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in the cool shadows beneath palma de mallorca's majestic cathedral la seu, a couple walks hand in hand through ancient stone archways. the interplay of light and darkness paints their figures in a striking contrast, suggesting an intimacy that invites reflection. how often do we glance at such a scene and assume happiness? yet, appearances can be deceiving, and the delicate balance of emotions within a relationship remains unseen. this moment, frozen in time, questions our perceptions and reminds us of the fragile, unpredictable nature of happiness. it captures not just a walk, but the silent complexities that weave through the fabric of togetherness.
Holy Week in Sicily:
"… There is no country in Sicily, in which
the passion of Christ does not revive
through a real
representation, in which people
lives or statuary groups do not
of the streets and squares the theater
of that great drama ... "
(Leonardo Sciascia).
“…Jesus said, “I love you as you are. And I love you too much to leave you as you are…”
(Chris Lyons).
The rites of Holy Week are present in Sicily with complexity of content and symbologies due to numerous influences, very present those due to the Spanish culture, dominating the island between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; in the mystery of the death and resurrection of Christ, it is attended by a popular culture, referring to ancient pre-Byzantine rites that originated long before those of Mediterranean Christian culture.
These ancient rituals represent the most significant moments of the Passion of Jesus Christ, described in the Gospels, from his arrest by the Romans to the Resurrection and are part of the Holy Week celebrations, together with the normal religious functions.
The rites of Holy Week unite Sicily in a single collective rite, an appointment highly anticipated by many Sicilian and non-Sicilian photographers, due to the covid-19 pandemic, now also for this year 2021, as for last year, these celebrations- collective rites will not be able to take place, so I created a "photographic showcase" to be presented on Flickr, composed of images belonging to events that belong to the Sicilian Easter rites, posted in past years; of each reportage presented, I only took "a few cards" more or less significant, some photos were originally posted in black and white, and as such I left them, other photos were posted in color, the latter I re-edited in black and white to conform them to a single photographic language; some photos differ within this black and white language, for having been subjected to a very marked vignetting, I have left them anyway, belonging to reportage characterized by that type of post-production.
Trapani: The Mysteries of Trapani, Good Friday, 2018
Marsala: procession of Good Friday, 2019
Enna: the Good Friday procession (la processione del Venerdì Santo), 2012
Militello Rosmarino: the Good Friday procession (la processione del Venerdì Santo), 2016
Bronte: the Good Friday procession (la processione del Venerdì Santo), 2017
Randazzo: the Good Friday procession (la processione del Venerdì Santo), 2014
Piana degli Albanesi: Easter Sunday (Domenica di Pasqua), 2014
Scicli: Easter Sunday, the Living Man - U' Gioia (Domenica di Pasqua, l’Uomo Vivo – U’ Gioia), 2017
la Settimana Santa in Sicilia:
"…non c'è paese in Sicilia, in cui
la passione di Cristo non riviva
attraverso una vera e propria
rappresentazione, in cui persone
vive o gruppi statuari non facciano
delle strade e delle piazze il teatro
di quel grande dramma..."
(Leonardo Sciascia).
“…Gesù disse: “Ti amo per come sei. E ti amo troppo per lasciarti come sei…”
(Chris Lyons).
I riti della Settimana Santa presentano in Sicilia una complessità di contenuti e di simbologie dovute a numerosi influssi, molto presenti quelli dovuti alla cultura spagnola, dominante nell’isola tra il XVI ed il XVII secolo; nel mistero della morte e della resurrezione di Cristo, si assiste nella cultura popolare, a riferimenti risalenti da antichi riti pre-bizantini che originano da molto prima di quelli della cultura cristiana mediterranea.
Questi antichi riti rappresentano i momenti più significativi della Passione di Gesù Cristo, descritti nei Vangeli, dal suo arresto da parte dei romani alla Resurrezione e fanno parte, insieme alle normali funzioni religiose, delle celebrazioni della Settimana Santa.
I riti della Settimana Santa uniscono la Sicilia in un unico rito collettivo, appuntamento attesissimo da molti fotografi siciliani e non, a causa della pandemia da covid-19, oramai anche per quest'anno 2021, come per l'anno scorso, queste celebrazioni-riti collettivi, non potranno attuarsi, ho così realizzato una "vetrina fotografica" da presentare su Flickr, composta da immagini appartenenti ad eventi che appartengono ai riti Pasquali Siciliani, postati negli anni passati; di ogni reportage presentato, ho preso solo "qualche tessera fotografica" più o meno significativa, alcune foto furono postate originariamente in bianco e nero, e come tali le ho lasciate, altre foto furono postate a colori, queste ultime le ho rieditate in bianco e nero per uniformarle ad un linguaggio fotografico unico; alcune foto differiscono all'interno di questo linguaggio in bianco-nero, per essere state sottoposte ad una vignettatura molto marcata, le ho lasciate ugualmente, appartenenti a reportage caratterizzati da quel tipo di post-produzione.
chaos or complex order .. which.
