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Aristotle is a relaxed and restrained feline who is happy to get pets - but also is willing to sit back and watch the world go by. This Flame Point fellow is 2 years old and looking for a home. He found one 23 May 2021.
~Aristotle
Heylo0o peeps! :D Happie new year! Hope 2010 fills your life with much joy, prosperity and success!
Updates:
~ I'm a proud owner of a Canon 580EX speedlight flash.
~ I did my first paid bridal photoshoot with the strobe and the studio setup! No this is not from that shoot, this shot was practically just a test shoot, I did.
~ I had my MBA convocation on the 2nd of Jan - which makes me a post graduate! :D
And thats my cousin, modelling for me again! :D
Makeup and photography by me, ofcourse! :P
't Was wintry cold and light snow flurries swirled on my balcony when the 'phone rang. 'Well', said my Naturalist Friend, 'it's a bit lighter than it was, so d'you fancy a little outing?' Yes I did, and soon we were on our way in his car to the nature reserves around the village of Anloo in the province of Drenthe to the south of Groningen.
This is the area of the Aa, the small river - just a bit bigger than a brook - that flows north through Groningen and on to the Waddenzee. Of course there were no other walkers. We traipsed merrily over solidly frozen snow-dusted fields and swamps hedged with oaks and birches and - for this photo - more importantly: stands of Guelder Rose, Viburnum opulus.
A bird now and then: a strikingly white Great Egret sweeping along a rivulet, pleasantly foraging Blackbirds, some Woodpeckers, and more. But the twittering Robin Redbreasts stole the show. Fiercely territorial they clearly delineated patches of those bright red, for them delicious berries of Viburnum opulus: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/5192904326/ I couldn't get really close, but HX1's good zoom helped. The photo's a bit fuzzzy but it's pretty enough to post.
Robin Redbreast is nicely puffed up against the cold. Amazingly orange breast. The Greek philosopher-naturalist Arisotle curiously thinks that Robin Redbreast transforms itself into a Redstart in the Summer and then back to Redbreast in Winter. Thus he apparently tries to explain why he doesn't see Redstarts in Winter... we know today that they're migratory birds. But for Aristotle, they've made themselves over into Robins to weather the chill.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, March 2020
From the museum's own collection, as part of the exhibition Caravaggio - Bernini. Baroque in Rome (14 February – 7 June 2020).
Head of the philosopher Aristotle, executed by Orfeo Boselli after a design by François du Quesnoy (before 1635). Together with a head of Plato, in 1638 it was part of the Amsterdam collection of the painter, engraver and art historian Joachim von Sandrart.
Aristotle and Light
his views on the phenomenon of light was graciously simple: Light, he said, is nothing of substance. It is indefinable, featureless, and it is therefore pointless to contemplate its nature.
i used an AB1600 with a boom arm with 64PLM at the lowest power for Ginell, a red gelled speed light in the rear of the subject.. and long exposure for the rest..
Camera:Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure:5
Aperture:f/9.0
Focal Length:35 mm
ISO Speed:160
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Aristotle stated "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." This thought can well be exemplified by the natural occurrences in our surroundings. You could take a compass and draw a perfect circle from the middle of this very ephemeral flower in my garden; a gasp of wind and it is gone.
This brings into context the delicate, fragile and transient state of life.
Pause, look around and celebrate before the inevitable adieux.
On the technical side , the pic was taken with a Manual Leica APO 100 2.8 lens (the EXIF showing 28 is rather due to forgetting to change camera settings)
“What has interested me in taking photographs is the maximum — the maximum that exists in a situation and the maximum I can produce from it.” – Josef Koudelka
If it's impossible to avoid criticism, I suppose you'd better just ignore it and do what you feel is best...
Theme: Power In Words
Year Fifteen Of My 365 Project
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” Aristotle
Leo at The Natural History Museum Easter 2015.Everyone loved the Coral Reefs Exhibit, it was the one that made them smile the most.
GKU 4K Camera
Aristotle said that tyrants “endeavour by every means possible to keep all the people strangers to each other.” Totalitarianism creates fragmented groups of isolated individuals. The people under such movements suffer a lack of normal social relationships. When isolation becomes commonplace in a society, the ground is fertile for totalitarianism. Therefore, isolation and loneliness in a society are precursors to totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments create isolated citizens. Terror works best against people who are isolated from each other. If people are afraid to speak to one another, they are more easily controlled. Indeed, “isolated men are powerless by definition.” Recent studies tell us that society is becoming increasingly isolated, lonely, and depressed.
