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  • Pink magnolia bloom just opening on its branch.
    Pink magnolia bloom just opening
  • Tikal: view of the forest from the top of the Temple I or II.  Three sightseers seated on the top step just outside the doorway opening.  Another temple shows its top above the treetops in the distance.  Cloudy sky.
    GUA199203-3-9.jpg
  • Angkor Wat: view along a corridor  of one of its galleries.Parallel linear pattern of sunlight and shadow projected through balustraded window opening.  Successive doorways recede into the distance.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_KHM200602-071.jpg
  • Sequence of empty arched windows piercing walls of Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Closeup of one, beyond which two more in sequence can be seen.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0482.JPG
  • View down a medieval street in Trogir, Croatia.  Trogir is the best-preserved Romanesque-Gothic complex not only in the Adriatic, but in all of Central Europe. Trogir's medieval core, surrounded by walls, comprises a preserved castle and tower and a series of dwellings and palaces from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. (Wikipedia) Though no people are present, there is nevertheless a sense that these ancient dwellings are still kept up and lived in.
    Trogir-streetscape--HRV200606-101.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple walls and buildings clasped in vast tangles of strangler fig tree roots (ficus gibbosa).
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_KHM200602-148.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm, perspective along an interior corridor toward a modern Buddhist shrine.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_interior_KHM2...jpg
  • Two guards outside Roman Senate building, one Carabinieri wearing plumed hat, the other regular army, also in uniform and holding an upright staff.
    Italy-military-guard-Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • Interior of a curving corridor along an upper floor in Trajan's Markets, showing arched windows and brickwork detail, with more windows seen through the nearest one.  Gentle daylight illuminates the floor and wall stumps.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0481.jpg
  • New polished wood door with shiny brass fittings, fitted into the arched entrance of  an old stone and brick house in Florence.  Shiny new apartment buzzer plate on the door jamb, with new drain pipes alongside.
    Florence-streetscape-old-new-ITA2010...jpg
  • Angkor Thom, west gate from the outside.  A hiker with backpack looks back toward the city.  Two other figures nearer the gate.  Gigantic heads on top of the gate.
    Angkor_Thom_gopura_visitor_KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor Ta Prohm, perspective view down a corridor, orange-robed monk pausing in the distance.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_interior-KHM2...jpg
  • Taj Mahal seen in the distance across the Jumna river from a room in the Agra Red Fort palace area.
    Agra_Fort_palace-IND200111-04-30.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Som : view through a sseries of doorways, with bright sun and deep shadow.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Som_interior_KHM200...jpg
  • Thien Mu (Huong ) Pagoda, on the Perfume River near Hue, Vietnam: fierce and colorful guardian statue figure in ancient military garb seen through an arched doorway.
    Hue_Thien_Mu_Pagoda_Vietnamese_Herit...jpg
  • View from the embrasure of an open window at the top of the Nakhl Fortress, Oman.  Fortress walls are ! meter thick. Grove of palm trees and distant mountain seen through an iron grille.  Wooden shutters stand open, sunlight casting diagonal shadows from the grill.
    View from window grill at Nakhl Fortress
  • Bronze winged lion with book, 18C by Antonio Gai,  on gates to Sansovino's Loggetto, in Piazza of San Marco, Venice.  Detail showing just the lion staring at the camera, holding an open book facing outward.
    Winged_lion_bronze_200402-3-27.jpg
  • Exterior: trattoria Quatro Leone, Oltrarno, Firenze.  The door stands invitingly open.  The food is delicious.  It is frequented by neighborhood residents.
    Restaurant_Florence_ITA201012-261.jpg
  • Atlantic seagull standing on a harbor wall screams for fish, beak wide open.  He is demanding and intense in his posture.
    Atlantic_seagull_screaming_BD200411_...jpg
  • Casbah doorway, from inside through Islamic archway toward the courtyard outside.  Passageway is emphasized by deep shadows and bright sunlight in contrast.  The heavy door stands open. A TV / radio aerial is visible above the mud brick wall of the adjoining courtyard.  It represents a liminal space in which one has come from the inside and is about to enter the outside.
    Spiritual-journey_PS200411_0672.jpg
  • Ostia Antica.  Closeup of a theatrical mask carved in stone; Corinthian pillar and umbrella pines behind.  Mask's mouth is wide open as though screaming.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1034-2.jpg
  • Close up of a single red rose bloom widely opened, silhouetted against its own foliage.
    Congratulations Rose.jpg
  • Stone circle, Dartmoor, with distant moorland landscape..a young man leans against one of the uprights, contemplating the view.
    ENG198707-3-1.jpg
  • Closeup of a lion head on a wall in Dubrovnik, Croatia.  Dry spout.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-236.jpg
  • Rialto market, church of S. Giacomo, steps of Rialto Bridge in distance, on a rainy day, with shoppers and pedestrians walking by stalls of vegetables and fruits.
    Daily-life-Venezia_ITA200402-1-25.jpg
  • Pregnant woman carrying two bags stands wearily back from the doors which have not yet closed but are impossibly filled with a crowd of people who do not notice her.  There is no room for one more.
