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Your input on reader-submitted photos is welcome. Rate the photos and add your comments — or submit your own photo. We’ll consider each of the photos for publication in the print version of Geez magazine and publish the reader’s choice (subject to editors’ discretion). Note: comments submitted here become eligible for publication, subject to editing for clarity and space.
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Lost Duck
Submitted by Brian Nelson in Dallas TX on 15th September 2011 | Culturosities |
I was greeted by this lost duck on morning as I was leaving for work. I found this such a curiosity of where and how it got there that I had to grab the camera and capture the moment to share. I have since left this duck were it is as somewhat of a kid inside greeting every time I walk out the door.
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What Momma Said
Casually riding on the highway, I see a building with writing on the windows. I didn’t really think it was a big deal at the time, but I kept thinking that I had to get this photo. I drove past the building several times trying to get the perfect shot but with the building being off the highway, there was nowhere I could really stop and get out to get a proper photo. As I got closer to the building, I noticed that it was torn down with busted windows and grass growing out of control. On the windows, the message says, “MY MOMMA TOLD ME WE WERE ALL CREATED EQUAL.” I really want to know what business was once there and why it closed down.
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Andrew’s Ghost Bike
Submitted by Audrey McCroskey in Dallas, TX on 11th June 2011 | Culturosities |
Ghost Bikes are memorials for those bicyclists who have been killed or hit on the street. These bicycles are painted completely white and locked or attached to a street sign or post near the collision site, along with a small plaque. These white bicycles serve as a reminder of the tragedy that took place and as a statement for the support of a cyclist’s right to travel safely.
This particular Ghost Bike is in memory of Andrew Runciman, a cyclist from Austin, TX. He was involved in a hit and run accident on the 3500 block of S. Lamar Boulevard in Austin on April 23, 2011.
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Holy Construction
Submitted by Natalie Hebert in Dallas, TX on 11th June 2011 | Spiritual Concerns |
I pass this beautiful church daily. Though I don’t go inside, it is still just as calming, peaceful and spiritual outside. They are building a new 7-11 across the street. It’s losing it’s calmness.
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Amongst the Angels
Submitted by Sherwood Hinze in Toronto on 20th February 2011 | Ways of Seeing |
Recoleta Cemetary in Buenos Aires, Argentina is where the super-wealthy and powerful of Argentina lay in state for eternity. It is at once a stunning and absurd triumph of the Christian ego. Here one finds colossal examples of Neoclassical, Neogothic, Art Nuevo, and Art Deco archetecture amongst the more than 6,400 mausoleums.
Here one can find mausoleums the size of small churches. Apparantly, only the Pére Lachaise of Paris compares.
My girlfriend and I were stunned by the triumphs of beauty and by the enormity of humanity’s narcism. As we came around one corner of this bizarre world we came upon what I later discovered to be called the Dome of the Angels.
I am not a Christian – but couldn’t help feel something magnificent when looking up at them.
Maybe it was the sense of eternity, or peace, which they exuded. Perhaps it was a moment of nostalgia for a gnostic understanding of the world that seems to be evaporating in the Tea Party Christian nonsense infecting our culture.Maybe it was a reminder that death is forever, and they looked down on me wondering what I was doing with my one and precious life…
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