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Snow and ice encrust the roots of tree, forming an paralytic abstract blanket.
Shot hand held using a Canon FTb on Fuji Velvia 50 colour film.
Der Cube Berlin (Eigenschreibweise cube berlin) ist ein würfelförmiges Bürogebäude auf dem Washingtonplatz in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft zum Berliner Hauptbahnhof, das im Februar 2020 eingeweiht wurde. Das Gebäude ist Teil des 40 Hektar großen Stadtquartiers Europacity und schließt dessen südlichen Teil ab.
The Cube Berlin (originally spelled cube berlin) is a cube-shaped office building on Washingtonplatz, in the immediate vicinity of Berlin Central Station, which was inaugurated in February 2020. The building is part of the 40-hectare Europacity urban district and completes its southern part.
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The white form of Calopogon tuberosus or Common Grass-pink orchid is currently blooming in my bog garden.
A British Railways Swindon works ‘Trans-Pennine’ diesel-mechanical multiple unit with a Driving Motor Composite leading stands in Ashton (Charlestown) railway station on the Down Main line forming an eastbound train. Sunday 21st May 1967
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Es curioso ver como todos los días cuando vas a fotografiar te encuentras con las mismas personas, los que pescan, pasean, corren, los ciclistas y este señor que todas las mañanas hacía lo mismo buscaba conchas....
Funny how every day when you're going to photograph the same people, those who fish, walk, run, cyclists and the man who every morning looking for shells did the same thing ....
Happy Easter
Then you see ...
Model: Janae Fulton
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte
during my second shoot with Alexis, I happened to lie on the ground to get a different angle, and realized the puddle in front of her was throwing a reflection! Managed to snap this frame when the wind stopped blowing, giving a perfect mirror effect. I'm very thankful it rained the day before :D
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This corona formed over Hugo, MN during last night's class G4 geomagnetic storm. The hole in the middle to the bottom of the frame is facing south. The top of the frame spills slightly north of directly overhead. Having the Northern Lights visible to the south is very rare for this location, which has a latitude of 45 degrees!
Montreal's iconic Olympic Stadium….designed by French architect Roger Taillibert and built for the 1976 Olympics, has had a troubled history…. construction was not completed before the games… it was finally completed in 1987… you can ride to the top of the tower on a funicular…. another feature is the retractable roof, which always struck me as useful, but this design as unnecessarily frivolous.
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There are Nine Nights of Worship of Female Power. Navratri it is called and is a very important period in the Hindu calendar of Gods and yes Goddesses now.
I was at a loss to figure out whether this lady enmeshed in decaying iron by a male Hindu priest in Bhoginandishwara temple near Bangalore was a symbol of fertility what with the two betel leaves lying on the plinth of the alcove where she balanced delicately atop the head of a big horned buffalo.
I thought of asking some friends, versed rather well in matters esoteric. Then I let that urge pass. I checked images of a Hindu deity who would be on the top of a buffalo and from there I could get the thread as to who this voluptuous lady was and what was her story in Hindusim, her physical form so near perfection.
Whether the wire mesh prevented theft or the greedy advances of the worshipers, I am in no position to tell. She stood smeared in yellow powder as is the custom in temples in South India.
Meet Durga as she is popularly known or Goddess Mahalakshmi, the ultimate embodiment of a female created by all the Hindu Gods many millennia ago who imbued her with their own qualities and their own choicest weapons with 18 arms to go along in fight mode. ( In popular iconography she is generally shown with 4 or 8 arms as 18 would be impossible to accommodate in an aesthetic sculpture)
All this to vanquish Mahishasur, a demon who had attained near immortality by seeking a boon which made him immune from being killed by any man or God. The demon laughed off the suggestion that a woman could ever defeat him and that they were mere chattels. After he got his boon of immortality from the Gods, Mahishasur went off on an all conquering spree till there was nothing left to conquer on Earth. He then marched to Heaven and conquered the very Gods themselves and ruled the Heavens. The vanquished Gods wandering in the wilderness of nothingness, plotted and schemed and got together in their intrigue to manufacture a female figure who would be able to fight and get rid of the demon so that they could get on with the job of ruling their very own Heaven and Universe.
They ( Shiva, Brahma, Indra, Vishnu and others ) all gathered for the unique process of creating an entity out of nothing. A physical and metaphysical impossibility. The laws of physics can however allow light energy to be condensed and create matter. This the Gods did and created Mahalakshmi or Durga who was the epitome of feminine form and figure but imbued with a fighting spirit and armed with 18 choicest weapons of war.
