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you wouldn't know to look at them, but they were a highly skilled group of assassins, meeting at their secret spot...unfortunately, no one bothered to write down the secret knock...
(my photo of Horseshoe Bend blended with AI)
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View On Black the way it should be seen!
-- Let the sound of the shutter always guide you to new ventures.
© 2015 Winkler
IAPP Member: US#12002
Field, Spring, Summer, Golden hour, lovely, Portrait, beautiful, Forest, Mountain, Sony a 7iv, Sigma 85mm f1.4,
Beautiful gecko. A great afternoon out with Redlands Camera Club, shooting at a Samford Valley wildlife facility.
A group of highschool students sit on the shiny tile floor of the National Museum of the Philippines as a lecture talks about the history of the native peoples of the island nation. Manila, Philippines
Thanks for stopping by and view this photo. The reason for posting this photo on Flickr is to learn so if you have constructive feedback regarding what I could do better and / or what I should try, drop me a note I would love to hear your input.
View On Black the way it should be seen!
-- Let the sound of the shutter always guide you to new ventures.
© 2015 Winkler
IAPP Member: US#12002
Our camera club had a fun evening with horses riding on the beach for us. Not an especially colorful sunset, but some nice light and beautiful subjects.
A group of ninth graders on a visit to Tel Aviv sitting in front of The gate's keeper, a sculpture made by Y D Gordon Haim Katz in the 1920s.
This here is a comment I got on an earlier photo I made of the Lion:
"The statue was sculpted by Haim Katz who worked as a builder in Tel Aviv. He was born in Bialystok, Poland and emigrated from Palestine to East London, South Africa in the 1930s. My grandmother, his sister Mina Katz, and her family followed Haim to South Africa in 1936. As far as I know he never created any other sculptures, but I do have some pencil sketches of his!"
See photo here: www.flickr.com/photos/timelessriver/15961492363
I also found out more about this house and sculpture online:
"An article in The Towner, an online magazine on urban living and history, shed more light on this mysterious place.
According to their sources; the street, the sculptures and the homes were the property of Judeo-American building contractor Meir Getzel Shapira, who "built a three-storey, eclectic-style home in Tel Aviv for his wife, Sonya, and their three children: Naomi, Aybey and Nathan."
As it turned out, the lion statue and the twin obelisks were all built by Shapira to comfort his wife.
"Sonya… often complained about the Middle East’s torrid weather, hated that she couldn’t go anywhere without getting sand in her shoes, feared plundering marauders, and was basically miserable all the time. Meir, for his part, tried to cheer her up by throwing money at the problem..."
"One day Sonya came home to find a roaring lion standing in front of her house. It was a statue Meir had commissioned from American sculptor Y. D. Gordon to make Sonya feel safer at home. The beast had lights in its eyes that glowed red at night. That would take care of the plundering marauders. But he didn’t stop there: he also paved the two roads that lead up to the house, so that Sonya wouldn’t have to worry about sand touching her snow-white skin. He then erected two concrete obelisks at the head of the street and hinged a wrought iron gate between them. Finally, he plopped a Yemenite guard in front of the gate and armed him with a stick!"
"An article on HaAretz also revealed interesting details about the life of Y. D. Gordon. A sculptor specialising in animals and portraits in Greek revival style, he once built "a statue of a rabbi and his students surrounded by animals" at the entrance of Ginosar Pension, a celebrated hotel of the times. But then, "...the rabbis of the first Jewish city protested what they described as a Greek-inspired statue, and imposed a boycott on the hotel. The statue was removed. The frustrated sculptor shattered his creation and left Israel in anger."
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