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2014 Photograph, Wat Phra That Lampang Luang Naga Temple Stairway Guardian, T.Lampang Luang, Ko Kha, Lampang, Thailand, © 2018.
ภาพถ่าย ๒๕๕๗ วัดพระธาตุลำปางหลวง ผู้ปกป้องนาควัดบันได ต.ลำปางหลวง อ.เกาะคา จ.ลำปาง ประเทศไทย
Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, Tambon Lampang Luang, Ko Kha District, Lampang Province, Thailand
วัดพระธาตุลำปางหลวง ตำบลลำปางหลวง อำเภอเกาะคา จังหวัดลำปาง ประเทศไทย
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This is the temple of 'Duryodhan' at Osla Village. We discovered it on our way to Har-ki-Dun Valley at the North-West corner of Uttarakhand in 1997. It was a cloudy day and the photo is quite dull. I thought of uploading this photo for its informative value, and not its photographic quality.
Those who are not familiar with 'Mahabharata', the great Indian epic, this photo needs some introduction. Duryodhan, the king of Hastinapur, the villain of the epic. It is said that after the holy war of 'Kurukshetra', where Duryodhan and man of his associates were killed, his followers took refuge in this area, the hills of Uttacanchal, which people (at that age) dared. They established temples of Duryodhan and Karna, one of his heroic associates, and spread the culture of worship of these dietified characters. Till date, people in 22 villages in the region worship Duryodhan and Karna.
These two photos of the Temple of Poseidon were take from different perspectives to show its different sides and its marble base. The temple was originally built in the 5th Century BC.
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This man was selling pooja articles at the entrance of Sri Subramania Swamy temple in Vallioor. He was quite willing and happy to have his picture taken. In the excitement, he returned excess change on my purchase.!
Bristol Temple Meads railway station is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol. It is an important transport hub for public transport in Bristol, with bus services to various parts of the city and surrounding districts, and a ferry service to the city centre in addition to the train services.
It opened on 31 August 1840 as the western terminus of the Great Western Railway from London Paddington station. The whole railway including Temple Meads was the first one designed by the British engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Soon the station was also used by the Bristol and Exeter Railway, the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, the Bristol Harbour Railway and the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway. To accommodate the increasing number of trains the station was expanded in the 1870s by Francis Fox; and again in the 1930s by P E Culverhouse. Brunel's terminus is no longer part of the operational station. The historical significance of the station has been noted, and most of the site is Grade 1 listed.
Temple of Hephaistos, Athens Greece. - July, 2015
Hasselblad 500 c/m
50mm Distagon T* FLE with # 25 Red filter
Hand held f11 at 1/60s
Delta 100 film processed in Rodinal 1-50
Scanned negative on Epson 850
HDR Image of Bayon Temple in Angkor Thom, Cambodia.
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There's a story behind this image. It's not the story I had hoped to tell, and it's not the image I had hoped to get, but sometimes you just have to take what you can get.
This temple is built inside the mouth of a cave near Genga, Italy, and it was a must-photograph site for me on a European vacation in May. It's a difficult place to find; I needed to use the GPS coordinates to get to it, the cave not actually near anything. When my wife and I got to the area, there was no one there, no tourists, which says something . . .
On our way to the site, we encountered a short, light rain. We entered the canyon road with the sun shining. We parked and began the hike up the cobblestone path, encountering "stations of the cross" as we ascended. A light rain began to fall. The rain got heavier. And heavier. Should we turn around or assume the rain's going to stop and keep walking? We kept going. Then came the lightning and thunder, booming and echoing off the canyon walls. And the rain got even heavier. We stopped under some overhanging branches, but even they couldn't counter the amount of rain which was falling. It got to the point we couldn't see, and then the path turned into a river, rain water flooding the stones. We were soaked to the skin, only moments away from being upended by the torrent of water we were standing in. We stepped to the side of the path, at station of the cross four, wondering how many more stations there were, how far away we were from the cave and its shelter.
My wife somehow spotted a small ramshackle hut to the left of the path, and we sought shelter there. Others had been there before us, judging by the wads of tissue . . . if you get my drift. And there we stood, absolutely sodden, soaked to the skin, our shoes making squishing sounds if we moved. The thunder banged and the rain outside the wooden shack came down in buckets. We watched the path turn into a raging river. And we laughed. Nothing else we could do. The irony? We had brand new rain ponchos in the car.
We waited about half an hour, the temperature dropping 10C to 18C, and shivered. And giggled. We figured, judging by the time between lightning and thunder, that the storm was gradually moving off. Finally, the rain let up and almost stopped, the path no longer a river. We were soaked, and since we couldn't get any wetter, we'd continue our trek to the cave, not knowing how far we had come on this climb and how far we had to go to get there. As it turned out, we had a long way to go. We encountered a small "lake" blocking the path which necessitated become trapeze artists, using the two-inch base of the metal fence keeping us from the 10-storey drop as our line, inching our way around the lake.
And there, around the corner, was the cave. We squish-squish-squished our way into the cave, being as nonchalant as we could, we two drowned rats, as we encountered a group of about 20 kids and their minders who had sheltered out the storm in the cave. They soon left, I got off a few shots (my photo gear none the worse for the weather, thankfully, in my bag), then returned to the car to dry off.
