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Kerzenlicht gehört unbedingt zum Advent! HMM! ☆☆☆

Danke schön, Frank =)

I placed the candle between double glass window to get multiple reflections.

Superbe !

Merci beaucoup, Anji =)

Und wenn Du denkst es geht nicht mehr, kommt von irgendwo ein Lichtlein her!

Exactly =)

I once spent one winter in Inari, 200 km north from polar circle, and there it was truly dark. And need for candles, fire and artificial lights was even compelling.

wonderful your interpretation.
Happy new week:)

Thank you, Annamaria =)

HMM and thanks for the explanation.

You are welcome =)

Very beautiful, Sami !! In France we had no Advent calendar and no candle lights before Xmas when I was young. At home we just made a Naivity scene without Jesus. My mother used to put a little sheep in the front of the scene that was moving day after day towards the D Date. Naturally I would have done something wrong, the sheep had going backwards. Well this was the ideal solution to have a peaceful time with me before Xmas !!! To conclude, on December 25, Jesus was added to the Nativity scene and we could open our gifts.

Thank you, Marie-claire =)

Because of comments like your's and lively discussion on MM2 discussion area I would not afraid to have such "religious" and "political" topics more often =D

Anything history and culture related can be interesting! We have ginger bread house tradition, which is a little like nativity scene. Or that is what they have became these days. It no longer contains only the house, but all kinds of stuff around and inside of it.

And did you know the Catalan tradition to hide a little "caganer" in the nativity scene? ;-)
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer

No, Sami, never heard of this Caganer before lol ! Thank you for the info !! This is a tradition from the South of France!

About the caganer tradition, a current expression is "me cago en dió y en la puta madre que lo parió", (I poo on god and in the fucking mother who gave him birth ), maybe the caganer comes from there...? There are a lot of different explanations, the most recent one is that it was a way to manifest against fascism in Franco times, the church being allied to political power. Before that also a way against "Holy Inquisition" power...
Traditional but not very elegant anyway.
Italians have a "sporca madona empestata" and "dio cantante", maybe it comes from a similar reaction to church power?

Thank you for all your info, Isabel ! Very interesting !!

Interesting alternative explanations =)

And because we now have opened the Pandora's box of political topics, I would like to share the idea I learned from my tutors. Whatever we study from social science point of view, it is good to consider the following four aspects:

1) "Culture", which is more or less about habits and traditions how people behave.

2) "Technology", which is the ways how some individuals come up with in trying to make things easier (e.g. hammer instead of a rock).

3) "Commerce", in form of exchange of goods and/or make profit.

4) "Governance", that is based either on rational or irrational laws for the common or elite interest. Governance based on political debate is usually trying to be rational, whereas governance based on religions is often nothing but irrational politics. Although, some religious "laws" do have some rational bases, like "do not kill".

An example: People like to communicate. Some guy invents a radio in order to make it possible to communicate further away. Another guy comes up with an idea to make profit out of it, and starts selling radios to everyone. Then at some point everyone are "yelling" at the same time and only those who yell loud enough probably get their voice heard (but maybe not listened). Then comes politics, national laws, international laws, patents, and all kinds of governance that tries to get some order on all of that. Although, some politics only tries to achieve their personal interest, and keep on yelling over others...

Although, there are also those (maybe artists) who mock all of that and tries to make us see how insane that all can be =D

The last ones are my mates... even if I am not an artist. When I was young I still had the ideal that we could change something, I fought actively for that and paid an high price.
Son after I realized that, even with the right of vote, people's power was an illusion, power is always in the hand of an elite, money is power and religions are the richest... at least in my Peninsula.
Democracy appears to me more and more like an illusion, a political correct mask behind which the same type of dictatorship hides to rule the world even better and for their exclusive profit.
Now I am a desperate bystander, looking hands tied and eyes wide open to a world whose values I do not always understand, whose insanity I cannot change...
I just try to do my best to help around me and act accordingly to my ideas of respect for mother earth and creatures surviving on it.

Yes, unfortunately there hardly is such thing as "common interest". There's always some greedy elite, that thinks only their personal interest. And the highest price to pay falls on mother earth because it no longer can't fight back against such a strong force as our carbon footprint can be =(

Very simple and beautiful shot Sami, is it a reflection on a black miror behind?

Thank you, Isabel =)

I put the candle between double window, and took the shot when it was dark outside.

Einfach und schön, wenn sich so eine Kerze spiegelt. Klasse!

Danke schön, Lothar =)

Gefällt mir sehr ***************!!

Danke schön, Ninfea =)

Very good work ;-)
Have a great week.

Thank you, June =)

Wow, that' s a wonderful composition and work, Sami !

Thank you, Percy =)

very nice reflections

Thank you, Ko =)

En mode silence mais j'apprécie la photo ********

Merci beaucoup, Ramon =)

Klasse gemacht

Danke schön, Karin =)

beautiful with the reflections

Kiitos Wertti =)

wunderschön und stimmungsvoll !

Danke schön, Karin =)

Sehr gut fokussiert und belichtet, Sami, auch die Staffelung gefällt mir!

Danke schön, Volker =)

I just love this candle image and all of its reflections! Super cool, super clever, super you! :D Such a relaxing picture to stare at...*goes into a trance*...

:)

Thank you, Janet =)

Beautiful capture of the candle and the background.

Wonderful! Your construction saves candles!

Ha ha ha! =D

The idea to use glass reflections actually comes from this old shot of mine:


Such lanterns with round cylindrical glass look great!

Very beautiful, Sami !

superb !

So still. You must have wonderful draught proofing in your home. ;-))))

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Beautiful light.
This is the season of candles. The candles of Hannukah and the candles of the Chrismas time. Time for bringing light to everybody!