“Millennials, Generation Z: Connected with thousands of friends—but feeling all alone” – USA TODAY
The more people are cut off from the world, the more they are cut off from reality. When they are cut off from reality, they are more easily manipulated and indoctrinated. The structures of the Nazis and Soviets were very cult-like. These structures created brainwashed conformists. Today socialist ideologies are still brainwashing people. Philosopher Nicolai Berdyaev stated that “Russian revolutionaries... had always been totalitarian,” and, “the revolution was a religion and a philosophy.” In the Doctrine of Fascism, Mussolini referred to Fascism as a religious concept. So why do we let schools teach our children neo-Marxist cult doctrines, such as Gender Theory and Critical Race Theory? The revolutionaries who follow these cult doctrines want to bring in totalitarianism. They want to usher in a communist revolution that will destroy democracy and free-market capitalism.
“Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.” – Lenin
The corporate-owned politicians and media act like patriotism is bad. (Patriotism is the glue that holds the people of a sovereign nation together). There is a big difference between patriotism and Hitler’s Germany. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party was a political party of “National Socialism.” Patriotism and National Socialism are two different things. The corporate entities listed above like to cry out: nationalism! Sorry, but nationalism and National Socialism are two different things. One is authoritarian and one is not. Trying to stretch the word nationalism into National Socialism is completely dishonest. Fascism is a form of socialism, and communism is a form of socialism. They are kissing cousins! One form revolves around race: the Aryan race vs supposed inferior races. The other revolves around class: the proletariat vs the bourgeoisie. On the far-right of the socialist spectrum is fascism. On the far-left of the socialist spectrum is communism. Socialism promotes centralized government, but democracy promotes decentralized government. Socialism promotes collectivism, but democracy promotes individualism. Socialism equals totalitarianism, and democracy equals freedom. Who would have thought: Big Brother government equals totalitarianism? And guess what? The fascists and communists hated one another, because they were both vying for power! They were archenemies. Nowadays the commies like to call all their enemies fascists. So they call conservatives far-right Nazis and white supremacists. Speaking of fascists! The globalists—with their neo-fascist stakeholder- capitalist (stakeholder-socialist) system, which they are working towards implementing—hate patriotism and want open borders and mass migration.
A tyrant also should rather admit strangers to his table and familiarity than citizens, as these are his enemies, but the others have no design against him.” – Aristotle
“For of all the states which appear well governed we find not one where the rights of a citizen are open to an indiscriminate multitude.” – Aristotle
The globalists want to overthrow Western democracy and free-market capitalism—degrowth. So they attack our heritage and culture by labeling them racist. The woke communists call our capitalist system systemically racist. They use their cult dialectic of oppressed vs oppressor as a battering ram to break apart our system. The funny thing about these new woke commies is that they are turning towards fascism (race socialism) like the Nazis did in Germany—can anyone say “Critical Race Theory!?!” The United Nations’ public–private partnership system is also a form of neo-fascism. “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” These public–private partnerships involve governments, banks, multinational corporations (corporate fascists), and non-governmental organizations. Their Great Reset (Build Back Better) is an implementation of their New World Order system—the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations; Agenda 21; Agenda 2030—a neo-fascist system.
“The imperative of global governance, in particular, is irrefutable.” – United Nations
Our governments in the West have designed interventionist policies, which supposedly improve our ‘free-market’ capitalist system. There is no doubt that this interventionism will end in disaster, chaos and social unrest—the destruction of our current system. “Anti-capitalistic policies sabotage the operation of the capitalist free-market economy.” In the end their measures produce worse results, and in order to fix these results they add more anti-capitalist regulations. Their interventionism is slowly bringing about full-blown socialism. One step at a time they interfere with the economy, with the intent of one day controlling all economic activities. We will eventually end up with a controlled economy like they had in Nazi Germany. Then our economic freedom will be gone. Democracy goes hand in hand with capitalism. In the end, socialism cannot operate according to democratic or capitalist principles. They are like oil and water—they do not mix. So in the end our system will become a socialist system.
“According as circumstances are favourable, one should modify one’s plans.” – The Art of War
Our capitalist system is headed for a crash. A totalitarian system will replace it. This new system will revolve around digital surveillance. It will entail digital IDs, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), Social Credit Scores, and Universal Basic Income (social(ist) welfare). They want to put the population in 15-minute cities, because totalitarian systems don’t like freedom of movement. They don’t like freedom of speech either. How about freedom? Do they like freedom?
