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A Peaceful Morning in Manarola, Italy.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338.
The name "Manarola" is a dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region.
In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months.
Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell' Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town.
Manarola is one of the five villages of the Cinque Terre.
(Nikon, 14mm, 1/125 @ f/5.6, ISO 200)
Wonderful Wine and the View ain't bad either :-)
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338.
The name "Manarola" is a dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region.
In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months.
Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell' Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town.
Manarola is one of the five villages of the Cinque Terre.
(Nikon, 19.5mm, 1/320 @ f/10, ISO 200)
Kitchen Physics. The Laws of Physics are Symmetric in many ways, but like a marble in the bottom of an empty Bordeaux bottle, or a #Shattered egg shell, the World is less symmetric than the Laws. For this week’s #FlickrFriday theme.
18 Mar 2023; 01:00 UTC; Acros SOOC
25x17”, 33x25” mat
The Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt was founded in 1981. The initiators are the Marburg art and architecture theorist Heinrich Klotz and the theatre and art critic Peter Iden. The museum building was designed by Viennese architect Hans Hollein and opened in 1991. Peter Iden drew up the museum's spatial programme.
Hans Hollein's design of the Museum für Moderne Kunst is based on the approach that there can be no neutral space in a museum, "but only characteristic spaces of different dimensions (and their development), with which the work of art enters into a dialectic - in mutual potentiation".
The height of the three-storey building is adapted to its surroundings and is characterised by its "triangular shape" and façade design. It is also jokingly referred to as a "piece of cake". The building houses three main levels for exhibitions and an administration area on the mezzanine floor.
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Das Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt wurde 1981 gegründet. Der Marburger Kunst- und Architekturtheoretiker Heinrich Klotz und der Theater- und Kunstkritiker Peter Iden gelten als die Initiatoren. Das Museumsgebäude wurde von dem Wiener Architekten Hans Hollein entworfen und 1991 eröffnet, Peter Iden erarbeitete das Raumprogramm des Museums.
Hans Holleins Entwurf des Museum für Moderne Kunst beruht auf dem Ansatz, dass es in einem Museum keinen neutralen Raum geben könne, „sondern nur charakteristische Räume unterschiedlicher Größenordnung (und ihre Erschließung), mit denen das Kunstwerk eine Dialektik eingeht – in gegenseitiger Potenzierung".
Das dreigeschossige Gebäude ist in seiner Höhe der Umgebung angepasst und zeichnet sich durch die „Dreiecksform“ und Fassadengestaltung aus. Es wird scherzhaft auch als „Tortenstück“ bezeichnet. Das Gebäude beherbergt drei Hauptebenen für Ausstellungen und einen Verwaltungsbereich im Zwischengeschoss.
An arpeggio of tulips.
Alternative title, California Dreaming. Probably f/8.
17 June 2022; 00:40 UTC ; Provia 382;74;15
A visual essay on the Taoist concept of Pu, the uncarved block, with a nod to Plato. SOOC, only cropped.
Happy Fence Friday!
5 Feb 2021; 08:40 CST
One from the archives.
Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably a dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town.
Manarola's primary industries have traditionally been fishing and wine-making. The local wine, called Sciacchetrà, is especially renowned; references from Roman writings mention the high quality of the wine produced in the region. In recent years, Manarola and its neighboring towns have become popular tourist destinations, particularly in the summer months. Tourist attractions in the region include a famous walking trail between Manarola and Riomaggiore (called Via dell'Amore, "Love's Trail") and hiking trails in the hills and vineyards above the town. Manarola is one of the five villages of the Cinque Terre. Most of the houses are bright and colourful. Manarola was celebrated in paintings by Antonio Discovolo (1874–1956).[1] ~ Wikipedia
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Mind creates structure.
At the bottom of the sky,
Light plays, a leaf rests.
A concerto for leaf, shadow, and pavement.
Leaves, Shadows, Boardwalk.
