Early 20th century musicians in Iran; retouched and colourised by @arefadib
Having a break in the Qajar period in Iran
Four seasons view from my window: Rowan (Mountain-ash)
(14 May 2017)
This Chestnut-leaved Oak (Bolandmazu in Persian) comes from Iran and was planted in 1846 at Kew Gardens. It stretches 30 metres high and 30 metres wide and is still growing fast.
It is the fastest growing Iranian in London.
Iran will keep the same pose.
See Iran Coming Out of the Shadows by Karl Vick and the photographer Newsha Tavakolian.
My siblings and I on the Haraz Road in the mid 1970s.
Road 77 is an important road from Tehran to northern Iran. The road passes from the valley of Haraz River and is also known as Haraz Road between Amol and Rudehen.
Haraz Road is also the nearest road to Mount Damavand, the highest peak in Iran.
The 2013 photo is by ninara.
My photo is on the cover of Sissinghurst: Der schönste Garten Englands
Persian School by Antoin Sevruguin (1830–1933) who was a photographer in Iran during the reign of the Qajar dynasty (1785-1925).
My Instagram's profile page >> http://instagram.com/arefadib
The Iranian wrestler Omid Noroozi, who won the gold medal in the men's 60-kg category in London 2012, in a classical statue pose - the contrapposto - so apt for this style of Greco-Roman wrestling.
Contrapposto is an Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance.
>> Here are all my photos from London 2012 Games
My colourised photograph of Charles Dickens.
Today, much of the world is celebrating one of its greatest storytellers ever on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Above is my little tribute to him.
The actual Daguerrotype is by Jeremiah Gurney, circa 1867-1868.
Snowwoman with her two snowkids in Golders Hill Park, North London.
>> Click here to view Snow in London set
This morning's sunrise over North London
Christmas Wreaths in Hampstead, North London
Motivational word of the day: TRY!
>> More photos of road markings
Silhouette of Eros Statue, Piccadilly Circus, London
>> View my set of silhouettes on Flickr
Three coniferous trees in Biddulph Grange Garden
Biddulph Grange is a National Trust landscaped gardens, in Biddulph near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Designed in the mid 19th century as a series of connecting compartments, Biddulph Grange Garden is one of Britain's most exciting and unusual gardens. Featuring a Chinese-inspired garden, an Egyptian garden as well as pinetum, rock-gardens and fernery.
Door in Ghent, Belgium
>> Here are a few more doors that I have found interesting
View of the High Street, Oxford, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1810, The Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford
Day & Night in North London - 8 Feb 2011
Putney Bridge is a bridge crossing of the River Thames in west London, linking Putney on the south side with Fulham to the north.
Baptism of Fire >> This way!
Monmouthshire, Wales
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The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the British Museum brought a small corner of South Africa to the heart of London. (29 April ? 10 Oct. 2010)
South Africa Landscape showed the rich diversity of plant life from Cape region.The plants were chosen to highlight the rich diversity of flora in South Africa. The plants were shipped to Britain in a refrigerated container and it took four weeks to build the landscape outside the Museum.
Einstein is keeping his balance in the Strand, London.
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
Photo taken from inside an empty glass of Doogh. The black bits are dried mint.
We watched Chelsea recapturing the Premier League title in emphatic fashion as Wigan Athletic were thrashed at Stamford Bridge.
One of my Nowruz images was exhibited at British Museum last weekend.
Our handprints in fresh snow. My handprint is on the left and Max's is on the right. His hands are nearly the same size as mine.
Frozen Britain image from NASA's Terra satellite
The Dead Fly Art is by Magnus Muhr and the photo on the right is by artist Shirin Neshat.
The Headington Shark is a 25ft-long fibreglass sculpture representing the body and tail of a large shark, apparently having dived out of the sky to crash through the roof of a Victorian terrace. It situated at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford and first appeared in 1986. Bill Heine, a local radio presenter who commissioned it from the sculptor John Buckley, has said "The shark was to express someone feeling totally impotent and ripping a hole in their roof out of a sense of impotence, anger and desperation."
My collection of tree bark photos is growing.
I have started taking pictures of tree barks.
Blue plastic bottles - Wembley Sunday Market
Wembley Market is the largest Sunday Market in England and is held in front of the new Wembley Stadium.
Over the weekend we went flower hunting.
(N.B. No flowers were harmed during the shooting of the photos!)
I took this photo of the interior of the parish Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill with my mobile phone camera. The interior reminds me a bit of Jan Vermeer's or Pieter de Hooch's paintings. In their works the light often enters from a window.
St Jude-on-the-Hill is in the middle of Hampstead Garden Suburb, a model residential community planned by Henrietta Barnett for housing of all social groups, although the atmosphere there today is definitely middle class.
