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This is yet another photo from September. Last night I was reading a book, and the story of this book was talking about a situation with very dense fog. The hero of the story mentioned that the fog was so thick that he could cut the air with his hand, as if he had a knife in his hand! In so many stories I can find this expression, and quite honestly, I always wanted to experience this situation once. This must be so cool to cut the air he, he, he!
Well on this day when I made this photo I had a very thick fog, and I must say … it does not work ;-( I stood there, looked around, and no … I had the feeling that around me the mist had dissolved! But looking to the distance the fog seemed to be more dense. So I decided to go there! But when I reached this new position I had the feeling that the fog moved to the place where I started before.
I don’t know who invented this term of cut the air, but all other writers have copied this text. The whole world seems to use this term to explain these nebula experience. Well, I think I never had exactly this situation of such an experience, so I think I will use another expression. How about this: The fog was so thick, I was just invisible!
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Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Horseshoe Falls drop about 57 metres (187 ft), while the height of the American Falls varies between 21 and 30 metres (69 and 98 ft) because of the presence of giant boulders at its base. The larger Horseshoe Falls are about 790 metres (2,590 ft) wide, while the American Falls are 320 metres (1,050 ft) wide. The distance between the American extremity of the Niagara Falls and the Canadian extremity is 3,409 feet (1,039 m).
The peak flow over Horseshoe Falls was recorded at 6,400 cubic metres (230,000 cu ft) per second. The average annual flow rate is 2,400 cubic metres (85,000 cu ft) per second.[6] Since the flow is a direct function of the Lake Erie water elevation, it typically peaks in late spring or early summer. During the summer months, at least 2,800 cubic metres (99,000 cu ft) per second of water traverses the falls, some 90% of which goes over the Horseshoe Falls, while the balance is diverted to hydroelectric facilities. This is accomplished by employing a weir – the International Control Dam – with movable gates upstream from the Horseshoe Falls. The falls' flow is further halved at night, and, during the low tourist season in the winter, remains a minimum of 1,400 cubic metres (49,000 cu ft) per second. Water diversion is regulated by the 1950 Niagara Treaty and is administered by the International Niagara Board of Control (IJC).
The verdant green colour of the water flowing over the Niagara Falls is a byproduct of the estimated 60 tonnes/minute of dissolved salts and "rock flour" (very finely ground rock) generated by the erosive force of the Niagara River itself.
Proud I've taken such shot of this enigmatic statue. This photo was taken in the Sculpture Garden in City Park. Karma is an amazing 23-ft. stainless steel sculpture by Korean artist Do-Ho Suh.
"The sculpture features a male figure surmounted by a seemingly endless chain of alter egos, rising into the sky like a silver spinal column. The string of figures is faceted like a gemstone, lending a glittering digital effect to the strange tower. Each iteration of the man is holding his hands over the eyes of the man who precedes him." (Doug MacCash)
What this statue transmits to me is a feeling of being lost, a not open minded ego, which unconditionally leads to the fear of oblivion. The fear of being forgotten and slowly dissolving up in the sky. The statue's series of alter egos represent the slow pattern of oblivion.
Sunset on Coligny Beach, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Title quote from the poem "Don't Go Far Off" by Pablo Neruda.
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,
because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?
This is a magical and fascinating place.
Winter conditions had some of the roads closed and one needs longer than a week to fully appreciate the wonders of the place'.
We did not have enough time to do the park justice.
Travertine terraces are formed from limestone. Thermal water rises through the limestone, carrying high amounts of the dissolved limestone (calcium carbonate). At the surface, carbon dioxide is released and calcium carbonate is deposited, forming travertine, the chalky white mineral forming the rock of travertine terraces. The formations resemble a cave turned inside out. Colorful stripes are formed by thermophiles, or heat-loving organisms.
Travertine formations grow much more rapidly than the more common sinter formations in the park because of the "soft" nature of limestone. Due to the rapid deposition, these features constantly and quickly change.
Taken from www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/terraces.htm
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Excerpt from luganoregion.com:
The Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli is the most important church of Lugano. It contains the famous Renaissance fresco of the Passion and the Crucifixion by the Italian artist Bernardino Luini.
Its construction was started in 1499 by Franciscan friars and was consecrated in 1515. It was restored in 1929/30. Next to the church, there was originally a Franciscan monastery built in 1490. This was dissolved in 1848 and in 1852/54 a hotel was built on its grounds; it was then raised by two floors and converted into the Hotel Palace in 1903, which kept part of the ancient convent’s cloister. The church of Santa Maria degli Angeli is famous for its Renaissance fresco of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ by Italian artist Bernardino Luini, whose artwork, dating back to 1529, is the most important example of Lombard Renaissance in Switzerland. The monumental fresco is located on the church’s dividing wall and depicts several figures from the Passion of Christ. The Last Supper fresco on the nave’s south wall (originally located in the refectory) and the beautiful Virgin Mary with baby Jesus and St John on the eastern wall of the first side chapel (which was once the lunette of the portal leading to the cemetery) are also by Luini. Both works show a strong influence by Leonardo.
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.
...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
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Above the river Soča and the town Solkan the area steeply rises to Sveta Gora (»Holy Mountain«), 682m, an important pilgrimage site. From the mountain the pilgrim has magnificent views in all directions: the Julian Alps to the north, the Trnovski gozd, Škabrijel and Grgar to the east, Nova Gorica and Gorizia, Solkan and the mountain Sabotin, the region of Karst and the Adriatic Sea to the south, and the wine region Brda, the Carnian Alps and the Dolomites to the west.
