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Photo essay: Budapest

by Bahram Maravandi
30-Mar-2008 (10 comments)

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TESTDRIVE

No Miss Daisy

No Miss Daisy

Photo essay: Testing Volvos on snow

by Nargess Shahmanesh-Banks
29-Mar-2008 (13 comments)

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VOLVO

Speed on snow

I’m here to test cars on ice

29-Mar-2008 (one comment)
“Darkness rises from the grave, seeming as limitless as the sky above us,” wrote Peter Hoeg of Greenland in ‘Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow’. Here too the dark sky sits very low. Sharing the same latitude as the novel’s setting, the Kiruna region is known as the last untouched wildness in Europe. I’m above the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland. The landscape is kilometer after kilometer after kilometer of fresh, unblemished snow, interrupted on occasion by charcoal-colored wiry tree branches. >>>

ZEN

Give and give

Give and give

Photo essay: Worshiping stone

by ramintork
27-Mar-2008 (3 comments)

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ZEN

Worshiping stone

A give, give rather than take, take attitude towards the space we live in

27-Mar-2008
Last year I achieved one of my personal ambitions. I spent a week at the stone-carving workshop on the Island of Portland. Portland is a rock outcrop that stands out from the Dorset coast into the English Channel, linked to the mainland only by the great sweep of Chesil Bank. Portland was shaped by quarrymen. For centuries these men have carved the landscape and given it distinct contours. They also formed the local culture and even the superstition, for instance the word “Rabbit” is not used on the Island as running Rabbits were associated with falling Rocks and bad accidents. The course was at the Tout Quarry. I walked through a landscape part shaped by man part by nature. A series of gullies and wild plants and stacked up rocks>>>

SHOMAL

Oranges covered in snow

Oranges covered in snow

Photo essay: Orchards of northern Iran

by Sid Sarshar
25-Mar-2008 (4 comments)

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HUMOR

I went back to Iran too

I went back to Iran too

Photo essay

by Cyrus Swire
25-Mar-2008 (21 comments)

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ALBORZ

 کوه نخست

تمامی کوهها از خاک برخاستند – به جز البرز—و منشاَ شادمانی انسان گشتند.

21-Mar-2008 (2 comments)
درسفری اخیر به تهران خود را برای اولین بار شیفته البرز یافتم. گویا یک آشنازدایی رخ داده بود که مرا دلباخته کوهستانی میکرد که سالیان سال با بی تفاوتی نظاره گرش بودم و این در حالی که هر روزم را با نگاهی به البرز آغار کرده بودم. باید سالها میگذشتند تا دور از وطن و در شهری عاری از کوه، به ارزش صلابت و استفامت البرزپی میبردم، چراکه علی رغم آنچه در طی قرون و اعصار بر ما رفته است، علی رغم اهانتهایی که به میراث فرهنگیمان منجمله تخت جمشید و پاسارگاد روا داشته اند، این کوه ها را نتوانسته اند از ما بگیرند. هزاران نگهبان هم که به البرز روانه شده اند تا از درهم آمیختن دو جنس جلوگیری به عمل آورند، کوه ها همجنان با استحکام ایستاده و پذیرای عاشقان عشق و دوستداران طبیعت بوده اند.>>>

IRAN

Like night and day

Like night and day

Photo essay: Iran from a tourist's perspective

by Natalia Casado
16-Mar-2008 (16 comments)

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MASOULEH

Jewel on the hill

Jewel on the hill

Photo essay

by Asmodeus
14-Mar-2008 (11 comments)

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TRAVELER

More than nice

More than nice

Photo essay: Bilbao

by Dario Margeli
13-Mar-2008 (5 comments)

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IRAN

Camping in Ahaar

Camping in Ahaar

Photo essay

by Amin Habibi Shahri
12-Mar-2008 (15 comments)

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ROCKIES

Sunday snowy Sunday

Sunday snowy Sunday

Photo essay

by Parviz Forghani
11-Mar-2008 (7 comments)

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TRAVELER

Hasty swing through Tehrangeles

Hasty swing through Tehrangeles

Photo essay

by benbagheri
07-Mar-2008 (11 comments)

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TRAVELER

Jordan's riches

Jordan's riches

Photo essay: Historical sites

by Rami Yelda
07-Mar-2008 (4 comments)

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