karnak
happy birthday great hypostyle hall, karnak temple built and rearranged over 1500 years, karnak was THE temple back then, and now. it was called "ipet-isut" (the most perfect of places)
forest for the trees (lost in papyrus aspect) great hypostyle hall, karnak temple the 134 columns in the great hall form....almost.....a maze
dead man walking great hypostyle hall, karnak temple how many thousands have walked here before, how many more thousands will tread where the dead once walked and wondered?
the most perfect of places great hypostyle hall, karnak temple a single, lonely swath of light cuts through the shadows illuminating things unseen bringing forth new images that most fail to take the time to see
thirtysometing (30 parts of the panorama aspect) great hypostyle hall, karnak
john gordon 1804-1972 great hypostyle hall, karnak temple forever immortalized, still dead
30 meters or years great hypostyle hall, karnak temple
30 degree slant (reach for the sky aspect) great hypostyle hall, karnak temple
smallerizing great hypostyle hall, karnak temple
underoveraroundsurrounding great hypostyle hall, karnak temple
blue pensively great festival hall of tuthmosis III, karnak temple
slender waste karnak temple waist not want not
dagger me button (close-crop bw aspect) karnak temple
line em up karnak temple ramsesramsesramsesramses
solitary karnak temple
solitary part II: back to the world (bw aspect) karnak temple
at the foot karnak temple ramses II is often shown with his wife or kids. here his young daughter barely reaches his knee
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exclamation point wasp karnak temple
the colossus west bank twins west bank the colossi of memnon, about 18m tall, greet visitors to the west bank area. these two statues are all that's left of a temple that was once bigger than karnak.
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