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  • Scene in the Omani mud brick village of Misfah : traditional homes and apartments still occupied and wired for electricity.  Utility pole festooned with parallel strands of electrical wires, casting shadows on the mud brick walls.  Early afternoon sun casting heavy angular shadows on the mud brick walls.
    Omani Mud brick village of Misfah
  • View northward (toward Cairo) from the top of the Aswan Dam.  Low slope toward the river Nile sheathed in cut stone.  Shadows of pedestrians at top.  Desert and river recede to the horizon.
    Nile_river_Aswan Dam
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication). Detail of five columns from bottom to top with curved shadows of the next column capital showing near the top of each.  Parallelism and togetherness; repetition.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-099.jpg
  • Egyptian official at Luxor, seated at his desk in his office by the entrance to the site, writes carefully in his logbook.  Wears a blue galabeyya, white turban, and purple overscarf.  Parallel shadows from the barred entrance gate cast curved bars of light on the irregular stone wall behind him.
    EGY197811-36 copy copy.jpg
  • Angkor: Prasat Kravan (10th century): east facade in the morning sun, seen from the altar opposite.  Shadows of tree branches stretch across the grass towards the temple. Tourist figure visible in center and left hand doorways.  A small charming Hindu - influenced temple in the Angkor complex.
    Angkor_temple-Prasat_Kravan_KHM20060...jpg
  • Bare ruined choirs:  nave of Fountains Abbey looking westward.  Pillars and arches cast powerful shadows on the smooth grass.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_320.jpg
  • Geometric patterns of rectangles from sun and shadows cast on the attic walls of a 19th century late Georgian house in Edinburgh.  Blue sky and white fluffy clouds visible through the glass.  Point of view looking upward
    AB199310-33.jpg
  • Oman, mud brick village of Al Hamra, largely abandoned.  Though some structures still endure, and show some basic maintenance, little restoration seems to be attempted. Here a man wearing white dishdasha and red cap strides, arms swinging, down a street under a heavy electrical wire. Bright midday sun casts heavy shadows.
    Omani mud brick village of Al Hamra
  • Cluster of trees casting shadows, Montebello Condominium grounds.  THeir positiobn implies that they are about to step forward.
    TR201105-64pr16x24ptgsimplify.jpg
  • Company of trees grouped near a path through the Montebello woods, seen in a late afternoon sun casting a pattern of shadows on the ground.
    Woods walking
  • Intense sunlight and a festoon of shadows from electric wiring characterize the facade of a stone house.  Barred window, painted wooden door, and a sense that the house is being kept if not lived in.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-1-1.jpg
  • Relaxing in a hammock on a sunny day.  The texture of the open-weave hammock casts a network of shadows on my bare legs and ankles.
    SL199209-2-1.jpg
  • View from the saddle: riding along the demarcation between the Sahara desert and the Nile Valley, headed toward the Giza Pyramids.  Late afternoon sun casts sharp shadows.
    horseback riding toward Giza.jpg
  • Avenue of cypresses in the garden of the Generalife, Grenada.  A few tourists stroll along the path.  Sharp sunlight and shadows.
    Alhambra_Generalife_cypresses-ESP201...jpg
  • Sunlight falling on a single pine tree in the middle of a Highland forest creates a sense of spiritual presence in the shadows of the other trees in the woods.
    Holiday_magic_TR199310-1-17card5x7.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Som : view through a sseries of doorways, with bright sun and deep shadow.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Som_interior_KHM200...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
  • Sunlit alley between shadowed mud brick mansions, village of Al Hamra, Oman.  The homes have been abandoned but remain standing.  All are defensive with small slit windows set high in the facades, and crenellations on the flat roofs.
    Omani mud brick village of Al Hamra
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Shadow patterns on the seats and stairs, making an abstract semicircular design.
    Greek_theater_Segesta_ITA200610-197.jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Shadow patterns on the seats and stairs.
    ITA200610-197pr10x15.jpg
  • A passerby tosses a handful of marigold petals onto a statue of winged Garuda, already splashed with vermilion and petals.  Only her arm and hand gesturing with its shadow is visible, as is the shadow of a trident nearby, balancing the composition and framing the figure of Garuda. The 10 day annual Dashain festival is enthusiastically celebrated in Kathmandu..
    Spiritual_practise_Dashain_NPL200110...jpg
  • Sicily : ancient Greek Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Shadow patterns on the stone seats and stairs have been saturated somewhat to bring out the cyans and reds in the stone.  The graphic composition is a pattern of parallel curves.  The theater is still used for performances .
    ITA200610-197.jpg
  • Morning shoppers at Rialto market, Venice; Rialto Bridge in background.  One woman in the foreground carries a bag, casts a full length shadow toward us..
