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And I never saw Karissa again.
I'll never be entirely comfortable with that ephemeral aspect of photography. Setting up a shoot, spending perhaps several hours with them, staring at images of them for another few hours, discovering details about how they move, how they react, how they laugh.
And then...that's it. Ask them to shoot again, and they say yes, but then it's never a good date, things are too hectic, they say.
But really, they don't want to shoot again. Happens, it's happened on my end, as well.
Looking back, as I have so often during this pandemic, even the folks I didn't want to shoot again, I find myself now wondering about. The urge to photograph becomes (or always is) a spark of curiosity. One shoot is never enough to really Know someone, I should remind myself of that when I'm on a shoot that's not going well. Or is going okay but I'm not dazzled by.
I'm just so damned curious about people.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
This part of the paperbark wetland/forest/swamp is in the Bongaree wetlands on Bribie Island.
Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as broad-leaved paperbark, the paper bark tea tree or niaouli, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the allspice family, Myrtaceae. The plant is native to New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and coastal eastern Australia, from Botany Bay in New South Wales northwards, into Queensland and the Northern Territory. It has become naturalised in the Everglades in Florida, where it is considered a serious weed by the USDA. The broad-leaved paperbark grows as a spreading tree up to 20 m high, with the trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark. The grey-green leaves are ovate and the cream or white bottlebrush-like flowers appear from late spring to autumn. (Source: Wikipedia)
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The Corniche (Egyptian Arabic: الكرنيش, El Kornesh) is a waterfront promenade corniche in Alexandria, Egypt, running along the Eastern Harbour. It is one of the major corridors for traffic in Alexandria.
The Corniche is formally designated "26 of July Road" west of Mansheya and "El Geish Road" east of it; however, these names are rarely used.
Italian-Egyptian architect Pietro Avoscani designed it in 1870.
The western end starts by the Citadel of Qaitbay (built in place of the Lighthouse of Alexandria). It runs for over ten miles and ends at Montaza.
(Wikipedia)
White Orpheus or Pink?
Mangrove Roots, Orpheus Island, 2009.
Phase One 645AF, P45+ back, 28mm lens, 15 seconds @ f16, ISO 50.
I was up to my knees in warm salt water, but I wasn't complaining. I also think that's why many people from the southern latitudes of Australia visit Orpheus Island in winter and if, following the chilly weather we've been having lately, you're in need of a warm respite, now would be a good time to book a trip to Orpheus Island in Far North Queensland.
There are two options. One is a six star resort which is out of my price bracket (champagne tastes, beer budget), the other is the experience of your photography life at the James Cook University research station on the other end of the island. However, while the location is fantastic, the real attraction has to be three of Australia's best photographers and photographic educators ever. Dr Les Walking is joined by Dr Vicki Cooper and Dr Doug Spowart. I'm pretty sure Vicki and Doug are both doctors, maybe they're professors or something else as well, but I get lost after an ordinary degree!
Les has been presenting his Orpheus Island printing workshop for eleven years along with John and Pam de Rooy. And after my presentation with Les in the Daintree last month, I said I'd mention his printing workshop in my newsletter - and hence the photograph above.
For more details about the Orpheus Island Photography Workshop, visit www.leswalkling.com/courses/orpheus-2016/.
Shooting the photograph, I was knee deep in salt water as the tide came in. It was taken only a stone's throw from the research station with a wide-angle lens and a long shutter speed of 15 seconds to blur the water.
To lighten up the tree roots as though they were catching the light from the sunset, I used a channel mask which picked out the light that was already striking the top of the mangrove roots and then, using a curves adjustment layer, lightened them up. It was easier than using a brush and carefully picking out the roots because all the hard work had been done by the channel. This is one aspect of Photoshop that can't easily be replicated in Lightroom or Capture One, but admittedly it takes a little more practice to achieve as well.
So, do you like the pink light catching the tops of the tree roots - or would you prefer them to look like steely-white moon light? Have a look here to see second photo and rest of blog. www.betterphotography.com/index.php/peter-eastways-blogs-...
Aspects of Sydney Opera House.
Some iphonography taken at 6am to avoid tourists and to catch early morning light. Got lucky with the light quality on here too.
There has been some work going on around Seaburn Sunderland along the beach area's I like.
Its a shame about the many Dog walkers who take there dogs there and allow them to crap all over the place or worse pick it up in a poo bag only to toss it along route some where else's.
Well done sunderland.gov.co.uk
Beauty is a reflection of divine bliss and, since God is Truth, the reflection of His bliss will be that mixture of happiness and truth which is to be found in all beauty.
