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Experiencia mística bajo las aguas del Waká Vená que juegan con las últimas luces del ocaso. Ofrenda a los espíritus que allí habitan mientras un halo de intemporalidad impregna el lugar...F.O.G.
Mystical experience under the waters of the Waká Vená that play with the last lights of the sunset. Offering to the spirits that live there while a halo of timelessness pervades the place...F.O.G.
Last in the series of pictures taken on my ride along the Swan River foreshore from Perth to Belmont.
Another shot taken across the Swan River to the East end of Perth CBD. The stadium lights for the WACA can be seen at the front of the city. The city looks small from this perspective.
Bored of the current lack of storms to chase so have been tinkering with old pics. This is a stacked image using a couple of frames from a 2011 storm (they are elsewhere in my photo stream). Needs a strike or two in the middle…
The best part of It is still there.
(Wikipedia).
The WACA Ground (/ˈwækə/) is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. The stadium's name derives from the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA).
The WACA has been referred to as Western Australia's "home of cricket" since the early 1890s, with Test cricket played at the ground since the 1970–71 season. The ground is the home venue of Western Australia's first-class cricket team, the Western Warriors, and the state's Women's National Cricket League side, the Western Fury. The Perth Scorchers, a Big Bash League franchise, played home matches at the ground until 2019. The Scorchers and Australian national team have shifted most matches to the nearby 60,000-seat Perth Stadium.
The pitch at the WACA is regarded as one of the quickest and bounciest in the world. These characteristics, in combination with the afternoon sea-breezes which regularly pass the ground (the Fremantle Doctor), have historically made the ground an attractive place for pace and swing bowlers. The outfield is exceptionally fast, contributing to the ground seeing some very fast scoring – as of February 2016, four of the nine fastest Test centuries have been scored at the WACA.
Throughout its history, the ground has also been used for a range of other sports, including athletics carnivals, Australian rules football, baseball, soccer, rugby league, rugby union, and international rules football. However, recent years have seen most of these activities relocated to other venues. It has also been used for major rock concerts. The WACA Museum is located on-site and features exhibits about Western Australian cricket.
Runa Photography © 2014
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La peregrinación es traslado, desplazamiento físico y emocional, desde el mundo local, cotidiano y profano hasta un espacio sagrado. La sacralidad del destino final se constituye como
hierofanía, es decir una revelación de lo sagrado (Eliade 1967).1 Por lo general, el ámbito de influencia de los lugares sagrados está restringido a espacios locales y regionales, pero existen otros cuyo prestigio alcanza magnitudes supranacionales, y hasta «universales».
Los lugares de peregrinación son centros de poder sacralizado que poseen una gran capacidad de convocatoria no sólo por la hierofanía que albergan, sino también por el contenido simbólico asociado y todo el conjunto de actividades vinculadas a ellos.
Las islas del Sol y de la Luna, conocidas como Titicaca y Coati respectivamente, fueron el destino final de una de las peregrinaciones más importantes de la época incaica. Ocupaban el tercer lugar «en reputación y autoridad» después del Coricancha y Pachacamac (Cobo 1956 [1653]: 189).
Dichas islas se hallan al sur del lago Titicaca (lago Chucuito, según Cobo). Por su cercanía, están estrechamente vinculadas a la península de Copacabana, lugar donde en la actualidad se encuentrael santuario de la Virgen de Copacabana, cuya devoción convoca a una de las romerías católicas másgrandes de América.
Storm over the hills behind Perth's CBD. The WACA is at the right hand side to give some scale www.cloudtogroundimages.com
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El tema de este estudio de caso es la apacheta andina, un montón de piedras de campo que en los Andes está junto al camino, en los puertos y abras de una serranía por donde se pasa de uno a otro valle, o del valle a la puna. No siempre se la ve desde lejos, y se cree que fue un tipo de monumento incaico porque se la encuentra a la vera del capacñan y sus ramales, la ruta que unía el Cusco con las poblaciones gobernadas por los incas.
Indagar acerca del origen, uso y función de la apacheta pareciera no revestir especial interés porque hay documentación colonial y trabajos sobre apachetas, desde el siglo XVI hasta hoy día; sin embargo, el tema adquiere entidad porque se dice que:
En el área andina las apachetas están dedicadas a la Pachamama (Madre Tierra). Con relación al nombre del monumento, Bartolomé de Las Casas ( 1550 citado por Vignati, 1958: 97) y Cristóbal de Molina el almagrista, dieron noticia, aunque no el nombre, de estos montones de piedras donde los indígenas dejaban ofrendas al Viento.
Fuente: Gentile M.
Lightning over Perth, Western Australia. The strike is somewhere behind Optus Stadium, the WACA is in the foreground (lightning over perth 2057 and 452)
The view across the lake on this island in the middle of the Swan River. Floodlights of the WACA in the background.
(103 of 365 in 2022)
Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Ground in Perth, WA. The arena will be hosting matches in the upcoming Cricket World Cup.
Sorry for being away for so long, will be uploading regularly now!
IMAGE INFO
- Image viewpoint is looking south-south-east from the top of the Main Roads Western Australia head office building (aka Don Aitken Centre) located on the northeast corner of Plain & Wellington Streets, East Perth.
- Historic Heirisson Island can be seen in the background in the centre of the Swan River, with the Causeway bridges passing across it.
- The suburb of Victoria Park is centre-rear of the pic.
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SOURCE INFO
- Original image was captured using a CANON EOS-1 SLR camera, TAMRON 28-300mm AF zoom lens & AGFA XRG 100 color negative film.
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PROCESS INFO
- Latest version re-processed using Topaz Sharpen AI, Topaz Gigapixel AI & Skylum Luminar Neo AI.