Photo Hunters: Foreign
March 5, 2010 by Mrs. Mecomber
Filed under Photo Hunters
Well, we’ve been *virtually* all over the world! Here are some of the foreign treats we’ve seen along the way.
The Todaiji Temple in Japan. In toothpicks, I might add.
From Italy: 1928 Isotta Fraschini at a car show we went to. This car won first place. It’s beautiful.
This is in a foreign language; Dutch. We saw it at the Dutch Reformed Church in Albany, the same church that held Alexander Hamilton’s funeral service. It was also Theodore Roosevelt’s church when he lived in Albany. The banner says, “Like a lily among the thorns, so is my beloved among the maidens.” It was a Dutch rallying symbol when Catholic Spain had attempted to wipe out the Dutch Protestants.
This is a genuine Egyptian mummified cat, below.
Canada, our foreign neighbor, lies across the Great Lake Ontario. Click for a larger image– the colors are spectacular!
A cemetery at a Russian Orthodox monastery.
This is the U.S.S. Slater, sitting on the Hudson in Albany. The Slater was a destroyer escort during World War II. After the war, she was given to Greece. The Greeks gave her back in the 90s, and now she is a museum. She’s seen many foreign lands and waters!
Finally, here’s a little diversion. I was toodling around with Google translator on my new How To blog, The Older Geek. This is what it looked like in various foreign languages– such fun!
In Russian.
In Farsi. My husband can read a little Farsi, having lived in Iran.
In Greek. I can read a little Greek, having studied it for a time.
In Chinese. Believe it or not, my son is learning Chinese! Quite an undertaking.
How did your Photo Hunters go today?
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Sparkle on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 3:36 am
My human the 1920s freak is dying for that Isotta Fraschini. Frankly, I’m a little creeped out by the mummified cat! I wonder if we’re related?
The Social Frog on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 10:29 am
Those are great pictures! Thanks for visiting my blog & yes, the Brazilian Steak House in El Salvador was amazing!
rdl on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 10:37 am
nice take on theme!
Gattina on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 11:39 am
This temple is amazing ! what a work ! I also love the Italian car, cars were so pretty 50 years ago !
Susanne on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 11:39 am
Wow, you have seen a lot of lovely places!
Gattina on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 11:41 am
I hadn’t seen your Google translations, I thought it was spam, lol ! Fortunately you can’t understand because the translations are usually impossible. I couldn’t understand a word when it was translated from German into English ! the text had no sense. Of course it’s done by a computer who translates word per word.
Marta on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 11:56 am
Nice collection of foreign items that you have come across. You always come up with interesting items for the theme. And I have to say… I’m glad I didn’t have to put that temple together with toothpicks. No patience for such things.
bonggamom on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 12:02 pm
OMG that toothpick temple is impressive!
My photo hunt post:
http://bonggamom.blogspot.com/2010/03/foreign.html
Lisa on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 12:33 pm
What a wonderful collection!
Sniffie and the Florida Furkids on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 1:13 pm
Cool pics! The toothpick temple is great but the Mummy Cat skeered us!!
Sniffie and the Florida Furkids
Alice Audrey on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 1:17 pm
Cool!
I want a toothpick house.
Carol E. on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 2:07 pm
I’m not a car person, and even I love that gorgeous car!
ipanema on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 2:23 pm
love how you compose your post today!the toothpick model of the temple is quite amazing.
happy weekend!
xie xie!
marcia on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 2:35 pm
cool fun hut do you think you could make one?
Carver on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 3:11 pm
You did a great job with the theme. Wonderful shots and narrative. The toothpick temple is amazing.
To answer your question on mine, the book in my shot is Utopia by Sir Thomas More but it’s translated and edited by Robert M. Adams. I really should have put that shot in a format that could have been clicked to enlarge. One of the reason I didn’t is I’m playing with photo hosting methods because I’m running out of freespace that picsa gives google bloggers. The part of Utopia I included was the back of the book which explained that it was Robert M. Adam’s translation but of course there was no way to see that in the small photo.
The other reason for not having the shot bigger was I wasn’t sure if the Russian book was Russian or Greek but then when my daughter couldn’t even tell from the shot which of her books I had used I emailed her a close up and she not only told me what the Russian book was she asked me to mail it to her since she said it’s very basic Russian and would be a good practice book for her since she doesn’t have any opportunities to use her Russian. She speaks and reads so many different languages she is afraid she’ll lose some of them. There’s no way I could have identified or fit all of her books in different languages into a shot so I just picked a few languages. Sorry for the very long comment but I wanted to answer your question and explain.
maya on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 4:14 pm
The colors in the Great Lake Ontario photo are great. You collection of foreign pictures fit the theme perfectly.
Teena in Toronto on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 4:59 pm
Wow! It must have taken a while to build that house!
Thanks for stopping by mine
A. @ A Changing Life on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 5:44 pm
That certainly is an international journey! There are so many interesting things to see related to other countries if we just take the time to think about it.
YTSL on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 8:13 pm
Very interesting take on the theme. The places you will go… virtually and/or by way of objects that you encounter as you go about with your life.
Scott on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 9:23 pm
Again this is one of those themes that can easily take so many directions. I’d have never thought of that. Beautiful and perfect for the theme.
Thanks for dropping by my blog and I hope I see you again soon.
marina on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 9:58 pm
great collection of foreign items. The temple made of toothpicks is simply amazing!!!! and the Isotta Fraschini is gorgeous!!!
Irene on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 11:33 pm
Interesting take. Thanks for dropping by
lew on Sat, 6th Mar 2010 11:54 pm
Lots of foreign influences in your state! Love the Italian auto.
LivingforGod on Sun, 7th Mar 2010 12:11 am
I really enjoyed all your pictures. What a fun post! Thanks for a great tour
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Sparkle on Sun, 7th Mar 2010 1:43 am
Well poo, I guess the comment I left earlier really did get lost somewhere! Suffice it to say that my human is a 1920s fanatic and was drooling over the Isotta Fraschini. But I certainly did not find anything enchanting about the cat mummy! It creeped me out! I do like being worshipped, but I don’t think I’d like to be a kitty mummy.
azahar on Sun, 7th Mar 2010 3:29 am
I wonder if those Google translations are as unintentionally hilarious as the English ones usually are.
Nice set of pics.
jams o donnell on Sun, 7th Mar 2010 1:32 pm
Wow that is quite a contrast of subjects for the theme. THat temple model is wonderful!
magiceye on Sun, 7th Mar 2010 11:20 pm
wow! that was amazing!
Sparkle on Mon, 8th Mar 2010 2:34 am
Tell your comment box that I am mad at it because it ate my comment not once but twice. And if it eats this one I will hiss at it! It should know better than to make a kitty angry.
Annie on Mon, 8th Mar 2010 9:09 am
Toothpick temple – how very cool! And funny!
meeyauw on Mon, 8th Mar 2010 2:03 pm
What a fascinating post. I especially loved the toothpick temple. That was quite a project! The religious intolerance still goes on, doesn’t it? It’s a sad commentary on humans. Hopefully we can grow as time goes on. Quickly, I hope.