Bumblebee on rododendrom flower
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Some of us are looking at the stars, I am happy taking pictures of the gutter.
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A covered Paso in a church in Granada
Semana Santa (Holy Week) is one of the most important traditional events of Andalucia. It is celebrated in the week leading up to Easter. The week features the procession of pasos, floats of lifelike wooden sculptures of different scenes of the events of the Passion or images of the Virgin Mary or other saints.
A Paso (Spanish for Pace or Step) is an elaborate float carried by costaleros and are usually followed by a band. Some have long skirts that cover the bearers entirely, giving the impression that the statue is floating on its own power.
The patterns in Spain stay mainly in the southern plain!
>> I went pattern hunting in southern Spain. Click here to see the results.
Painting of a cigarette butt and a discarded blue Wellington boot!
>> Here is the original photo I took last Sunday.
Photo of Jafar Aref-Adib Street in Tehran taken by H. Sharififar
My cousin Jafar fought in the Iran-Iraq War and was subsequently killed in action.
>> Here is a photoblog by a former Los Angeles resident who recently moved to Tehran.
>> Here are more photos of the magnolia tree in Kenwood Park that I took four days ago.
An autumn leaf on my windscreen.
>> view the original photos here
Max doing a Godzilla impression at Trafalgar Square!
The Stop the War demonstration on Saturday 5 August brought tens of thousands of people onto London's streets. This is unprecedented for a protest called with only one week's notice. The march started at noon at the Speaker's Corner, in Hyde Park, passed by the United States Embassy and Downing Street, and ended in Parliament Square.
The protestors placed children's shoes outside Downing Street and at the Cenotaph.
The 311 spiral steps of The Monument.
We went up to the top of The Monument. An observation deck at the top has a great view over London. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren to mark the Great Fire of London in 1666. It is the tallest freestanding stone column in the world.
Here are some photos I took last February at Highgate Cemetery - or Highgate Dead Centre as Max calls it!
Today I spent an afternoon with Max watching sharks & tropical fish at the London Aquarium.
>> The human cost of nuclear catastrophe
April 26 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has visited the area worst hit by radioactive fallout to document the toxic legacy of Chernobyl and other nuclear accident sites of the former Soviet Union. The Fallout exhibition runs from April 18 to May 14 at the Oxo Tower in London.
This is another picture I took on the London's South Bank with my mobile phone.
And here is the same bridge by Claude Monet:
>> 12+1 photos of Sizdah Bedar 2006 in Trent Park, North London
The thirteenth day of the Iranian New Year festival is Sizdah Bedar (meaning "thirteen outdoors"), is a day of festivity in the open, often accompanied by music and dancing. The day is usually spent at family picnics.
The thirteenth day celebrations stem from the belief of the ancient Persians that the twelve constellations in the Zodiac controlled the months of the year, and each ruled the earth for a thousand years. At the end of which, the sky and the earth collapsed in chaos. Hence, Norooz lasts twelve days and the thirteenth day represents the time of chaos when families put order aside and avoid the bad luck associated with the number thirteen by going outdoors and having picnics and parties.
At the end of the celebrations on this day, the sabzeh grown for the Haft Sin (which has symbolically collected all the sickness and bad luck) is thrown into running water to exorcise the demons (divs) from the household. It is also customary for young single women to tie the leaves of the sabzeh before discarding it, so expressing a wish to be married before the next year's Sizdah Bedar.
This is a picture I took on the London's South Bank. Inside Out, a weekend of free music, theatre and performance of every variety, takes over the South Bank on 24 - 26 March.
A year after the earthquake in Bam, the non-profit organistaion Picture People equipped selected people with Kodak one-time-use cameras to document everyday life as the city tried to rebuild. At the end of 2005, Picture People went back to Bam to follow up the project. Cameras were handed out to some of the original participants while new people were invited to join in.
>> See the project on the Picture People website
Paris, the city of light, by night.
I took these pictures few days ago with my new mobile phone.
Every year an Argentinean family goes through a private ritual and photograph themselves.
The result is moving.
Link via the eyeranian.
Art imitates Life, Life imitates Art:
The top picture is of Anthony Quinn in the Federico Fellini's film La Strada.
The bottom picture is taken by a Hungarian photojournalist this year and shows an Iranian strongman in Tajrish Square, Tehran.
I love the snapshots by Medi, a 26-year-old Iranian living in Oslo, Norway.
His snapshots are glimpses of his life, with immediacy and honestly that transports us instantly into his world. His pictures remind me a bit of Wolfgang Tillmans' work.
Sam Javanrou is an Iranian designer who lives in Toronto, Canada. In his excellent photoblog - Daily dose of imagery - he posts photos daily. Definitely worth a visit!
Matt Stuart's photographs of London are great. Check them out.
Here are some shocking photographs that provides the human context to some recent crisises.