Snow doesn’t always stick in beautiful Colorado Springs, where temperatures sometimes swing 40 degrees Fahrenheit in just 24 hours. Like a well-scripted winter holiday, snow stuck during Christmas this year. Front Range communities experienced below-freezing temperatures while blanketed with a calm, fluffy snow fall Dec. 23-24 — a stark contrast to the blizzard conditions that rolled in Dec. 19, which closed many school districts. It’s the day after Christmas and, as usual, our blue skies refuse to retreat. The attached photos were taken this morning, Dec. 26, from Marksheffel Road in northeast Colorado Springs, overlooking Stetson Hills Boulevard. Continue reading →
Notre-Dame Basilica’s sanctuary and altar Sept. 1, 2012, in the historic district of Old Montreal in Quebec. Four scenes from the Old Testament encircling the crucifixion of Christ: in the lower right, Abraham sacrifices his son, Isaac, who is believed to have been replaced by a lamb; lower left, Melchisidech offers of bread and wine; upper left, Moses establishes the commandments concerning ritual animal sacrifice at the altar; and upper right, Aaron sacrifices a lamb according to tradition. Located at 110 Notre-Dame Street West, the basilica is world renown for its Gothic Revival architecture, one of the most dramatic in the world. Continue reading →
Mohammad Saleh Nishwar, 79, has sold merchandise at Souq Waqif in Doha, Qatar, for more than 60 years. His family-owned store, about the size of a parking space, hasn’t budged in almost 100 years. Reconstruction projects have protected its cultural merit, as part of the oldest trading area in Qatar. Across the street, soaring temples of trade, banking, hospitality and governance are rising from the desert sands, fertilized by seemingly endless fossil fuels. Aside from considerable oil reserves, Qatar has proved 900 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, the largest single gas field under the earth’s crust. Continue reading →
A local man and his daughter ride a bicycle down a main street in Galle, Sri Lanka, Feb. 8, 2008. A surge in Tamil Tiger activity and civil unrest had left wild life parks and safaris were closed. However, the people inside the seaside town of Galle were moving about without expressing much worry. An overcast of poverty surrounded cost-effective solutions to every day situations. The area had been hit hard by the tragic December 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. This dramatic film-like effect helps capture the city life by stripping off the bright, hard lights. That dreary economic overcast is represented by dark, cool colors and softened shapes. Continue reading →
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