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Questa Lunga Esposizione per me ha un significato molto grande e molto profondo, era l'8 gennaio di questo 2022 appena iniziato.
È un luogo situato tra due comuni del Lazio,
che si chiamano Tolfa e Manziana.
Sono rimasto in questo posto per un paio d'ore per scattare alcune foto, inclusa questa lunga esposizione, ho finito di scattare questa foto una volta che il sole è tramontato. Mentre sistemavo il mio zaino fotografico, ho iniziato a sentire i guaiti dei cani.
Inizialmente non ci prestavo troppa attenzione, ma diventando sempre più frequente ho iniziato a guardarmi intorno.
Vicino a questo fiume ho trovato cinque cuccioli abbandonati.
Così ho deciso di prenderli e portarli a casa con me e il mio altro cane.
Posso assicurarvi che il loro ritrovamento è stato un desiderio del cielo, così come il fatto che io fossi lì in quel preciso momento e giorno.
Mentre percorrevo la strada principale per Manziana, ho notato questa traversa con un ponte, da dove poi ho scattato la foto, ma non mi sono fermato subito.
Ho pensato più volte dopo essere passato per questa strada, torno, non vado, torno o non torno?
Alla fine me ne sono dimenticato fermandomi in altri posti lì intorno per fare altre foto.
Ritornando sulla via principale, passando ancora davanti alla strada con il ponte, volevo fermarmi e andare sul ponte per fare qualche foto, ma non potevo fermare di colpo l'auto avendone altre dietro. Così ho deciso di andare dritto e vedere qualcos'altro.
Così ho deciso di andare dritto, dopo un po' ho trovato un semaforo, (in mezzo al nulla, pensate che caso. Lavori stradali) che quando sono arrivato è diventato rosso. dopo una trentina di secondi di attesa ho deciso di tornare qui sul ponte e sono successe 2 cose bellissime i cinque cuccioli e questo scatto.
Pubblicherò presto le foto dei cuccioli, lo prometto.
This Long Exposure for me has a very big and very deep meaning, it was January 8 of this just begun 2022.
It is a place located between two towns of Lazio,
which are called Tolfa and Manziana.
I stayed in this place for a couple of hours to take some pictures, including this long exposure, I finished taking this photo once the sun went down. While I was arranging my photography backpack, I started hearing dogs yelp.
Initially I did not pay too much attention, but becoming more and more frequent I started looking around me.
Near this river I found five abandoned puppies.
So i decided to pick them up and bring them home with me and my other dog.
I can assure you that their finding was a wish from heaven, as well the fact that I was there at that specific moment and day.
While I was driving along the main road to Manziana, I spoted this side road with a bridge, from where afterwards I took the photo, but didn’t stop immediately.
I have been thinking several times after passing by this road, I am going back, I am not going, I am going back or I am not going?
At the end i forgotten of it stopping in other places around there to do other photos.
Going back on the main street, passing again in front of the road with the bridge, I wanted to stop and go on the bridge to do some photos, but I could not stop suddenly the car having others behind. So I decided to go straight and see something else.
So I decided to go straight, after a while I found a traffic light, (in the middle of nowhere, think what a case. Road works) which turned red when I arrived. after about thirty seconds of waiting I decided to come back here on the bridge and 2 beautiful things happened the five puppies and this shot.
I will publish the photos of the puppies soon, I promise.
