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More instances from a night of total wonder under the wide open skies of Arctic Norway standing by a rock pool off Lenangenstraumen sea strait.
AviGlam. Ecstatic Eyes at Cosmopolitan
[SB] Eyebrows *Catwa* JuliaEarth Small Upward at On9
Lisa Walker Lipstick at POWDER PACK CATWA October 19
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MICHAN - Mingzhu Lashes [Catwa]
"Ecstatic bird songs pound
the hollow vastness of the sky
with metallic clinkings--
beating color up into it
at a far edge,--beating it, beating it
with rising, triumphant ardor,--.......".
Part of a poem by ~ William Carlos Williams
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"Ecstatic Escatorial Entwinement!" Made in the Lobby of the spectacular North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Transport building in Dusseldorf.I have many more shots of this amazing building in the editing process. Many thanks to Reiner Pohl for securing permission for us to photograph this awesome skyscraper!
When I checked out this area in the daylight, I was just ecstatic - I was imagining endless compositional possibilities for my nightscapes. So, hours later, as I arrived again around midnight at this VERY dark place, I could hardly see my hand in front of my face let alone set up a couple of lights to give me a little foreground definition. I do have experience in this area, so I was pretty dumbfounded. I suppose it seemed darker than ever because of the dark and black lava rock that just sucked up my light. It was a magnificent clear night after a rain though, full of fresh scents, and I thanked my lucky stars I could see them.
Got lost deeply into this wildly glowing semi-3D flow-form-saturation study. The intricacies of forms fight with the glowing saturated photons for eye-brain attention.
I feel this one main image has at least 10-12 possibly even more stunning smaller cropped images begging to be created from the whole!
Amalgamation of 2 of my photos…
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I don’t think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else, and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of our times. It’s hard to believe always but more so in the world we live in now. There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.
-Flannery O’Connor
“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi
Ecstatic view of the Himalayan forest near Nanda Devi temple in Munsyari engulfed with rapidly moving low clouds and rising mountain wall in the backdrop.
We took Yuki for an afternoon of exploring at O'Hara Mills Conservation Area. By the look on her face I would say she enjoyed herself. Such a happy dog.
A slider. A single perfect rose, on the top of a total, leggy rose bush, reaching for the sky. I hit the sliders for exposure and contrast, brilliance and shadows, but pushed the color saturation down as the pink got hotter and hotter. I prefer the pale, more ethereal pink it started out with. One photo a day, (170/366) Bayside, Queens, NYC -- June 18, 2020
Happy Sliders Sunday!
I can hardly express how special collectors felt when they registered at convention and were handed a bag with this doll inside. I was ecstatic!
Location: 69th Floor, Royal Park Building
Minato-Mirai, Yokohama, Kanagawa-ken, Japan
Handheld and I hated the glass wall.
EARTHQUAKE
2:46 PM, 11 March 2011 - we just had an 8.4 magnitude earthquake and I was never so scared like this. Public address speakers roared for tsunami warnings.
5:48 - Local televisions are now having live coverage of the damages that the earthquake and the 4-meter tsunami have caused. Buildings and houses were torn and cars were washed in places along the coast near the epicenter. Particularly Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefectures..
However, the Japanese government is still trying to assess the damage and injuries from the earthquake.
Japan Meteorological Agency measured the earthquake at 7.9 while the US Geological Survey upgraded the the strength of the earthquake to 8.9.
6:11 PM - I am still at the office as the transportation services were paralyzed and can't even call my brother here or anybody in the Philippines as the telephone system is down.
Taken from Yahoo: The quake that struck at 2:46 p.m. was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks, including a 7.4-magnitude one about 30 minutes later. The U.S. Geological Survey upgraded the strength of the first quake to a magnitude 8.9, while Japan's meteorological agency measured it at 7.9.
We had over an hour and a quarter of Aurora show. It danced across the sky in waves of green, purple and pinks. Breathtaking.
The Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, Texas, boasts intricate exterior details that capture the essence of its architectural beauty.
The human spirit is a very strange and complex thing. Sometimes you can be greatly moved by the simplest of things, (a smile from a stranger, a Childs drawing, a simple act of kindness from an unexpected source), but consequently you can be in a stereotypically wondrous place and feel, tired, stressed, unhappy, pressured into feeling good. The same is true with regards photographic locations. You can be presented with a wondrous vista and find difficulty with photographic inspiration. It really does all come down to your unique personality, your own feelings.
This particular morning there was no question of any melancholy feelings, my emotions were on overdrive with frantic excitement, ecstatic, joyous and childlike wonder. I’m sure the rarity of snow in the UK contributed to my elevated feelings on this, the first snow of the year, but my overwhelming feelings towards it were drawing on childhood memories of overwhelming excitement. My own past experiences were playing a big part in how I was feeling at this moment in time, (even thought I was there for a very different photographic purpose, I didn’t have a sledge and I didn’t make a snow man on this morning), but it is the emotions that I felt there and then, that needed focusing on in the construction of this image. As photographers we not only need to enjoy the experience, but try to tap into these emotions for the benefit of the photographic viewer. Try to consider the way your images stimulate not only your own emotions, but the viewers own past experiences too.
Anyway for me this solitary tree made a convenient graphical composition in eager anticipation of the impending sunrise. My fingers and toes were almost solid ice at this point, but I’m sure Wayne (my ‘almost’ adult photographic companion) found my dancing around trying to keep warm rather funny...Hopefully when I’m old and unable to sprint across a frozen field, whilst trying to set a camera and tripod up with throbbing fingers, frantically trying not to miss this momentary spectacle before it quickly passed, I will look back with rose coloured spectacles, I will enjoy the memories of this morning... I wonder?
Oh yes, I nearly forgot, happy snowball fights and Christmas joy...just keep safe over the holidays, I’ve just spent 24 hours in A&E with my beautiful daughter...(sadly with a broken arm) she is ok now, plenty of pampering coming her way!!!
Pure abstraction seems to be drawn to symmetry like a magnet, so one is always having to deal with that "pull". You can easily give in to it, work against it actively or have it play off of asymmetry in the same image. This one's a result of option 3.
Image created April 27, 2022.
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Tokyo, 2017. I recently took part at an Art Fair in Tokyo, but fortunately there was also time for looking around... And up! I was so lucky to have some local friends who were so generous to guide me to spots like this one.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Purgatory: When Dante, his guide Virgil and the reader come out of Inferno, they find themselves in front of a mountain: Purgatory*, which was “invented” shortly before Dante wrote La Divina Comedia. It is a place of transition that allows purification, thus improving the human who passes through it. Unlike Inferno, Purgatory Leads to heights and as such promotes intellectual, cultural and spiritual elevation. Dante, Virgil and the reader climb Purgatory like an interior mountain and cross its seven ledges, representative of the seven deadly sins.
This passage through Purgatory allows one to surpass and free oneself from all the deprives the soul of the beauty, richness and order to which it aspires. During his slow progress, Dante sees the fog and clouds that clogged his mind dissipate. He frees himself from confusion and everything becomes clearer and clearer until he reaches the top where Paradise sits. In this sense, Purgatory is an elevation of the mind towards Paradise, because it allows the mind to rid itself of the illusions that keep it in a perpetual waking dream state.
*In the middle of the twelfth century, the “beyond” underwent “a major map reworking”. Between the two traditional places of heaven and hell, the topography was enriched by a third place: purgatory. From the need to imagine a place for the intermediate dead was born purgatory.
"The color of any planetary atmosphere viewed against the black of space and illuminated by a sunlike star will also be blue." In which case blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets