Charlotte, North Carolina skyline - mid Jan. 2016 - night and day

Charlotte, North Carolina skyline 

mid Jan. 2016 

- both night and day

(Photos by Steve Martin 01.16.16)

Looking west 

Looking east

Beautiful Creations By God - Flowers In North Carolina

Azaleas

Beautiful Creations By God - Flowers In North Carolina

Day lilies

Day lilies

Begonias

Bearded Iris

Bearded Iris

Bearded Iris

Roses

Pansies

Photos by Steve Martin - flowers in North Carolina

Good morning world! Sunrise photos.

Source of several photos from a video: The Arctic Light

Faith, joy, dream and family. Good words to share today.

 

Good words to share.

Today.

Photos by Steve Martin in an art store in NC. June, 2014

Why Was this Photo Sold at an Auction for more than $120,000?

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

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Why Was this Photo Sold at an Auction for more than $120,000? Posted: 30 Jan 2014 The Kidron Valley and the ancient tombs carved into the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem (Christie's) Why was this picture so valuable? Because it was one of the first photographs ever taken in Jerusalem -- taken 170 years ago. The photograph was taken in 1844 by a French photographer, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804 - 1898), believed to be a student of Louis Daguerre who is credited with inventing photography in 1839. The daguerreotype photos were found in a storeroom in Girault de Prangey's estate in the 1920s, but only in recent years, when libraries digitized them, did the photographs become well known. Girault de Prangey was a student of architecture and art who traveled in the Middle East between 1841 and 1844 and produced some 900 daguerreotypes. Responsible archivists and librarians digitize  the vintage photographs in their archives. Panoramic photo of Jerusalem's Old City from the southeast. (1844) Panoramic picture of Jerusalem taken from the Mt. of Olives (1844) The Smithsonian Magazine published a feature on the photos this month, based on pictures published by Retronaut - "The photographic time machine." This photo is labeled "Damascus Gate." Actually, it is the city wall just to the right of the gate. The photographer was fascinated with stonework on the shrines in the Middle East. (1844) Lions Gate of the Old City (1844) Jaffa Gate of the Old City (Christie's 1844)                      H/T: AA We found more than 200 photographs by Gerault de Prangey in the French National Library and on the websites of leading auction houses. The pictures included scenes from Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo, and Lebanon. We present here pictures of Jerusalem from the Library's collection and from Christie's.  According to the French Library, the pictures are in the public domain. Click on pictures to enlarge.  Click on the caption to view the original picture. The following is a quotation attributed to Girault de Prangey: My long pilgrimage is coming to a close... after spending 55 days in the holy city [of Jerusalem] and its environs...I am sure you can share my natural delight in fulfilling a dream cherished since childhood.... And as I speak now of these places, how happy I am to realise that in a few months I will be able to share them with you as they are, as I bear with me their precious and unquestionably faithful trace that cannot be diminished by time or distance. For this we must thank most sincerely our compatriot Daguerre, destined to be known forever for his wondrous discovery.

It will be spring again...and then summer.

His creation.

I just took the pictures. 

Steve Martin

Charlotte, NC

2013

He is the Light of the World

Light of the World

Photo by Steve Martin 

(Dec. 20, 2013 at 6:30 am uptown Charlotte, NC at Romare Bearden Park.)

Ahava Love ViFo - CHARLOTTE, NC UPTOWN!

Published on Dec 5, 2013

Ahava Love ViFo (Video Foto Album) - CHARLOTTE, NC UPTOWN!

I took these photos on my walks/drive around Charlotte's uptown. Beautiful city photos set to classic music. Walk the walk with me...

I created this video with the YouTube Slideshow Creator (http://www.youtube.com/upload)

Steve Martin
Love For His People, Inc.

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Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta) The Amazing Portraits of Shlomo and Sonia Narinsky -- Jewish Photographers

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

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The Amazing Portraits of Shlomo and Sonia Narinsky -- Jewish Photographers Exiled by the Turks, Swept Up by the Nazis Posted: 30 Jun 2013 08:55 PM PDT "A Spanish Jew [Sephardi] of Jerusalem" (Library of Congress, circa 1921) Turn a virtual corner in the Library of Congress' digitalized photo archives and you never know what you'll find.  It happened many times since the launch of this site two years ago, and it just happened again. Within the vast collection of the American Colony Photographic Department Collection (roughly 1890 - 1946) we discovered amazing picture and postcard portraits taken by Shlomo and Sonia Narinsky. The photographs were sold by the American Colony's souvenir store located inside Jerusalem's Old City near Jaffa Gate.   "A Vernomito (sic) [Yemenite] Jew in Jerusalem" (circa 1921) Born in the Ukraine in 1885, Shlomo Narinsky studied art in Moscow, Paris and Berlin before moving to Palestine where he set up a studio.  In 1916, Shlomo and his wife were exiled to Egypt by the Turkish rulers.  They returned to the Land of Israel after the British captured the territory in 1918. "An Orthodox Jew of Jerusalem" Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, father of modern Hebrew (Wikiversity, circa 1912) In 1932, the Narinskys opened a studio in Paris, but Shlomo was arrested when the Nazis captured France. He was later exchanged for a German spy caught in Palestine after the intercession of David Ben-Gurion and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.   A rabbi and his grandson (Ynet News) They returned to Israel, eventually moving to Haifa where Shlomo taught as a photography teacher.  He died in 1960, relatively unknown.  Shlomo Narinsky was also trained as a painter, and some of his photographs almost reflect the post-impressionist Vincent Van Gogh's wheat field series. Arab "sorting his wheat."  Note the farmer's stance, angle of his tool and the sky, and compare to Van Gogh's painting. See also Narinsky's "Fishermen at Jaffa" Van Gogh -- Harvesting wheat in the Alpilles Valley (1888)  Click on the picture to enlarge.

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The Zionist Message Hidden within Antique Pictures of the Holy Land

Journal Article Abstract: The Zionist Message Hidden within Antique Pictures of the Holy Land
By Lenny Ben-David

Abstract reprinted from the Jewish Political Studies Review, May 1, 2013

A 110-year-old trove of pictures taken by the Christian photographers of the American Colony in Jerusalem provides dramatic proof of thriving Jewish communities in Israel.





Hundreds of pictures show the ancient Jewish community of Jerusalem’s Old City and the Jewish pioneers and builders of new towns and settlements in the Galilee and along the Mediterranean coastline. The American Colony photographers recorded Jewish holy sites, holiday scenes and customs, and they had a special reason for focusing their lenses on Yemenite Jews.





The collection, housed in the U.S. Library of Congress, also contains photographs from the 1860s, the first years of photography. These photographs provide a window rarely opened by historians—for several unfortunate reasons—to view the life of the Jews in the Holy Land. The photographs’ display and online publication effectively counters the biased narrative claiming that the Jewish state violently emerged ex novo in the mid-twentieth century.

Read the full article and view the photographs here.