The Last Discovery
My Interplanetary Memories
Interplanetary Travel
I think I'm slowly losing my purpose on this journey. My desire to discover new, habitable planets began to give way to earthly desires. I cannot overcome my worldly desires. It's unbelievable that I've been alone for so long. It seems to me that the human soul and body are not programmed for living alone. I think I'm experiencing the consequences of this situation. The biggest secret to living alone is not to think. When you don't think and don't dream, loneliness becomes a situation that can be experienced. You have to erase the memories from your mind. And you should stop daydreaming. When you start thinking about your memories, you start dreaming too. And then the hidden feelings inside you start to come to life again. You want to make friends with people again. You would like to get together with all your friends again. You want to go out with your friends, have fun, dance and go to the sea. You want to chat with your best friend until the morning by walking on the grass barefoot. And, you want to fall in love again. You want to spend hours looking into the eyes of the person you love. You want to walk for miles without ever leaving that warm hand of yours. You want to talk until the morning to hear that pleasant tone of voice. You want to hug tightly so you can breathe in the scent of your skin. As long as you are on planet Earth, you have a chance to experience all of this. You only need to take one step. But when, like me, you are alone in your spaceship in the depths of dark space, quite far from planet earth, there is nothing you can do. All I can do is remember my memories and dream. This situation gives me a lot of emotional pain. I still have hope of returning to Earth. But this seems to be very difficult for me. Sometimes I just want to stop thinking. But I just can't manage to do that. I made many planetary discoveries in this space journey I set out to find habitable planets. I even found traces of a lost civilization. But at the end of my whole journey, the biggest discovery I made was about myself. It took me years to discover my loneliness. Maybe I'm at a point of no return. I don't know.
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Soon my earthly dreams will come true
The sky will shed with primordial purity!...
We have a little time left until spring,
Survive another February for you and I would ...
Let the last blizzards fly away
I recognize the sun's gentle smile!
All icicles, like tears, will shine,
And they will cry to the enthusiastic violin!
A flock of small sparrows on the ground -
Happy to eat a piece of bread...
The world will thaw from frost in the spring ...
Survive another February for you and I would ...
And I love winter, even as cloudy as this year.
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I needed to get down and dirty for this perspective. Without significant snow accumulation, the ponds edge will remain dried clumped grasses. A barren site with no sign of moisture.
The ubiquitous rural barn is inescapable dotting our Alberta prairies, and quick eye candy for photographers looking to latch onto a subject. No two weather the same, nor speak of usefulness or secrets from yesteryear. Shelter from wind, rain, heat and snow.
During the next twenty five years, few will remain, tumbling to knotted rubble, or subject to a farmers reluctant match.
From splinter to splinter, its always great to find stories virtually on my doorstep.
Which led to my thinking about how anonymous these structures live, from construction to final ash. No signs, no markers. Until this location, where I discovered a well constructed museum style sign reading.
Peter and Walter Nelsens LongValley Homestead Est 1910
Giving a name to a face or a history to a raft of lumber is decidedly personal, and I wish more locations had markers, telling of signs to come.
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"Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.” ~Carl Sagan
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park.
This grand display of nature is so unreal looking, it looks photoshopped in real life. In the very center, extremely hot water flows up 121ft from cracks in the earth's surface. As the water spreads out across the ground, the water cools in gradients as it flows outward, creating concentric circles of varying temperatures. These temperature gradients create different environments in which different archea and bacteria can thrive, and these single celled organisms are what produce the vivid colors of the spring. These colors not only offer a dramatic display for the eyes, they paint a striking illustration of the complexity and poetry of life. From the photons from the sun, to the magma-heated water under the Earth's surface, these organisms rely on a complex environment to support their metabolism. And in turn, they paint the story of their existence in a rainbow on the surface of the Earth.
Colour on underside of a shedded piece of gum tree bark , so reminiscent of the sunrise sky .
Green Hill Reservoir
Brisbane
Tim Walker
The Garden of Earthly Delights
In January 2015, Nicola Erni commissioned British fashion photographer Tim Walker to create a series of photographs of his own choice. Exactly a year later, Factum Arte was approached by Walker and Erni through an introduction by Michael Hoppen (founder & director of the Michael Hoppen Gallery, London), to produce a series of 27 vast digital prints of images taken by the photographer.
Tim Walker, best known for working for many years as a commercial photographer for British, American and Italian Vogue, has exhibited his works at solo exhibitions for a number of years, in spaces such as Somerset House (2012), the Design Museum (2008) and the Bowes museum (2013). He also received numerous awards during the length of his career, including the Infinity Award for the International Center for Photography, and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.
