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Ellora Cave 16: the Kailasanatha Temple. 8th century.

 

Conceptualizing an idea that would take 200 years to complete, take 7500 people to finish, with buy-in from 10 generations of stake holders, detailing it to the T (a house of god cannot have a wrong cut), excavating 400000 tonnes of rock, all of these could only have been possible because of the sheer brilliance, love and devotion of those involved.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa_temple,_Ellora

 

Ellora Caves Album:

www.flickr.com/photos/santanu_sen/albums/72157677494590202

Devotion young boy delivering the new Torah to the alter in this early 70s shot on film, found in North Carolina.

Heartshaped Paper Experiments.

A moving moment at the Mezquita, as a couple of young tourists used her phone to photograph a lady in front of a shrine. She had a mobility impairment, her walking sticks lying in front of her.

Shot on my birthday, and in near darkness. Very emotional scene ...

It was quite dark and I had a slow film in my camera.

No tripod.

So lens wide open and 1/2 second exposure from hand....

B&W film helped to catch the atmosphere…. :-)

 

Camera: Nikon F4

Lens: Nikkor 2/35mm D

Film: Fuji Neopan Acros II@200 (so pushed 1 stop)

Devotees in Devotion during 556th Guru Nanak Jayanti celebration at Ulsoor Gurdwara in Bengaluru,

  

"And as the plague keeps crawling

They eat the innards of the saints

We failed

 

Drawn to the pit by the smell of the carcass

Mankind is enticed to oppression

Blind and tied then bred to swallow this ill-fated blasphemous creed

Taste the vile golden crown

Forge anew the curse of life

Sworn to obey your masters calling

Tyranny is the saviour’s will and faith

 

Bastards who hail the unseen servitude

To fulfill their need to endure

They cast them in gaols, tortured, skinned, maimed and sliced

May their kin be eradicated to delight in everlasting grace

 

Rabid like dogs, we serve and disgust you

Weaving our self loathe to cling upon our lives

 

Tyranny - We shall be devoted to centuries of pain

Tyranny - We shall be devoted to slavers of the self

 

Rabid like dogs, we serve and disgust you

Weaving our self loathe to cling upon our lives

 

Oh monarch, beseech us to keep upon our necks and feet the gentle chains of higher scorn

Avow the guilt and skin the earth upon which I sacrifice my will and my desire for thee

 

Fierce is the one who detests his creation

As rot engulfs the ascended

Choice became the mark of the traitors

Hanging down from sacred trees

Spiritual cancer swells

To dissolve our mortal shell

Don’t you see they birthed the culling?

Tyranny is the saviour’s will and faith

 

Bastards who hail the unseen servitude

To fulfill their need to endure

They cast them in gaols, tortured, skinned, maimed and sliced

May their kin be eradicated to feed the neverending grace of war."

semana santa, Madrid 2014

Rolleiflex 6x6

 

Gange ghat.

Varanasi. India

View On Black

 

I've been running, trying to be one who sees

I've been working, this salvation out on my knees

There is nothing better than knowing

We are redeemed

I'm believing, trusting in creative hands,

I am praying for our world to bow to your plan

And this one thought is unmistakable

To take up my cross and follow You Lord

 

When You stand, the tall tress and mountains bow

When You speak, the fiercest of oceans is still

And I see the sinner seek devotion

The lost become chosen, and I fall to my knees

 

I'm forgiven by a Savior who did not deserve death

He was blameless and I was lost in shamefulness

Undelivered, but it doesn't seem right

Unless I keep my eyes focues on the Savior who gave His life

In the middle of a world that denies it believes

It is breaking apart at the very seams

There is one thing to be alive for

And it's to take up my cross and follow You Lord

 

When You stand, the tall trees and mountains bow

When You speak, the fiercest of oceans is still

And I see the sinner seek devotion

The lost become chosen, and I fall to my knees

 

I will take up my cross and follow Lord where You lead me

And I will take up my cross and follow wherever you go

 

When You stand, the tall trees and mountains bow

When You speak, the fiercest of oceans are still

And I see the sinner seek devotion

The lost become chosen, and I fall to my knees

 

Fall to my knees

 

- hillsong united

 

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An elderly couple offering dia's into river Ganga on the occasion of Dev Diwali.

St Edwards the Confessor, Romford

Here is Gallad, our 11 month-old puppy giving me that look...he loves to be talked to and like most dogs, he pricks up his ears, cocks his head and fixes his eyes on me as if trying to understand what the human is saying...and then he talks back in little yipes and hound howls. I love the look of utter trust in his eyes.

Devotion to family. And perhaps, more.....

Female monks of Myanmar

Happy Caturday!

Fête de Ganesh, Paris, 31 août 2014.

Don't be afraid to be weak

Don't be too proud to be strong...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rALVgdoMHk

A prayer at a temple in Anurhadapura.

 

Candles offered to Santo Cristo de Lepanto, a battle-scarred, dark-skinned Christ inside one of the many chapels within Barcelona's Catedral de la Seu.

A Temple In My Neighborhood.

The Girl Sitting Comes Everyday and Prays For More Then an Hour or So,A Scene I Seldom See In The Generation-x or whatever it's called.

True Devotion.

taking it was an ordeal as one usually doesn't start taking pictures of strangers praying in a temple,but i had to.i did get a few angry and bewildered looks but it was worth it.

 

Take With a Nokia N-72.

Since everyone loved this photo before, I'll upload it now. Gonna go take some photos later today when the sun goes down (because that's my favorite time!)

 

Thank you for those that voted for me, I won first place for the contest. I'm very excited! Cannot wait to get my new Flip Ultra HD in the mail. :)

made of wood and will be a gift,

have a nice weekend and thanks for the visit

In front of the Jokhang temple, she and her family did a full body prostration.

 

This is very hard to do,

The actual prostration is performed by dropping the body forward and stretching it full length on the floor, the arms outstretched in front.... Again, with hands in the lotus bud mudra, bend your arms back and touch your hands to the top of your head (forehead touching the ground), a gesture that acknowledges the blessing flowing from Guru Rinpoche. Then stretch your arms out once more and push yourself up.... Bring your hands into the lotus bud mudra for the third time and touch your heart in a gesture of reverence. Then, walk forward in body length, with a smooth motion, bring your hands to your crown and perform the next prostration...........

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostration_(Buddhism)

Candid shot at Abbey of Sant'Antimo (a bit grainy and shaky, but... rather like it)

Missing Boomer terribly.

Photographers on Painted Hills at sunrise.

Shot in Death Valley National Park with an 18-55mm kit lens (@55mm) on a Nikon D3100.

 

Colors/tones adjusted in Lightroom, then cropped and saved as JPG file in Photoshop.

 

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