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Defining what is depression.
First of all I will express that the definition of depression would very much be associated with your physical reality and your physical experience, therefore it is limited to what you view as a human experience. Not a condition, but an experience.
Now, that being qualified, I would express that defining depression would be the experience of an individual in which that individual has, in a manner of speaking, lost their ability to objectively see any of their choices. That in this it would be genuine lack of motivation in any capacity. Elias - 2827
Elias Audio Session 2827
www.eliasweb.at/transcripts/audio.php?session_nr=2827
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Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.
Thanks to skeletalmess for the texture mask.
I used it both above and below my image, with different blend modes.
Vina's shot made it to #1 on the interesting list, and is now begin used by Flickr to explain what interesting is... Congratulations!
Test Image featuring Timothy Whitaker,
from Christopher Gerzeli’s photographic series;
"HD: The Human Definition"
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Camille Pissarro
Bouquet de roses [1873]
Atlanta High Museum of Art
original photo by courtesy of photopoésie
I made a page like this in a round robin dictionary and then copied it into my book. I did that with several of my favorites and am glad I did.
This is done on an old dictionary page. The idea is to visually show the definition.
What is abstract photography?
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your attitude about ambiguity (a point to which we'll return later), no two people will agree on the exact same definition. That’s because the topic is so … well … abstract!
So let’s do what I always like to do when I run into problems with definitions. Let’s look it up in the dictionary and dig into the etymological roots of the word. Mine says that the Latin roots of “abstract” mean “to draw away from.”
Now that’s a pretty good start, because many discussions of abstract photography focus on how its an image that emphasizes that which is generalized or universal, as opposed to something that is concrete, specific, tangible, or representational. An abstract photograph draws away from that which is realistic or literal. It draws away from natural appearances and recognizable subjects in the actual world. Some people even say it departs from true meaning, existence, and reality itself. It stands apart from the concrete whole with its purpose instead depending on conceptual meaning and intrinsic form.
Huh? … See what I mean? It gets real abstract!
As with pornography, we may have a very hard time defining it, but we know abstract photography when we see it. Here’s the acid test: If you look at a photo and there’s a voice inside you that says “What is it?”…. Well, there you go. It’s an abstract photograph.
There are a variety of ways to create an abstract image. As in macro-photography, if you shoot extreme close-ups of anything – such as part of an animal, person, plant, flower, building, machine, or any commonplace object, the result is often abstract. You reduce the otherwise familiar thing to patterns, textures, and colors that are no longer recognizable as that thing. You draw away from the familiar world and enter the more primordial realm of the purely visual. The same effect could be achieved if you zoom in and crop to some small portion of an otherwise ordinary photograph, which is rather easy to do in digital photography. By doing so, you abstract the part from the whole. You abstract the basic visual elements of the scene from the scene itself.
Abstracts can be created by taking shots of areas or surfaces containing interesting patterns, colors, and textures without including the larger context which identifies the location of that area or surface. For example, shots of walls, roads, clouds, fabrics, flowing water, a bed of tightly packed flowers, or a bucket of nails. Even shots of large scale areas, as in aerial photography, can become abstract when the patterns, colors, and textures supercede the identification of a specific place. Wherever we go we are surrounded by all sorts of interesting patterns, colors, and textures. Nature is constantly creating them for us, if we just open our eyes to see.
Using slow shutter speeds, spinning or waving the camera, and taking shots of anything that is moving at a fast speed can result in interesting blurry images that qualify as abstracts. The same type of blurring effects can be created in image editing programs, such as Photoshop. In fact, such programs contain a wide variety of tools for transforming any photograph into an abstract image of textures, colors, and patterns.
Empty or "negative" space may also play a important role in a abstracts, especially when the space isn't really empty at all, but is activated in such a way that it acquires form and conveys sensation.
It may sound like anyone could create an abstract image, that it isn’t so hard to do. Just take a close-up of a cracked sidewalk, for example. Indeed it’s true that abstract images are easy to create. However, producing great abstract images can be quite difficult.
Part of the appeal of a really good abstract photograph is how it entices people to figure out what it is. They may not have the same curiosity about an abstract painting, when people sometimes say that they just don’t get it. Even if people are told what an abstract photograph is, they often still enjoy the challenge of trying to wrap their minds around the bigger picture from which it was abstracted.
However, people who truly love abstract images will often tell you that figuring it out is not the objective. In fact, they may not even try or want to know. They take delight in its ambiguity. They immerse themselves into the purely perceptual experience of the colors, textures, and patterns. They like to immerse themselves into the visceral sensations, moods, and primeval ideas aroused by the image. They don’t “think” about the image per se, but rather use intuition to sense its meaning and impact. Does it create sensations of power, mystery, love, loneliness, grief, pain, joy? Is it the essence of sharp, hard, smooth, brittle, hot, cold. sweet, bitter, loud, or soft? It touches them and moves them on a purely intuitive level that includes what they taste, touch, smell and feel, as well as see. It’s not about a particular person, scene, or thing that is brittle, lonely, mysterious, or cold, but rather about the pure abstract idea and the resulting gut-level experience of those qualities.
