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Where Time Stood Still ...... Almost

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Adele D. Oliver

Community Manager, Lotusland, Canada

Where Time Stood Still ...... Almost

The Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Cheops

The Great Sphinx of Giza (Abū al-Haul, English: The Terrifying One; literally: Father of Dread), commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx (a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head) that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx is generally believed to represent the face of the Pharaoh Khafra.
It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 73.5 metres (241 ft) long, 19.3 metres (63 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high.[1] It is the oldest known monumental sculpture, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafra (c. 2558–2532 BC).
Thank you, Wikipedia

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Bea Herzberg 22. März 2015, 15:51
Great shot - I like your presentation in
black & white.
Have a nice sunday,
Bea
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Marcelo Federico Cibils 3. März 2015, 0:28
Cuanta historia en esta imagen!!
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ClaireLaira 27. Februar 2015, 17:55
Very impressive image!
And very interesting to see how big they actually are in comparison to each other!
Kind regards, Claire
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Inez Correia Marques 24. Februar 2015, 23:01
super nostalgic image!
you must have felt so much joy to be there to see all this ! Bravo

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Dinu Filipescu 24. Februar 2015, 22:02
...not only the time .But you`ve got it . It`s nnowadays, but it could have been anytime before the tourists discovered the magic .
dinu
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chantal Montmasson in Ghiroldi 24. Februar 2015, 15:49
Logo bella ! Ciao
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alexander stefanatos 22. Februar 2015, 21:51
Looking at this wonderful picture you can immediately feel the power of history and how directly and instantly it can bring you two thousand and more years back admiring structures that even with current facilities would be etremely difficult to aschieve!...
regards alexander
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archiek 22. Februar 2015, 19:29
What I like is that photos I have seen are just of the Sphinx or a pyramid. Here you have captured the present environment in great detail. Good conversion to BW to help with those details and very good composition.
Regards,
Archie
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Gasser Lisbeth 22. Februar 2015, 14:53
Superbe cliché en noir et blanc !
Amitiés, Lisbeth
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Christian Villain 22. Februar 2015, 13:06
Excellent choix de mise en page qui permet de voir d'un seul coup d'oeil le Sphinx et la pyramide .
Bravo et amitiés .
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Alfredo Spagnoli 22. Februar 2015, 11:32
Veramente molto bella Adele, complimenti.
Ciao, Alfredo
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melkart (pepe jaime) 22. Februar 2015, 10:55
Buen documento gráfico y también escrito. Felicidades Adele. Un abrazo
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Ernst Seifert 22. Februar 2015, 10:39
Noch scheint Ruhe zu sein vor dem großen Ansturm des Tages auf die Pyramide und die Sphinx. Beeindrucken und riesig sind sie diese Monumente.
VG Ernst
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s. sabine krause 22. Februar 2015, 10:38
wow, the mighty SPHINX!! a sight that makes me gape in awe, spellbound by her (his?) austere expression, riddling rep and mythical authority… must admit, though, that as an ardent child reader of both streamlined greek myth AND goscinny/uderzo,* i can't help but imagine her losing her nose to… what? napoleon??? NO!! why on earth…? no, i'm thinking plus-sized obelix spontaneously climbing the sphinx and winding up dangling from her right eye, after having accidentally kicked her sniffer off, when losing his footing! : ) sorry, shame on me! AND shame on asterix for having violated his duty of supervision in terms of his immature friend! ; )) hugs, sabine.
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
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SINA 22. Februar 2015, 10:26
Fabelhafte Bilder dieser Reise hast Du hier mitgebracht Adele so wie dieses
GREAT
herzlich Sina
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