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Sake barrils
Ise-Shima, Japan
These sake barrils are displayed as offering to God at Ise Shrine which is the main shrine for Shintoism.
Photo by elise hori
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Echoes of my Past
a cropped version of this photo
i think i like it better this way
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none of my work may be used in any way without my permission!!!
Photo by AntonioPhotography
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Sunset ࠄeshaies
Couch頤e soleil sur la jet饠du port de Deshaies - Basse Terre - Guadeloupe
Photo by A VersAerien
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Icosahedron II
This piece is the largest in the series of modular paper sculptures, measuring about 80cm in diameter.
Photo by Richard Sweeney
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dreamland
A young girl selling handcrafted angels and figurines at a crafts fair.
August 11th 2006
Photo by hkvam
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"No human relation gives one possession in another... every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone
Dancing lovers....
Photo by **ANNE
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Me and my thousand faces 2/2
'Me and my thousand faces "Large On Black"
Photo by Kasimir Szekeres
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Walk with me...
will you walk with me tonight :)....
A day with another sunshine....sometime I wonder..how many shoes can we wear? or being on someone shoes....how would that be?..
My moment....in London.
Photo by elsakawai
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Untitled
I was sitting at a sidewalk cafe in Zurich today and the man at the next table was trying to get the local birds to eat bread out of hand. A couple were brave enough...
Photo by hhsc_2000
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Untitled
No I do not work for the National Geographic.
Nor the Conde Naste Traveler. Nor the surfing O?Neill?s.
Nor do I hang around, loitering the sets of Playboy.
It's a hard choice not to.
Besides the money, fame and the perks those big guys throw around,
it's as much a wish as a need, for any aspiring photographer.
What I despise, though, is the attitude.
The bigger the name, the worse it becomes.
Maldives is small. It's impossible not cross each others paths.
Especially when those paths are queued with egos, sneers and
trucks.
Trucks of photo equipment the big-namers carry around, to, perhaps exaggerate the bigness of the game.
Oh!
Photography has become a game?
I thought it was all about moments, creativity and hard work.
I have seen Smarties being exchanged for smiles.
I have seen photographers bargaining with greenbacks.
I have seen magic. The special disappearing act performed by many hasty pros in search for the next, award-winning shot.
I am just being jealous. I know.
I am cheap.
I never, ever, offer anything in return for my photos.
Except love.
My people love me, just as I love them.
I also know that I belong. In Maldives, it?s difficult to navigate
the terrain, nor, dodge the beaurocracy that arises in the rush of the moment.
Talking of trucks of photo equipment,
I wish I could land up a decent job, so I can ditch this throw-away pocket camera and invest in a DSLR.
Posted by _az
17_08_05
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P.S. I have been shortlisted for having the most unique photostream in Flickr.
Hope you checkout my fellow nominees here!
www.flickr.com/groups/flickyawards/discuss/63731/
Your high spirited VOTE will help spread love and friendship that
is so very visible among the Flickr community.
Coming up : Mr. Lucky
Photo by Ahmed Zahid
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I am the cause to all your problems
Added to Cream of the Crop as my most favourited.
Photo by chishikilauren
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"Reality demands"
"..There is so much of Everything
that Nothing is quite well concealed.."
Wislawa Szymborska
Photo by Pensiero
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Cathedral in the Forest
Title thanks to Trapac - in another photo.
I was late by the time I got to this. I stopped and grabbed a few shots, especially this one, crouching to get the vegetation. I was even later - but relieved that this came out at all.
I think this is worth looking at On Black
Someone, not me, made this PRIVATE, and it lost all its faves.
The story is on The Disappearing Favourites Group.
www.flickr.com/groups/64011881@N00/
And on flickrBugs. It has not yet been sorted out by the Admin.
www.flickr.com/forums/bugs/21776/
Thanks to all those that have refavved it.
Photo by algo
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thinking up a storm
rodin's "the thinker' (le penseur) outside the Cleveland Museum of Art. Although I chose this angle for dramatic effect I was eager to avoid including the damaged base of the statue caused by an explosion set by the politically radical Weather Underground in 1970.
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as Most Interesting.
Photo by Dabbler
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Gadget
Anna's new-fangled cell camera thingy...
:^)
(My picture's better -- nah nah...)
Painting by Chuck Close
Photo by DavyRocket
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curving, swirling
Hagia Sophia is covered by a central dome with a diameter of 31 meters (102 feet) and 56 metres high, slightly smaller than the Pantheon's. The dome seems rendered weightless by the unbroken arcade of arched windows under it, which help flood the colourful interior with light. The dome is carried on pendentives?four concave triangular sections of masonry which solve the problem of setting the circular base of a dome on a rectangular base. At Hagia Sophia the weight of the dome passes through the pendentives to four massive piers at the corners. Between them the dome seems to float upon four great arches.
At the western (entrance) and eastern (liturgical) ends, the arched openings are extended by half domes carried on smaller semidomed exedras. Thus a hierarchy of dome-headed elements builds up to create a vast oblong interior crowned by the main dome, a sequence unexampled in antiquity.
The structure has been severely damaged several times by earthquakes. The dome collapsed after an earthquake in 558; its replacement fell in 563. There were additional partial collapses in 989 after which an Armenian architect named Trdat was commissioned to repair the damage and again 1346. In the era of S?n the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan (Sinan the Architect) built extra attachments to prevent it from collapsing.
All interior surfaces are sheathed with polychrome marbles, green and white with purple porphyry and gold mosaics, encrusted upon the brick. On the exterior, simple stuccoed walls reveal the clarity of massed vaults and domes. (Wikipedia)
Istanbul, Turkey.
Photo by shapeshift
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Fire Canoe #4
Another canoeing shot ! This style of paddling is only done on calm, windless days, usually in the early morning. Most of the changes to this image were done in the RAW converter: Temp and contrast boost, then "levels" tweaked in PS.
you can see me here:
www.flickr.com/photos/pmorgan/44711679/
Photo by peter bowers