19 Feb 2023; 04:30 UTC; Provia+
17x25.75”, 24x36 > 3.5x5 mat
With 1” border, 19x27.75”; 20x30 => 1.5x2.125” border
Tiger and Turtle nimmt über die in ihm angelegte Dialektik von Geschwindigkeit und Stillstand Bezug auf die Umbruchsituation in der Region und deren Wandel durch Rückbau und Umstrukturierung. Indem die Skulptur die dem Bild der Achterbahn anhaftenden Erwartungen ad absurdum führt, reflektiert sie ihre eigene Rolle als potentielles überregionales Wahrzeichen, welches zwangsläufig als Bild vereinnahmt wird. Sie stellt der Logik des ewigen Wachstums eine absurd‐widersprüchliche Struktur entgegen, die sich einer eindeutigen Interpretation widersetzt.“
– Heike Mutter und Ulrich Genth: PM der Künstler vom 19. November 2011 auf phaenomedia.org
Tiger and Turtle, through the dialectic of speed and stillness, is referring to the upheaval situation in the region and its change through dismantling and restructuring. By sculpturing the absurdity of the image of the roller coaster, the sculpture reflects its own role as a potential supraregional landmark, which is inevitably taken as an image. It counteracts the logic of eternal growth with an absurdly contradictory structure that opposes a clear interpretation. "
- Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth: PM of the artists of 19 November 2011 on phaenomedia.org
Windmill in Sugar Land Memorial Park during blue hour just after Solstice, 23 June 2021. The windmill pumps ground water for the surrounding butterfly garden.
Tech Note: Composite of an 8-stack for ISO noise reduction and single to stop motion on the windmill blades, from a 20fps burst that adds a 25% crop.
16 July 2021; 08:15 CDT; Velvia with post. ^79/220312
The natural region of La Ulla has an original rural carnival of which we have witnesses for more than two centuries.
The most important characters are the Generals and Post Office on horseback, who tour the parishes throughout the day cheering residents and visitors, accompanied by an "army" of standard-bearers, choirs, comparsas and partying.
They end up staging a blockade (or halt), a dialectical confrontation in pairs, used to make fun of and satire local affairs, politics or the heart, which occurred during the year.
From one parish to another, the Ulla Carnival presents small differences, each of them maintaining defining traits that make them unique.
Decorated generals and couriers make up the spectacularity of this authentic expression of the traditional Galician carnival.
A parable for our time.
Hard to grasp the scale of the Houston Medical Center: 61 medical institutions, serving more than 10 million patients each year--compared to 2.3 million residents in the city, and 7 million in the metropolitan area. MD Anderson Cancer Center is only the 3rd largest of the 21 hospitals, with many more buildings than the one shown here. Still, Cancer is a growth business.
Happy Mono Monday!
06-20-2022; 01:00 UTC; iPhone converted; 362;47;3
The pyramidal structure is Via 57 West, a new residential complex with lots of private balconies. Taken from the flight deck of the USS Intrepid, now a museum.
Conventional processing, but applied separately to land and sky in order to optimize dynamic range in each, separately.
So, Happy Sliders Sunday, and Happy Mono Monday!
23 Jan 2022; 11:30 CST; Acros +
264;42;5
Not really Broadway, just a neighbor’s patio in bright morning light. Digitalis sp. I like the dialectic between organic and Cartesian form, light and shadow. Happy Earth Day!
22 Apr 2021; 08:00 CDT
“Before the law sits a gatekeeper. To this gatekeeper comes a man from the country who asks to gain entry into the law. But the gatekeeper says that he cannot grant him entry at the moment. The man thinks about it and then asks if he will be allowed to come in later on. “It is possible,” says the gatekeeper, ‘but not now.’”
—Franz Kafka, Before the Law
Cullinan Park, Sugar Land, Texas. So strange to see this near-perfect web at the beginning of March when no spiders are visible anywhere. May every door open to you, this Spring, and always. Happy Fence Friday!
15 April 2022; 09:15 CDT; Provia +
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Oyo de Dios, protecting an underground commercial parking lot in Sugar Land, TX. The tradition originated with the indigenous Huichol people of Southwestern North American.
1 Apr 2021; 07:45 CDT.
As we look at this category of Hebraic thinking, we see in fact that Moses, David, Solomon, Jesus, St. Francis, and the Baal Shem Tov might have had more in common with Native American spiritual leaders and Zen Buddhists than they would with the average twenty-first-century rabbi, minister, or priest. Why? Because our dialectical mindset has set the animate and inanimate worlds into two distinct categories. Thankfully modern physics has begun to show us that on the subatomic level, the life force—what philosopher Henri Bergson called élan vital—is imprinted in all creation. Monotheism insists that there is no need for dualism when describing the oppositional forces that we observe within creation.
-Jesus : first-century rabbi / Rabbi David Zaslow with Joseph Lieberman.
Happy New Year, everybody!
Wishing you luck, strength, and roses in 2021.
SOOC, just cropped square.