Piet Mondrian, a famous non-representational artist, said that “Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.” Psychological research on people in altered states of consciousness, most notably psychedelic experiences, similarly reveals how they draw away from reality as we usually perceive it, and find themselves thrown into a joyful realization of the colors, patterns, and textures underlying reality. They get a glimpse into the pure essence of things. That’s what good abstract photography is about.
Some people say that abstract images focus on the artistic and aesthetic value of a photograph regardless of composition and other rules that are usually associated with a “good” photograph. I’m not so sure about that. Although there may be some appeal to seemingly random or completely uniform presentations of patterns, colors, and textures, the human mind, in its intrinsic need for meaning and order, will be far more captivated by abstract images that follow some of the principles of composition, perhaps especially when the guiding forces are subtle, when we sense some hidden order beneath the apparent randomness or uniformity. A shot of a concrete sidewalk filled with chaotic cracks or one evenly textured with grainy particles of stone may be interesting, but a close-up of a sidewalk where the cracks and grainy surfaces seem to dance with each other in some subtle pattern will be far more evocative.
* This image and essay are part of a book on Photographic Psychology that I’m writing within Flickr. Please see the set description. If you have a photo that illustrates the ideas in this essay, please feel free to post it.
Dictionary Definition Macro #14 - Spiral
Who can resist a photogenic pen?
More like this in my Dictionary Definition Macros Set - see below
117/365 taken Friday, 10/16/09. Shall we dance, Mr. Bear? Well, hey, what can I say, desperate times call for desperate measures! rofl - just kiddin'! Yup, One of my Grateful Dead Bears makes an appearance, in my stream yet again! Sometimes I'm too tired to do anything fancy for my 365, so figured I'd show off my blue toenails! ;-P View On Black
A night like tonights is my definition of happiness. Perfect light and the perfect tide. The only thing not so perfect is my camera, one thing after another keeps breaking. Basically I need a new camera soon which means spending money... Photography is too expensive for someone without a job.
One definition of a Hot Rod was ‘a car that's been stripped down, souped up and made to go much faster.’ A lot of early Hot Rods were built from old Fords; Model Ts, Model As or Model Bs. Typical modifications were the removal of hoods, bumpers and fenders; chopping and channeling the body; and modifying the engine by tuning and/or replacing with a more powerful type.
Replacing the 1928-31 Model A was the Model B both with a 4 cylinder engine.. Introduced in 1932 was a V8 version, the 221 cu in Flathead V8 Model 18, built on the same platform, they shared body, chassis and trim. Again available in Standard or Deluxe and in a wide variety of body styles. The 3 window or Deluxe Coupe got rear hinged or 'suicide' doors
One definition of a Hot Rod was ‘a car that's been stripped down, souped up and made to go much faster.’ A lot of early Hot Rods were built from old Fords; Model Ts, Model As or Model Bs. Typical modifications were the removal of hoods, bumpers and fenders; chopping and channeling the body; and modifying the engine by tuning and/or replacing with a more powerful type.
The Ford Model A was built from 1927-1931, replacing the Model T.
This A Model Pick up is Rod Hadfields idea of what the Hot Rod Lincoln should look like. Recorded in 1955 by Charlie Ryan, it was a huge hit about a Lincoln engine in an A Model Ford.
1946 Lincoln Zephyr V12, with 654 GM blower and Stromberg 97 carbs
Translation: Calories are small animals, sewing the clothes more narrow at night.
Ich glaube, diese Tierchen haben ein Nest in meiner Wohnung!
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Yeah. Anyone who knows me knows I have no muscle. The LW in my name actually stands for light-weight. Amazing what some lights can do.
Strobist: 2 Vivitar 285HV's Camera Left and Right slightly behind for wrap around. Triggered via radio triggers.
Sand Pebble ..
was going to write a really nice definition, so thought I'd look it up ..
well, there isn't anything to describe my version of a 'Sand Pebble' ..
a lot of stuff out there ..
but it doesn't fit ..
to me, a Sand Pebble is a person who lives in a semi-tropical climate ..
like I do ..
am used to sunshine, warm breezes, hot days ..
that sort of thing ..
if the temperature goes below 70 degrees F ..
I get uncomfortable ..
oh, can hear you now ..
what ?
she is nuts !
that may be true ..
will not argue about it at all ..
it is, at present, 65 degrees F ..
pleasant to many souls ..
well, it would have been okay ..
except I went out to capture a pastel sunset for you ..
this is it ..
my feet were freezing !
two shots and back into the house ..
oh, get up off the floor ..
it isn't quite that funny ..
shoes ..
yeah - they are around here someplace ..
do wear them when I drive ..
but to walk in the yard ..
now ..
that it is getting cooler ..
guess I'll have to wear the dang things ..
would like to go barefoot year 'round ...
this is Your sunset, my Friends ...
(hey - I still hear somebody laughing)
Have a lovely weekend,
Your Sand Pebble
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Sometimes people vanish on this site (Flickr) with no explanation or even goodbye, we are just left with a "deleted person" and we are left feeling shocked, and a little lost, even sad,has she died? had a mental breakdown? it can leave you feeling a bit sad at a lost friendship and blown away,
this is for you Red Renditions where ever you may be, I hope you find happiness x