Walker´s obsession with 15th century Netherlandish Master, Hieronymus Bosch, led him to create his own take on his famous paiting the Garden of Earthly Delights. Together with set designer, Shona Heath, the photographer recreated the key elements from a Boschian world. The shoot, which took place over five days at Eglingham Hall in Northumberland, produced a series of sensational, symbolic and highly sensory photographs, filled with exquisitely sensual characters and objects, and deeply striking mise-en-scène.
The prints, which can now be found at Nicola Erni´s private collection in Zug, Switzerland, were materialised by Factum Arte, and are a result of several material and technological innovations which have been taking place within the Factum Arte studios over several years.
Tim Walker´s work will be on view at the Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands as part of the exhibition: Tim Walker: The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch through the eyes of a fashion photographer (November 4 - February 25, 2018)
Source: www.factum-arte.com/pag/808/Tim-Walker-br-i-The-Garden-of...
Tim Walker
The Garden of Earthly Delights
In January 2015, Nicola Erni commissioned British fashion photographer Tim Walker to create a series of photographs of his own choice. Exactly a year later, Factum Arte was approached by Walker and Erni through an introduction by Michael Hoppen (founder & director of the Michael Hoppen Gallery, London), to produce a series of 27 vast digital prints of images taken by the photographer.
Walker´s obsession with 15th century Netherlandish Master, Hieronymus Bosch, led him to create his own take on his famous paiting the Garden of Earthly Delights. Together with set designer, Shona Heath, the photographer recreated the key elements from a Boschian world. The shoot, which took place over five days at Eglingham Hall in Northumberland, produced a series of sensational, symbolic and highly sensory photographs, filled with exquisitely sensual characters and objects, and deeply striking mise-en-scène.
The prints, which can now be found at Nicola Erni´s private collection in Zug, Switzerland, were materialised by Factum Arte, and are a result of several material and technological innovations which have been taking place within the Factum Arte studios over several years.
Tim Walker´s work will be on view at the Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands as part of the exhibition: Tim Walker: The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch through the eyes of a fashion photographer (November 4 - February 25, 2018)
Source: www.factum-arte.com/pag/808/Tim-Walker-br-i-The-Garden-of...
Taken from the kayak, I wish I had four hands so I could have held some plants out of the way, but I had to photograph this shooting star - wild cranberry! IRL the blossoms are 1/2 inch long.
Book: www.lulu.com/shop/giles-watson/pearl/paperback/product-20...
The story so far: The Dreamer loses his Pearl in a grassy mound - evidently her grave. He swoons with grief, and awakens in an earthly paradise, through which there runs a beautiful stream. The land on the opposite bank seems even more beautiful. He wanders further down the stream, hoping to find a bridge or a ford. Just when he starts to become afraid of the dangers that may be in store for him, he sees a young woman sitting at the foot of a crystal cliff on the opposite bank, and instantly recognises her as his lost Pearl. He hails his Pearl and expresses his relief that she still exists, but she begins to reprove him for his lack of faith. She criticises him for only believing that her soul is immortal now that he can see her, and is shocked by his suggestion that he - a mortal man - has a hope of joining her in Paradise without first experiencing death.
He tells her that for him to walk away from her now that he has found her again would be to suffer a fresh bereavement. She replies that it is divinely decreed that he cannot cross over to her. The Dreamer pleads with his Pearl to accept that his rash questions were borne out of his great grief, and asks her to describe her life in Paradise. She relents, and tells him that she is crowned Queen of Heaven, and is married to the Lamb. The Dreamer is shocked by this assertion. He says that he thought only the Virgin Mary was Queen of Heaven. Pearl replies with a description of a-semi egalitarian heaven in which all inhabitants are kings and queens, and asserts that although Mary has pre-eminence, none of those in heaven would ever question it, because she is so “courteous”. She cites the Pauline notion that the church is the body of Christ in support of her claim.