Now this is a great scientific breakthrough which I am sure my fundamentally strong right wing Hindu fanatics would call superior Vedic or Pre Vedic science that precedes anything that the current day particle physics can come up with. Mind you it is easy to create light and heat energy from fission or fusion of
matter but current day science is yet to master the principle of creating matter out of light energy. We in India or let us say Indian Gods did this more than 2000 years ago and shaped a female figure of exquisite and superlative celestial beauty.
I am waiting for a Hindu scientist to come up with such a thought process and present a paper in a scientific community to highlight the glories of the Hindu civilization. I will not be surprised to see that happen in this atmosphere of over zealous interpretation of Hinduism that is ruling the roost these days.
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The wind is forming this cloud, looking a bit like a star ship from a famous TV serie.
Picture taken near Riffelsee, Gornergrat, Matterhorn in Zermatt / Switzerland.
Église Notre-Dame-des-Neiges de L'Alpe d'Huez. Une petite chapelle, construite en 1940, plantée au centre de l'Alpe d'Huez, était consacrée au culte marial. Trop petite pour accueillir les nombreux touristes des Jeux olympiques de 1968, le curé Jaap Reuten, Hollandais, imagine le projet d'une nouvelle église et demande en 1960 à Jean Le Boucher et à l'architecte Jean Marol (1930-2010) de faire construire une église en forme de tente (représentant celle du patriarche Abraham). De magnifiques vitraux entourent la nef, de forme ovale, représentant la vie de Jésus-Christ d'après l'évangile de saint Marc, réalisés par l'artiste Arcabas.
The above selection of corniforms seem to be free-form - verging on doodles, and tethering them may not seem at first to be viable. The images are from C Bicknell's originally published 1913 drawings of petroglyphs from around Mont Bégo (archive.org/details/GE0036GenB212/page/n187).
For the montage I took individual shots using Jupiter 8 50mm f2 converted for an M39 adapted Pentax K3 (helicoidal removed), and then processed and colourised. The texture is therefore from half-tone dot and not rock, and the imperfections originate from Bicknell's pencil sketches and not geological fissures. One aim was to re-perceive the images and, for the fun, to take the Bronze age towards contemporary references such as Basquiat and Haring.
The corniform symbol is well known from the neolithic and bronze age and is recognisable as a schematic image of cow horns on either a scull or a reduced schematic cow's body. The majority of symbols around the Mont Bégo mega site are corniforms. Whilst many are simple in form, there are regular examples that have horns that are horn in name only. They originate either side of the cow's head before sending off like lines of free-form jazz. Some of these are presented in the above image. Giant steps.
I will argue that many of these concertinaed undulations may have been inspired by the landscapes of the crofter's 'home' - in effect linking the corniform to a local geography. The mark of a permanent address before solicitors deed, mortgage or rental agreement. Therefore, for a cow-form hut, the deciding shape of courtyard fencing can be one that links the hut to the main lines of its surrounding landscape. Some might be shared land, other fields might be from deep within a clan's past.
Here, the descriptive 'horns' are from waves in the hut's entrance fencing, a simple structural addition that remains perfectly adapted to the Alpes-Maritimes, where temperatures can be hot for long periods, winds can be strong and storm and snow a challenge. Shade, wind break and a space free from drift snow - a working court yard for a fire, general out door work, and a descriptive and idiosyncratic home 'profile' that is hard to miss if fog or mist descend and you are returning from afar.
In other posts from the Mont Bégo Flickr album, I argue that the bronze age evolution of the corniform symbol expanded its meaning to also describe cow-form huts. Here the schematic top right image may be two huts in a conglomerate with two wheel like animal pens and two storage points outside of the lower hut. The turquoise symbol, top left would be a hut backing onto an oblong of 13 field spaces - possible a series of crop gardens or allotments. The lower turquoise symbol would be a ring fence crossing a hut. Here there would have been little need for extended 'horn/valley-style' 'farmyard' fencing, and so this architectural 'convention' may have been logically atrophied. Bottom left - a six legged cow or a cow-form hut with six guide-ropes from a flat valley with steep sides. The white image in the centre may have very large entrance fences that in the end provided a perfect space for an interior hut. No need for fencing, so no 'horns' for the entrance of this building addition. Here the valley would have been a classic glacial 'U' shape.
One must expect that sometimes the horns describe a valley for its cross section and at others a valley for the buttresses of meandering rock.
AJM 21.2.19
A quiet storm
Has formed
Within me.
And you claim you want
Me to release
Everything that I
Hold beneath the surface
And it's ironic
You complain
When I let you simply sample
The breeze.
~by Tab on Hello Poetry
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