Anthropocene
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Dark clouds looming on sunset. The non-fossil fuel based electricity in Ontario is about 93%, something that the provincial government is proud of and takes credit for as if they have put the Niagara-Falls in Ontario to give us Hydro. And they are now planning to put more cars on the road by building a new highway through the green belt north of Toronto. When will they ever learn, oh when will they ever learn?
these charming helpers can be found at ChicChica's Fall build which I wrote about here.
The title of this picture is important to our lives on this big blue marble we call home. It was treated beautifully by Jake Skeets in the poem Anthropocene: A Dictionary which is available here at poets.org.
" Qualche mattina ti alzi dal letto e pensi “Non ce la farò”.
Ma dentro ridi, ricordando tutte le volte che ti sei sentito così. "
(Charles Bukowski)
"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside , remembering all the times you've felt that way."
(Charles Bukowski)
Today is my birthday …
foto di copertina del gruppo " Anthropocene "
from my archive ...
Flickr 21 Day Photo Challenge
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Großer Plessower See, Kemnitz, Germany
Bryars: The Last Days (for 2 violins) - Intermezzo II (Balanescu Quartet)
Taken from a moving car on I-45, passing Madisonville TX.
We have driven this highway countless times in all kinds of weather. I often think it would be nice just to do a little road trip here, only for photography, because we so often have had a tight schedule on regular trips. Next best thing—drive-by shooting! 😎 I wasn’t driving.
Happy Mono Monday!
(Back to colorful views of The West tomorrow, I expect. I’ll have more in this series as well, eventually, mostly in color.)
14 Nov 2022; 02:20 UTC; iPhone
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Monument Valley
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Our word “Navajo” was originally a Spanish pejorative term meaning “Won’t Go”, used to describe Native Americans who resisted relocation efforts by Spanish settlers. The people call themselves Diné. The map shows the location of the photographer. The view is to the South. Happy Mono Monday!
30 Jan 2023; 11:15 CST;
Explored 5 August 2021
How do we want to live in the (near) future? In decent conditions as well as environmentally and climate friendly? How should we plan the cities of the future? How should we get from A to B? How will we work, and how will we feed the world? All of these and many more topics regarding "The Age of Man" are being debated at the Futurium, " a house of the future", and a project initiative of scientific institutions and networks of several business enterprises and foundations as well as the German Federal Government in Berlin. The Futurium is not a "museum" in the classical sense, but more of an "activity place" which houses an exhibition, and also a so-called "Futurium Lab" where visitors can activily test out some the exhibits. The Futurium opened in 2019 and is located alongside the banks of the river Spree, close to Berlin's Central Station, the Hauptbahnhof.
I've taken this image at the exhibition on the first floor of the Futurium. It's an HDR made of three images, processed in HDR Efex Pro. And since there are huge windows on the part of the building that is facing the Spree and the government district, it's also an image for Window Wednesday :)
HWW, Everyone, and have a safe and good second half of the week!
Wilkommen im Anthropozän
Wie wollen wir in der Zukunft leben? Wie wollen wir unsere Städte umwelt- und klimafreundlich (um-)gestalten? Wie werden wir zukünftig von A nach B kommen? Und wie werden wir die Welt ernähren? Diese und andere Zukunftsthemen, die sich um das Zeitalter des Menschen, in dem wir uns befinden, drehen, kann man im Futurium erörtern, diverse Antworten darauf finden und, zum Teil, neue Technologien selbst ausprobieren (im Futurium Lab). 2019 eröffnet und in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Hauptbahnhof entlang der Spree gelegen, ist das Futurium ein lohnendes Ziel, auch für Fotografen :) Dieses Foto habe ich in der großen Austellungshalle im 1. Stock gemacht, das neben interessanten, skulpturartigen Exponaten auch einen tollen Blick auf die Spree und das nahe Regierungsviertel bietet.
Ich wünsche Euch eine entspannte Restwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
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Hay growing just outside Henrieville, Utah—presumably to feed 14,000 head of cattle, and thereafter the tourists who support 47% of the Garfield County economy—but only where the lateral-move irrigation system provides water.
www.garfield.utah.gov/home/showpublisheddocument?id=1222
www.cdc.gov/healthywater/other/agricultural/types.html
9 Feb 2023; 02:00 UTC
On the road to Capitol Reef National Park in central Utah. Just when you think you understood geology, or anything, something comes along to remind you of J.B.S. Haldane: “The world is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.”
03/23/2023; 00.20 UTC
“On the road again
Goin' places that I've never been
Seein' things that I may never see again
And I can't wait to get on the road again”
—Willie Nelson, On the Road Again
26 Aug 2022; morning; iPhone; 350;46;11
Rhinoceros In Name Only (RINO), probably Ceratotherium simum. "In Name Only" means that this rhino is not possibly a real rhino because it was photographed in the Houston Zoo and not in the wild, where I'll never see a real rhino, and where, probably soon, there won't be any real rhinos to see at all. I'm still conflicted about zoo and nature park photography. What valid mission does a zoo serve in the anthropocene? Any at all? The only "real" animals I ever see are birds and javelinas, maybe deer.
Single exposure, 65mmffeq, cropped 16:9 from the same viewpoint as the previous photo, taken just before the sunset.