    Crowded-subway-passengers-unaware-EN...jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Terme Diocletiani, trompe d'oiel painting of a monk with a little dog coming through a door in the cloister of the Carthusian monastery adjoining the baths of Diocletian.    This fresco is probably later, 17th century.  A guard rope is secured in front of it.
    trompe-doeil-painting-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • View up a steep stair, masonry walls and arched vault, toward a mysterious opening above.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-031.jpg
  • Hidden opening reveals an ancient water hole
    AUS201804--10.tif
  • Mosque, tomb, and madrasa of Qala'un, Cairo, built 1283-85. Interior, mashrabeyya doors, opening toward the columned courtyard.  An atmosphere of peace and calm pervades the space.
    Mamluk architecture interior
  • Overview of the Roman forum from the overlook at the back of the Capitoline Museum, looking through an arched opening and over a protective barrier.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901-4857.jpg
  • Street scene in Khambat, Gujarat, India, showing facade of the town library, reader seen through open window; bicycle leaning against the wall.
    Village-library-IND201301--0612.jpg
  • The mosque caretaker opens the interior shutters to the morning.  His gowned figure is silhouetted against the iron grillwork of the window.  A folded newspaper is in his left hand.
    Opening to the morning
  • Oman, in the village of Mirbat.  Facade of a brand new house in traditional design.  Open central doorway, carved wooden doors.  Children looking out of upper window.
    Omani_house_OMN200801--4119.jpg
  • Bronze winged lion with book, 18C by Antonio Gai,  on gates to Sansovino's Loggetto, in Piazza of San Marco, Venice.  Detail showing just the lion staring at the camera, holding an open book facing outward.
    Lion of St. Mark ITA200402-3-27.jpg
  • Snow on the cobbles and roofs; head on view of a cottage converted into a souvenir shop, its doors open bearing shelves for display of souvenirs for sale.  Adjoining cottage has bright blue walls.  A rhythm of square, rectangular, and round shapes makes a geometric two dimensional structure. Street in the 17th century was occupied by goldsmiths, hence its name.  Subsequently redeveloped in the time of Maria Theresa in the 18th century; in the 19th and early 20th century, squatters' housing; now occupied by expensive souvenir shops and restaurants.
    Prague-Hradcany-Golden-Lane-CZR20090...jpg
  • Woman praying, palms together and raised before a cauldron of burning joss sticks, at the  Ngoc Son Pagoda, Hanoi, North Vietnam.  Smoke from the incense wafts toward the open door of the pagoda.
    Burning_incense_at_Ngoc _Son_VTN2006...jpg
  • Venetian Gothic church of Madonna dell'Orto, Cannaregio district, Venice; facade and campo from bridge.  Built early 15th c, restored about 1970.  The little campo is deserted, though the church door is open, with a sign on an easel giving service information.
    Madonna-del-orto-Venezia_ITA200403-9...jpg
  • Colorfully-painted house front on Burano, Venice.  Laundry hanging in front of one house; umbrellas hanging open and upside down from  a wooden framework in front of another house.  Main colors blue, red, orange.
    Burano-house-Venezia_ITA200403-6-6.jpg
  • Oman, in the village of Mirbat.  Facade of a brand new house in traditional design.  Open central doorway, carved wooden doors.  Children looking out of upper window.
    OMN200801--4119.jpg
  • Statue of a personage as a fountain, water spouting from his/her open mouth.
    Trsteno sculpture HRV200606-350.jpg
  • Stack of bananas at an open market.  Their dark blossom ends pointing toward the camera make a slightly aggressive statement.
    Bananas blossom ends THA200603_388.jpg
  • The lion holds down a lamb in its front paws.  Behind, two men in Roman tunics, with an escutcheon between showing a bearded man's face, leaves and volutes on either side, crown above.  Lion's mouth is wide open as though roaring.  Stylized details of mane, ribs, and lams wool.
    Romanesque guardian lion HRV200606-1...TIF
  • Detail of a stone troll carving in a canal in the gardens of the  Villa d'Este.  The creature's open mouth seems to be drinking in the water of the canal.
    Baroque gulp in stone canal, gardens..voli
  • Pantheon; detail of oculus and dome interior coffered ceiling seen from below.  Blue sky and clouds visible through the open oculus.
    ITA200901--0751-2.jpg
  • Man and woman seated together meditating on the cool marble floor of Ranakhpur, Jain temple built in 1439 in reign of Rana Kumbha, after businessman Dharma Sah dreamed that he should build a temple to Adinath, primary Jain deity, just at this spot.  Has 1444 columns each uniquely & richly carved with deities and floral motifs.  Beyond the couple, sunlight pours into an adjoining open courtyard.
    Ranakhpur_meditation_IND200111-8-4.jpg
  • Close up of a ferocious looking Hellenistic theatrical mask on display at the Vatican Museums.  Its eyeballs are painted in, mouth open, head covered with curly hair.
