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The Darul Quba mosque is on a little traveled street in the Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis. That back area is suffuse with excellent prospects for photo compositions, IMO.
I saw this gentleman towards the mosque and in the flat lighting of mid-day he wasn't well-defined with his light robes in the overhead sunlight. So, I waited until he got into the shade of the doorway before I took this photo.
As you know, salat is "The ritual prayer of Muslims, performed five times daily in a set form, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.I gathered that since it was noon, the man was on the way to mid-day prayer . . . called dhuhr.
Darul Quba also serves as a cultural center and is the site of inter-faith, educational, and social events.
The Days We Wear Masks 20210226
Health officials have ordered everyone working at Tsim Sha Tsui’s K11 MUSEA mall to undergo mandatory Covid-19 tests, as a cluster linked to a restaurant there continues to expand.
On Saturday, authorities reported 15 more new cases linked to the Ming’s Chinese Dining cluster, bringing the tally of infections related to the restaurant to 34 people.
The Centre for Health Protection’s Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said more than 60 people who’ve visited the restaurant around the same time with the patients have been quarantined, and authorities are still tracing about a dozen more who dined there.
Chuang added everyone working at the K11 MUSEA mall has been ordered to undergo mandatory tests as a precaution.
“We are not sure about the exact risks of those visitors to the K11 Musea. Since we have observed a possibly super spreading event in that restaurant and there are also quite a number of staff and patrons getting infected, it is possible the infections may not just occur in the restaurant because the staff may be infectious during entrance or in the mall,” she said.
She also called on people who’ve been to the mall on or after February 19 to pay attention to their health or get tested.
(20210228 RTHK News)
Architect: Frank Ghery
The ultra modern exterior of the Weisman, (in photostream) belies the bright, airy, interior with beautiful hardwood floors throughout. This is the mail gallery that leads to the other galleries..
The permanent collection is augmented periodically by special exhibits. The museum also provides work-study opportunities for students.
"The building is one of the major landmarks on campus, situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River at the east end of the Washington Avenue Bridge. The building presents two faces, depending on which side it is viewed from. From the campus side, it presents a brick facade that blends with the existing brick and sandstone buildings. On the opposite side, is an abstraction of a waterfall and a fish in curving and angular brushed steel sheets."
[Wikipedia]
"The Weisman’s permanent collection includes over 25,000 works of art and is especially rich in the areas of American modernism, ceramics, Mimbres pottery, and Korean furniture."
Dōbutsuen-mae Station (動物園前駅 Dōbutsuenmae-eki, Shinsekai) is a railway station on the Osaka Municipal Subway in Nishinari-ku, Osaka, Japan. The name in English means "in front of the zoo". It is one of the nearest stations to the Tennōji Zoo and Tsutenkaku.
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I am humbled and delighted that BLURB featured on their blog my labor of love, the photo book "Thirty Three Doors" as INDIE BOOK OF THE WEEK !!
Check it out here : blog.blurb.com/indie-book-week-doors/
Heather started out in photography as an undergrad arts major at St. Kate's in St. Paul. Now the Mom of two bright teenage daughters and the "Boss Lady" of Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center (www.cafac.org), Heather is heavily involved in the arts community of the Twin Cities. Her website is very interesting to browse.
Heather arranges classes for 8yo on up. She currently has a group of city young people who take to the discipline of learning fire arts safely. I'm really grateful to Heather for allowing me access to photograph and get to meet these really great kids do things very few of the peers will get to do in their lifetime. She's got a super sense of humor that goes a long way with the young people . . . and anyone who meets her has well.
I'm especially delighted to see young women take to these arts. Heather is a terrific role model for young persons and especially for young women.
Her artistry and collaboration with other artists has produced any number of public works just "hanging around" the Twin Cities. Recently she had a speaker who made artistic, sculpted prosthetics.
Shun Hing Restaurant （信興酒樓）, which has stood on Kweilin Street of Sham Shui Po for eight decades, recently announced it will be closing its doors by the end of December 2016.
The Days We Wear Masks 20210118
In-person classes at Hong Kong schools were suspended from early December until at least the end of the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, with only small groups of pupils allowed back on campus for half-day classes or exams. Over the past year, classes have mostly been conducted online. (SCMP 20210106)
The Aomori Nebuta Festival is a Japanese fire festival held annually between August 2nd and 7th in Aomori city. Every year more than 3 million visitors gather for the festivities from all over Japan and abroad to attend. During the festival, over twenty dynamic nebutas – massive lanterns floats based on kabuki or mythical stories – parade through the city of Aomori. On the evenings of August 2nd through 6th and daytime of the 7th, colorfully dressed Haneto (nebuta dancers) as well as flutists and drummers convey the nebuta floats through the city. On the night of the 7th, the nebutas are placed in boats and ferried around the Aomori Bay as fireworks light up the night sky to conclude the festival.
The Aomori Nebuta Festival has been designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties of Japan in 1980.
Cuban Movie (5)
This huge building built in 1955 by Gustavo Botet has a cinema, offices, a café and a bar. Located on a stretch of Calle 23 known as La Rampa, the theatre of the same name has a winding access ramp at the entrance that seems to be a continuation of that busy Havana street. It seats 900. Certainly one of the better Havana cinemas, it has plenty of spaces inside for socializing before and after the screenings. This location also houses the Cuban film archives.
This gentleman is sitting in the doors of the Cathedral of the state of Trujillo, located in Venezuela. Is totally ignored by all who surround it, as if it did not exist. Just get close enough to take the photo and then give it what I had in my pocket, some money.
Thai rastaman Cho looking up while making jewelry to sell to backpackers in the evenings on Phangan Island.
Haadrin, Koh Phangan, Thailand.
"Adventure in the Land of the Ancient Gods"
LADAKH : Day 2
A woman selling vegetables such as turnip and some pure organic vegetables at Nurla village.
The village located on the main road from Alchi to Temisgam.
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