Looking to the East across Lake Powell and low-lying Antelope Island, to a pair of unidentified Buttes casting shadows on the more distant Mesa.
16 Dec 2022; 02:00 UTC; iPhone+
Fox Squirrel, Sciurus niger, munching on a scrap of tortilla or pita scavenged from a trashcan in the picnic area.
24 July 2021; 09:45 CDT; RAW + post
Willow Waterhole is a floodwater detention facility. Also has a nice path, islands & bridges, a lot of wildflowers, and many young trees. Hardly any birds that afternoon after a storm. Strange to see a fence just off the bank, lining the reservoir. Maybe an attempt to prevent alligators from joining the pedestrians. Happy Fence Friday!
Detail of Laurie Olin’s landscape design—pool, trees, paths, lawn—for the Barnes Foundation, under a partly cloudy sky.
Single exposure, perspective corrected, levels adjusted.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
21-08-2022; 00:45 UTC; iPhone+ 324;46;8
Spruce Tree House under cloudy skies.
“Spruce Tree House, the third largest cliff dwelling (Cliff Palace and Long House are larger), was constructed between about 1211 and 1278 CE by the ancestors of the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest. The dwelling contains about 130 rooms and 8 kivas (kee-vahs), or ceremonial chambers, built into a natural alcove measuring 216 feet (66 meters) at greatest width and 89 feet (27 meters) at its greatest depth. It is thought to have been home for about 60 to 80 people.”
The ruins were re-discovered in 1888, by two local ranchers searching for stray cattle. They climbed down a tall tree—like those at center left—from the mesa top to the front of the dwelling. That tree was later cut down by another early explorer.
www.nps.gov/meve/learn/historyculture/cd_spruce_tree_hous...
Happy Mono Monday!
8 May 2023; 07:30 CDT;
Farm life has resumed for some, surrounded by abandoned homesteads, near the “Plitvice Lakes Incident”, which ignited the Homeland War for Croatian independence. Across the street from our hypermodern hotel, just after our breakfast, as a peasant* hauls firewood, presumably for the benefit of the child who will use the swing later in the day. Looking forward to a time when surplus wealth can renovate the gutted structure in the background.
*not pejorative; my Iowan coal-mining ancestors were also tied to the land, and arguably of lower status.
07:15 CDT; 25 Jun 2023;
Mind creates structure.
At the bottom of the sky,
Light plays, a leaf rests.
A concerto for leaf, shadow, and pavement.
Reflections in one of many oxbow lakes formed by the Brazos River in its meanders along the coastal plain. Probably the lake has a name, surely isn’t the same as the title of the photo.
I was first attracted by the misty light and glassy reflections on a very grey day. Tried a little black point tweak and various other adjustments, until ... the original look that appealed to me was totally gone. So back to the sliders to restore something like the best of both. Hope you enjoy this, and Sliders Sunday!
3 Apr 2021; 19:00 CDT
Alternate title: “Financial Transparency”
Many of the residential units in these Super Talls remain unoccupied, as an exercise in “commodification” of real estate. Easier to store and exchange enormous wealth if you pay, say, $100million for an apartment here, and don’t bother to occupy or personalize it. Lots of prestige, and more liquidity than ordinary real estate. Yes, it’s April Fool’s Day, but the joke is on New York’s taxpayers, not you.
Skyline along W57th St and the southern border of Central Park, in Midtown Manhattan.
1 Apr 2022; 10:00 CDT;
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“Spruce Tree House, constructed between about 1211 and 1278 CE by the ancestors of the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest, … contains about 130 rooms and 8 kivas built into a natural alcove measuring up to 216 ft (66 m) wide and 89 ft (27 m) deep. Thought to have been home for about 60 to 80 people.
…first discovered in 1888, when two local ranchers chanced upon it while searching for stray cattle.”
www.nps.gov/meve/learn/historyculture/cd_spruce_tree_hous...
Wait, what? Surely it was “first discovered” about 1211 by the people who engineered and built it, right?
Two exposures, blended end to end. Geotag is approximate.
Happy Mono Monday!
6 Feb 2023; 00:45 UTC
“Everyone strives after the law,” says the man, “so how is that in these many years no one except me has requested entry?” The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, “Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it.”
—Franz Kafka, “Before the Law”
Hanksville, Utah
20-10-2022; 01:00 UTC 325;37;4
Although lots of other things do.
Tripod mounted panorama from my hotel patio showing the view to the East over one of the many marinas in Lake Powell, and part of a very long, highway-wide concrete ramp sloping gently down to the left. Not sure if it still reaches all the way to the water. One of a short series on Marinas in Lake Powell.
Posting this kind of late in the day because my internet connection disappeared during a general outage all afternoon yesterday, went away overnight, and reappeared this morning just for me.
15 Dec 2022; 10:00 CST; iPhone panorama
AKA "Two Worlds". Resoft County Park is a special place. Pedestrians walking on the path that circumscribes the two lakes (ponds, really) are cheek by jowl with birds building nests for the next generation, here a Great Egret. So far, so good.
An absolutely awesome cloud formation: a mixture of long and shorter wavelength flowing shapes, waves and curved arcs.
This storm fairly flooded much of Strathearn in a line from Crieff to Perth in the course of half an hour or so; I've never seen so much rain fall in such a short time, flooding the country roads beyond the limits of driveability.