Forms allow of a direct, 'plastic' assimilation of the truths - or of the realities - of the spirit. The geometry of the symbol is steeped in beauty, which in its turn and in its own way is also a symbol. The perfect form is that in which truth is incarnate in the rigour of the symbolical formulation and in the purity and intelligence of the style.
Beauty mirrors happiness and truth. Without the element of 'happiness' there remains only bare form - geometrical, rhythmical or other - and without the element of 'truth' there remains only a wholly subjective enjoyment or, it might be said, luxury. Beauty stands between abstract form and blind pleasure, or rather so combines them as to imbue veridical form with pleasure and veridical pleasure with form.
Beauty is a crystallization of some aspect of universal joy; it is something limitless expressed by means of a limit.
Beauty is in one sense always more than it gives, but in another sense it always gives more than it is. In the first sense the essence shows as appearance; in the second the appearance communicates the essence.
Beauty is always beyond compare; no perfect beauty is more beautiful than another perfect beauty. One may prefer this beauty to that, but this is a matter of personal affinity or of complementary relationship and not of pure aesthetics. Human beauty, for instance, can be found in each of the major races, yet normally a man prefers some type of beauty in his own race rather than in another; inversely, sometimes affinities between qualitative and universal human types show themselves to be stronger than racial affinities.
Like every other kind of beauty artistic beauty is objective, and so can be discovered by intelligence, not by "taste". Taste is indeed legitimate, but only to the same extent as individual peculiarities are legitimate, that is, just in so far as these peculiarities translate positive aspects of some human norm.
Different tastes should be derived from pure aesthetic and should be of equal validity, just as are the different ways in which the eye sees things. Myopia and blindness are certainly not different ways of seeing - they are merely defects of vision.
In beauty man ’realizes’, passively in his perception and externally in his production of it, that which he should himself 'be' after an active or inward fashion.
When man surrounds himself with the ineptitudes of an art that has gone astray how can he still 'see' what he should 'be'? He runs the risk of 'being' what he 'sees' and assimilating the errors suggested by the erroneous forms among which he lives.
Modern satanism is manifested, no doubt in a very external way but in the most directly tangible way and in the way which makes the greatest inroads, in the unintelligible ugliness of forms. 'Abstracted' people, who never 'see' things, none the less allow themselves to be influenced in their general mental outlook by the forms around them to which they sometimes, with astonishing superficiality, deny all importance, just as though traditional civilizations did not unanimously proclaim the contrary. In this connection the spiritual aesthetics of some of the great contemplatives will be recalled as evidence that, even in a world of normal forms, the sense of the beautiful may acquire a special spiritual importance.
The Flag Building also referred to as the Super Power Building is the largest building in Clearwater, Florida. It is owned by the Church of Scientology and was built principally to deliver the Super Power Rundown, a high-level Scientology training course intended to train Scientologists to use what Scientology describes as all of their 57 "perceptics" or senses. The interior of the building contains training suites, course rooms, theaters, and various devices intended to test these "perceptics," including a "time machine", an anti-gravity simulator, an "infinite" pit, and a pain station.
The complex occupies a city block at 215 South Fort Harrison Avenue. It includes a 15-story tower topped by a bronze Scientology cross visible from much of Clearwater. Construction began in 1998, was halted in 2003, and was ultimately resumed to reach substantial completion during 2011. The long delay in construction led to substantial fines being levied by the city authorities. The building is valued at $80 million and at least $145 million was raised by Church fundraising towards the project. The church denies accusations that the Flag Building's completion was deliberately delayed so that it could serve as a cash cow.[citation needed]
The Church of Scientology announced in August 2013 that the building would be opened to the public on October 6, 2013, with a dedication ceremony that the church estimated would attract approximately 10,000 Scientologists. However, a month later it emerged that the Church had canceled the ceremony and postponed the opening of the building. The building finally opened on November 17, 2013.
At 127,000 square feet (11,800 m2), the building is the largest property in Clearwater. It was originally budgeted to cost $24 million, but the cost has more than doubled to an estimated $50 million after repeated redesigns of the interior. According to the building plans, the Super Power Building will feature a grand lobby lined with sculptures depicting aspects of Scientology; theaters for training and introductory films; a museum honoring the Sea Org; and a separate museum honoring Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The sixth floor will house an indoor running track for Scientologists undergoing the Purification Rundown detoxification program.