“The presently popular liberal notion of a World Government is based, like all liberal notions of political power, on the same concept of individuals submitting to a central authority which ‘overawes them all,’ except that nations are now taking the place of individuals. The World Government is to overcome and eliminate authentic politics, that is, different peoples getting along with each other in the full force of their power.” – Hannah Arendt
Plato had his weird Platonic collectivist and Platonic proto-communist ideas. He called his ideal city-state Kallipolis—Beautiful City—in Latin. Kallipolis has occasionally been depicted in art as the Tower of Babel. These globalists are building their own global Chinese-style commu-fascist Tower of Babel—communist in governance, fascist in economics. Every socialist government has an authoritarian leader like Hitler, Stalin or Mao. This new antichrist government will also have its own antichrist. This charismatic leader (philosopher king) will introduce a globally centralized digital currency system. To participate in this system, you will have to take his digital smart-tattoo. You will have to join his cult and worship him. If you do not take his Mark and worship him, you will be an enemy of the state. You will then be exterminated. Welcome to Digital Babylon! Take the Soma-Vaccine, take the Chip-Mark! But beware: transhumanism will only cause you more isolation and loneliness. What fulfilling lives you will live, sheltered in the technological surveillance bubble of the Beast’s psychological warfare, which will control your minds and souls in the digital era of the all-seeing eye of singularity—the Fourth Industrial Revolution (the Fourth Reich). MK-ULTRA gone nuclear!
“All warfare is based on deception.” – The Art of War
A society of isolation and loneliness will produce decadence and nihilism. Decadence and nihilism yesterday: the Jews are parasites. Decadence and nihilism today: babies in the womb are parasites. Decadence and nihilism in the future: those who refuse the Mark of the Beast are parasites. The victims will no longer be human in the eyes of the antichrist-state and its executioners.
Habakkuk 1:5 “Look among the nations and see; be astonished and astounded. For a work is about to be done in your days that you will not believe if it is told.”
John 16:1 “These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.”
Matthew 15:16 “’Are even you,’ He answered, ‘still without intelligence?’”
Mark 8:21 “’Do you not yet understand?’ He said.”
John 16:31 “Jesus answered them, ‘Do you now believe?’”
'The hand is the tool of tools.' - Aristotle
Our lives are full of tools, to the point no human being could exist without them. The whole civilization rely on them.
Depending on the History period, or depending on the part of the world, they can be rudimentary (rocks, wheel, spear, bow, hammer, ...) or very complex (washing machines, cars, cameras, computers, ...).
At first, we created them to serve us: easier and better food, more comfortable life, permit us to explore and adjust the environment to suit our needs.
I sometimes have the strange feeling that tools are now becoming more important than the human beings themselves: they often decide what you should do instead of you. What first was an help is now leading. How do you have to dress today? Ask satellites and radars, they will tell you if you must put a jacket and take that umbrella. What do you must eat? Ask those blood analysis machines. Who do you must meet and marry? Submit your criteria, the great Internet will tell you. On a side note, this is actually how I exactly met my wife. This is nothing virtual: a computed algorithm decided of our fates.
Note that I am not necessarily against this, I'm simply observing. It just looks like a very ironical step of our evolution: our hands created what is now more important than us, in some way. Is it good, is it bad, am I saying total nonsense? I don't care that much about the answer, but these thoughts were a good occasion to grab my camera.
Technically, these are all photos of my hands. I made 400 shots, and ended up using about 200 of them. I did not use any custom brushes: this method was not precise enough to my taste, so I just masked them all and organized everything on separate layers (around 570 of them). Each hand photo has been masked, resized, rotated, deformed when needed, (de)saturated, brightened and/or darkened, so that repetitions would not be too much visible.
In order to help preparing the hands shots, I actually made a normal self portrait, which I used as a background to be covered with all the hands. I drew lines on it, to create supporting shapes and flows, and also used its natural shadows to emulate the depth of the original scene using all the small hands.
I hope some will like it!
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Amsterdam, Royal Palace, September 2025
Marble busts of the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle by Orfeo Boselli, after François du Quesnoy; before 1635. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum (on loan from the Royal Library, The Hague). Part of the exhibition Artus Quellinus: Sculptor of Amsterdam (18 June – 27 October 2025).
This was my 200th photo on Flickr. The jaws of the spiny sea-urchin are located underneath its body (see the ivory-like teeth, sticking out near the top of the urchin in this photo) . In common with other echinoids the sea-urchin has five-sided symmetry and its five teeth (called Aristotle's Lantern) come together rather like the chuck of a power-drill. It uses them to scrape off food from the seabed as it crawls along on its spines. This one was probably a victim of one of the many cormorants that dive just offshore from Dysart beach. Photo made Explore on 19th July 2008.