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Seemingly remote nowadays there are signs of a culvert or maybe a quay here - possible where the millstones were shipped to other parts of Arran or across the Firth of Clyde to Ayrshire.
This seemingly placid audience of 150 gave us a warm welcome, exciting welcome and they were great fun. At Anyang Arts High School, they study writing, photography, dance, music, theater and film. The school is known for producing many internationally known k-pop entertainers, including Rain, Seven, Gyu Ri, Kim, Yo Bin, etc.
One of the seemingly millions of flower / water droplet shots I took for last month's project 365 monthly theme!
Just ahead of this was a flatbed with seemingly 30 young kids on it, with the truck followed by about 20 women in traditional Hispanic costumes, dancing -- too poor lighting for a good photograph.
The car itself was just getting ready to enter the parade after an hour and the spot was fairly dark. It's a Chevrolet from the late 1960's, a period when they all looked similar.
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Pictures of the Holiday Parade in Hanford, CA. None of these pictures are great, and some are fairly weak, but I wanted to show a holiday celebration in what is a relatively large farm city in California’s Central Valley.
This is nowhere near the number of floats/contingents. The paraded last an hour and there were no empty spots, there must have been 100 or more entries. What impressed me was how many spectators there were, how much they enjoyed it, and how much it was very much a down-to-earth event. The spectators were a very mixed group with many who looked like they worked in the local agricultural industry. Very many of the floats were pick-up trucks pulling flat-bed trailers, or just a flat-bed trucks. NOTHING that looked like it had been put together by professionals.
I hadn’t gone to Hanford for the parade, but considering how negative the world has been these days, it was quite encouraging to see such a large and happy crowd.
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
A small, seemingly innocent river has taken over many, many acres of farmland on the north side of town.
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Seemingly radiance from the heavens.... dramatic sky on a September morning on the eastern Montana Plains. MT-59, southeast of Miles City.
A seemingly complete copy of the al-Shifāʾ.
Bonhams cataloger describes this codex as an Ottoman manuscript from Turkey. The codex was written by Muṣṭafā ʿAlīzādah al-Adirnawī, a former judge in Kayseri. There is no information where in the copy his name and the date 1170 (began 26 Sept. 1756) can be found. The codex has marginal notes.
paper
283 folios, but there is no reference to the number of flyleaves
detached flyleaf at the beginning
catchwords
23.2 x 13.1 cm
Nastaliq
there seems to be red overlining, but Bonhams cataloger uses the term "underlining"
21 lines
gilt-ruled borders
opening page with headpiece
small holes in the outer margin of fol. 2a
contemporary beige morocco binding with stamped and tooled decoration in gilt, red, and green
doublures in marbled paper
one cover is stained
For the entry from the 2003 sales catalog, see:
A dog, seemingly contemplating whether or not to go to the Music Bar in Pingyao.
Pingyao is considered one of China's best-preserved ancient walled towns. (From my limited travels around China, I wholeheartedly concur.)
Pingyao's history goes back about 2,700 years. Located about 90 km (55 miles) south of Taiyuan in Shanxi (山西) province, modern-day Pingyao has around 450,000 residents. The ancient town, is enclosed within a stone wall, 10 meters (31 feet) high and slightly more than 6 kilometers (3.6 miles) with 6 gates: north, lower east, upper east, south, upper west, and lower west, that was built in 1370.
Within these walls live 50,000 people. Also to be found are a number of religious institutions including temples - the Confucian temple with the oldest surviving building in Pingyao (Dacheng Hall from 1163 A.D.), the Taoist City God Temple, Taoist Qingxu Guan (temple), and a Catholic church, among others.
Besides the various religious sites, there are museums to the banking industry such as the Rishengchang Museum. (The first draft bank in China was located here in Pingyao), a few art museums, and -- centrally located -- a city tower on Nan Dajie.
Pingyao also has many guesthouses (I chose Harmony Guesthouse on Nan Dajie near the south gate and highly recommend it to anyone who goes to Pingyao), restaurants (western and local Pingyao cuisine), teahouses, bars, massage parlors, and souvenir shops.
By day, the panoramic view of Pingyao is slightly reminiscent of the imperial city scenes at the beginning of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (perhaps with a creative imagination). As evening comes, the red lanterns begin to dominate the landscape. Alleys, doorways, the main roads, and courtyards all find themselves awash in a red glow.
In short, Pingyao has plenty to offer by day or night. These images are just a small reflection, through my eyes, of Pingyao's charms.
The seemingly bottomless pit of images culled from Chester's Blue Moon Cafe strikes again. I am running out of options from that location though to be fair. Nice place the Blue Moon...
