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Light & Darkness
A Fisherman is cooking on boat.
Location : At Millenium Park , Opposite of Howrah Station And Howrah Bridge in Kolkata < West Bengal < India
"Lead, Kindly Light" is a hymn with words written in 1833 by John Henry Newman and 4th verse by Edward H. Bickersteth, Jr.. The tune was written by John B. Dykes in 1865.
As a young priest, John Newman became sick while in Italy and was unable to travel for almost three weeks. In his own words:
"Before starting from my inn, I sat down on my bed and began to sob bitterly. My servant, who had acted as my nurse, asked what ailed me. I could only answer, "I have a work to do in England." I was aching to get home, yet for want of a vessel I was kept at Palermo for three weeks.
I began to visit the churches, and they calmed my impatience, though I did not attend any services. At last I got off in an orange boat, bound for Marseilles. We were becalmed for whole week in the Straits of Bonifacio, and it was there that I wrote the lines, Lead, Kindly Light, which have since become so well known."
Lead, Kindly Light was sung by a soloist on the RMS Titanic during a hymn-singing gathering led by Rev. Ernest C. Carter, shortly before the ocean liner struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912.
It is thought that this hymn echoes a truth our hearts confirm: though trials may extinguish other sources of light, Christ will illuminate our path, "keep our feet," and show us the way home.
On the way home - traffic jam :)
Experts please help: Are those dusty looking speckles a very dirty sensor (eek!) or just our very dirty car windscreen?! I used f4.
HBW :)
Bending light #39
Continuing the series of refraction patterns of light through different glass objects.
I'm beginning to get a bit more control. Catching lightbeams can be quite difficult.
My first camera in 2002 was a point and shoot, with limited 16MB memory. My early posts in Zanzibar are grainy. I simply am trying now to recapture the glorious scenes that struck me before and are captivating me once more. Take this balcony facing the old Kelele Slave Market Square for instance. A witness of the infamous torturous history of the island which serves as the premier slave trading post of East Africa in the 16th to the 19th century, this building remains a wonder of fusion: Indian floral fretwork, Swahili workmanship and Arabic tessallation. Like most heritage homes of Stonetown, that needs restoration and conservation.
And as before, there is no shortage of laundry being dried on the balcony. So the colors are well provided for already. But for good measure, I waited for sunset, to make the shadows just unforgettable.
a house at the Kelele Slave Market Square, Shangani St, Stonetown, Zanzibar, East Africa
A UNESCO World Heritage Site
Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa
more on the filigree house in Zanzibar in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
Late, late getting my shot for today - so just a quick strike!!
Flickr Lounge - Weekly Theme (36) ~ Light ....
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one of the candles that was lit in the windowsill of our 14th century village church, St Michael's, Emley, West Yorkshire - at Christingle Service tonight - Christmas Eve. 2015.
This photo comes from my third attempt at shooting burning light bulbs. It became clear to me in earlier attempts that smashing the bulbs with a hammer or pinching the base of the glass with pliers in hopes of getting interesting shapes wasn't working with the frequency I was hoping for. I was able to cut the bulb to get whatever desired shape I wanted and not waste any bulbs due to damaged filaments.