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...layer, that is! Ice thing from the shore of Bells Canyon lower reservoir, with a bas relief texture filter blended using the dissolve mode in Photoshop
the city dissolved into horizontal streaks of amber and white. she moved through it, a point of sharp reality in the general blur. her hand rose to her face, a gesture of shielding, or wiping away, or perhaps listening to a voice no one else could hear. the light caught the gold on her wrist, a brief flash in the dark. the reason for the gesture remained her own, a secret carried away into the warm barcelona night.
From a shoot I had with Amber this past Monday. We had originally set out to shoot something completely different, but when we got to the location and decided on the wardrobe all of our ideas changed. And this is what we came up with :)
Model & MUA: Amber Solstice
Photography: Me
Assistant: Darcy
Only a couple of kms and 3 feet in altitude from the salt crystals of Badwater basin, is the Devil’s Golf Course. Those 3 feet make all the difference to the salt crystals. The snow covered Wildrose Peak in the Panamint Range (~3km high) is in the background. Focus stacked in PS. Hoya CPL and Cokin 3 stop grad ND.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Golf_Course
The Devil's Golf Course is a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley, located in the Mojave Desert within Death Valley National Park. The park is in eastern California.
It was named after a line in the 1934 National Park Service guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that "Only the devil could play golf" on its surface, due to a rough texture from the large halite salt crystal formations
Lake Manly once covered the valley to a depth of 30 feet (9.1 m). The salt in the Devil's Golf Course consists of the minerals that were dissolved in the lake's water and left behind in the Badwater Basin when the lake evaporated. With an elevation several feet above the valley floor at Badwater, the Devil's Golf Course remains dry, allowing weathering processes to sculpt the salt there into complicated formations.
Through exploratory holes drilled by the Pacific Coast Borax Company, prior to Death Valley becoming a national monument in 1934, it was discovered that the salt and gravel beds of the Devil's Golf Course extend to a depth of more than 1,000 feet (300 m). Later studies suggest that in places the depth ranges up to 9,000 feet (2,700 m)
Death is a Dialogue ..
between The Spirit and the Dust.
"Dissolve" says Death -- The Spirit "Sir
I have another Trust" --
Death doubts it -- Argues from the Ground --
The Spirit turns away
Just laying off for evidence
An Overcoat of Clay.
~~Emily Dickinson
Title from William Blake
Model: Esther
Inspiration credit totally goes to Robert Cornelius and his Dust to Dust series.
at White Sands National Park.
Shot with Fuji X-T5 and 16-80mm lens.
My partner and I decided to spend the end of 2022 exploring the White Sands National Park, located south of Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was spur of the moment kind of trip and we did not know what to expect. Also, since it is a quite the drive from where we are in Arizona, 450 miles (720 km) so we said “it better be good!”. And what we saw was an amazing place like no other.
White Sands National Park covers 145,762 acres (227.8 sq mi; 589.9 sq km) in the Tularosa Basin, including the southern 41% of a 275 sq mi (710 sq km) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. This gypsum dunefield is the largest of its kind on Earth, with a depth of about 30 feet (9.1 m), dunes as tall as 60 feet (18 m), and about 4.5 billion short tons (4.1 billion metric tons) of gypsum sand.
Approximately 12,000 years ago, the land within the Tularosa Basin featured large lakes, streams, grasslands, and Ice Age mammals. As the climate warmed, rain and snowmelt dissolved gypsum from the surrounding mountains and carried it into the basin. Further warming and drying caused the lakes to evaporate and form selenite crystals. Strong winds then broke up crystals and transported them eastward. A similar process continues to produce gypsum sand today.
The park is located about 15 miles (25 km) south of Alamogordo, in the state of New Mexico, USA.
A close up of the river just dowstream from the waterfall Sgwd Gwladus in Brecon. The river passes over a stepped cascade throwing out plumes in all directions. The arcs of water in this little section reminded me of the interlocking spurs of the hills and valleys of the Beacons landscape.