Seemingly immaculate, with only 85,000 miles, its just had an owner change.
N.W. London Registered - 01/10/99
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Here's a seemingly plain building from what appears to be the Victorian era, but as always there is more to it than that. It was built in 1736 (during the reign of George II) as an endowed school, paid for and supported by endowments from the Will of the Rev Carter, the rector at St Wilfrid's Church in the village. The plaque on the wall tells the story of his endowments, which in today's terms amounted to over £100,000. He must have been a wealthy man, as he also had the Rectory built in 1720, which included several substantial outbuildings, including a dovecote. In 1868 a major extension to the school was built facing Main Road (left in the photo) in a more common Victorian style.
The seemingly ever growing Temples of Wat Den Sa-Ree Sri Muang Gaen, Ban Taen, A. Mae Taeng, Chiangmai, Thailand.
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Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Seemingly it's OK to have adverts for fags and 'baccy up, as long as you can no longer buy the product.
At Staverton Station, on the Dart Valley Steam Railway.
Seemingly out of nowhere, this angry Eastern Kingbird begins to attack the Peregrine. Parker River NWR, Hellcat Dike, Plum Island, MA. 6 August 2013.
Seemingly Medieval, it is in fact almost entirely a Victorian restoration. This is because disaster struck during the Civil War when St Leonard’s was used by Cromwell’s troops as an ammunition store. A cannon shot caused it to explode, and fire swept through the town. The church was repaired, and in the 17th-century, the magnificent nave roof was installed.
Most of the current church dates from the 19th century building campaign under the Revd George Bellett, whose monument is in the church.
This forest of seemingly delicate beams is the internal scaffolding that made the construction of the Watercube’s ambitious bubble walls possible. Everyone from Rem Koolhaas to Herzog & de Meuron has helped shape Beijing’s skyline. Accommodating geographical conditions, few indigenous structures regarded by state authorities as worth preserving, generous budgets and a local appetite for daring and innovative designs have combined to draw leading international architects to the city. While concerns about the safety of some new structures and their fit with the character and plan of Beijing have at times prompted the central and city authorities to rein in the proliferation of new high-visibility projects, the capital remains, as it is so often called, an architect’s playground. The most audacious of the new buildings have been erected as part of the city’s radical Olympic makeover, which includes infrastructural and other changes totalling $40 billion in cost.
Inside the watercube
Beijing, July 2007, PRC
Around the area where the skateboarders had been skating (but at a different time) was this man. He seemed kind of lonely listening to music. But I knew what I wanted to do -- take his photo. And with my new AF-S 80-200 f/2.8 IF ED I knew I had a chance to do it unobtrusively.
Thinking about it now, I wish I had talked with him for a bit -- people can be pretty cool.
Having seemingly broken further down the road before this picture was taken, 2203 is seen not in service at The Mile Post, according to bustimes.org this then returned to Leeds and ended up on another run, so I'm unsure what happened to it.
Seemingly always hazy, the Taal volcano is seen in the background as fisherman traverse the lake at Tagaytay, Philippines
Seemingly in the twilight of their existence on this route, 61690 is seen arriving in Helensburgh with a typical early afternoon load on this route.
A seemingly abandoned 2015 Vauxhall Corsa left way out in the road at a side road junction on an industrial estate.
This car has been in this spot for several days at the time of the photoshoot.
Police are aware..
All my Police Aware's www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/policeaware/
My Vauxhall Opel Bedford album flic.kr/s/aHsjXM8eUQ
My Scrap Cars album flic.kr/s/aHsiNa8V7c
everyday seemingly millions of Shanghai residents take thier lives in hand and go into the streets on thier bicycles, to commute to whereever. With the growth of automobile and truck traffic it becomes a game of dodging death in my opinion. It is amazing that thier arn't more accidents then their are.
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
Seemingly missing a window from it's all over advert for the Sealife centre, heading north for Fleetwood on #1.
*** like a broken record, words and quotes i have posted before will be on repeat in the succeeding uploads... if only to remind myself of things i always almost forgot...
