Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
February 3, 2013 12 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
I liked the Daily Post photo of the lone red tulip among all the others, particularly because we have one of those too at the end of the road, where a lone tulip emerges each year among a plantation of daffodils. To some of us, one bulb looks pretty much like another does it not? But then it flowers, not the same at all.
But what photo can I choose? Search good old i-photo and those thousands I mean to sort out sometime … soon… maybe…
Guangzhou: Haizhuang Park
A memorial wall in Haizhuang Park temple, Guangzhou, China
This is only a small part of one of several memorial walls in the rooms at Haizhuang Temple. Each ‘card’ is about the size of a postcard. I asked permission to take a photo as I could not just point and click in the reverent atmosphere of respect.
And oh, each is indeed unique, a memory of one person. As are we all, however unknown or unimportant.
These remind me of mini Byzantine icons. So are individual photos of each person memorialized placed in front of these golden shrines? Are their images of a deity inside each shrine as well?
Not all had photos and many had writing in chinese character, sometimes traditional which I can’t read. I found it on one of my wanders by myself. The temple is buddhist if I remember right, so no deity.
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That is amazing, a memorial wall of so many. How do you find the right one when you want to?
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Beautiful, Elspeth
thanks Kate