Marble Socks
Description: This series displays the many sculptures and statues adorning the Palais Garnier in Paris. The Palais Garnier is a 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was called the Salle des Capucines, because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier, in recognition of its opulence and its architect, Charles Garnier. The theatre is also often referred to as the Op� Garnier, and historically was known as the Op� de Paris or simply the Op�. It was the primary home of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when the Op� Bastille opened at the Place de la Bastille. The Paris Opera now mainly use...
Description: Show your geological wit with this clever "DON'T TAKE ME FOR GRANITE" design! Featuring a detailed chunk of granite rock with its characteristic mineral patterns, this graphic delivers a perfect pun for any lover of geology. It's a funny and smart statement for geologists, earth science enthusiasts, students, and anyone who appreciates a good science-based humor. Let everyone know you're a solid rock and shouldn't be underestimated!
Description: This elegant white marble queen chess piece embodies strategy, wisdom, and precision. Featuring a polished, high-gloss marble texture with intricate lightning-like veins, this design is perfect for chess enthusiasts, thinkers, and lovers of classic aesthetics. Ideal for clothing, accessories, and home decor, it adds a sophisticated and intellectual touch to any space.
Description: This elegant black marble bishop chess piece embodies strategy, wisdom, and precision. Featuring a polished, high-gloss marble texture with intricate lightning-like veins, this design is perfect for chess enthusiasts, thinkers, and lovers of classic aesthetics. Ideal for clothing, accessories, and home decor, it adds a sophisticated and intellectual touch to any space.
Description: This elegant black marble king chess piece embodies strategy, wisdom, and precision. Featuring a polished, high-gloss marble texture with intricate lightning-like veins, this design is perfect for chess enthusiasts, thinkers, and lovers of classic aesthetics. Ideal for clothing, accessories, and home decor, it adds a sophisticated and intellectual touch to any space.
Description: One of my favorite sections of the Louvre is The Department of Egyptian Antiquities. It comprises over 50,000 pieces, includes artifacts from the Nile civilizations (which date from 4,000 BC to the 4th century). The collection is among the world's largest, and it overviews Egyptian life spanning Ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, Coptic art, and the Roman, Ptolemaic, and Byzantine periods. This is a stele of Hathor and Seti. A stele is a stone slab or a wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide. These were erected in the ancient world as a monument. Grave steles were often used for funerary or commemorative purposes. They were also used as ancient Greek and Roman government notices or as boundary markers to ...
Description: This is one of the many treasures seen at the Louvres. This is also one of several statues of headless women on display. All images are taken with a Canon 5D III (full frame) and a Canon 7D II (crop frame) using a variety of Canon L-Series lenses, and Tamron and Sigma pro-line lenses; processed in RAW with ACR, PSC, Photomatix, and a variety of other imaging software. All images are Copyright © 2016 Hany G. Jadaa; C.Chem. M.Sc. Eng.; and Copyright © 2016 Prince John Photography (the Artist). The material contained herein may not be reproduced, copied, edited, published, transmitted or downloaded in any way, shape or form. All rights are reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without wri...