"again ye come, ye hovering forms! i find ye,
as early to my clouded sight ye shone!
shall i attempt, this once, to seize and bind ye?
still over my heart is that illusion thrown?
ye crowd more near! then be the reign assigned ye
and sway me from your misty, shadowy zone,
from magic airs that round your march awaken.
of joyous days ye bring the blissful vision;
the dear, familiar phantoms rise again,
and like an old and half-extinct tradition,
first love returns with friendship in his train.
renewed is pain; with mournful repetition
life tracks his devious labyrinthine chain,
and name the good, whose cheating fortune torn them
from happy hours, and left me to deplore them.
they hear no longer these succeeding measures
the souls to whom my earliest songs i sang;
dispersed the friendly troop, with all its pleasures,
and still alas! the echoes first that rang.
i bring the unknown multitudes my treasures;
their very plaudits, give my heart a pang,
and those beside, whose joy my song so flattered,
if still they live, wide through the earth are scattered.
and grasps me now a long - unwonted yearning
for that serene and solemn spirit land;
my song, to faint aeolian murmurs turning,
sways like a harp string by the breezes fanned.
i thrill and tremble, tear on tear is burning,
and the stern heart is tenderly unmanned.
what i possess, i see far distant lying,
and what i lost, grows real and undying. "
--- Dedication from Faust, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; translated by Bayard Taylor
*** i never got to finish the book... this poem remains a favorite... although it's a lot to take in... yesterday, i feel i've ended something... even only in mind... i somehow felt free... i think...
The seemingly endless onslaught on men wanting a piece (or two) of me has been grinding my nerves lately. I've been unusually comfortable in my skin, not feeling the need to impress, but content with the way things are, caring more about the girl I am once I open my mouth than the one so accustomed to batting mascaraed eyelashes and smirking at handsome strangers. Maybe it's too much to ask, but I'd like to think I'm a little more than just easy on the eyes.
The seemingly never ending renovation of the building that houses Cafe' Zen. I think they are removing the scaffolding today - which should make the post Zen sidewalk discussion a bit more safe.
Seemingly to add on to our Hoth rebel. This regular Rebel troop (The "Tantive IV" rebel from "A New Hope") was featured prominently in a backpack a few years back.
This guy differs from them with his head. Instead of a scowl, the Rebel has more of a overconfident smirk.
This guys solid enough for an "Above Average"
The average score now for 3/4 of the calendar is 4.8 out of 5, a solid number to be sure. Hopefully that will remain consistent these final days
Among Chiang Mai's seemingly endless array of richly adorned temples, Wat Chedi Luang is one of the most unmissable, consisting of various intricate temple buildings arranged around the massive ruined chedi that gives the complex it's name, a huge brick-built stupa that has remained in it's dramatic earthquake-shattered state since medieval times.
The huge chedi was begun in 1391 and wasn't completed until 1475, at which point it's spire rose to nearly 300ft. The huge stupa only remained complete until 1545 when an earthquake brought most of the upper part crashing down, never to be rebuilt. There was some limited reconstruction in the early 1990s, restoring the form of the tower part of the structure to something like it's original state.
Some of the sculpted decoration has been restored too; originally there was a terrace of lifesize elephants halfway up the base (very little remains of the originals, though those at the south west corner have been reconstructed. The staircases on each side are guarded by the largest, most fearsome nagas we saw, more monstrous than the usual elegant serpents.
The main wihan (prayer hall) only dates from the 1920s but is a particularly beautiful building with facades covered in gilded foliate ornament, and striking Buddha sculptures within.
My project was turning seemingly normal photos into much darker and creepier photos.
I looked through many photos on pinterest and eventually decided I wanted to do creepy photos based off of some images I saw of a normal looking girl in the forest with blood running down her body. Evaluating other people’s art made me want to create my own version of famous horror photos that I’ve seen before and inspired certain qualities in my project.
It reflects my personal feelings and likings by showing other people who find my art what kind of things I like. I’m a huge horror aficionado and have always loved all things spooky.
I learned how to make photos darker and a certain hue to them to make it look like nighttime which is something I didn’t know before.
During the art making process I had to choose what position I wanted my model to be in and what lighting would be best to match with the elevator picture.
My project is successful in the sense that it definitely conveys the message behind the photos, which is that even the most normal photos/people/things can be much darker than you’d ever expect.
I would take photos of my neighborhood at night or during the day of an abandoned house near my house. It’s really creepy just looking at it so I know I could’ve done something very different with it and definitely could’ve added some filters or subjects to make it even creepier.
Though seemingly cramped, the interior of the craft is actually dimensionally transcendent, as mentioned previously, allowing it to be much bigger on the inside if need be.
Two somatic control arms flank the driver's seat; these unconventional control sticks translate vague input and burning spirit into kick-ass robot fighting moves. There's also a steering wheel if you're into that kind of thing.
Seemingly unusual brewing utensils taught guests about the physics of leaf, water volume, timing, and temperature. (Rishi Tea booth at World Tea Expo 2010)
This seemingly innocuous event of the marshals pushing a dead car back out of the pit lane and into the paddock entrance would be the trigger for a horrendous shunt. Fortunately neither driver (Jochen Mass and Tony Wood) or any bystanders would be hurt in the ensuing mayhem.
Goodwood 73rd MM Saturday Practice Session.