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A small, ornate, wooden, jewelry box with tile, wood, & mother-of-pearl inlays.
Shot for Macro Mondays, Corner
Eastern Sierra, CA.
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
Canon EOS 6D - f/9 - 1/50sec - 100 mm - ISO 12800
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays,
theme: Stick
- chopsticks, rich decorated with divers stone inlays, above a chinese bowl with dragon decorations.
- vintage (at least 60 years old)
...and counting...
Well, tomorrow, we'll all be counting backwards from ten when midnight and 2026 arrive in our respective time zones, with the huge fireworks of Sidney marking one of the first entrances into the New Year. Let's hope 2026 will be less of the somewhat wild ride that 2025 was.
This is another view from the inside of the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral), one of the two landmark dome towers of the historical Gendarmenmarkt building ensemble at the heart of Berlin (please see the first comment for my previous interior photo from this location).
Like its counterpart and sister building, the New Church or German Cathedral (Deutscher Dom), it's a mere tower to accompany the adjacent church buildings. On the exterior, the French cathedral stands 70 meters high, and inside, 254 steps lead to the top, which is located at 40 meters. There were still quite many steps upwards from the position where I took this photo. If you zoom in, you can see a part of the compass rose inlay on the first floor.
Wishing you all a Happy and healthy 2026! ✨💫
Out take from "Looking Close on Friday - all white background, August 15th.
This is one of my favorite rings.
..... several species of barnacles crowded together on rock and covering a shell, on the beach .....
Watching a procession during a festival on Inle Lake. The huge golden bird at the front is the Karoweik, containing 4 gold leaf covered holy objects. They are being taken down the river to be placed in a monastery.
Annually, during the Burmese month of Thadingyut (from September to October), an 18-day pagoda festival is held, during which four of the Buddha images are placed on a replica of a royal barge designed as a hintha bird and taken throughout Inlay Lake. One image always remains at the temple. The elaborately decorated barge is towed by several boats of leg-rowers rowing in unison, and other accompanying boats, making an impressive procession on the water. The barge is towed from village to village along the shores of the lake in clockwise fashion, and the four images reside at the main monastery in each village for the night. Sometime in the 1960s during a particularly windy day, when the waves were high on the lake, the barge carrying the images capsized, and the images tumbled into the lake. It was said that they could not recover one image, but that when they went back to the monastery, the missing image was miraculously sitting in its place.
Although not the most valuable object that I own, this is one of my most precious pieces. This is my Great Grandmother’s small Anglo-Indian jewellery box, which she brought back from India after she and my Grandfather finished a period in the diplomatic corps during the Raj just before the Great War. It is precious to me because it holds some of the most tangible memories I have of my Great Grandmother and my Grandmother. This sat on my Great Grandmother’s dressing table and housed some of her everyday jewellery. I remember visiting her and watching her take out her pearls and cameos and glittering rings when she was getting ready to receive visitors or to go out. Even when I hold it now or hear the rich sounds of the box lid as it closes, in my mind I can still smell her violet and lily of the valley perfumes and her cold cream. When she died, my Grandmother inherited it and it sat on her dressing table. When I hold it, I can hear her laugh as I played with the pearl necklaces, earrings and rings that she kept in there, including the Regency ebony and ivory earrings I called “Flora” and “Fauna”. The yellowing of the ivory is a sign of its advanced age, and its edges have been worn by many hands touching them over the last century: not least of all mine.
The theme for Smile on Saturday for the 15th of May is “full of memories”. The challenge was to search for something that brings back a certain memory, take a picture of it and share what memories it brings back for you. I have inherited so many items from my Grandparent’s estates that hold great sentimental value for me. The hard part for me about this challenge, was choosing one object out of the many. As I have used my Grandfather’s chess set several times before for other challenges in this group, I settled upon this beloved little jewellery box, which is full of memories.
The jewellery box itself is an Anglo-Indian (Indian made but designed for the British market who lived in India during the Raj) made in the 1890s. It is fashioned from ebony and rosewood with the most exquisite hand-made geometric marquetry inlay of ivory and mother of pearl. The detail photos show how intricate the geometric pattern is, and how perfectly each piece is fitted. This might impress you even more when you think that the box itself is ten and a half centimetres long, by six and half centimetres wide and four and a half centimetres deep. The ebony frames to the hexagons on the lid are one millimetre thick, the vertical rosewood bands on the ivory edge of the lid are half a millimetre in width, the smallest triangles on the sides each have sides of one millimetre in length and the triangles around the flowers on the lid have sides less than half a millimetre in length: and all of this was made with precision by hand by a master artisan more than a century ago.
The iconic sight of Inle lake in Myanmar - Leg rowing Intha fisherman working hard to catch some more....
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