11.04.02 West Bank Page 2
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solemn
deir al-bhari
eye am horus (bw beak-not-bleak aspect)
deir al-bhari
broken
(waiting in loneliness aspect)
near deir al-bhari, west bank
here i've broken the typical rule of photography of "rule of thirds" (i.e. never place your subject in the center of the picture, place it in one of the thirds) to emphasize the brokenness of this scene: a bus stop in the middle of the desert.
drawn and quartered
medinat habu, west bank
columns, now a pittance of the height they once were stand like gravestones in the great hypostyle hall of medinat habu, built by ramses III. on the inside of the first pylon, there's a relief of scribes counting the hands and genitals of slain enemies as they're dumped on the ground before the mighty pharaoh.
square offset rectangle
medinat habu, west bank
untitled
medinat habu, west bank
the lone and level sands (dead smack center bike aspect)
outside the ramesseum, west bank
not quite level but lone to say the least, this
picture was taken outside the ramesseum which houses the colossal statue that so
moved Percy Bysshe Shelley to pen the following poem:
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert...Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose from
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sand stretch far away.
what topples down may some day be re-righted (stoned head aspect)
the ramesseum, west bank
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