The Mediterranean Revival-style building will also contain a bookstore, a library, and hundreds of course and study rooms; with a total of 889 rooms, 447 windows, and 42 bathrooms, plus a 1,140-seat dining room and two kitchens. A 124-foot (38 m) bridge connects the Super Power Building to the Scientology-owned Fort Harrison Hotel on the other side of S. Fort Harrison Avenue.[1] In January 2012, Tony Ortega of the Village Voice published leaked blueprints of the Super Power Building that revealed architectural features including a recreation of a deck on the Apollo, L. Ron Hubbard's flagship in the 1960s.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Building
www.emporis.com/buildings/175007/flag-building-clearwater...
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Este fin de semana estuve en Sevilla de visita y aprovechando que tenía que llevarle una cosilla a Sakuli, ella me entregó a mi pequeño Enyo en mano. Me hizo muchísima ilusión que fuera así, en directo, y que pudiera hacerle fotos con su creadora (aunque ella no creo que me deje publicarlas xD).
Como el pequeñín todavía no tenía ropitas ni peluca lo apañamos con cosillas que tenían ellas y así es como quedó xD. Lo bautizamos como Frodito, por sus pintas de hobbit total (aquí no se le ven los pantalones pesqueros y los pies descalzos, dignos de la Comarca xD). En realidad es un robotito y su aspecto final será muy diferente al de esta foto, pero tenía muchas ganas de subirla! jiji <3.
También me llevé otra sorpresa y es que Holic me regaló el gorrito que lleva en la foto (que es para Yo-sd y le va enorme xDD). ¿No es adorable? muchísimas gracias por el regalo *___* <33!!
ScotRail HST I7C Class 43s 43139 & 43132 approach Greenloaning with 1H17, the 13:30 Edinburgh – Inverness service on 18th April 2023.
Orden: Passeriformes
Familia: Fringillidae
Especie: Fringilla coelebs
Estatus: especie catalogada “De interés especial” en el catalogo nacional de especies amenazadas.
Longevidad: pueden vivir hasta 5 años.
Peso: 23 gramos aproximadamente.
Envergadura: con las alas abiertas pueden medir de 13 a 17 cms.
Longitud: 15 cms. aproximadamente.
Pinzón vulgar o común. Fringilla coelebs. Descripción: Su cuerpo es parecido al tamaño de un gorrión, pero en este destacan unos colores muy vivos que le aportan un aspecto más alegre.. Tienen manchas blancas en las escapulares, en las alas y en las rectrices externas. E l macho tiene el píleo y la nuca de color azul grisáceo y los auriculares y el pecho, rojo oxidado. La hembra y los jóvenes tienen el dorso de color marrón aceituna y el vientre, gris pardo claro.
Distribución: de once a trece subespecies que se distribuyen por casi toda Europa exceptuando Islandia y el de norte Escandinabia, llegando por el este hasta Siberia central. Permanece en el sur y centro de Europa con poblaciones sedentarias y migradoras parciales.
Curiosidades: nidifica en bosques y en arboledas de todo tipo con escasas extensiones de hierba y matorral ; también en centros urbanos. Su dieta se compone fundamentalmente de alimentos que encuentra por el suelo como semillas, además de insectos en época de cría. Construye su nido en forma de cuenco, en lo alto de los árboles. E l reclamo se compone de un "tsip" multisilábico al que le suma la sílaba "chu ii uu".
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Shichikasyuku dam lake 七ヶ宿ダム湖
I visited some Dams in February.
I introduce some aspects of the dams , dam lakes and the surrounging sceneries.
2月にいくつかのダムに行きました。
ダム、ダム湖、そしてその周辺の景色を紹介します。
Location : www.ipc.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp/nken/labo2016/location_pc.htm...
40120 heads past Chester No4 signalbox as it approaches Chester General on 15-9-79.
Clearly from the lighting and time of year it is later in the day
The rock shelf at Lower Lewis River Falls is yet another unique aspect to this fantastic location. During times of low water, you can walk out easily and shoot from the edge. What can I say? It's absolutely gorgeous here.
The aspect of human nature that fascinates me most is our inherent perversity. We do things we know are bad for us. We refuse to do things we know are good for us. It's almost like we can't connect actions and decisions with consequences.
I'm a prime example. I've been sitting at my desk now for eight straight hours; my back is sore, my feet are numb, my butt hurts and my bladder is stressed but... am I getting up? Am I stretching? Am I eating? Am I tending to my basic bodily needs? Hell no.
Why? That's the question. And I honestly can't answer it. Except to say that, being human, I have this damned perversity.
Every night, when I lie awake from 1am to 4am, I promise myself that THIS is the day I'm going to treat my body better.
Do I? Hell no. And that's just annoying.