How did a tire come to rest in a Cullinan Park wetland, accessible only from a footpath? Happy Mono Monday!
17 May 2021; 10:15 CDT
Composite of two handheld images taken just after sunset from the same viewpoint, in Sugar Land Memorial Park. Different focus and separate curve adjustment, but no realignment.
29 June 2021; 09:20 CDT; Velvia with post. ^188/220427
Planning to drop my experimental account under the name Waysayer, so I’ll be re-posting a few favorites. This might be a Field Sparrow, Spizella pusilla.
This photo was accepted for the VAA 13th Juried Invitational,
A VIRTUAL EVENT
Juror, Volker Eisele
Rudolph Blume Fine Art / ArtScan Gallery
The Exhibition will go live on
Monday, August 3
Opening Reception on Zoom 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Video Statement from Juror, including Awards
Join Zoom Reception:
Meeting ID: 497 695 7419
This will be VAA's first virtual exhibition. Find the virtual galleries, video introduction, and exhibition catalog at visualartsalliance.org/?p=12910.
Naples : St. Clara Church- tomb of King Robert
Italiano : Per dimensioni è il più grande monumento funebre del
Medioevo in Italia . Opera dei fratelli Bertini di Firenze (1343-45 ) . Splendido il ricco sarcofago sostenuto da pilastri cui sono addossate sei statue di virtù .Sopra ,nella camera sepolcrale ,con angeli reggicortina ,la statua giacente del re vestito della tonaca Francescana e vegliato dalle allegorie del trivio (Grammatica ,Retorica e Dialettica ) e del quadrivio (Aritmetica ,Geometria ,Musica e Astronomia ) , più in alto ,il re seduto in faldistorio ,sotto ,l'epigrafe che si vuole dettata dal Petrarca : ( Cernite Robertum regem virtute refertum ).
English: For size is the largest funeral monument of the Italian Middle Ages by the Bertini brothers of Florence (1343-45). Splendid the rich sarcophagus supported by pillars which are supported by six statues of virtue. Above, in the sepulchral chamber, with angels a little reggicortina, the lying statue of the king dressed in the Franciscan habit and watched over by the allegories of the trivium (Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectic) and the quadrivium (Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Astronomy), higher up re sitting in faldistorio, below, the epigraph that you want dictated by Petrarch: (Cernite Robertum regem virtute refertum)
Fuji X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 at F5.6. We all know that in order to make a picture the light has to come into the camera, not go out. Our phrase "shooting an image", however, tells us that there is more to it. Something actually comes out of the camera and is being projected onto the world outside. This is our imagination or the kind of composition we have in mind. And this composition is not part of the world outside, it is being projected onto it. Now, I would agree that this dialectic comes in shades and various degrees. A simple snapshot may have less compositional input than an artistic image. Remember Gary Winogrand, the American photographer, who prided himself of not thinking when taking a picture. I usually do. Probably most of us would. If we do think and compose our "shot", then we add something to what is out there. The camera then is not simply the receiver of light, but also a projector of our thinking.
“The human being who has achieved final integration is no longer limited by the culture in which he has grown up. "She has embraced the ""whole of life""..." He's experienced it... ordinary human existence, intellectual life, artistic creation, human love, religious life. It transcends all those limited forms, while withholding all the best and universal in them.. He not only accepts his own community, his own society, his friends, his culture, but all humanity. Do not remain bound to a limited set of values in such a way that you oppose others by adopting aggressive or defensive stances. It's totally "Catholic" in the best sense of the word. Possess a unified vision and experience of the only truth that shines in all its different manifestations, some clearer than others. It does not establish opposition between all these partial visions, but unifies them into a dialectic or an inner vision of complementarity. With this view of life, you can bring perspective, freedom, and spontaneity to the lives of others
-Thomas Merton
It is a cold eye, somehow similar to a reptile's eye - which you can't read either. Even, as here, at perhaps F2, wide open, you can't be sure that the gaze is a friendly one. My own lens turns me into an 'object', it want's to be master and wishes to push me into servanthood. I have to reassert myself - as the one behind the camera. I wish to be recognised as the one I am. Two selves are involved here, one in front, the other behind the camera, and in-between is dialectic tension. It is a battle for recognition. Edited in macOS Mojave and in Luminar.
Alternate title: Classical, Glass
Alternate title: The Times, They Are A-changin’
W 57th St, Manhattan.