(I was still sodden when I checked us into our accommodation a little later, and our room was quickly draped in clothing, it hanging off every protruberance, windows wide to let any breeze blow through.)
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Katas Raj Temples: The temples are considered to be the second most sacred site in Punjab, after the temple at Jwalamukhi in modern Himachal Pradesh. located in Kallar Kahar. Legends say that the Katas Raj Temple was built during the days of Mahabharata. That Krishna himself was the one to lay the foundations for the temple. The temples form a complex surrounding a pond named Katas which is regarded as sacred by Hindus.
The temple's pond is said in the Puranas to have been created from the teardrops of Shiva, after he wandered the Earth inconsolable after the death of his wife Sati. The temples play a role in the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, where the temples are traditionally believed to have been the site where the Pandava brothers spent a significant portion of their exile. The temples were visited by India's former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani in 2005. In 2006, the Pakistani government began restoration works at the temples, with further improvements announced in 2017. Hindus from all over the World visit these temples to worship their Gods.
2000ft Kallar Kahar Chakwal, Punjab Pakistan
f/4, 30s, 17mm, ISO 3200
24/10/2017
Temple cars or chariots are used to carry representations of Hindu Gods on annual festival days. Many people gather at the temple premises and pull it manually by using a rope.
The temple was first built in 247 AD in the Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period of ancient China. Originally located beside the Suzhou Creek, it was relocated to its current site in 1216 during the Song Dynasty. The current temple was rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty but, during the Cultural Revolution, the temple was converted into a plastic factory. In 1983, it was returned to its original purpose and renovated with the Jing'An Pagoda completed in 2010.
Aihole is a temple complex in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It is a very popular tourist spot in north Karnataka. Aihole is to the east of Pattadakal, along the Malaprabha River, while Badami is to the west of both.
Aihole has the potential to be included as a UNESCO World heritage site.
Early inscriptions call this town Ayyavole and Aryapura. Aihole has its own historical significance and is called as cradle of Hindu rock architecture. Many temples and caves of historical importance can be found at Aihole.
Aihole was the first capital of the early Chalukyas. Here they built over 125 temples in various styles and is said to be a laboratory of experiments in rock cut architecture. Pulakesi I, one of the greatest rulers of this dynasty, moved the capital to Badami nearby. Badami was then known as Vatapi. It is from these temples that the Chalukyas gained their experience and went on to build the great temples of Pattadakal. The first phase of temple building in Aihole dates back to the 6th century CE, the second phase up to the 12th century CE. Some temples were even built as early as the 5th century CE.
Aihole, was the cradle of ancient Hindu temple architecture. It has more than 70 temples. The experimentation with different styles was undertaken by the artisans. The artisans worked on the rocks to create the earliest rock cut shrines. The artisans graduated to the full fledged Chalukya style of architecture.
The early Chalukyas inherited architectural styles largely from their neighbours to the north and south of their kingdom. Usage of curved towers decorated with blind arches came from northern India. Pilastered walls with panel inserts are a southern Indian style. The usage of Deccan style is in their balcony seating, angled eaves and sloping roofs, and elaborately carved columns and ceilings (George Michell,1997). In short, they artistically brought together the prevailing styles in their neighbourhood to create the Chalukya style.
Typical features unique to Badami Chalukyas architecture include mortarless assembly, an emphasis on length rather than width or height, flat roofs, richly carved ceilings, and, sculpturally, an emphasis on relatively few major figures, which tend to be isolated from each other rather than arranged in crowded groups. The aesthetic sensibility of sculpture from this period also seems to retain a certain classical quality whose impulse does not carry over into later periods of Indian art (Susan Huntington, 1985).
A temple with the nice golden pagodas captured in Myawaddy, Myanmar. Myawaddy is a small city in Myanmar located on the other side of Meay River or right opposite Mae Sot District in Tak Province.
1. Exploring ancient temples with a smile, embracing the beauty of history and creating joyful memories. 🏯😄✨🌺
2. Happiness is the art of adaptation, finding fun in every moment and cherishing the journey. 🎭😊🌟🚶♀️
3. Let your smile be the guiding light, illuminating the path of adventure and making every step memorable. 😄🚶♂️🔆✨
This sweet little dog followed me around all morning just to pose in my pictures. This one's from Sukhothai, Thailand. Check out lots more great dog pix at the Third World Strays Project Group!
Manhattan New York United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing. This room is very impressive and big space showing the Egyptian objects. It is a big area and the windows overlooking Central Park that let in this most interesting light.
The Temple of Dendur, a 1968 gift from Egypt to the United States in recognition of support given to save Egyptian monuments threatened by the rising waters of the Nile, was built around 15 B.C. when the Roman emperor Augustus ruled Egypt. Although small in comparison with the famous temples in Egypt, and built in Lower Nubia, south of Egypt's ancient border, this is a graceful example of a typical pharaonic temple.(Met Museum Information).
Photo details: Exposure 1/8 sec at f/ (ISO 200), Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a lens at mm.
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