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Spring Bloom at Flower's Garden
These have been taken last week. It has got pretty hot now, I wonder how many of them would stand the current heat. Luckily, they now can live forever, captured in digital frames of my journal.
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The Vank (The All saviour) Church
At the beginning of the reign of Shah Abbas I in 1588, Persia had almost fallen apart. Uzbeks and Afghans had moved into the North-Eastern lands and Ottomans were attacking the North-West, invading parts of Azerbaijan. It took Shah Abbas 14 years to build an outstanding army to conquer both enemies and take back what was lost of the Persian soil. ( Read more... ) -
Sio-Se-Pol and Chahar-Bagh
Let's take a detour from the monuments in Naghshe-Jahan, to two of the most
famous and iconic features of Esfahan.
Here is a picture of Chahar-Bagh, built in 1596, still carrying the main traffic
of North-South:
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Happy 2007!
Today 2006 joined the history. To me, this is only a change in the last digit of a four digit number, since New Year will always be the time when trees wear their new dresses, birds fall in love and flowers blossom, even if I'm in the Southern hemisphere ( Read more... ) -
A Long Walk with an Stranger
It has been a cloudy/rainy/snowy week. The heavy rain followed by snow last Thursday ruined my plans to go for a major photo shooting. So seeing a half cloudy sky Thursday 12-14-06, I decided that I'm going to take some pictures no matter what comes my way. It was a horribly cold day, even with sun playfully beaming from wherever clouds hadn't ( Read more... ) -
Not enough to make a snowman
Yesterday it snowed; too bad I had a ton of works and a deadline to meet and couldn't have some fun out in the snow, and today it's brutally cold ( Read more... )