    Daily-life-Venezia_ITA200403-3-24.jpg
  • Photographer's shadow, camel's head and neck, and camel handler holding its lead, in early morning sunshine.  Morocco, near Erg Chelebi.
    MOR200411_0654.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : partial view of two adjoining temples, side by side, so that all their columns seem to cluster together.  A group of tourists partly visible below one of the temple platforms.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-097.jpg
  • Oman, mud brick village of Al Hamra, largely abandoned.  Though some structures still endure, no restoration seems to be attempted.  Nevertheless at least some of the multistory mud brick apartment buildings are lived in and electrical wiring is strung along the street.  An Omani man in white dishdasha and embroidered traditional cap strides purposefully down the street.
    OMN200801--3699.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication)
    ITA200610-098.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins: detail of one bay in the nave, with clerestory windows above.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_328.jpg
  • Cairo school headmistress and hadji on the balcony of her school; janitor sweeping beyond her.  The headmistress wears a peaceful, mellow expression, as she has just returned from Mecca.  Her white scarf and drapery indicate this, though in the bright sunlight she must be very hot.  At the other end of the balcony, a subordinate, female servant sweeps the floor, her back turned to us.
    Egyptian woman hadji, recently retur..ecca
  • Interior rooms of the Bayt el Razzaz, an abandoned Mamluk palace in urban Cairo.  A door stands ajar, showing sunlight streaming into the adjoining room.  In the 1970s, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) funded explorations, and in 1995 UNESCO funded a status report: http://www.unesco.org/archi2000/pdf/morton.pdf
    Interior of the Bayt el Razzaz, an a..lace
  • Turban wraps and towels hung to dry in the courtyard of the Sultan Ahmad Shah 1, Ahmedabad.
    Mosque-courtyard-laundry-hanging-IND...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
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins.  View of colonnade separating the nave and side aisle on the north side.
    Fountains Abbey ENG200607_307.jpg
  • Mosque caretaker sweeping the floor seems to be sweeping the sunlight projected from windows on the exterior wall.    Their Islamic piercing pattern also projects onto the mosque pillars.  BAround and behind the sweeper, the pointed arches recede, also illuminated by sunlight.   This is a rare image of the mosque interior.
    Sweeping sulight in the Ibn Tulun mo..airo
  • 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
  • Afternoon sunlight pouring along a path in the San Michele cemetery island, Venice.  The overall scene looks toward the water gate with cemetery and offerings on either side of the poplar lined avenue.  In the distance, a figure in a red shirt seems to be about to vanish in the light.
    Spiritual-journey_ITA200403-8-2pr14x...jpg
  • View at sunrise toward the south across the rolling Sahara, toward a flat horizon. In the foreground, footprints of a couple walking along in close conversation.
    Sahara_LD2004110625.jpg
  • Oman, in the village of Mirbat.  Four laughing children seated together on a bench outside one of the village houses. Their bare feet swing merrily in the sunshine.
    Omani children in Mirbat
  • Two men seated on a vast boulder in the Omani village of Misfah.  They wear traditional Omani dress of dishdasha and turban. One turns his head away and covers his face with one hand, not wanting his visage captured in the camera.
    Two Omani men seated on a boulder
  • 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
  • Four laughing children seated together on a bench outside one of the village houses in Mirbat, Oman.  Intense noon sunlight on the whitewashed walls and street.
    OMN200801--4131 (1).jpg
  • Muscat, Grand Mosque of Sultan Qaboos, view down an arcade that borders the courtyard of the mosque.  Sunlight streaming between the pillars, casting parallel shadows.  Carved woodehn [teak] ceiling, pointed arch at entrance.
    arcade at Sultan Qaboos mosque
  • 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
  • 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
  • Taj Mahal from the east at sunrise, with a row of 7 visitors seated in the foreground shadow. One minaret visible at the left..
    Taj_Mahal_sunrise_IND200111-3-25a.jpg
  • Sharp shadow partly covers an old but occupied house in Ayvalik, Turkey.  Bicyclist passes doorway with a newish mailbox.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-24.jpg
  • Interior of a typical old Cairo house in Mamluk architectural style.  Sunlight throws a shadow of a lamp in the foreground against the qibla wall beyond.  The chair and water jars indicate that the house is somewhat cared for, if not actually lived in.
    Traditional Mamluk house interior in..airo
  • Waterscape with sun and shadow, reflections, and birch tree trunks.  One lone swan
    ENG201109--3761pr16x24f.jpg
  • View down one of the entrance streets that leads into the ancient town and medina of Fez, Morocco.  Five scattered pedestrians walk toward the camera, two away; one shopkeeper arranges his goods; one young man leans against the corner of a building in the foreground.  Bright sunlight.  Five satellite dishes visible on different rooftops of several ancient apartment buildings.   Old and new juxtaposed in comfortable coexistence.  Viewpoint slightly high so that beyond the deeply shadowed medina area at the end of the street we can see a glimpse of modern construction and blue hills beyond.  Fez lies in a bowl with hills on all sides.
