Category Archives: photos
Bad Urach & Schloss Lichtenstein
Bad Urach & Schloss Lichtenstein, a set on Flickr.
Photos from today’s visit to Bad Urach & Schloss Lichtenstein in Baden-Wurttemburg.
The Wye Valley from Whitestone
HDR shot from my iPhone over the Wye Valley looking over the river into England.
Field near Monmouth
Noticed this scene while walking along the Peregrine Path by the Wye.
Pavilion in the mist
Monmouth School’s new sports pavilion on a misty, frosty December morning. A photo taken using the TrueHDR app on my iPhone.
Photo – View from Wyesham
I’m experimenting with a HDR photography app on my iPhone and sometimes get interesting results, like this shot taken from my neighbourhood, Wyesham, across the River Wye to Penallt and Mitchel Troy.
The All-Seeing Eye
The eye within a pyramid: a symbol of an evil masonic conspiracy?
Actually, no. This symbol was used in European religious art as a representation of God. The eye represents God surveying his creation, reminding Christians that they are accountable to their creator.
That’s not a pyramid either. It’s a triangle representing the Holy Trinity.
Pyramids, by the way, don’t really have much place, if any, in masonic art as the mythology of the masonic degrees isn’t located in ancient Egypt.
I found this particular example of the “All-Seeing Eye” not in a masonic building, but in a frieze at the front of the 19th century Helsinki Cathedral when I was visiting that city earlier this week.
I’ve seen the same design in a 17th century German church.
Ample evidence, I hope, that this symbol is not “masonic” in origin. It was obviously borrowed by freemasonry as a symbol for God because it was already familiar to people through religious art.
Further reading: http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/anti-masonry02.html#eye_pyramid
Blackthorn blossom
Spotted this next to the Wye today.
View from the Kymin
This was the view this morning from the Kymin, the big hill behind Monmouth, looking towards Abergavenny, the Blorange and the Skirrid. I’ve never seen it so clear.
Telegraph – 140 years of UFO pictures
The Daily Telegraph has an interesting retrospective of photos of UFOs going back to 1870. This one was seen over New York in 1950. Looks like a brandy snap to me.
Monnow Man 