The Dreamer is even less convinced than before. He wonders how she can have been instantly crowned a Queen of Heaven when she was on the earth for less than two years. She replies at length, citing the parable of the labourers in the vineyard as justification for her rapid advancement in the kingdom of Heaven. She continues to retell the parable, and concludes by insisting that like the workers who worked less than two hours in the vineyard, she was first in line for God’s reward when she reached Heaven. The Dreamer cannot understand. Surely, he argues, those who have endured a lifetime’s pain and temptation must have precedence. She responds that those who die as children die innocent, whereas those who have lived longer are more likely to be tainted by the world, and argues that the Dreamer is underestimating the grace of God. She continues by expounding a series of Biblical texts on the theme of righteousness and justification, culminating with the scene from the gospels in which Christ welcomes the children, and reproves his disciples for attempting to repel them. She continues to expound on this theme, reminding the Dreamer that Christ insisted that one must become like a little child in order to approach him.
The Dreamer admits that she is stupendously beautiful, but wonders how she can have won the title of Queen and bride of Christ, in the face of stiff competition: all those other women who have gone to heaven. Her reply draws upon the Old Testament prophets and the Book of Revelation: the Lamb which was slain in Jerusalem will return to govern the New Jerusalem as its King, with a company of a hundred and forty-four thousand wives – one of whom is the Pearl. She describes the state of bliss experienced by all the brides of the Lamb, and the worship that is offered to him. The Dreamer asks her for a boon: he wants to see the heavenly city or fortress where she lives. She describes the spotless city of the New Jerusalem, and he is so entranced by the glory she describes that he repeats his request to be taken to see it. She grants his request, even though he will not be able to set foot inside the city, and he follows her upstream until he can see the heavenly City. At first, he cannot lift his eyes beyond the twelve tiers at its base, each one wrought of precious stones – with the exception of one, which is fashioned out of pearl. Now, he begins to look up at – and through – the City itself, awed beyond belief by its beauty. He realises that no mortal could ever enter the city and survive its sublime excess – and sees a throng of a hundred thousand and more women, all dressed and jewelled like his Pearl, approaching the throne of God in the company of the Lamb.
Pearl: Part 19
Just as the rising, marvellous moon
Drives the ebbing day-gleams down,
It shakes the very soul of man
To know this City – of rich renown –
Is thronged with retinues of women:
All virgins, wearing the same gowns,
Answering the same unseen summons
As my own bejewelled and blissful one –
And all of them are likewise crowned,
Dripping pearls, and draped in white.
In each one’s breast is firmly clasped
A blissful pearl of great delight.
In great delight they glide together
On golden, glinting, glassy roads;
A hundred thousand of them gather,
All rigged out in matching robes,
Each as radiant as the other.
The splendid Lamb before them rides
With seven horns – a lather
Of priceless pearls encrusts his clothes,
And without clamour, the virgins close
In upon the throne, their ranks all white.
Like maidens at Mass, they rise in rows,
Pouring forth with great delight.
The delight the Lamb’s coming brings
Is too intense for me to tell:
The aldermen, when he arrives,
Swoon at his feet. No pen could spell
Out how that angel-legion throngs,
With thuribles, the delightful smell
Of incense eternally on the rise,
And for that Jewel, their praises swell:
They quake the Earth and cleave Hell.
The virtuous orders of angels smite
My heart. I long to sing as well,
And lose my soul in their delight.
Delighting in the Lamb, I reel,
Rapt in wonder. Just out of reach
He seems: more regal and real
Than prophets could spell out in speech,
His garments all glorious, the seal
Of graciousness upon his face. I search
With wild eyes the wound that spills
His heart’s blood, in a great gush,
The skin so torn. I swoon and lurch,
Sick to think that sin and spite
Thrust in the spear and raised the lash.
Can men do this, and take delight?
And yet, delight is on his face
Despite that open, gushing sore:
The agony has left no trace
On his expression – an exultant stare.
