam roofs generally terminate in a carving of some sort, and the de la Poles made angel roofs in the churches of their manors, even taking Suffolk carpenters to Ewelme in Oxfordshire to make one there. But our angels are too perfect to be so old. Entries in a tradesman's account of 1865 would seem to settle the matter; or do they?
Mr Spall's extras included 8 angels with expanded wings, Chancel, £12
B. W. Spall, time and materials to preparing and fixing 10 angels, £80
The account does not actually say 'making'.
Restoration
In 2005, extensive conservation and cleaning of the painted roof, together with repair and repainting of the internal walls, was carried out thanks to grant aid from the Heritage Lottery Fund and supporting donations. See the Ceiling Conservation page for more information.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Everyday during this month, Muslims around the world spend the daylight hours in a complete fast. During this holy month Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours. As a time to purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice self-sacrifice, Ramadan is much more than just not eating and drinking. The Arabic word for "fasting" (swam) literally means "to refrain" - and it means not only refraining from food and drink but also from evil actions, thoughts, and words.
Devoted souls congregate and pray to the almighty for peace and beg mercy as Ramadan is said to be the month of forgiveness.
© Inkiad Hasin, 2012
This gentleman was dancing on the songs being played in devotion to the Ganga at Dashashwamedh Ghat.
~Think Exist
Post from a month ago introducing Waylon www.flickr.com/photos/kaymaguire/4001770902/
Waylon is improving slowly, he is very nervous and has been badly beaten in the past with the result that some of his teeth were broken but also leaving him extremely nervous as you can imagine. He has stomach problems due to being malnourished for some time. He is very energetic and such a good soul - hopefully with some time and care he will improve:-)
Recently visited Chintpurni Temple with my cousins. Chintpurni Temple is about one and half hour drive from my home town-Hoshiarpur here in Punjab.
Chintpurni Temple is one of the sacred pilgrimage destinations of Himachal Pradesh. One of the revered deities, Chintpurni Temple is one of the Shakti Peeth’s of Hindu Goddess Durga that draws a number of pilgrims every year during the festivals. The devotees believe that the Goddess of this temple fulfills the wishes of the pilgrims and takes away all their troubles & worries, Hence known as ....... "Chintpurni"
Dedicated to Goddess Chhinnamastika Devi and Goddess Chintpurni Devi, the Chintpurni Devi Temple is revered by people of Northern India. The image which is worshipped in the Chintpurni Temple depicts Goddess Durga without a head and therefore it gives her the name Chhinnamastika Devi which means ‘the Goddess without the head’. It is also believed Sati’s feet had fallen here after it was cut by Vishnu’s Chakra. There are other myths which say that the Goddess had asked one of her devotees to worship her in a temple over here.
Chintpurni Temple is visited by a number of devotees during its festivals. Especially during the Navratris held in the time of April and October and also during Shukalpaksh in August. The Chintpurni Devi Temple is also the venue for a number of other festivals of North India. The Sawan Ashtami Fair is also celebrated with great fervor in the Chintpurni Devi Temple.
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In this diptych: side view of "Chintpurni Temple" and a woman tie the sacred crimson thread on to the banyan tree in the sanctum of the 'Chintpurni Temple', The belief is that you tie the thread wishing for your heart's desire and when it is granted by the Goddess you come again to the temple to untie the thread and thank the Goddess for her blessings.