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Seek peace within yourself, than go out into the world and see it through your new eyes.
Then I think that we'll enjoy our lives in a different way, and also find what really matters for us🙏
The Yueh Hai Ching Temple in Singapore, built in 1826 and renovated in 1855, is a great example of southern Chinese temple architecture, specifically in the Teochew architectural style from the Qing Dynasty. It is a Taoist temple.
The current structure of this shrine dates back to 1850 and then was substantially renovated in 1895. Since then, it has undergone several restorations.
The temple was designated as a National Monument of Singapore in 1996. Its restoration and conservation in 2011 earned the Award of Merit at the 2014 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards.
The courtyard of Yueh Hai Ching Temple, enclosed by surrounding walls and buildings, possesses a sense of introspection.
Its seclusion from the outside world creates a tranquil, self-contained space, as a serene retreat within the temple grounds.
For MACRO MONDAYS, this week’s theme: “Drips, drops, and splashes"
The diameter of the cherry tomatoes is less than 3/4”, therefore the photo size is within the group limits.
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THE SMALL HAMLET OF WINGDALE, within the town of Dover, New York, is home to the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
Despite its proximity to New York State Route 22, the stunningly beautiful property has been shrouded in mystery for decades. In 1924, The Harlem Valley State Hospital opened its doors to the public. Later to be renamed the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, the hospital was chartered “for the care and treatment of the insane” and included infrastructure that had previously constituted the Wingdale Prison.
Over the course of 70 years of operation, the facility treated thousands of patients who had been deemed mentally ill. Sprawling across almost 900 acres and encompassing more than 80 buildings, the hospital had its own golf course, bowling alley, baseball field, bakery, and a massive dairy farm that supported an in-house ice cream parlor. At its peak, the facility housed 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees.
Over the years, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center adopted numerous experimental methods of treatment of the mentally ill. In the 1930s, the facility joined several other institutions on the vanguard of a new insulin shock therapy for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other compulsive disorders. Later, when the method of electro-shock therapy was created, the hospital was again a pioneer in implementing the method as a treatment for its patients in 1941. When neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman developed a new method for treating a wide range of psychological conditions that became known as a lobotomy, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center was the preeminent institution for frontal lobotomy in the state of New York.
As with most mental health institutions in New York and across the country, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center saw a gradual decline in enrollment upon the introduction of psychotropic drugs such as thorazine. When the hospital closed its doors in 1994, it had been on a trajectory of decline for a number of years. For the better part of 20 years, the once-busy campus slowly deteriorated. Visited only by night-watchmen and would-be vandals, the buildings sat unused and the grounds slowly grew unkempt. Ghost stories and whispers grew alongside the weeds of the property.
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## 🎬 Prompt cinématographique hyperréaliste
Allée forestière enneigée au cœur d’une forêt ancienne et mystérieuse, formant un tunnel naturel créé par des arbres gigantesques aux troncs sombres et aux branches tortueuses qui s’entrelacent au-dessus du chemin comme les arches d’une cathédrale gothique naturelle. Le sol est recouvert d’une épaisse couche de neige immaculée, légèrement bleutée par la lumière nocturne, avec une trace unique d’empreintes humaines serpentant au centre du sentier et disparaissant dans la distance.
La scène se déroule pendant une nuit d’hiver silencieuse. Une brume froide et dense flotte entre les troncs d’arbres, enveloppant la forêt dans une atmosphère mystérieuse. La lumière de la lune traverse le brouillard en rayons volumétriques spectaculaires qui illuminent les branches couvertes de givre et projettent de longues ombres organiques sur la neige.
Au bout du tunnel d’arbres, une lumière chaude dorée brille faiblement à travers la brume, créant un point focal puissant et un contraste dramatique avec les tons bleus froids de la nuit. Les particules de neige flottent dans l’air et captent la lumière, renforçant la profondeur et l’atmosphère cinématographique de la scène.
La composition est parfaitement symétrique avec une perspective centrale profonde qui guide naturellement le regard vers la lueur mystérieuse au loin. Les textures sont extrêmement détaillées : écorce rugueuse des arbres, neige poudreuse, givre cristallin sur les branches et légères traces de vent sur la surface enneigée.
Style visuel inspiré d’un film fantastique sombre et poétique, ambiance immersive et silencieuse évoquant un passage vers l’inconnu.
