An opening that shows the sky.
James Turrell ‘Skyspace’
The Deer Shelter, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Tunnels made of dark red string
Installation ‘A Walk Through The Line’ by Chiharu Shiota, Fabrica Hill catacombs, Paphos #SundayPixOpening
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A hobbit house built into a bank. It has a round red wooden door. The door is partly open and 3 people are looking out. They are me, my then 10yo holding a toy squid and my then 6yo holding a penguin puppet. We had been to Kelly Tarlton's a few days before hence the sea creatures.
Another Hobbit house. This time it has a round green door which is partly open but there are no people in the picture. There are steps leading up to the door with flowers and, randomly, a pumpkin, besides the steps.
A 3rd hobbit house. This time it has a much smaller blue for, which is closed. My 10yo is touching the bell by the door. My 6yo is watching him. Both the squid and penguin are still very much in play. The house has a not of flowers in the front.
A large round wooden opening, human size, in a wall. This is in the cafe/ pub at Hobbiton. The whole place has a very hobbit feel with wooden floors, tables and chairs, white wash style yellow walls and lit by a lamp on the wall. Although you can't see it properly in this picture, the neon green exit sign is written in hobbit script (or is it elven?). Either way it's very cool.
#SundayPixOpening a selection from Hobbiton, from 10 years ago. See alt for details.
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Theatre curtains : when they open, the magic begins. Perhaps the greatest entertainment openings of all?
Remember though, If it wasn’t for Venetian blinds, it would be curtains for all of us.
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A stone wall with an opening for a cannon pointing out to sea. The metal cannon is green with verdigris and is mounted on a wooden structure with wheels. Through the opening are the Atlantic Ocean and the horizon.
Looking across the whole of the wide parapet with the sea to the right. There are about 8 or 10 of the cannons aimed through the wall. Children are playing on them.
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Cannon emplacements at Essaouira, Morocco, looking out to sea.
This was the location for one of Daenerys’s major speeches in Game of Thrones, standing in for Astapor (with the cannons covered over for the shot).
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The end of the Siq (a deep and narrow gorge) with a glimpse of the carving of the main facade of Petra, known as the Treasury (even though no treasure was there — it was probably a burial chamber). A man in traditional Jordanian clothing is walking towards the end, hands clasped behind his back. He is wearing a red and white headscarf (keffiyeh), blue jellaba (full length tunic) and a black jacket. A camel is lying down just past the opening. The rocky sides of the Siq show the horizontal geological banding typical of the region.
View from in front of the Treasury, looking across the open space to the opening of the Siq. It shows its full height of 90-180m in the rocks that embrace it, then it is open to the sky. In the open space of flattened sandy ground (about the size of a town square) are local people, police and guides, and many tourists, plus a resting camel.
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The Siq (a cleft in the rock, about 1.2km long, viewed from both sides at Petra.
You may recognise it from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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A wrought iron arched roof in a train station, partially covered, but the light is streaming through. Looking along the track to a semi circular opening at the end, the top half of which is covered with more wrought iron. Across the tracks from the platform is a blue and yellow double decker train waiting at the opposite platform.
#SundayPixOpening Amsterdam Centraal Station. And a double decker intercity train.
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Bright yellow dandelion flowers finding refuge in a hole in the bottom of a trunk of a tree.
#SundayPixOpening Where there's a will there a way.
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Lego models of two Porsche 911’s, one a Turbo and one a Targa with the roof open. A set of track wheels for the Turbo lies in front.
For @wombat37.bsky.social ‘s #SundayPix - #SundayPixOpening —
The open roof of the Porsche 911 Targa.
#Lego #LegoCollectables
#LegoIcons #Lego10295
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A slit window in the wall of Wawel Castle in Krakow. A person in black walks past in the distance behind them buildings. The brick of the castle wall a deep red.
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Black and white image of painting with four figures. Text below: 2 King Ay as a priest performing the Opening of the Mouth ritual for Tutankhamen as Osiris. Nut greets Tutankhamen at the left.
