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Greece - Fishing off Mount Athos The Monastic Rep

Greece - Fishing off Mount Athos
The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos (literally "Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain") is a region in northern Greece around Mount Athos, on the Aktè Peninsula in Chalkidiki. It has the peculiarity of not being part of the Schengen area, unlike the rest of Greece.
It brings together twenty monasteries and the various villages and houses that depend on them. They now shelter around 2.000 Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian and other Orthodox monks, who lead a life of seclusion, introspection and prayer, in a landscape clinging to the mountains, sometimes just named "Christian Tibet".

Greenland - Fletan Fishing In the Jakobshavn regi

Greenland - Fletan Fishing
In the Jakobshavn region, an unique and strong experience, sharing the life of the Eskimos for a series of photos. The polar days (also called midnight sun) is a time of the year when the sun does not set. This phenomenon occurs around the summer solstice (June in the northern hemisphere, December in the southern hemisphere).
At lunch time, what could be easier than drilling a hole in the ice and throwing a line to fish for fletan? Greenland halibut is also called turbot, Greenland halibut, blue halibut, small halibut, Newfoundland turbot or Greenland turbot.

Viet nam - Square fishing The carrelet is a squar

Viet nam - Square fishing
The carrelet is a square net with a surface area of a few square meters stretched over a flat frame and lowered horizontally by means of a winch from a pontoon that juts out over the river and on which a shelter or even a small dwelling is usually built. After waiting a few minutes in order to dissipate the trouble caused by the descent, the net is brought up quite quickly, in principle trapping the fish that were between it and the surface.

New-York - Wall Street « This reminds observers

New-York - Wall Street
« This reminds observers of the adoption of the stars and stripes banner, which became official in 1777 after a Congressional resolution.» Flag day - 1982

France
Near Saumur-en-Auxois, in the « Cote d’Or ». Just five degrees that morning, the right time to observe a beautiful morning mist at sunrise.

Moscow Kremlin at Christmas In the Kremlin, the c

Moscow Kremlin at Christmas
In the Kremlin, the cathedrals of the Archangel Michael and the Annunciation

Egypt - Sinai St. Catherine is part of the Sinai

Egypt - Sinai
St. Catherine is part of the Sinai Monastery, also known as the Monastery of the Transfiguration. It is an important Orthodox monastery located on the slopes of Mount St. Catherine in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Located at an altitude of 1,570 m, it is one of the oldest monasteries in the world still in activity.

Russia - Virgin of Kazan A discreet expression of

Russia - Virgin of Kazan
A discreet expression of respect, hope and faith.
Cathedral of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan situated on Red Square. The Virgin Mary, as early as the 17th century, was venerated as the "Liberator of Russia", under the form of the icon miraculously found in Kazan in 1579.

Singapour - Siong Lim temple The Siong Lim Tenple

Singapour - Siong Lim temple
The Siong Lim Tenple, also kmown as the Lian Shan Shuang Lin (traditional chinese) it’s a Buddist monastery situated in Toa Payoh. The temple was founded in 1898, but the construction only started in 1902 by Low Kim Pong and it finished in 1907. The monastery was classified as national monument in 1980.
Before entering to visit the monastery we discover in front of the main entrance, known as Shan Men, the montain door, three magestic entries, 9 meters high. The representations of the temple guards painted in vibrant colours.
Siong Lim Temple means literally « Temple of the pagodas’ tree of the lotus montain ». It refers to the tree that exists in Bodhgaya, India where it is said that Siddharta Gautama achieved the enlightenment and became Buddha.

Russia - Serguiev Possad In the restored churches

Russia - Serguiev Possad
In the restored churches of Russia, the gold and light of the icons shine again.
Sergiev Possad, 600th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonege. Cathedral of the Trinity (1422). Benediction of the icon of St. Sergius in the presence of Patriarch Alexy II.

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