18 Dec 2021; 11:15 CST; Velvia +
195: 31: 6
It is the Not-I that is most of all the I in each one of us. But we are completely enslaved by the illusory I that is not I, and never can be I, except in a purely fictional and social sense. And of course there is yet one more convolution in this strange dialectic: there remains to suppress the apparent division between empirical self and real or inner self. There is no such division. There is only the Void which is I, covered over by an apparent I. And when the apparent I is seen to be void it no longer needs to be rejected, for it is I. How wonderful it is to be alive in such a world of craziness and simplicity . . . (1.31.65 HGL 627)
-The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns
Formal portrait of a flowering Blackberry vine on our garden trellis. We get some delicious berries. I guess the birds do, too.
24 June 2021; 08:00 CDT; Astia with post
Homelessness used to beset only the mentally ill. Now it has expanded to include people who can’t find work that pays the rent. Hoping these homesteaders find themselves in a better place—literally & figuratively—in the new year. The map location, in downtown Seattle, is precise.
Hoping your Mono Monday is a happy one!
29 Nov 2021; 10:00 CST; Acros
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If you don’t remember the spooky Mickey Mouse Broom Bot Bucket Brigade from the animated musical Fantasia, seek it out. This found abstract is a pre-dawn shadow of a leafy anthurium on our kitchen floor.
5 Apr 2021; 08:15 CDT
For those who find eternal rest too soon. Happy Mono Monday.
Acros+R film simulation, SOOC, just cropped.
22 Mar 2021; 08:50 CDT.
Fir Tussock Moth caterpillar, Orgyia detrita, hurrying to the left across a concrete stairwell for the #Texture theme in #FlickrFriday
9 Apr 2021; 13:25 CDT
Alternate titles:
"Concerto for Duck and Infrastructure"; "Raw Underbelly".
A pair of undocumented Muscovy Ducks, Cairina moschata, parking under a multi-store commercial development. Despite the common name, they are native from the Rio Grand Valley south to Argentina and Uruguay. Invasive on the Upper Gulf Coast. Just getting a little shade on a hot morning. I included the wall of electrical circuits to distract you from the horrific ugliness of the male duck. And because I like to mix things up sometimes.
9 July 2022; 11:00 CDT; 205;27;7
“In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.”
― Karl Rahner
Rahner’s thought recalls the sapiential theological vision of the church fathers in its intuitive boldness and synthetic sweep, in the magnitude and power of his central ideas. After centuries of a more cautious, land-bound Catholic theology fettered by an anxious concern for material orthodoxy (or conformity), we experience in Rahner’s work the exhilaration of intellectual flight once again—and, at the same time, a liberation of Christian understanding to a Pauline magnitude. Rahner’s theology develops, however, not directly from the patristic or medieval sapiential tradition, but rather from the scholastic and academic “scientific” tradition of Catholic theology....
.. What we observe in Rahner, I believe, is the reconvergence of the two theological streams that had separated at the end of the medieval period—beginning in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—the monastic sapiential thought, which derived directly from that of the fathers, and the new philosophy and theology of the schools, which followed a more conceptual and analytical, critical, and dialectical course.
-The future of wisdom : toward a rebirth of sapiential Christianity / Bruno Barnhart ; foreword by Cynthia Bourgeault ; afterword by Cyprian Consiglio.
It is still you who is looking. Your point of view may have some distance from your "object", but it is still your gaze which is loaded with memories, dreams, wishes, fears, and all sorts of assumptions. You definitely do not engage in "participatory observation". What you do is getting into a dialogue with yourself. And that can be troubling enough. When somebody else is taking a portrait of you, things change radically. In this case, the point of view is really outside of you in every sense (if the photographer is courageous enough to visualise what they are seeing and not what the sitter wants to see). This difference produces a fascinating dialectic between auto-portrait and portrait. Interpretations are both. None of us can see things "sub specie aeternitatis", as things are in the light of eternity. Leica M Mono, Voigtlander CS 2.2/50 at approx. F11.
First post with my Christmas present, a Laowa CF 65mm F2.8 CA-Dreamer Macro 2X prime lens. Perfectly sharp from close focus 2:1 super-macro to infinity. Macros to follow, one expects. Maybe portraits as well. The catch is that it's fully manual--no electronic communication with the camera at all. Fortunately, I have gotten pretty comfortable with manual exposure and focus after almost 10 months of practice with the X-S10, which makes it easy.
29 Dec 2021; Noon PST; Astia +
166; 23; 4; Explored 30 Dec 2021 (day after takeover) #382