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Not everything breaks apart.
Some things reveal what was always there.
April theme challenge Anatomy ONLY
inside there is no escape until it is unleashed.
walking towards the unevitable means of life, until that second when it is all gone.
you stand, march, and continue.
it was pretty cold out last night.
strobist info: sb-900 1/2 power camera left. sb-600 camera right 1/2 power.
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omg wow!! EXPLORE #2 thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Cave openings leading to tunnesl that go to various initiation wells at The Ibis Fountain. The pond was just coated with algae!
A piece from my adult daughter's long forgotten elementary school "jewelry" collection which works nicely for July 30: Trinkets and August 20: Multicolor.
Happy New Year to all!
Macro Mondays - Redux 2018 - 12/31/18
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Nestled in the hills of the Aravalli range is the Ranakpur Jain temple dedicated to the first tirthankara (supreme preacher) of Jainism, Adinath.
The temple is one of the largest Jain temples and considered one of the five holiest Jain shrines in India.
The temple is a white marble structure spread over 4,500 square meters with 1444 marble pillars, twenty-nine halls, eighty domes and 426 columns. There are a total of 84 bhonyra (underground chambers) for storage and protection of idols from then marauders.
For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
Kahlil Gibran
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Beauty sometimes is to find within the inconspicuous things. Some weeks ago I shot this boring backside of a storage at the City of Düsseldorf (Germany). But I was fascinated by the metal surface. I reconstructed the building a bit, added some round elements in the sense of fengshui and suddenly the japanese Lady arrives, out of the clouds. You have to know, that Düsseldorf residents Europes greatest japanese community...
King Roger's Hall - the formal chamber where Norman king Roger II would meet visiting dignitaries in the Palazzo dei Normanni, dating back to the 12th century.
The Ruggero Room contains exquisite mosaic decoration above a high marble plinth, dating from the regency of Guglielmo (William) I! (circa 1170). It covers the walls, lunettes, the undersides of the arches and the vault. Leopards, lions, harts, peacocks, centaurs and bowmen confront one another symmetrically amongst fruit trees and palms in the large lunettes. Spiral branches with leaves and flowers entwine the decorative elements of the vault, interrupted only by geometric bands (at the crossing points) and the medallions with lions and griffins. The Swabian eagle, within an octagon at the centre of the vault, dominates the composition, while the double-headed eagle appears on the keystones of the minor arches. The entire decorative structure is laid out on a single tessera background with gold leaf.
Thought to be the work of mosaicists trained in Byzantium, the iconographic themes of the mosaic cycle show clear eastern influence, more Persian and Seljuq than Arabic, as a result of the osmosis between the Islamic and Byzantine worlds.
Source: [islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;IS...]
Last Sunday, while enjoying a photowalk with several friends, I took this photo within the Tokyo International Forum Building, in the Yurakucho district of Tokyo.
Sigma DP1 Merrill
鼠 - The Year of the Rat 2008; Chinese New Year. Kung hei fat choi!!!
恭喜發財 - 'Congratulations and be Prosperous' (in traditional Chinese).
Although the New Year fell on Thursday 7 February, celebrations in London
took place today, on Sunday 10 February, centred in Chinatown and Trafalgar
Square. The streets all around Chinatown were beautifully decorated with red
lanterns, symbolising prosperity for the new year.
~ Chinatown in London reminds me so much of androon shehr, literally the 'inner
city', which refers to the old walled city of Lahore. Androon shehr, which is original
Lahore, is fortified and surrounded by thirteen gates built by the Mughals, and most of
them still exist. I of course mean that they share the same vibrancy, life and industry.
It's a strange sensation which feels so much like walking through the high walled
gulleys of the androon shehr! Everything is the same, I'm convinced that everything
is the same wherever I go...
Cuba
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Woodlawn, Michigan
W. Swainston's place on 10 acres alongside the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad in Woodlawn, Michigan
(1913 George Ogle Plat Book)
a design reminiscent of the ubiquitous drying racks for fish
austvågøya, lofoten isles nordland norway
visible on right side - many large A frame racks for drying fish
svolvær, austvågøya island lofoten isles, nordland norway
An evocative aerial perspective of the Cokitalia plant in Bragno, nestled within the rugged landscape of the Val Bormida. The image captures the complex geometry of industrial heritage, highlighting the intricate network of conveyor belts, cooling towers, and the dedicated railway infrastructure that feeds the facility.
The warm, low-angled sunlight of the golden hour emphasizes the textures of the coal heaps and the weathered steel structures, creating a striking contrast between the mechanical rigidity of the plant and the soft, rolling hills of the Italian countryside in the background. A testament to the enduring industrial soul of the Ligurian hinterland.
To comMUTE in screwedCITY doesn't mean to travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis – it actually means to travel huge distance within screwedCITY limits, (which is extremely huge) around places located somewhere in between one's home and place of work on a regular basis just for the sake of being surrounded by mute fellow citizens on low public transport fare. Most members of screwedCITY middle and upper class prefer this activity more than after-work parties, while many prestigious law firms take comMUTE as a cheap replacement for team-building.
This is classic screwedCITY – comMUTErs on McCullough's grandiose Turnstile Plateau waiting for a bus or train from there to somewhere and in-between...
Photograph captured with a Pentax Pentax Super A, SMC 50mm lens, using Ilford FP4 film, and printed on Ilford Multigrade paper.
© GM
Taken deep within the White River National Forest in Colorado. This is a self-portrait of me gazing at the stars, with the Milky Way rising into the heavens above.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Peggys Point Lighthouse, also known as Peggys Cove Lighthouse, is an active lighthouse and an iconic Canadian image. Located within Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, it is one of the busiest tourist attractions in the province and is a prime attraction on the Lighthouse Trail scenic drive. The lighthouse marks the eastern entrance of St. Margarets Bay and is officially known as the Peggys Point Lighthouse. #myvikingstory
Appearing within the boundless darkness of space in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot, NGC 34 looks more like an otherworldly, bioluminescent creature from the deep oceans than a galaxy. Lying in the constellation Cetus (the Sea Monster), the galaxy’s outer region appears almost translucent, pinpricked with stars and strange wispy tendrils.
The main cause for this galaxy’s odd appearance lies in its past. If we were able to reverse time by a few million years, we would see two beautiful spiral galaxies on a direct collision course. When these galaxies collided into one another, their intricate patterns and spiral arms were permanently disturbed. This image shows the galaxy's bright center, a result of this merging event that has created a burst of new star formation and lit up the surrounding gas. As the galaxies continue to intertwine and become one, NGC 34’s shape will become more like that of a peculiar galaxy, devoid of any distinct shape.
In the vastness of space, collisions between galaxies are quite rare events, but they can be numerous in mega-clusters containing hundreds or even thousands of galaxies.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Adamo et al.
#NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #MSFC #Marshall #HubbleSpaceTelescope #HST #astronomy #space #astrophysics #solarsystemandbeyond #gsfc #Goddard #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #ESA #EuropeanSpaceAgency #galaxy