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Als besonders erstrebenswert gilt es für strenggläubige Hindus, in Varanasi im Ganges zu baden, sowie dort einmal zu sterben und verbrannt zu werden. Entlang des Flusses ziehen sich kilometerlange, stufenartige Uferbefestigungen hin, die Ghats, an denen auf der einen Seite die Gläubigen im Wasser des für sie heiligen Flusses baden und wenige Meter weiter die Leichen der Verstorbenen verbrannt werden. Die Asche streut man anschließend ins Wasser. Ein Bad im Ganges soll von Sünden reinigen, in Varanasi zu sterben und verbrannt zu werden, ist der hinduistischen Mythologie zufolge, der Ausbruch aus dem ständigen Kreislauf der Wiedergeburt.
The Ghats in Varanasi are world-renowned embankments made in steps of stone slabs along the river bank where pilgrims perform ritual ablutions. The ghats are an integral complement to the Hindu concept of divinity represented in physical, metaphysical, and supernatural elements.[90] Varanasi has at least 84 ghats, most of which are used for bathing by pilgrims and spiritually significant Hindu puja ceremony, while a few are used exclusively as Hindu cremation sites. Steps in the ghats lead to the banks of Ganges, including the Dashashwamedh Ghat, the Manikarnika Ghat, the Panchganga Ghat, and the Harishchandra Ghat, where Hindus cremate their dead. Many ghats are associated with Hindu legends and several are now privately owned.
Many of the ghats were constructed under the patronage of the Marathas, Shindes (Scindias), Holkars, Bhonsles, and Peshwas. Most are bathing ghats, while others are used as cremation sites. A morning boat ride on the Ganges across the ghats is a popular tourist attraction. The extensive stretches of ghats in Varanasi enhance the riverfront with a multitude of shrines, temples, and palaces built "tier on tier above the water's edge".
Church of St. Peter, Portovenere, Italy
It is a Roman Catholic church from the 12th century, located in the famous Gulf of Poets (nearby is Byron's Cave, where the poet Byron used to swim) in the province of La Spezia.
The church sits on the tip of a rocky promontory, where once was the site of a Temple to Venus (Venere in Italian), after whom Portovenere was named.
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Long exposure that turns people into ghosts. The checkerboard square becomes a metaphysical space – the seated figures are solid, the moving figures are dissolved. It is a meditation on time as stratification: those who stand still leave traces, those who move disappear. There is a deep melancholy in this photo – it almost seems like a memory, not a present. Fog or gray sky above adds a sense of temporal suspension.
Metaphysical Painting or SL sunset02
Homage to Rene Magritte.
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As the marvelously metaphysical Monkees once said in a very different context, "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday"... ;-)
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they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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Metaphysical Painting or SL sunset01
Homage to G De Chirico.
For [Visions of Surreal]
If you have free time. Please visit this exhibition.
IMAGO Art Gallery Presents
[Visions of Surreal]
—Artists—
Blip Mumfuzz
CherryCarr
LeanaJuline
Mareea Farrasco
Micky Siamendes
nekonuko Nakamori
Shakespeare
The Wolf FR
tutsy Navarathna
Taxi
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Unusual for me to take a photo, process it and post it within 24 hours but I did with this! (do I hear rapturous applause? - no, thought not! hehe)
It's a scene from Stanton Moor in the north of the peak district, a lovely serene place with a real feel feel for ancient history, stone circle, standing stones, burial mounds, etc - and lots of Birch woodland.
This is two side by side shots stitched together and Andyfied - various blurring techniques then I made two copies, slightly bloated one and then merged the two slightly to give it a nice hallucinogenic feel. Finally, two copies again, one colour and and one B&W with a top to bottom merge at reduced transparency just to make sure you see the LSD goblins chasing around!
Looking up, a deep philoshophical, spiritual and metaphysical act, tearing apart the very essence of one's existence...
Location, Lemnos island, Hellas.
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Ligurian sea (Italy)
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snowshoeing in the Southern Adirondacks. 518. 1/4 sec. at f/16 with 5 stops of neutral density. Pentax K3. 8 degrees F.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Created with Bryce...pretty cool what you can do with one textured, reflective sphere, one textured taurus and one light!!=0)
A view of the Gulf of Trieste, with the futuristic sailing ship SY A at anchor.
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Colpo d occhio sul golfo di Trieste, che ospita l'avveniristico veliero SY A ancorato in rada.
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La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.