Around him, his retinue of grace,
Lambent with life, enough to sear
My eyes. And there, looking utterly in-place,
My little Queen. Did she stand near
Me in that glade? Christ! I can hear
Her laughter, mingling with the mass, all white.
I must wade these waters, face my fear
With love, and longing for delight.
Late fourteenth century poem, written in a north-west midland dialect of Middle English, paraphrased by Giles Watson.
Last year, I built a peacock, but the original conception was to build it as it is depicted in Chinese mythology, as the earthly incarnation of the phoenix. It took an additional few months to get to this state. The tree is built around a steel frame, which I had to have custom welded. The backdrop is built within the wood frame that I used for Darth Maul from a couple of years ago. The moon is build on a transparent baseplate and is backlit.
In Chinese culture, the fènghuáng (phoenix) is a mythical bird associated with good luck and wealth. The peacock is the earthly representation of the mythical phoenix; for this reason, it is often seen in Chinese paintings, scrolls, and other works.
The goal of this piece was to evoke the imagery and style of the peacock as seen in these traditional works of Chinese art. While I am Chinese, I do not read or speak the language, so I had to enlist some help with the characters and translation. This piece was built over four months during a two-year period. It involves thousands of pieces, particularly in the tail feathers and the white foreground, but I do not know how many.
Dusk on Greenham Common.
I love the visual interplay of submerged grasses and dark reflections
The dark brooding tones and silvery reflections are the real colours, it's not been photoshopped.
Sometimes without knowing, material things and Earthly desires come between us and our God. They can create a barrier that captures our attention in place of where we should keep our focus.
Early morning on the Lake of Barrea in the Abruzzo's National Park, Italy. Ten minutes after this shot when the camera's battery was (unfortunately) dead two males of red dear came to drink! Damm it!
WOO CANADA!!!!!
ok I'm done haha, but seriously it was an amazing week spent with some of the most amazing and talented photographers that are family to me now.
i really love this image simply because its how i felt through the whole week. i felt safe and at home shooting with all these amazing people on the rocks, in the woods, in the mountains, and about a million other places.
i love you all.
All My Earthly Disappointments, And My Trials Here Below..
Will Fade Away, When I Remember HIS Last Words..
That HIS Promise Unto Man, That HE Is a Coming Back Again..
What a Beautiful Day For The LORD To Come Again !!
( I Can Still Hear The Goodman's A Ringing That Chime Out)
This Is The .. " First Baptist Church" In the Mountains OF
Soddy Daisy, Tennessee
Bless Each Of You ... Cindy
Taken In August Of 2015.. ONCE AGAIN ARCHIVED ....
There is abundant testimony
That if we choose love rather than self,
We gain immeasurably
FEDERICO FELLINI
Go beyond mere Earthly emotions by expressing the vastness of your affections with the MadPea 'Love You To The Moon' Blocks. It's out of this world!
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Earthly tones for this living room collection mixed with Zen and Japandi touches will enrich your soul and living room alike.
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Sometimes photography is intentional and sometimes it’s serendipitous. This was a quick shot taken enroute between the orange delta and our next destination. The combination of the solid and translucent areas of the delta give it a 3D effect. This is the ground version of the milky way :-).
Jesus is Our Vision
Here's the thing. If our eyes are fixed on anything that is earthly
we will dramatically lose hope and feel like failures when things start
to go wrong. We may even idolise our ministries to the detriment of the
Kingdom of God. When our finances go awry, or someone gets hurt or our
leaders fall apart on us we had better know what we believe and who we
are following.
So what about all those visions out there? What about the vision to
see 1000 000 people reached with the gospel by the year 2000 or what
about the vision of Jesus coming back in 1984 or perhaps the vision to
minister to the poor and needy in India?
Are we really meant to follow a vision? Are we meant to put our heart
and soul into building an orphanage or planting a church or preaching
and teaching? These are all good things but are we meant to follow
them?
We have heard hundreds of men and women casting there vision to the
masses and many have caught the vision and said yes I will give part
of my life to these things. But is that right? Should people begin to
measure there lives success by the fulfilment of a task?