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I dissolve vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in water and pour a thin layer into a petri dish or on a piece of glass. Within minutes you can watch the crystallisation grow, as the liquid dries. (Check the internet for detailed instructions.) The colors appear when you watch the process under cross-polarized light from underneath.
You can influence the pattern formation through changes in temperature. My pictures show mostly an area of a quarter square inch. My favorite lens is the Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro
Nebbia
(Giovanni Pascoli)
Nascondi le cose lontane,
tu nebbia impalpabile e scialba,
tu fumo che ancora rampolli,
su l'alba,
da' lampi notturni e da' crolli
d'aeree frane!
Nascondi le cose lontane,
nascondimi quello ch'è morto!
Ch'io veda soltanto la siepe
dell'orto,
la mura ch'ha piene le crepe
di valeriane.
Nascondi le cose lontane:
le cose son ebbre di pianto!
Ch'io veda i due peschi, i due meli,
soltanto,
che dànno i soavi lor mieli
pel nero mio pane.
Nascondi le cose lontane
che vogliono ch'ami e che vada!
Ch'io veda là solo quel bianco
di strada,
che un giorno ho da fare tra stanco
don don di campane...
Nascondi le cose lontane,
nascondile, involale al volo
del cuore! Ch'io veda il cipresso
là, solo,
qui, solo quest'orto, cui presso
sonnecchia il mio cane.
A small series of 3, originally taken in one of the city's oldest public greenhouses. It's always been a place of peace and the source of a LOT of my images. Here the Fractal indeterminacies of nature are contrasted against our human penchant for strict, predictable Euclidean geometries - a big and recurring theme in my work. See, however, what you will !
June 15, 2013. ToR.
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…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.
~ Eve Ensler, Insecure at Last: Losing it in Our Security-Obsessed World
Inside the choir of Winchester Cathedral.
The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winchester Cathedral, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is among the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and is the mother church for the Church of England’s Diocese of Winchester.
The cathedral as it stands today was built from 1079 to 1532. It has a very long and very wide nave in the Perpendicular Gothic style, an Early English retrochoir, and Norman transepts and tower. With an overall length of 170 metres, it is the longest medieval cathedral in the world, and only surpassed by five more churches, four of them built in the 20th Century. It is also the sixth-largest cathedral by area in England.
The first Christian church in Winchester can be traced back to c. 648, when King Cenwalh of Wessex built a small, cross-shaped building just north of the present building. This ‘Old Minster’, became the cathedral for the new Diocese of Winchester in 662, but no trace of it other than its ground plan exists today. From 963 to 993, bishop Æthelwold and then Alphege greatly expanded the church, which was briefly the largest church in Europe. Also on the same site was the New Minster, in direct competition with the neighbouring Old Minster, begun by Alfred the Great but completed in 901 by his son Edward the Elder.
The present building, however, was begun after the Norman Conquest, perhaps inevitably. William the Conqueror installed his friend and relative Walkelin as the first Norman Bishop of Winchester in 1070, and nine years later, in 1079, Walkelin began the construction of a huge new Norman cathedral, on a site just to the south of the Old and New Minsters, the site of the present building. The new cathedral was consecrated with the completion of the east end in 1093, and the following day, demolition of the New and Old Minsters began and left virtually no remains.
Work quickly progressed to the transepts and central tower, and these were certainly complete by 1100. In 1107, the central tower fell but was reconstructed and much of the work on this core of the present building was completed by 1129 to a very high standard, much of it surviving today.
A new Early English retrochoir was started in 1202, but the next expansions after that would not start until 1346, when Bishop Edington demolished the Norman west front and began building a new Perpendicular Gothic facade, featuring a huge west window, which still stands today. Edington also began renovation of the nave, but this was mostly carried out by his successors, most notably William of Wykeham and his master mason, William Wynford, who remodelled the massive Norman nave into a soaring Perpendicular Gothic masterpiece. This they achieved by encasing the Norman stone in new ashlar, recutting the piers with Gothic mouldings and pointed arches, and reorganising the three-tier nave into two tiers, by extending the arcade upwards into what was the triforium and extending the clerestory downwards to meet it. The wooden ceiling was replaced with a decorative stone vault. Following Wykeham's death in 1404, this remodelling work continued under successive bishops, being completed ca. 1420.
