The Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, India – I believe India’s largest Mosque – one of my favourite buildings in the world. I love Islamic art and architecture. I wanted to create something different when photographing this beautiful building. Architecture pictures can be boring and lifeless – I didn’t want to represent the Jama Masjid in this way, because it is so full of life. I asked the boy in the foreground to run through the flock of pigeons so they would fly upwards, away from the building. It was a nice coinsidence that he was positioned in the doorway. This effect achieved, to me, looks like angels flying out of the Mosque. Angels of Allah.
A Woman with outstretched arms seems to hold the sun between her two hands. It is late in the evening and there is an orange glow everywhere
I did this piece very quickly . It was drawn at A3 size. Scanned in and colored at 600dpi. It’s full of detail and includes dome of my favorite things in the world around me. I’ve entered it into a local exhibition competition. There was no theme other than giving designers a chance to express themselves anyway they want to. The greatest and most perfect designs are all around us. The animals, the plants, the mountains…everything that is naturally formed. These are the things I admire the most. The beauty of fauna and flora, the dead or alive. Perfect and not by design…it just is. Play and Worship
I was traveling each day between Albury and my son’s farm at Wymah, while attending APSCON, and noticed this little chapel erected in memory of the pioneers. Anyway I could not resist the temptation for a couple of shots when the rain clouds followed me up the highway. The purple is my favourite flower…..... NOT! We call it “Salvation Jane”, most call it correctly – Paterson’s Curse. The chapel is just short of a place called Bowna, NSW, Australia
One of my very first(!) and favorite photographs, shoted with Nikon FM2-negative. this picture have been showed and awarded in some International Photo Festivals. Tabriz, Iran. / - Copyright by Mohsen Bayramnejad. Update: / wins the Religion challenge of Art of the Middle East Group and also Featured Work of the group. / - featured in the First Things Group.
shot this in a temple compound around buddha’s birthday. this woman was just sitting quietly, soaking up the quietness, examining her soul!
I have always loved ruined and bare country chapels where the outside elements seem to be brought in through the windows and shafts of light. To me, the deep greenwood and forests are nature’s chapels,which can bring you closer to the divine than any grand,gold guilded cathedreal. For me there is no seperation between the divine and the natural world around us…..and I have found peace and harmony many times amongst the sacred Celtic springs and ancient trees in forgotten corners of this country. This image was particularly inspired by the small holy wells of South West Cornwall, where even to this day poeple leave offerings and gifts to the water elements and the old Gods.
Worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness; / tremble before him, all the earth. -Psalm 96:9 Digital mixed Media
Acrylic on textured canvas This was a commissioned painting I have recently finished. My brief was to paint a caped/hooded woman and to have the Chapel of St Catherine in the background. / / This unique building sits on a hilltop outside the village of Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. The current building is 14th-century, its history and the reason why it was built is unknown. The church is not a regular place of worship with only a handful of services each year. However people have been coming to the chapel more often in recent years. In a niche inside – candles, feathers, coins, an icon of the saint, and prayers written on scraps of paper, to God, to Jesus, to St Catherine, to nobody in particular, expressions of human need and feeling are left. They get cleared away now and then, but more come. According to legend, Catherine was a noble Roman woman from the Egyptian city of Alexandria of unusual beauty and intelligence who converted to Christianity. She protested against the worship of idols to the Emperor Maxentius, who called in 50 pagan philosophers to convince her of the error of her ways, but she ended up converting them instead. Maxentius offered to marry her but on her refusal had her beaten and imprisoned. Her torturers tried to break her on a spiked wheel, but it blew apart. Finally she was beheaded – though milk flowed from her severed neck instead of blood. Her body was carried by angels to Mount Sinai, where the monastery which bears her name still exists. During the Middle Ages she became an enormously popular saint and is often depicted in icons, paintings, statues and manuscripts. In art she often carries a book, a sword, or a martyr’s palm, as well as the wheel which is her symbol, and she’s the patron saint of those who work with wheels, scholars, unmarried women, and many other professions and conditions of people. In 1969, however, the Vatican decided to suppress her cult on the grounds of the historical unreliability of her legend.