When we are on our death beds and about to meet Jesus. Will we feel
like we are ready if we have completed lots of tasks?
In collosians it says 1:18 And He is the head of the body the church,
who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead. That in all things
he may have the pre-eminence.
We are commanded in the Bible to set our eyes on incorruptible things,
Jesus Himself endured the task of the cross for the hope set before
Him. We take hope in that we will one day be gathered together with
Christ in heaven, this is the joy set before us. Not the the cross of
setting up a ministry or teaching and preparing the body of Christ for
the great day of the Lord. Paul the apostle writes to live is Christ
to die is gain he knew that his whole life was consumed by the person
of Jesus Christ. If our vision is earthly we will measure everything by
earthly standards. We will compete with each other over territory and
possessions like children fighting over a toy. We will worry and bicker
over money and speak badly of each other to protect what we think is
ours. If our vision is earthly we will probably have one specific
outcome. We will be primarily focused on task.
If the Kingdom of God is in our hearts and we are to extend the Kingdom
our task focuses on the hearts of men and women. If the hearts of
man are to be converted by our witness we must have our eyes filled
with passion for Jesus and his Kingdom not digital design or feeding
the hungry. These things will be the product of our Vision of Jesus but
should never BE the vision.
my most essential art, which is not that of writing but the domestic art of knowing how to wait, to conceal, to save up crumbs, to reglue, regild, change the worst into the not-so-bad, how to lose and recover in the same moment that frivolous thing, a taste for life.
- sidonie-gabrielle colette
Large fireworks display at night in Pichidangui, Chile, with small and large colorful bursts.
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- Rosa's Garden of Earthly Delights, Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
We are back after a wonderful visit in Portugal. Athough rain was predicted for the majority of our stay it thankfully proved wrong and warmth and bright sun was the order of almost all of our days on our trip.
Keefer Lake saved a thin sheet of ice for our return and then all of it disappeared over the course of a few hours on our first day back - the lake is ice free and no doubt the Loons will be calling within a day or so.
And now begins a labour of love as I sift and sort through over 2000 photographs taken during the trip. As Ansel Adams once noted, if you make 10 good photographs a year ... it's a good year. I shall be quite happy to have four or five.
The above is an image taken last year in 'Rosa's Garden of Earthly Delights' as I call it ... she is working on the beginnings of new gardens as I write this and has an infectious smile a mile (1.6 kilometres) wide on her beautiful face.
The Sun is long set from this earthly view and the night is rolling out and on behind that Sun not at all like a trailing cape with initially a leading edge around the neck full of rich refracted colours and that fade to a magical darkness the depths of which are possibly best revealed when over expanses many, many worlds away from this one Stars begin to beacon out the existence of furious flames so far distant that they can in their seeming stable pattern guide our travels across our little planet and in extended contemplation they act together to figure our knowledge of the almost infinite and potentially infinite til they grant us an insight into furtherance that either has, or has not an ending both more subtle and more complex than slings and arrows upon a stage not made for mortals to stand proud upon the supposed centre, but instead to be the elemental backdrop behind our every scene of life and living whether we have it nobly and notably in mind to perhaps appreciate that all encompassing Cosmic scene, or no?
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
The Sun is long set from this earthly view and the night is rolling out and on behind that Sun not at all like a trailing cape with initially a leading edge around the neck full of rich refracted colours and that fade to a magical darkness the depths of which are possibly best revealed when over expanses many, many worlds away from this one Stars begin to beacon out the existence of furious flames so far distant that they can in their seeming stable pattern guide our travels across our little planet and in extended contemplation they act together to figure our knowledge of the almost infinite and potentially infinite til they grant us an insight into furtherance that either has, or has not an ending both more subtle and more complex than slings and arrows upon a stage not made for mortals to stand proud upon the supposed centre, but instead to be the elemental backdrop behind our every scene of life and living whether we have it nobly and notably in mind to perhaps appreciate that all encompassing Cosmic scene, or no?
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com