Between then and 1528, major rebuilding and expansion was carried out on the Norman choir and Early English retrochoir. This work included the building of further chantry chapels, the replacement of the Norman east end with a Perpendicular Gothic presbytery, and the extension of Luci's retrochoir into a Lady Chapel. Unlike the rebuilding of the nave some 100 years earlier, the Gothic presbytery was vaulted in wood and painted to look like stone, as at York Minster. With its progressive extensions, the east end is now about 34 metres beyond that of Walkelin's building.
With Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Priory of Saint Swithun, was dissolved in 1539, and the cathedral’s shrines and altar were destroyed. The monastic buildings, including the cloister and chapter house, were later demolished, mostly during the 1560–1580 tenure of the reformist bishop Robert Horne.
The 17th century saw important changes to the interior, including the erection of a choir screen by Inigo Jones in 1638–39, the insertion of a wooden fan vault underneath the crossing tower (previously the tower was open to the church) and the destruction of much medieval glass and imagery by Parliamentarian soldiers in December 1642, including the near-complete destruction of the massive Great West Window by Cromwell and his forces. The window was put back together by the townspeople as a mosaic following the Restoration of the Monarchy, but it has never regained its original appearance, the damage was too great.
In the 18th century, many visitors commented on the neglect of the cathedral and the town; Daniel Defoe described the latter in about 1724 as “a place of no trade… no manufacture, no navigation”. Major restoration, however, followed in the early 19th Century under the direction of architect William Garbett and then John Nash
At the turn of the 20th century, Winchester Cathedral was in grave danger of collapse. Huge cracks had appeared in the walls, some of them large enough for a small child to crawl into, the walls were bulging and leaning, and stone fell from the walls. After several false solutions that may have made things worse, over six years from 1906-12, diver William Walker worked six or seven hour shifts every day diving through septic water full of corpses and laying a new cement under-layer for the cathedral and its foundations. Walker laid more than 25,000 bags of concrete, 115,000 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks. In 1911, flying buttresses were also added along the length of the south nave to complete the work.
In 2011, a new single-story extension in the corner of the north presbytery aisle was completed, the first new extension on the cathedral since the mid-16th Century, housing toilet facilities, storage and a new boiler. An extensive programme of interior restoration was completed between 2012-19.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
"Psychology"
a schema describes patterns of thinking and behavior that people use to interpret the world. We use schemas because they allow us to take shortcuts in interpreting the vast amount of information that is available in our environment.
Theorist Jean Piaget introduced the term schema, and its use was popularized through his work. According to his theory of cognitive development, children go through a series of stages of intellectual growth.
In Piaget's theory, a schema is both the category of knowledge as well as the process of acquiring that knowledge. He believed that people are constantly adapting to the environment as they take in new information and learn new things.
quote
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Western philosophy
I was fascinated by a photo I saw in Macro Mondays, and the subsequent videos I found on YouTube, of M & Ms gradually dissolving in water. Here I've tried it with Smarties, then given the result a tweak in processing.
118 pictures in 2018 (53) art for art's sake
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,
Be all – worlds dissolve into your
stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with your brighter
than cold stares –
Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
Rumi
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Do you know that feeling when you just want to disappear? I don't mean it in a dramatic way or anything.. I mean sometimes I just want to invisible.. like having a superpower. I have never been good with words or people so I'm always quite when I'm with people I don't know very well. There was a time when I felt bad about this but for now I have realized this is just who I am.
Sometime I still feel like I just want to run all the way home where I can be alone and just read a book. If you know this feeling I just want to let you know: you are not alone! :)
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Yesterday I went on a walk with some friends and brought my camera. Normally I am alone during my shoots haha, so that was kinda awkward. When I came home and looked at the photos I was a little devastated, because I wasn't that happy with what I got. After editing around and trying different things I finally got this photo. I don't know if I like it that much but that doesn't matter. I am just proud and happy I went outside to shoot. Sometimes it is about the journey, not about the destination.