It would probably take me 10 or 20 minutes a day to stretch out my muscles and minimize my back pain. But I won't. Just like I refused to get glasses for years... even though I'd reached the point where driving wasn't safe.
And... I dunno. Maybe this is all about laziness. I honestly think it's more about perversity - about just plain refusing to do simple things that would make my life easier.
Maybe, on some level, I like suffering. Maybe some part of me likes to be in pain. Maybe some part is scared of what would happen if I ever experienced life pain-free. I just might accomplish more, or feel better, or have a different perspective on things.
I'll never know... at least not any time soon. Because I'm going to keep on sitting here, working, writing... piling up the bricks, meeting my deadlines, and not doing all the things I know I should.
Um... maybe thinking about it and writing about it here are steps in the right direction. One can hope.
Jozenji Street 定禅寺通
The far-left person is me haha
I introduce some aspects of the town Sendai which I took through this few monts.
この数か月間に撮影した仙台の街の写真を紹介します。
Location : www.ipc.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp/nken/labo2016/location_pc.htm...
A Vietnamese woman in a red ao dai poses for a photo at Nam Nha Pagoda in the Mekong Delta. The Chinese characters on the scroll speaks of centuries of Chinese immigration and influence on many aspects of Vietnamese culture. Vietnam was ruled by China for thousands of years until they threw off the Chinese yoke and became a tributary state. Over the centuries, many Chinese immigrants filtered into south Vietnamese society and eventually comprised the majority of the business class. This was true until 1975 when the North Vietnamese Communist Party confiscated their businesses and property and many south Vietnamese of Chinese descent fled the country and became part of today's Vietnamese diaspora.
We were very lucky this very early morning to come across this old fellow who had yet to make it back to his den for the day, as they are nocturnal. (sorry for another long post - so interesting)
The Cape porcupine is the largest porcupine species in the world, measuring 60 to 93 cm (23 to 37 inches) from head to tail and weighing 10 to 24 kg (22 to 53 lbs), larger in all aspects compared to our porcupines. The word porcupine means “quill pig” in Latin; however, porcupines are large rodents and have no relation to pigs. Cape porcupines are the largest and heaviest of all African rodents.
This Porcupine has long quills (which are modified hairs) that can be raised to make it appear twice as large. Quill length varies on different parts of the body, ranging from 2.5 to 50 cm (1 to 20 in). At any given time a porcupine has up to 30 000 quills covering its body. The African porcupine’s quills are very sharp and hard, allowing these rigid quills to become deeply lodged into an attacker, our porcupine’s quills have a barb on the end. Usually, the quills lie flat against the body, but if danger threatens, they raise and spread them. New quills will grow in to replace lost ones.
Porcupines don’t shoot their quills, but they do detach fairly easily. This means that the slightest unwanted touch from a predator can fix dozens of painful quills into the porcupine’s enemy. The porcupine attacks in reverse, they warn potential enemies of their defence system when alarmed. They stamp their feet, click their teeth, and growl or hiss while vibrating hollow quills that produce a characteristic rattle. If an enemy persists, then they run backward until they ram their attacker with their quills. The reverse charge is most effective because the hindquarters are the most heavily armed, and the quills are directed to the rear.
Porcupines will often chew on bones for the calcium and also to sharpen their powerful incisors.
Cape porcupines are an important part of Zambian culture and folklore. They are often featured in stories and myths, and are sometimes considered to be sacred animals. In the Zulu culture, porcupine quills are occasionally used to make incisions on the skin when applying topical medicines.
Cape porcupine considered an ecosystem engineer because of its foraging habits. Dig holes that open up soil surface, allowing water to seep into ground and new plants to grow
"Perpetual Anticipation:" This rock structure at Joshua Tree National Park is commonly called "penguin rock," and if you use a little imagination, you can see why. It looks a bit like a penguin standing and reaching upward with its beak. Commonly photographed with this unique juniper tree beside it that appears to bow down to the rock, I played around a bit with my own positioning and saw how even subtle movements changed the perspective between the two. Stand too high and the tree appeared much taller and further away from the rock and vice versa. From my chosen position, I liked how it looked like the penguin rock and bowing tree were more on even ground with each other and almost made contact. I wanted to capture them in close proximity, but leaving that tiny space between to reflect that perpetual anticipation one might feel when in a state of almost, as I myself had been wanting to photograph right here for so long-- the moment right before reaching that goal, seeing the finish line at a race, almost kissing a loved one, etc., and reminding us to enjoy the journey leading up to all these special moments. (Photo available in square aspect ratio sizes, eg., 20 x 20, 40 x 40, etc.).
