Part of my Street Portraits Series

I love the contrast between the warm and welcoming colours of the sand and the bleak desolate cold icy loch and forboding skyline of the Black Mount beyond.. with the lines in the shot leading you down a bleak cold path...

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This was taken inside an old multistorey car park now demolished. I noticed this contradiction of a direction arrow leading to a no parking zone.

This image is a humble homage for the famous Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. For anyone who does not know this personality I recommend watching the movie “The Salt of the Earth” directed and produced by Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders. It portraits Salgado’s biography which at the same time shows everyone’s struggle to understand human’s contradictions when it comes to human interactions and conservatism.

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I were a few days balancing this, black and white is not my favourite style, but I wanted to mix some reveals in just one pic... I don't know what to think of this... ¡Hope you like it!

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Nueva imagen a la que llevo dándole vueltas varios días. El blanco y negro no es mi fuerte, pero quería probar a mezclar varios revelados, no sé muy bien qué pensar de esto... ¡Espero que os guste!

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Tonights sunset. It looks calm and peaceful in the photo. Actually it was cold, blowing like crazy and lots of waves. Nothing 8 seconds won't cure.---LOOKS BEST ENLARGED ON BLACK (push L)

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Sharpening my writing skills !

Toutes les contradictions de notre monde : un magnifique rapace et une bouteille plastique !!

All the contradictions of our world : a gorgeous raptor and a plastic bottle !!

How do we reconcile the contradictions posed by the many faces of Thomas Merton? It is time to look not just at the masks and personas of Merton’s outer personality as memoirist, poet, theologian, contemplative, activist, calligrapher, photographer, naturalist, activist, journal-keeper, jazz aficionado, etc., but also at the broad sweep and long trajectory of the geist of his longing.

--Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine Superabundantly Alive, Susan McCaslin & J.S. Porter

Sometimes I wonder, if the sea is bottomless, and full of endless possibilities. When do we get tired of it. How many hours do we stare out over the ocean and fall in love with it, every time? Still, it's full of contradictions. Waves and tides. Stream of fresh meets stream of salt. Hot against cold. I though about this when this shot was developed. It's and army against the navy. There's always a settlement.

7DOS - Beginning with T - Friday

T is for Tournesols

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Eintracht Frankfurt ,Riederwaldstation

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Jim Davis

Opened the curtains to this view at 6:45am!

Tokyo, Japan, Voigtlander 35mm Nokton f1.2 II

"Ara Pacis" "Altare della pace Augustea"

multiple self portrait

Glass is hard enough to protect us, but it shatters with incredible ease. It\'s made from opaque sand, yet it\'s completely transparent. It behaves like a solid material, but it\'s also a liquid. Whatever its mysteries and contradictions, glass – well stained glass to be exact – is one of my favourite materials to photograph, especially when it happens to be Art Nouveau stained glass!

This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.

This week the theme, “material” was chosen by Gary, Gazman_AU.

I love all the effects and colours that stained glass can provide as a material. Here we have rippled glass, dimpled glass and wave glass in a myriad of Art Nouveau flowers, flourishes and even a touch of Australiana, in a rainbow of hues. I wanted to include a photograph of an Art Nouveau stained glass window because stained glass is one of the materials I most enjoy photographing, and Art Nouveau is my favourite design period. Then I couldn’t decide which one to pick, so the solution to that was pick them all and put them in a collage that encapsulates so much of what I love.

These examples of Art Nouveau stained glass come from a number of different sources.

Top left: Stained glass in the front bar of Mac’s Hotel, Cobram.

Top second from left: Stained glass in the Mayoral Chambers of the Prahran Town Hall, Prahran.

Top third from left: A stained glass parlour window in a private residence, South Yarra.

Top right: Stained glass in the front bar of the Metropolitan Hotel, North Melbourne.

Middle left: A stained glass nave window of St Mary’s Church of England Church, Cobram.

Middle second from left: A stained glass front door pane of a private residence, Thornbury.

Middle third from left: A narthex stained glass window of St Silas’ and St Anselm Church of England, Albert Park.

Bottom left: Stained glass in the front bar of the Metropolitan Hotel, North Melbourne.

Bottom second from left: Stained glass from be best bedroom bay window of a private residence, Princes Hill.

Bottom third from left: Stained glass from the music room window of Billilla Mansion, Brighton.

Bottom right: A stained glass bathroom window from a private residence, Princes Hill.

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Rose,

oh pure contradiction,

joy of being

No-one's sleep,

under so

many lids.

* * *

Rose,

oh reiner

Widerspruch,

Lust,

Niemandes

Schlaf

zu sein

unter

soviel

Lidern.

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Please click here: it's a companion series of shots :-)

As it was explained to me, this was a project for an art class. There was a theoretical foundation for all of this, but I never quite got it. This student (who actually was a science student taking the art class as a respite from her normal classes) was part of a larger group (see series) who had spent the better part of the day walking around Manhattan.

Technical note: I find that the new Flickr interface makes it awkward to present a series in the comment section, so I'm presenting as a set. However, I don't want all of the photos in the set in my photostream, so the solution is to make the other photos private, and to provide a "guest pass" to the set via the above link.

Hmmm...I've noticed that if you click on that guest pass, an annoying banner follows you around...you should be able to dismiss it by clicking on an "X"...let me know if this is all too troublesome or annoying...

Personal note: I'm leaving today for Athens...I'll be back in a week...I'm really excited, as I've never been before to Greece. I probably won't be on Flickr too much, but rather, out looking for photo opps (oh, and there is a conference, which is the ostensible purpose of the trip).

Hope everyone hangs in there with the new Flickr...it's frustrating at times, but then, so is life in general...

These beauties are such an annoyance - wandering the yard for whatever they please. Yet when I see one first (as opposed to hubby seeing one first - he will scare them off with his air rifle), I grab my camera and hope I can catch her before she flies off. I happen to love the wildness of this shot. Thanks for looking - I enjoy you all, my Flickr friends.

Our Daily Challenge: Contradiction

Canon eos620 EF 1,8 50 MM f

Ilford HP5 400

taken for Macro Monday theme "Contradiction"

I want to thank you in advance for any comments and/or faves. Today is packing day for a trip. Sorry but I'm really short of time.

Will miss all of you for a couple of weeks, but I'll be back and I'll be looking in on everyone's wonderful work with my iPad. :) See you soon.

Contradiction, troublesome, and dear love.

It is life?

marker on paper

We met a guy in Manilla, Philippines, that was a whole contradiction to himself. You could sense he was gloomy despite being potentially the friendliest person ever. It's hard to describe.

The reason for that though, was pretty clear.

Meet Dondon.

Born and raised in El Nido, on Palawan Island, Philippines, one of the very few genuine heavens on Earth when there are no typhoons passing by.

He had been in Manilla for a familly emergency and for many days.

You also should know that Manilla is kind of the least enjoyable place in all of the country, especially coming from El Nido.

So he couldn't wait to leave. Litterally.

So we took him out.

Before he took us in.

The gloom had left the building.

And gravity too :

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Day 112.

After two pretty blah images in a row, I think this is back on track a bit.

Sugar from a lemon? Opposing tastes but when together excite the palate.

For Macro Mondays theme, Contradiction.

Matera

Seen outside a gents outfitters in York. I was struck by the visual contradiction. Maybe the chap was texting an image of something in the window for advice. Again I had deviated from my normal 'street' set up of using a 50mm f1.8 or sometimes an f1.4 lens and was using a 24-105mm f4

This is the single original image came out of my camera. Total visual contradiction. More you look at it, more it contradicts itself.