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Tenryū-ji (天龍寺)—more formally known as Tenryū Shiseizen-ji (天龍資聖禅寺)—is the head temple of the Tenryū branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism, located in Arashiyama, Susukinobaba-chō, Ukyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan. The temple was founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1339, primarily to venerate Gautama Buddha, and its first chief priest was Musō Soseki. Construction was completed in 1345. As a temple related to both the Ashikaga family and Emperor Go-Daigo, the temple is held in high esteem, and is ranked number one among Kyoto's so-called Five Mountains. In 1994, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto".
Hatteras Island Gazebo Over Pamlico Sound
Dare County, Coastal North Carolina
Accessed via the Outer Banks Scenic Byway (NC-12)
Date taken: October 28, 2013
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This past autumn my folks were nice enough to let me tag along on a short vacation where they stayed in a rental home that included a private boardwalk and gazebo above the Pamlico Sound on Hatteras Island in North Carolina. The Albemarle-Pamlico Sound is the 2nd largest estuary in the United States at roughly 30,000 square feet of water surface (behind only the Chesapeake) or, as some sources say, the largest "lagoonal" estuarine system in the United States (not sure yet what lagoonal changes--more research needed!). Essentially, the Sound is a mixing area of fresh water from the state's rivers and salt water from the Atlantic Ocean. Shallow by all standards, the average depth of the Pamlico Sound is about twelve feet, with the deepest hole reported at only twenty-six feet in depth. In totality, the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound is quoted as being a "key resource base" for the state and for the southeast, with primary industries such as commercial fishing, tourism/recreation, and resort development relying directly on the quality of the resource. At present, the EPA sites the largest threats to the water body as non-point (agriculture and urban development runoff) and to a lesser extent point source runoff. However, the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound has been rated good to fair based on fairly recent testing. A tremendous resource for photographers as well I would say!
On a photographic note, despite being attacked by very ambitious mosquitoes every evening, I was hoping to capture a later-evening shot of this scene with a boat's light trail speeding by in the channel just to the rear of the gazebo. Never happened, but I still think the idea would have been solid!
Really did have a strange sci-fi presentiment when I stumbled upon this place the other day. Apparently it's inhabited by hipsters.
The Corolla Wild Horses (Banker horses) are a breed of feral mustangs (Equus ferus caballus) living on barrier islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks that date back to the Spanish shipwrecks of the 1500’s or early 1600’s. Currituck National Wildlife Refuge consists of 4,570 acres and is located on the northern end of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Print size 8x10 inches. Print Size 13x19 inches. Happy Truck Thursday
Raining here today....thought I would play around with some older shots. The horizon is centerd...but I kind of like it that way with this one....Hope everyone has a great Thursday ; )
Larger view on black.....B l a c k M a g i c
Here is an outer space simulation I made from scratch in photoshop. I don't know if anyone can find a use for it, but it's there if someone wants to use it.
Go to All Sizes up there and save the Original file. Only thing I ask is to not commercially redistribute or claim as your own.
Is it weird that I'm uploading this things? :-/
I can't go out much, so I end up creating things that I can't photograph. That's...sort of pathetic. :(
A black-and-white capture of a sunrise in Outer Banks, North Carolina. Decided to go black and white as a study of the light levels.
Made by Colorforms. 1968
Left to right: Orbitron, the Man from Uranus, Astro-Nautilus, the Man from Neptune and Alpha 7, the Man from Mars.
I was injoying a warm cup of coffee with my camera on a tripod wondering if the sunrise would ever happen.
Star gazing in California's Mojave desert. The tufa pinnacles pictured here were formed underwater some 10,000 to 100,000 years ago when calcium-rich groundwater and alkaline lake water combined.
Amazing sunset in Krum, Texas (NW of Denton on I-35) on 5-17-13. To the left of the sun is a storm base of a supercell 70 miles away. The anvil (blue) and the mid level clouds lit up at sunset giving me a show that floored me. Heading to Kansas to chase tomorrow, should be a great weekend :)
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans.
Constructed over several hundred years in the third millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow, Windmill Hill and Silbury Hill.
By the Iron Age, the site had been effectively abandoned, with some evidence of human activity on the site during the Roman period. During the Early Middle Ages, a village first began to be built around the monument, eventually extending into it. In the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods, local people destroyed many of the standing stones around the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley took an interest in Avebury during the 17th century, and recorded much of the site before its destruction. Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project which reconstructed much of the monument.
Avebury is owned and managed by the National Trust. It has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, as well as a World Heritage Site, in the latter capacity being seen as a part of the wider prehistoric landscape of Wiltshire known as Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites.
- Wikipedia