Another from yesterday's excursion to Mt Martha Park. I am looking WNW from the viewing platform, with the drone almost directly above me. The lower aspect of Mt Martha Park can be seen giving way to houses that run down to the cliffs overlooking the bay.
The park has been a public reserve for decades now. Post-colonisation it was used as sheep fields, although eventually the rabbits starved the sheep out, according to one local source. Now, there is a healthy growth of native flora and ongoing efforts to eradicate the last of the non-native weeds.
I also made a short film whilst flying yesterday:
As you walk from Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center towards the city center, you'll see the Horseshoe and Fountain in the Square of Love and the Nur Zhol Boulevard comprising of the Batereyk Tower, the Golden Towers (government office blocks) and the President's Palace. This is a prime example of distance compression using a zoom lens; the walk is far longer than it looks in this photo.
One aspect I enjoy about cross-dressing is attempting to create different female appearances. This is down to a combination of make-up application, wig choice and style of clothing. My choices are driven by mood. Some occasions I really want to glam up and wear short dresses, this is always fun and , I feel, rather daring to attempt when you live as a man. Other times I want to see gif I can pass myself off as female and be believable in terms of appearance.
I find attempting to look female in na convincing way is the challenge I truly thrive on and enjoy the most. This picture is a selfie shot from my most recent cross-dressing opportunity in mid March. It had been three years since I last had a relaxed opportunity to cross-dress (I had a very brief and unsuccessful opportunity back in December…best forgotten!).
I’m aware I have older sagging and far from smooth skin, but then again who in the real world, and I include many beautiful young woman, has skin without texture? Texture is real and so is an aspect one has to work with when applying make-up. My acceptance is I have less than ideal skin on my face and I focus on creating a smoother overall colour tone as the texture, my pores and bumps from years of shaving, exist and are there. I know photo manipulation can smooth skin which I feel looks quite odd! I see pictures in many women magazines (yes, I love reading women magazines) where the faces look like they are made of some strange plastic looking skin…scary! I see this trend is now prevalent on social media photo posts. I think such magazines are probably at the root of image issues many young females seem to be having these days.
I admit, I dreamed of smooth perfect skin but reality is I don’t have it. I’m much hap[per in my cross-dressing now I’ve evolved my mental approach to knowing I have to work with the face I’ve got. I really enjoy applying make-up now and seeing what I can do. I will never master the skin I hope to one day haver but I get a lot of delight and enjoyment from applying make-up and trying out various colours and techniques.
I’ve come to this direction because I am planning a trip out later in the year and you can’t exist in the real world in any other way than working with what you’ve got. This applies to my face, my body, clothing choices my mannerisms and inner projection. My facial skin has texture and I have wrinkles and lines, these are inescapable. I use make-up to change the focus on my face. By that I mean I play up what are(hopefully) my best areas and try to minimise the less than ideal areas. I have rubbish lips, there is not much I can do to them without ending up looking like a full on drag queen. I play these down. I use my eyes as my main emphasis so concentrate my efforts on eyebrows, eyeliner, shadow and mascara. I’m hoping if I make my eyes the main focus my other failings won’t be as noticeable.
In terms of clothing, I’ve modified my dress choices for the planned real world trip out. Female friends advised me on this. They suggested, rather unanimously to my surprise, I should wear midi dresses with a scoop or v-neckline. Being a crossdresser this was a departure from the faved mini dresses and body con styles. I followed their advice and the first time I wore one of the midi style dresses it felt incredible! It proved to be a style that made me feel more feminine than ever before. I loved the fabrics, I adored the way it swished around my freshly shaved legs, the feel of the whole dress was unbelievable. When I sat down and the split draped and revealed my legs I was ecstatic. This impacted on me more than I can articulate. I have a few midi dresses now and I am looking forward to wearing them in the future.
Although the full dress is not visible in this selfie I was feeling so alive wearing it and the make-up. I adored, loved, was delighted, truly in heaven appearing as a woman and felt great emotional fulfilment. I felt my nerves easier and my confidence increase and though I always felt terrified over going out in public (my last time was back in May 2017) I felt a new level of comfort within me. Now, I can’t wait!
Cuando pisamos Machu Picchu a nada menos que 2500 m de altura, ya tenía la idea de intentar sacar una buena foto de esta impresionante maravilla.
El día estaba lluvioso y nublado. Y cambiaba de aspecto constantemente con la niebla de la montaña.
Después de muchas pruebas, aquí pongo la primera de 3 fotos en las que saco Machu Picchu de cerca.
Es dificil escaparse de las fotos archiconocidas, pero aquí los reflejos del sol y los montes semiescondidos le dan el caracter que estaba buscando.