    Fes_Medina_Morocco_MOR200411_0505.jpg
  • The audience section of the ancient theatre at Segesta, Sicily.  Bands of sunlit and shadowed stone make a design of curved parallels.
    Birthday card ITA200610-197.jpg
  • Red and yellow apples in a bowl on a Turkish djijim..Red and yellow apples in a bowl on a Turkish djijim.
    Apples in bowl_SL199602-1.jpg
  • View along a colonnade of the Patio de los Leones, in the Alhambra.
    Patio de los Leones ESP201210--0268.jpg
  • One of the beehive tombs at Bat, Oman, dating from 2500 BC.  Tombs were robbed long ago.  Inscription painted on a rock in the interior says, in Arabic, "forbidden to enter"
    Oman_Bat_beehive_tomb_OMN200801--363...jpg
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  • SL201708-6587.jpg
  • View to a stream of water from underneath a screen of willow branches hanging from above.  A single swan is visible through the leaves.
    ENG201409-3532pr24x16f.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
  • View to a sunny meadow from underneath a screen of leaves on a carpet of bluebells.
    PT198306-03pr_ptg24x19f.jpg
  • One of the beehive tombs at Bat, Oman, dating from 2500 BC.  Tombs were robbed long ago.  Inscription painted on a rock in the interior says, in Arabic, "forbidden to enter"
    OMN200801--3639.jpg
  • Photographer reflected in the glass exterior of the German Pavilion for the 1929 World's Fair in Barcelona, designed by Mies van der Rohe, with a sculpture by Georg Kolbe.  Torn down in 1930, after the fair, the landmark structure was reconstructed in 1983-6 by a group of Spanish architects who used the same materials as had van der Rohe.
    ESP199410-1-17.jpg
  • Vietnamese boatman, wearing a blue shirt, paddles from the bow of a canoe through a canal in the Mekong delta.   Palms trees, mangroves, and other growth lean over the muddy brown water.  Point of view of the passenger being paddled.
    Vietnamese_Heritage_VTN200602-2585.jpg
  • Crowds around the Fountain of Trevi, late afternoon sunlight illuminating its facade.  18th century design by Nicola Salvi.  Crowds mill about in the foreground.
    Fountain-Trevi-Rome_ITA200901--4842.jpg
  • Trastevere street scene: sculpture on corner of a house, man drinking from a fountain; sculpture stuck on the wall above.
    Trastevere-streetscape-Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • Taj Mahal from the east at sunrise, gleaming in the early light, seen from alongside the adjacent han or hotel, part of the complex.
    Taj Mahal dawn IND200111-3-23.jpg
  • One of the beehive tombs at Bat, Oman, dating from 2500 BC.  Tombs were robbed long ago.  Inscription painted on a rock in the interior says, in Arabic, "forbidden to enter"
    OMN200801--3639.jpg
  • 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
  • Three young men working at rinsing out freshly dyed clothing at a water source in the medina of Fes.  Onelifts a pair of jeans out of a bucket; another dips a jug into the water; a third carries a bucket while trampling on some rinsed clothes to wring them out.
    Fes_Medina_Morocco_MOR200411_0526.jpg
  • Granada-Alcazar-ESP201210--0416.jpg
  • View along the diminishing Todra River, through a gorge toward distant mountainous desert.  Landscape of desert, cliffs, and drought-affected river, low in its bed.
    landscape-Todra-gorge-MOR200411_920.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
  • South facade of St. Peter and St. Paul wool church in Lavenham, seen from near the south entrance.  A few gravestones scattered close to the church, casting shadows.  The late afternoon sun reflected off the 8-light Late Perpendicular style windows of the church.  Finely carved ornament on the buttresses and along the roof.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0043.jpg
  • Early morning in the Rialto Market, Venice, Italy.  Bright sun lights bright red awnings hanging down to shade the food.  Customers in the shadows of the adjoining market area.
    Rialto-market-morning-Venezia_ITA200...jpg
  • Four Hmong boys playing marbles on a dirt road near SaPa, North Vietnam.  In the afternoon sun, their figures cast sharp shadows on the road. One is about to shoot a marble into a dirt cup.  Two others watch critically.
    Boys-playing-marbles-Vietnamese_VTN2...jpg
  • Sunlight falling on a single pine tree in the middle of a Highland forest creates a sense of spiritual presence in the shadows of the other trees in the woods.