Sveta Gora is comprised of a large basilica, the Franciscan monastery, a pilgrims’ house, the Tau spiritual and educational centre and a restaurant. It is a pearl of the European pilgrims’ way connecting three Marian shrines: additionally to Sveta Gora, Stara Gora (Castelmonte) near Čedad (Cividale del Friuli) and Marijino Celje above Kanal.
The beginnings of the pilgrimage site are described in the Latin inscription on the pedestal of the statue of Madonna with the Child in the Apparition Chapel: »Thus in the year 1529 Virgin Mary appeared to Ursula Ferligoj on the mountain Skalnica, which is now called the Holy Mountain.
The unstoppable devotion of the pilgrims moved the authorities, who in 1540 by the deputy head of the government of Gorica, Hieronymus Attems, gave permission to build a church on the Skalnica.
In 1565 the Austrian Archduke Charles entrusted the pilgrimage site to the Franciscans who had fled from Bosnia to escape Turks. The flourishing pilgrimage site was dissolved in 1786 by the reformist emperor Joseph II, the church and the monastery were put up for auction and the Franciscans moved to Gorizia.
The promising times were followed by the turmoil of the First World War, which turned Sveta Gora into a heap of rubble and put the Madonna picture and the Franciscans again to flight, this time to Ljubljana. After the war, the Bishop of Gorica took care of reconstruction: the pilgrims’ house with a temporary chapel and a residence for the Franciscan brothers were built to the designs of the architect Max Fabiani.
A short period of peace was followed by the apocalypse of the Second World War.
In May 1944 the pilgrimage site was occupied by the Germans, who turned the church into a fortress against partisans.
After the war Catholics were often harassed and the authorities tried to make pilgrimages impossible. Yet the faithful have always found ways to visit Our Lady of Sveta Gora, who stands on the mountain. In spite of its turbulent history, Sveta Gora is not a dead monument but a pilgrimage site of increasing popularity.
Title from William Blake
Model: Esther
Inspiration credit totally goes to Robert Cornelius and his Dust to Dust series.
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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The present church was begun by Henry III in 1245. By the 16th Century in Tudor times, Westminster Abbey had become the setting for coronations, royal marriages and funerals.
Every monarch since William the Conqueror, with the exception of Edward V and Edward VIII who were never crowned, has been crowned in the Abbey.
The first documented coronation here was that of William the Conqueror in 1066, the most recent was that of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. The decision to televise the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 made it possible for the general public to witness the ceremony in its entirety for the first time.
The Benedictine monastery at Westminster was dissolved in 1540 as part of the impact of Henry VIII's creation of the Church of England breaking away from the Catholic Church. Since then Westminster Abbey has just performed the role of church.
Sailing isn’t just a journey—it’s a quiet surrender to the wind, a passage into serenity where the burdens of the world dissolve with the rhythm of the waves. The sea stretches endlessly, a vast expanse of possibility, carrying the promise of joy and the innocence we thought we’d lost. The sails, taut with the breeze, catch the wind like magic, each gust pulling dreams from the horizon and weaving them into reality. Time slows, and every moment becomes a symphony: ripples against the hull, whispers of wind, the heartbeat of freedom. It’s not merely an escape; it’s a glimpse of the miraculous, carried on the currents of the soul.
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
A 13th-century Cistercian abbey, once a Cistercian abbey, founded in 1246 by Richard of Cornwall and dissolved Christmas Eve 1539, Hailes never housed large numbers of monks but had extensive and elaborate buildings.
It was financed by pilgrims visiting its renowned relic, 'the Holy Blood of Hailes' - allegedly a phial of Christ's blood.
Hailes Abbey is owned by the National Trust, but maintained and managed by English Heritage. Near Winchcombe in Gloucestershire.
The Source of all does not and cannot exhaust itself simply in producing shape and structure; it also produces that which dissolves and re-forms all structures in endless and undetermined movement, in such a way that form itself is not absolutized but always turned back toward the primal reality of the source.
-Rowan Williams, “Trinity and Pluralism,” in Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered: The Myth of a Pluralistic Theology of Religions, ed. Gavin D’Costa (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1990), 3.
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
Red-spotted Purple butterfly sipping dissolved minerals along the roadside.
Seemingly more common and abundant this year or my timing at this site was better.
The "out of camera" original looks duller, to be sure. I pushed the white and black sliders slightly in the Basic panel of LrC and this is result. I hope you like it, even if it isn't quite what I saw standing in front of an old RR car on a siding somewhere.
Decades ago, as a kid, I was taught in science that water is the "universal solvent"....that given enough time, most things dissolve in water. This is on display here and the effect of gravity, too. Thanks for visiting.
Once In A Lifetime
Talking Heads
Water dissolving and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water, carry the water
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
Water dissolving and water removing
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again into silent water
Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Went to Oberon this morning. That changed quickly. At Wentworth Falls, the snow started hitting the car, by Katoomba, we were skiing to Oberon. Just outside Blackheath, a nice Policewoman blocked the ski run on the road, and diverted us back towards Katoomba. We skied down the main road in Katoomba town centre (lucky there were no other cars parked nearby, as we literally skied down the road in my car) and we made our way to the three sisters.
It was stunning down there, and along with a few other crazy photographers, we shot away, until well after sunrise. And the snow shoot day was only just beginning...
Hope you like "Once In A Lifetime"
Cheers, Mike
"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.
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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