Tag: Architecture
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Welcome
Welcome The spider has spun an ingenious web.She waits patiently at the entrance to her hole,ready for a deadly attack. Photo of the week: Spider near Zen Namkhan Resort, Luang Prabang, Laos 2020
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Lines
Lines Roofs and cables in a quiet interplay of lines. Photo of the week: Wat Aphai, Luang Prabang, Laos 2020
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Mani stones
Mani stones You find them near temples and monasteries, along paths and mountain passes, in the middle of nowhere. Piled up by pilgrims they form mounts or long walls that mark the landscape of the Tibetan cultural region. Texts are skillfully cut in relief on the stones. Often it’s the mantra « om mani padme…
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Little Tibet
Little Tibet The robust architecture is in harmony with the severe landscape. We imagine ourselves to be in Tibet but we are in Ladakh, the western corner of the Tibetan cultural region that became part of India in the 19th century. Neighbouring Tibet is now, much to its chagrin, part of China. A ‘Line of…
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Selinunte
Selinunte This photo tells a similar story as the one of last week, through its subject as well as its composition. Here we are in an ancient Greek city, not in western Turkey but on the south coast of Sicily, Italy. And the temple in the distance on the left is not of Ionic but…
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Priene
Priene The temple of Athena in Priene was built in the Ionic order, clearly recognizable from the shape of the capitals with two volutes (scrolls). In the course of time the whole temple had collapsed or was destroyed. All the pillars were down and their drums were spread around. Only in the sixties of the…
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Drum field
Drum field After last week’s Gerasa-Jerash, another example of past and present next to each other, 24 centuries apart. In the foreground, drums of pillars of the temple of Athena in the ancient Greek city of Priene, Turkey. In the background, the neatly organized agricultural fields of the plain below. Archaic Priene had a sea…
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Gerasa-Jerash
Gerasa-Jerash Only a stone’s throw away: Walk down the South Decumanus road of Roman Gerasa into present day Jerash – or vice versa – and you bridge a time span of two thousand years in just a few minutes. Actually this switching in time is nothing extraordinary. It happens with every visit to historical monuments…
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The encounter
The encounter Light reflections make for intriguing pictures. I like posting them on my blog now and then (look for them under Reflections tag). In the 3-dimensional world we often see reflections without really noticing them. Our brain immediately filters them out; we look through them. But on a photograph they clearly show up. The…
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Palazzo del Podesta
Palazzo del Podesta When you look back from the steps of the Palazzo dei Consoli in Gubbio you see at the other end of the Piazza Grande the façade of the Palazzo del Podesta. The irregular distribution of the differently sized windows in the huge wall is fascinating. It invited me to make this composition.…
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