On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
As we move closer to the new site launch, I wanted to remind you to submit things now via the form or to hold off until the new site is live. The old email address is dead and until the new site is live, there’s no replacement for now. I hope to change that later today.
Ok, it looks like my concern about the new site launching very soon is a bit off, sounds like it will be a week or more, not days. I’ve got a bunch of submissions, mostly multiple sets from a few folks. Please do continue to submit pictures, but don’t feel like it must be now.
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
Today, pictures from valued commenter arrieve.
One of the problems with taking pictures of the many splendid architectural treasures in Iran was how close up to get. If I took pictures that captured the buildings as a whole — walls, gates, minarets — I missed all of the intricate detail that decorated almost every building.
Here, as a compromise, is a sampling of some of the amazing domes inside the buildings.
Taken on April 2015
Isfahan
This faience dome in Isfahan is probably the most elaborate one I saw. There’s a hole in the top to allow light in and create that peacock tail effect.
Taken on April 2015
Kerman
The Jameh mosque in Kerman.
Taken on April 2015
Yazd
This isn’t in a mosque, but in the former Governor’s House in Yazd. I love the way it was apparently designed with a Spirograph.
Taken on April 2015
Yazd
A mosque in Yazd.
Taken on April 2015
Isfahan
This is one of the largest mosques in Iran. It’s also one of the oldest. Most of the mosques we visited were only a few hundred years old, but parts of this mosque are almost a thousand years old. It was by far my favorite.
Thank you so much arrieve, do send us more when you can.
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Mary G
Wow. The one on the mosque in Yazd reminds me a bit of the Death Star in Star Wars.
JPL
The colors are amazing.
OzarkHillbilly
That’s some seriously cool shit.
p.a.
^ All of the above! ^ Thanks
HinTN
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It must be amazing to be in that culture. Thanks for the photographs.
debbie
Beautiful!
RAVEN
These remind me of the film Gabbeh
“Excellent cinematography…captures the incredible colors in nature and beauty and simple elegance of patterns between the weaving of Gabbeh rugs and the weavers lives. Unforgettable and stunning…it’s a movie that once you experienced it visually you never look at the colors of nature in exactly the same way.”
otmar
Really cool stuff. Thank you!
suezboo
The incredible detail and beauty brought about by those long-dead artists is amazing. It would seem that restricting the aesthetic to geometric forms has had nothing but positive results. Thank you so much for documenting these magnificent works of art.
susanna
These are stunning, displaying the beauty of nature, artistically with mathematics.
the Conster
@RAVEN:
The movie Bab ‘Aziz about a sufi wanderer was filmed in Tunisia and Iran, partially at the ancient adobe city of Bam which was destroyed by an earthquake shortly after they finished filming there. It has some of the most beautiful imagery I’ve ever seen.
RAVEN
@the Conster: Thanks!
Betty
Stunning images. And if Trump and Bolton get their way to start bombing that country, it will be like Iraq with so much destroyed beauty along with so many innocent lives. I also recollect McCain was a big “Bomb Iran” fan. How soon people forget.
eclare
Gorgeous photos
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
Thank you!!! Those are stunning pictures.