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Sorry I've been away for some time, folks. I was in what's called a "GADNA" week which prepares teens to serve in the Israeli Defence Force (army here is duty). It basically simulates one week of basic training.The week's climax was in the firing range where I took the chance to operate an armed M16. It was quite fun!
Midtown Manhattan from Liberty State Park
Jersey City, NJ
600mm, post-processed through about five miles of haze
I would like to have composed this slightly more to the left, but Goldman Sachs put a large building close by.
Detail (it's a *really neat* detail) and BTS on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DJI9P8gx59k/?img_index=1
An image stuck in my head for over year was of a teenage-ish girl in a post-apocalyptic world in the basement of an abandoned office building, slinking back in a chair and staring down at the unfortunate soul stumbling across her path. Holding a scythe because she's Death.
So many random inspirations fade while others are lost to the realization that not every image needs to be made. Something about her stuck; I wanted to bring that beautiful girl to life.
Why this one? Unknown. Maybe the fact that death lurks anywhere and everywhere. Perhaps processing anxiety around natural disasters-- more the extreme suffering and fear of *not* dying in that case. Or the death sentence that was existing in the Bay Area (as in, if you live somewhere and never move, welp, that's where you'll expire. Fun thought if you're stuck in a place turning you into a hollowed-out husk of a human).
Then the eternal negotiation between the concept and the execution. Under the rule that there are no rules-- inspiration is not an obligation to replicate.
There's that magical point in your ArTIStic JoURney where you focus less on raw skill and creating images with wider appeal-- if anyone at all understands what makes sense in your head, great. If not, better yet!
Style influenced by the album covers for FLA's "Artificial Soldier" and "Mechanical Soul" :).
So I started this and mostly finished it over winter break. After being home for a month for the summer I finally found time to finish it and take a few pictures, as can be expected, the quality sucks. I'm going to try to build some more this summer before I have to go back to school.
The vacant picnic shelter looked very lonely in the night. Evidence of civilization can be reassuring. On this night, it made me feel cold and removed.
My Bottom End
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A fun selfie near the end of the evening. The letters END and my end. Swell. :D If you feel that places like Wonder Valley feel like the edge of civilization, then this is for you. These enormous letters created by Jack Pierson acknowledge just that. I ran out to take night photos of this art installation curated by High Desert Test Sites. This art is of course entitled "The End of the World". HDTS is a non-profit organization that supports immersive experiences and exchanges. I illuminated the scene with a handheld light, holding it in front of me during the exposure.
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(Plate 7514) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. May 2022.
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Tomada en Murcia (España) en una sesión fotográfica junto a Mariano Belmar, Pedro Díaz Molins y José Baleriola.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
1/320"
f11
ISO 400
Canon 70-200mm @ 70mm
No Filters
Silver Efex Pro 2
So I started this and mostly finished it over winter break. After being home for a month for the summer I finally found time to finish it and take a few pictures, as can be expected, the quality sucks. I'm going to try to build some more this summer before I have to go back to school.
2 Minute Exposure - Composition suggested by Null Packet.
This made Explore on 2009-05-18! My first! :)
(Or was it 2009-05-13? I don't understand Expore!)
Highest position: 10 on Friday, May 15, 2009
This night was perfect. We hiked up Cascade and although it was freezing, it was the best hike I have ever been on. The stars were amazing and I loved every second. Also we had the most amazing breakfast the next morning.
When the modern world is contrasted with traditional civilizations, it is not simply a question of looking on each side for what is good and bad; since good and evil are everywhere, it is essentially a question of knowing on which side the lesser evil is to be found. If someone tells us that such and such a good exists outside tradition, we respond: no doubt, but it is necessary to choose the most important good, and this is necessarily represented by tradition; and if someone tells us that in tradition there exists such and such an evil, we respond: no doubt, but it is necessary to choose the lesser evil, and again it is tradition that contains it. It is illogical to prefer an evil that involves some benefits to a good that involves some evils. Certainly, to confine oneself to admiring the traditional worlds is still to stop short at a fragmentary point of view, for every civilization is a “two-edged sword”; it is a total good only by virtue of those invisible elements that determine it positively. In certain respects, every human society is bad; if its transcendent character is entirely removed—which amounts to dehumanizing it since the element of transcendence is essential to man though always dependent upon his free consent— then at the same time society’s entire reason for being is removed, and there remains only an ant heap in no way superior to any other ant heap since the needs of life and thus the right to life remain everywhere the same, whether it is a question of men or insects. It is one of the most pernicious of errors to believe that the human collectivity, on the one hand, or its well-being, on the other, represents an unconditional or absolute value and thus an end in itself.
Regarded as social phenomena and independently of their
intrinsic value—though there is no sharp dividing line between the two—traditional civilizations, despite their inevitable
imperfections, are like sea walls built to stem the rising tide of worldliness, error, subversion, of the fall that is ceaselessly renewed; this fall is more and more invasive, but it will be conquered in its turn by the final irruption of divine fire, the very fire of which the traditions are, and always have been, the earthly crystallizations. To reject traditional frameworks because of human abuses amounts to asserting that the founders of religion did not know what they were doing, that abuses are not inherent in human nature, that they are therefore avoidable even in societies numbering millions of men, and that they are avoidable thanks to purely human means; no more flagrant contradiction than this could be imagined.