A map of the site with six detailed pictures around it (including the one I’ve posted). Text reads: المقبرة رقم ٦٢ : توت عنخ آمون Period: Dynasty 18 Discovery: Howard Carter, 1922. Significance: Only nearly intact royal burial to be found in the Valley of the Kings. Decoration: The Book of the Dead (1): king with gods (2, 3, 4, 6); the Opening of the Mouth ritual (2); the Imy-dwat (4, 5).
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More from Valley of the Kings: a poster describing the ritual of the Opening of the Mouth
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Local workmen, most in turbans to protect from the sun, digging and sifting through the sandy earth and rock. In the background is a cave-like entrance to… treasures??!!
A wall with a brass plaque reading TOMB OF TUT ANKH AMUN
Workmen digging and carrying baskets of rubble
Another workmen squatting to dig in the sandy ground. He is wearing a pale pink turban, crossed over his face like a dust-mask, and a pale blue djellaba (full-length tunic). Beside him are baskets for the rubble he’s digging up.
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Valley of the Kings, Egypt
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The start of a sunrise. The sky is a dark purple, as are the clouds, and there is a smear of rich red coming through the opening in the clouds.
The clouds are bursting with oranges, mauves, reds, and lavender. The sun itself cannot be seen, but it is sending a bright flare of yellow-orange through the clouds.
Cloud coverage is nearly 100%,and they are a flaming orange-red, with the center a bright ball of gold.
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Opening the day.
I rarely wake up before the #sunrise, but I was on vacation & my brain decided it was time to be awake; I saw the start of this, grabbed my camera & ran to the rooftop balcony to watch one of the most spectacular sunrises I've ever seen.
Galveston, Texas, US
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An ancient Moroccan fortified town in the distance, framed by a round hole in a wall.
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I’m late as usual!
Aït Benhaddou, Morocco, from the hill above
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Greens, yellows, pinks, red and orange cover Norland Moor. To the lower right corner you can just make out the gritstone that makes a natural path through this seemingly acid-drenched colourful landscape. In the background, green rolling hills with roiling clouds above.
I need to eat! But, room for one more. This is what the moors look like, with a small opening in the heather and foliage that makes this suitable for #SundayPixOpening
Bit of a nightmare for processing due to the riot of colour, but worth all the aches I collected to see this.
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Grey clouds suddenly break, allowing a shaft of sunlight through. The moors have turned purple, orange and white with Bell and Ling Heather. (Bell Heather is purple but turns orange when it's dying of.) Distant hills are illuminated by sunlight, but they're also greyed out as there was a brief burst of torrential rain which you can just make out. My Fuji camera's pretty crap with bright sources, so the ground, covered in purple heather is almost silhouetted apart from purple highlights glinting in the sun.
As ever, I wandered off-track and found myself walking down a wooded glade with a small stream besides me. It was covered by tree canopy (lots of which was coming down around me), making for welcome shade. Here, the canopy's let the sunlight through, illuminating the ground and revealing the edges and highlights of ferns, moss-covered rocks, and trees.
At the end of the wooded glade was this opening in the trees for telegraph poles. The phone lines lead the eye to Wainwright Tower, a folly that, well, towers over Halifax and Sowerby Bridge, West Yorks. The sky is a vivd blue, with mashed potato clouds scudding by.
Two birds, one stone! A few from yesterday's hike around a purple Norland Moor that also fit the #SundayPixOpening theme.
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I love it when nature helps with the framing. The sun-soaked West Yorkshire hills can be seen through a silhouetted opening formed by a drystone wall at the bottom, and a holly tree that's curving around from the left.
Stoodley Pike stands above Todmorden, West Yorkshire. I think this commemorates the end of the Crimean War (I really ought to know by now!). It's enveloped in a thick swirling mist that suddenly came in, and just as the sun had sunk behind distant hills, making the entire moors eerie and almost monotone. We can just make out a darkened entrance at the base of the tower. It's possible to climb up and take in views from the top of the plinth. Best done when there's no mist.
It's going to be another 9pm supper if I don't get a move on. A couple more for #SundayPixOpening
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A rattler I saw in San Diego, opening its mouth to reveal deadly fangs.
Thank you to everyone taking part in today's #SundayPix for such a gallery of stunning photography. You're all remarkably talented, not to mention witty. Check the Feed to see for yourselves. #SundayPixOpening
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