    Holiday_joy_TR199310-1-17card5x7.jpg
  • Ostia Antica, ruins of Republican era temple of Heracles.  Statue of C. Cartilius Poplicola on the temple platform.  Late afternoon sun, slanted shadows.
    Ostia_Antica_ITA200901--1044.jpg
  • From the rider's point of view, horse's ears in the foreground, two other riders in the distance ahead.  Endless sand on all sides; slight hills on the horizon.  Short shadows; it is high noon; pale blue sky.
    From_horseback_Sahara_EGY197704-19.jpg
  • Traditional bicycle rickshaw on the beach at Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh.  Its owner has left his red sneakers on it.  Two distant figures wade in the distance.  Late day shadows cast on the sand.
    BGD198102-220.jpg
  • Shopping area of Ayvalik, with the shop of a flatbread maker.  Bright sunlight and sharp shadows fall on the facade of the shops.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-21a.jpg
  • Exterior of a bookshop with graffiti on the wall outside:  "Living like a gypsy in spirit."  Inside the bookshop, a customer browses in the shadows.
    Florence-graffiti-ITA201101--2044.jpg
  • Banteay Kdei : woman guard knitting quietly and alone in a corner of the ruins; Apsara dancer reliefs on nearby pillars.  Dappled shadows cast by overhead foliage.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Kdei_interior_...jpg
  • Scenes in the Omani mud brick village of Misfah : approach tunnel, with painted Omani flag indicating walking route for tourists. Tourist with camera just visible in the shadows.
    Entrance to Misfah village, Oman
  • Facade of a Venetian palace facing the Grand Canal.  Very contemporary speed boat tied up by its water gate.  A man emerging from the doorway shadow moves toward the boat.  Direct juxtaposition of old and new, ancient and modern, antique and contemporary.
    palace-facade-grand-canal-Venezia_IT...jpg
  • Aurelian Wall from outside San Sebastiano gate, with sun and shadow, bright blue sky and white clouds above.  One auto partly visible in the road.
    Aurelian-walls-sebastiano-Rome_ITA20...jpg
  • Pink Japanese cherry blossom buds on branches, with the shadow of a nearby tree trunk behind them.
    Flowering cherry buds in detail
  • 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
  • Colonnade of the Quwwat ul Islam mosque in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park, Delhi.  Early Islamic structure in India uses rich Hindu ornament on the columns of the prayer hall.  Tourists linger in the shadow of a column, only partly visible.
    Delhi_Mehrauli_IND200111-1-7.jpg
  • Four singers and players, one woman and three men, play on Renaissance replica instruments, wearing Renaissance era clothing.  They are seen from the back, in the shadow of a colonnade, while tourists in shorts watch and listen in the sunshine beyond.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-372.jpg
  • View from Piazza Venezia along Il Corso toward the Piazza del Popolo, seen from above, on the roof of the Vittorio Emmanuele monument .  City rooftops and the rolling landscape beyond to the blue horizon.  Late afternoon slanted sunlight and heavy shadow along the street.
    Il-Corso-ITA200901--0868.jpg
  • Grasshopper sitting in a calla lily, its shadow thrown on the petal or spathe, while the insect clutches the yellow spadix.
    grasshopper_calla_lily_FL200410_210.jpg
  • Yorkshire, Fountains Abbey ruins; looking west down the empty nave, with shadow pattern from the columns.
    Fountains_Abbey_ENG200607_306.jpg
  • At St. Paul's Monastery, ancient (5th century) Coptic structure still in use, two women consult a priest.  They are in the shadow of an arched passageway.  The priest's head is bent to listen, while one of the women gestures towards him.
    Two women consult a Coptic priest in..gypt
  • Curled and twisted branches of a frankincense tree, its leaves and trunks shadowed on the desert sand below
    OMN200801-4039ptg_border.jpg
  • Interior of the Mezquita, or Grand Mosque of Cordoba, showing its forest of columns and overlapping banded arches.  Shadowed, mysterious, and dignified.
    Cordoba_mosque__ESP201210--0160coled.jpg
  • Palace and mosque at Uparkot, Junagadh, interior of colonnaded hall.  Sunlight streams in at one side, the other side shadowed.
    Uparkot_Junagadh_IND201301--1259.jpg
  • From the Taj Mahal terrace, looking toward the Jumna River past the adjoining caravansaray.  One corner of the tomb at the left, marble terrace and Jumna river gleaming, and caravansaray shadowed on the right.
    Taj_Mahal_terrace_IND200111-3-9a.jpg
  • Cobblestones laid in a fan pattern on a medieval street in Alcala de Henares, Spain.  Shadowed legs and feet of two pedestrians at the top of the image.  Cobblestone pattern is confined to panels separated by strips of white marble.
    Cobblestone_fan_shape_ESP201210--236...jpg
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