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Though archaeologists rank the exquisite necropolises at Myra as classics of Lycian culture, the site’s most beautiful elements are some of its touching, humanizing details.
Dating back to the 4th century BCE, the rock-cut tombs line the hills above Myra’s famed theater and the Church of St. Nicholas. These houses of the dead are divided into two main necropolises comprised of a mixture of house- and temple-style tombs: the ocean necropolis and the river necropolis. Colorful as they seem now, most have faded greatly over the years after having been painted brilliant shades of red, yellow, blue, and purple in their prime.
The most famous example of this was documented by early explorer Charles Fellows during his visit in 1840. Named after the lion and bull adorning its facade, the “Lion Tomb” also contains 11 life-sized stone figures thought to represent the grave owner’s family. A number of inscriptions in ancient Greek and Lycian appear carved throughout, including one that sounds as if it could’ve been written just yesterday:
"Moschos loves Philiste, the daughter of Demetrios".
Once exclusively the provenance of the upper and middle classes, the presence of Myra’s remarkable necropolises signal the residents’ former prosperity in addition to an ongoing sense of security that translated from this world into the next.
Longsheng town ..
It was on the way to Guilin from Longsheng .
My father had a little accident , he stopped the car and dialed to the insurance agency , had a long talk .. so I could take a picture ..
there were so many times we had very nice views , but just couldn't shot it well in a speeding car.
A couple of months ago I came across an awesome photo on Flickr. I think it was in Iraq. 1 U.S soldier in full combat gear was appearing to stand guard with his M16 'or whatever it was', while another 'behind him' was busting a throw up on a wall in paint. War-zone-getting-up was born & I wanted in. . Alas I'm neither a soldier, a mercenary, a journalist or a jihadi so I had to comprimise . . . My pal is currently serving in Afghanistan so I wrote to him & convinced him that going around putting up Drax WD tags would be an honourable pursuit likely to bring him good luck. This isnt the only one he's done, I may in fact have created a monster. The de-facto getting up in war zones action may not be over yet. Watch this space!
In this view looking north-northwest, the village of Kallani in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, is seen at top center. To the right of the village, the Bahu Kalat River flows into the Arabian Sea. The mouth of the river lies some 9 km (5.6 mi.) west of the Iran-Pakistan border. The photo was taken on the way home from a 10-day trek in Bhutan.
Nancy (54)
Nancy is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine which was annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by a province with Nancy maintained as capital. Following its rise to prominence in the Age of Enlightenment, it was nicknamed the "capital of Eastern France" in the late 19th century. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 511,257 inhabitants at the 2018 census, making it the 16th-largest functional urban area in France and Lorraine's largest. The population of the city of Nancy proper is 104,885.
The motto of the city is Non inultus premor, Latin for '"I am not injured unavenged"'—a reference to the thistle, which is a symbol of Lorraine. Place Stanislas, a large square built between 1752 and 1756 by architect Emmanuel Héré under the direction of Stanislaus I of Poland to link the medieval old town of Nancy and the new city built under Charles III, Duke of Lorraine in the 17th century, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first square in France to be given this distinction. The city also has many buildings listed as historical monuments and is one of the European centres of Art Nouveau thanks to the École de Nancy. Nancy is also a large university city; with the Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brabois, the conurbation is home to one of the main health centres in Europe, renowned for its innovations in surgical robotics.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy,_France
The building of the caisse d'épargne (savings bank) was constructed in 1924 in neoclassical style.
Source: structurae.net/en/structures/caisse-d-epargne-de-nancy
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Some 250 kilometers northeast of Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan Province, lies Dongchuan, a rural area with the world's most imposing red earth. Spread over vast terraced fields, Dongchuan’s unusual brownish-red color comes from its rich deposit of iron and copper. Exposed to the warm and humid climate of Yunnan, the iron in the soil undergoes oxidization to form iron oxide which is naturally red in color. These oxides, deposited through many years, gradually developed into the extraordinary reddish brown soil seen here today. Every year during spring, when this area is ploughed for agriculture, a large number of visitors and photographers come to see squares of freshly upturned red earth waiting to be sown along with areas of budding green plants. The fiery red soil juxtaposed with emerald green barley, and golden yellow buckwheat, against a blue sky produces one of the richest color palate rarely seen in nature.
SY1320 departs Wulong colliery with a train of coal destined for Fuxin power station. I believe operations at the mine ceased in 2016. Liaoning Province, China.
Place: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Chinese name: 莲花L3 (liánhuā L3)
Year of launch: 2007 (localized from 2009)
In 2007 Youngman and Proton started selling the Gen-2 hatchback as Europestar RCR (Jingsu) 'engineered by Lotus' in China, later followed by the Persona sedan (Jingyue). They were brought in as a CKD, thus prices weren't competitive and sales were poor. Youngman paid $50 badge royalty for the 'Engineered by Lotus' stickers. From late 2009 a localized version entered the market, which sold in much better numbers thanks to much lower prices. Later models include the L5 hatchback, L5 sedan and the T6 crossover, which was never finalized. These models were all based on the Proton Gen-2/Persona platform, but had unique styling. On February 25 Proton made a deal with Goldstar for the production of cars and engines, which meant Proton terminated the relationship with Youngman and the production of all cars stopped in the Summer of 2016 and finally resulted in the end of Proton cars in China, since the deal with Goldstar has had no results so far. There was another problem with Youngman, because the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers apparently stopped reporting Youngman Lotus sales numbers because they were "way off" from registration numbers.
Jam Airport (KNR), some 290 km north-northeast of Doha, Qatar, and the city of Jam, in Bushehr Province, Iran are seen here from a Qatar Airways flight on the way home from a trip to Georgia. This shot brings back good memories: I flew an SE-3160 Alouette III helicopter supporting seismic oil exploration in rugged terrain beyond Jam in 1975.
Toyota Coaster service of some French tourists visiting The Bontoc Museum at Bontoc, Mountain Province
Black-streaked Scimitar-Babbler. Photographed at Baihualing, Gaoligongshan, Yunnan Province, China on 21 January 2019. Subspecies decarlei or dedekensi.
Seeing the low lying mist at Huangshan during my last day got me pretty excited about shooting.
I ran around to several vistas and had a lot of fun while doing so!
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Taken in the rural Eastern Cape Province in the mid 1980s.
Leica CL with Elmar C 90mm; B&W print from Ilford FP4 photographed with a Panasonic Lumix LX3 & touched up with Lightroom.
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Der Hügel von Ambohimanga – der "blaue Hügel" – gehört zum Welterbe der Unesco, zum einen wegen seiner angenehmen Umgebung, aber auch, weil es hier einen der Schätze der Merina-Dynastie gibt.
In Ambohimanga, befindet sich die einstige befestigte Hauptstadt der Monarchie des Hochlandes. Hier herrschte von 1787 bis 1810 Andrianampoinimerina.
In diesem Palast mit seinen Befestigungen, die mit Ei-Zement errichtet wurden – eine einzigartige Bautechnik –, steht der Bevato, ein sehr schlichtes 10 Meter hohes Holzgebäude, dessen Wände mit Speeren, Schilden und Küchenutensilien bedeckt sind.
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