    Hellenistic theatrical mask ITA20090...jpg
  • Misericordia: man riding in a wheelbarrow - like cart.  He holds a dog (?) and looks at an open book and seems quite comfortable.
    Toledo misericordia ESP201210--4106.jpg
  • Red winged blackbird singing in a bush.  His beak is wide open.
    Congratulations card BD200706--1096.jpg
  • Head on view of a white Sahara camel, with a pink rope bridle.  The creature looks directly at the camera, mouth open, showing dreadfully bad teeth,
    ANcamel2004110645.jpg
  • Fes: el Attarine Medersa: looking upward to the students' rooms, cornices and railings of carved wood thickly ornamenting every surface.  Three open windows.  Laundry hanging over a  window grille dries in the sun.
    Fes_Attarine-medersa_MOR200411_0506.jpg
  • Detail of the facade of the College of San Ildefonso, Alcala Henares, an example of the Spanish Plateresque architectural style of the 16th century.  The building opened in 1506.
    Alcala_Henares_Plateresque_ESP220121...jpg
  • Fully opened star magnolia bloom still on the tree, surrounded by smaller blooms beyond.
    Flourish of a star magnolia bloom
  • Sharp shadow projected on doorway of an old but still occupied house in Ayvalik.  Date on metal tympanum over the door says 1878.  A young woman in jeans opens the door with a key, while two other women walk by.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-4.jpg
  • St. George's Wharf development near Vauxhall Bridge: view over the bridge to the high rise apartments, construction cranes beyond.  The four tallest roofs have angular profiles shaped like diagrammatic wings, or opened books.
    Vauxhall_Bridge_ENG200706--3176.jpg
  • Red H'mong village woman in the kitchen of her wooden home.  Walls of vertical slats abut each other but show many openings where they do not meet.  The kitchen fire is an area on the floor, covered with white ash..  North Vietnam.
    Vietnamese_Heritage_VTN200602-206.jpg
  • Interior corridor of the hemicycle in Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Sunlight streams through arched openings on the right to fall on shop entrances on the left.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0486.jpg
  • Views of the ruins of Conwy Castle, Conwy, Wales.
    Conwy Castle interior walls.jpg
  • Turkeys gathered for their meal in a circle around an opened bag of grain, on the ground of a village market in Morocco.
    Thanksgiving_BD200411--0502card5x7.jpg
  • Built mid-13th century (1256-62) as the seat of city government; later the headquarters of the Chief of Police, prison, and police barracks.  In 1865 opened as a national museum.  A tourist couple lean against the wellhead studying their guidebook.
    Bargello-courtyard-ITA201012-098.jpg
  • Facade of the university College of Ildefonso at Alcala de Henares.  Flourish of red roses in the foreground, and a clutch of tourists lined up admiring the building's Plateresque ornamental flourishes around its doors and windows.  The building dates from the turn of the 15th-16th century.  The university, founded by Ximenez de Cisneros, opened in 1508 as the College of St. Ildefonso.  The facade was designed by Rodrigo Gil de Hontanon in the style known as plateresque.
    Alcala_Henares_university_ESP2201210...jpg
  • Split, Diocletian's Palace, interior view showing part of the oculus, several arched window openings, and restored floor where a young teenaged boy practices his ball kicking skills.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-122.jpg
  • Unknown contemporary abstract and geometric paintings illuminated by sunlight streaming from upper arched openings that give light to the underground structure.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-128.jpg
  • View from S. Miniato al Monte of the medieval and Renaissance fortifications that Michelangelo worked on for a year or two when the Florentine Republic was at war with the Medici supporters.  Beyond, the terraces of the newly opened Bardini Gardens.
    Florence_fortifications_ITA201012-12...jpg
  • Interior of the dining room in the House of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill, Rome; opened to visitors in 2008 after years of careful restoration.
    Palatine-house-Augustus-interior-Rom...jpg
  • Rome, Basilica of Constantine (begun by Maxentius).  Colosseum visible beyond through the arched openings; one of the vast arches of the main hall on the left of the image.
    Constantine-basilica-Forum-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Red H'mong village woman in the kitchen of her wooden home.  Walls of vertical slats abut each other but show many openings where they do not meet.  The kitchen fire is an area on the floor, covered with white ash..  North Vietnam.
    Interior-kitchen-H'mong-VTN200602-20...jpg
  • Al Rustaq Fort, at the foot of Al Jabal Al Akhdar on the edge of the Batinah Plain, Oman. Originally constructed circa 1250 AD on Persian ruins from the 7th century AD, The imposing present-day structure was rebuilt by the first ruler of the Ya'ruba dynasty in 1650.   Rustaq has long been important because of its strategic situation at the openings of mountain passes, as well as its benign climate and hot springs, which are believed to have medicinal benefits. It was the site in 1624 of the election of the first imam of the Ya'ariba, Nasir bin Murshid bin Sultan, and served as the imamate's capital a number of times, controlling trade between Oman's coastal ports and the mountainous interior.
    Al Rustaq Fort, Oman
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