The last time, / I ever saw you, / Was knee deep, / In salty brine, / Mute, and certain to stay there, / You told me, / It was never to be mine.
Been on my wishlist of places to go and photograph for about 15 years…finally made it last saturday! We were blessed with some great light too…..and wonderfull, mystical place….possibly the most amazing location for a stone circle in the country Castlerigg, Lake District, Cumbria
I desire therefore that people pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting ~1 Timothy 2:8 The Word that is descending upon her is Isaiah 51. Photomanipulation created in Photoshop CS2. Stock Credits: / Woman
The magnificent stone circle at Castlerigg, Cumbria, Enaglnd. / Lit up by the first goldern rays of morning sun. Shot early November. Canon 400D + sigma 10-20mm + filters
Infra red image of an ancient Oak tree hidden in the valley of the White Leaved Oak, Malvern Hills, England. The tree is thought to be about 1,500 years old and grew from an acorn of a true albino oak which is said to have grown in the area many hundreds of years ago. The Oak is located on the site of ancient earth works and is comonly thought of as being once an ancient place of worship for the Celts and Druids. It is still visited today by local Pagans and Witches and often decorated with offerings of ribbons and crystals.
Cacti family. Shot taken at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, December 2008. Fractalius plug-in applied.
Taken at castlerigg Stone Circle January 2009. Snow during the night had coverd the distant hills of the Lake District with a frosting of white and the water with a covering of ice. 30 second exposure before sunrise.
Beverley Minster, East Yorkshire, UK. Beverley Minster, in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire is a parish church in the Church of England. It is generally regarded as the most impressive (architecturally speaking) church in England that is not a cathedral. / Originally a collegiate church, it was not selected as a bishop’s seat during the Dissolution of the Monasteries; nevertheless it survived as a parish church, and the chapter house was the only major part of the building to be lost. It is part of the Greater Churches Group and a Grade 1 Listed building. / The Minster owes its origin and much of its subsequent importance to St John of Beverley, who founded a monastery locally around 700 AD and whose bones still lie beneath a plaque in the nave. The institution grew after his death and underwent several rebuildings. After a serious fire in 1188, the subsequent reconstruction was overambitious; the newly heightened central tower collapsed c. 1213 bringing down much of the surrounding church. Work on the present structure began around 1220. ~ Wikipedia Samsung GX20, Tamron 24-105mm lens @ f22. HDR – my first ever attempt!
featured in Color Me a Rainbow 10-24-2009 / featured in SOLO-EXHIBITION 10-19-2009 / featured in A Spiritual Walk 10-16-2009 / featured in The World as We See it 10-04-2009 / featured in Globes, Sphere’s & Curves 09-01-2009 / featured in Metallic Junktion 08-14-2009 / featured in A Kaleidoscope Kraze 08-19-2009 / featured in A Fractal Energy Passion 08-18-2009 / featured in Live, Love, Dream 08-15-2009 Take me back to the rivers of belief / Take me back to the rivers of belief / My friend / . / I look inside my heart / I look inside my soul / I promise you / I will return / . / And when the lamb / Opened the seventh seal / Silence covered the sky / . / Take me back to the rivers of belief / Take me back to the rivers of belief / My friend / . / I look inside my heart / I look inside my soul / Im reaching out for you / Lets hope one day / We’ll rest in peace on my rivers of belief / created with Apophyisis, Incendia & PSP
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One of several music-themed pieces I’ve been working on for the past few days. This is a digital piece using my 1922 sheet music, my photo of a piano and the silhouette came from Wikipedia Commons. I altered and enhanced the original silhouette digitally for this piece. Music has always been a big part of my life, so I thought it was time to bring some of my musical influences into my art work.
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