An image of light travelling through glass - single exposure, no Photoshop.
A favorite place... This is from the archives and I never got around to posting it. I like the triangle in this photo. 😀 Single exposure: 14 mm, f/2.8, 25 sec., ISO 6400. I sometimes get some static about the following opinion, lol. (Usually I avoid giving opinions) You can still get excellent landscape astrophotography images with a single exposure, even better today with newer modern cameras than in the past. In the early days of landscape astrophotography many (probably most) images were single exposures. Now we have easy stacking, tracking, and blending. I get a lot of questions about stacking and tracking and I look at the persons gallery and see they have posted few or no night sky photos. I think it’s much better to learn single exposure night photography first and fine tune your technique (including noise control) rather than starting initially with tracking and stacking. Those things add more layers of complexity to newcomers and make it more difficult, and in addition I think it adds reliance on technology to improve the photos rather than perfecting your technique (a never ending process, lol). My advice to newcomers, go out and have fun with single exposures! You can always layer on different levels of technology later. 😀 Now I will listen to the rebuttals, lol.
August is the month for gorgeous Hydrangeas. Lace-cap varieties are outstanding for their complex blooms. I love their starry centers.
"Life is short. Buy the Hydrangea." ~ Anonymous
even though my eyeballs were having soo much fun focusing on all of the gorgeous rides at the auto show i couldn't help but admire the amazing details of the ceiling in the convention center. the intricacies and colors had me looking up quite often :)
The immense complexity of Tokyo unfolds beneath a sky heavy with evening cloud from the vantage of the first deck of the Tokyo Skytree, Japan.
Our family had never visited Japan and we opted to stay for a week tacked on to a family visit to Hong Kong, splitting our time between the mountains near Nagano and the incredible human hive that is Tokyo. The Tokyo Skytree is the second highest building in the world and still quite a bit shorter than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. My youngest son is oddly fascinated with the world's tallest buildings, so we made time to ride the ridiculously fast elevator up to the eyrie above the city. It ascends 350 vertical meters in approximately 50 ear-popping seconds. There is a shorter, faster-moving queue maintained for foreign tourists, which is a very thoughtful gesture. However, the crowds packing the observation deck make one feel as if bees actually have quite a spacious arrangement. On this particular evening, the full moon was rising on the eastern side of the tower and the sun was setting on the western side. I had thought to photograph both phenomena but this proved impossible as the humanity was so dense and viscous that I could not navigate from one side to the other quickly enough to capture both photographs.
It was difficult for me to comprehend the reality of this many people in the same place. As of 2014 Tokyo is the largest city in the world with over 38 million people calling the greater megalopolis home. That's over 2,600 people in every square kilometer. The numbers simply transcend meaning to my mind.
Few days ago I went photowalking down the streets of Mong Kok (western part of Kowloon, Hong Kong) and I really loved the complexity of the details in some corners. In this one they were preparing for a flea market.
3 Square Blocks cut from The Middle Slice Inverted and then Composited
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The Complexity of the Sunset
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: The Moon Meditation
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Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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After a harrowing trip, never to be repeated, I am back in Lucca (Italy) and a new merry-go-round begins to spin
An image taken a couple of days after the significant snowfall we had in the Midlands last weekend. I like how it looks as if the tree on the right is celebrating victory after knocking out his heavyweight opponent.
This is a scene I've walked past many times in our local woodland whilst walking Monty, our pooch. I've always thought it had potential but the conditions and the complexity of the background never justified a shot. On this occasion though, with snow on the ground, the conditions finally presented an opportunity.
“Each snowflake, alone,
Impossibly intricate.
Yet snowfalls abound!”
—Ron Masters, Snowflake Haiku, ©️2021
What most people don’t realize is that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics requires what we call complexity, because every little bit that happens results from the most likely process available to increase entropy (disorder) overall.
Single exposure, normal processing. Straight down, field of view maybe 2ft, 60cm. Happy Mono Monday!
25 Apr 2022; 10:15 CDT; >B&W
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At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth,
a point or spark which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.
This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven.
It is in everybody, and if we could see it we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely.
-Thomas Merton
Uberfaff tonight and the thirst to paint is well and truly back now the darkness has returned.
CRT, Fibers, light pen and light blade.
Single long exposure light painting.
The complexity of the modern compound bow is simply amazing the accuracy that can be achieved with a competent shooter!
What would the American Indian's have given to have had this level of technology when the European's first arrived? Perhaps, a different outcome?
June 2021 archery shoot in Nevada City, California