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A snow-covered forest pathway deep within an ancient and mysterious woodland, forming a natural tunnel created by massive trees with dark trunks and twisted branches intertwining overhead like the arches of a gothic cathedral. The ground is covered with a thick layer of pristine snow, softly tinted blue by the cold night light, with a single trail of human footprints running along the center of the path and fading gradually into the distance.
The scene takes place during a silent winter night. A dense, icy mist drifts between the tree trunks, enveloping the forest in a mysterious atmosphere. Moonlight cuts through the fog in dramatic volumetric rays, illuminating frost-covered branches and casting long organic shadows across the snow.
At the end of the tree tunnel, a distant warm golden light glows faintly through the fog, creating a powerful focal point and a striking contrast with the cold blue tones of the night. Tiny snow particles float through the air, catching the light and enhancing the cinematic depth of the scene.
The composition is perfectly symmetrical with a deep central perspective guiding the viewer’s eye naturally toward the mysterious light in the distance. Every surface is highly detailed: rough tree bark, powdery snow textures, crystalline frost on branches, and subtle wind patterns across the snowy ground.
The visual style evokes a dark fantasy film atmosphere, poetic, immersive, and slightly mysterious, suggesting a passage toward the unknown.
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Macro Mondays theme: Keychain (image is cropped to fit within the 3" limit)
My daughter picked up this miniature Eiffel Tower keychain while on her travels around Europe in the Fall of 2022. She had spent a semester studying abroad and stayed in Cologne, Germany. She admits that Paris was her most favourite place to visit among all of the places she travelled to.
Today I thought I'd get one more photo in before I have to take my Christmas tree down. Everything is finally put away now till next year.
Thanks for your visit! I hope you have a great day! HMM!
I journey this road alone, going deeper into the unknown
I travel the road far too many have passed on
I stay within this zone to bask in what has yet to be shown
My friends and even my enemies tell me to come home
But I've traveled this road for far too long to return
As I yearn for company, I realize that I will forever remain three
Me, myself, and I forever by my side as I travel on
The road not many have ever known….
Nick Ade The Poet © 2011
This rock within a rock caught my eye when we were exploring the Ojito wilderness. It speaks to me about the passage of time, deep time to be more specific. It looks to me as if eons ago a boulder got swallowed by the next rock layer of the next epoch. Then, in more modern times the lichen came and decorated the whole thing.
But even lichen are slow growing.
Everything seems to happen at a pace slower than fingernails grow.
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I read within a poet’s book
A word that starred the page:
‘Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage!’
Yes, that is true; and something more
You’ll find, where’er you roam
That marble floors and gilded walls
Can never make a home.
But every house where Love abides,
And Friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home-sweet-home:
For there the heart can rest.
- Henry Van Dyke
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The sun dipped low, casting a heavy, amber glow across the frost-touched grass of the ancient meadow. There, a lone pheasant moved with the grace of a forgotten king, his copper feathers burning like embers against the deepening shadows of the approaching night. Each step he took was a silent vow to the earth, a rhythmic dance of survival beneath a sky that bled crimson and gold.
He was not merely a bird, but a spirit of the twilight, searching for the last secrets hidden within the golden stalks. As the chill of the evening wind began to whisper through the trees, his vibrant plumage remained a defiant spark of life in the fading light. He belonged to the stillness, a poetic sentinel of the fields whose beauty was a transient masterpiece, destined to vanish into the velvet embrace of the dark.
Yosemite National Park, CA.
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson
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Photo of Benjamin Lake captured via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 17mm F/4 lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Late October 2019.
Exposure Time: 8 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/22 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6327 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Velvia 100 Landscape * Filter: Hoya PRO ND ND-32 (⌀72mm)
Within Mt. Coot-tha Botanic Gardens. Pathway to one of the exits is at 8 o'clock. The opposite path leads deeper into the gardens.
I was impressed by the different hues playing within the geometry of the city. From the power blue windows high above to the electric purple upon Union station.
Within hours of seeing my first swallow return from Africa, they were down in the muddy puddles dipping dried grass into the wet mud for their nest building. That's dedication !!!
The most photograph water falls within Portland.
Portland Japanese Garden
Picture from my daily walk today.
Portland-on-Willamette, Oregon
USA
Located within a remote little visited part of The Anza Borrego Desert, while exploring a rock shelter I came across this interesting scene upon the rock. This is similiar to another Pictograph that I have seen in White clay though that one is more accessible to people and is more faded due to many people who just have to touch.