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Hall mean to dry to something in German and for most of its existence was called just that Hall. It wasn’t until the 20th century that Hall’s name was changed to Schwäbisch Hall by the Nazi party in 1933 one would guess due to the fact it is in Swabia, imaginative the Nazi’s were not 😊.
Hall has rerouted its river somewhat with branching canal channels making a beautiful island park in the middle of the river. This area sits in the middle of the lower village which gives you some great vantage points for taking photos and great place for a stroll.
Another Hall claim to fame is that they have a German “American football” team and have won the national championships twice, they also can boast the first European ever to be drafted without playing College Football in North America. This scene is from the center island looking back toward the rise of the village on the left channel of the river.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mm 2.8 G2 lens
Its existence dates back to the late 15th century when the menacing pirate raids were incessant. In that era the Cycladic islands were under the rule of the Franks. The castle stood at the top of the settlement in order to serve as an observation point. It was very well fortified and there were remarkable residences inside, which belonged to the Venetian rulers.
I'm tired of the Earth, of these people, tired of being caught up in the confusion of their existence. They claim to be working hard to build a paradise, and their paradise is populated by horrors. Perhaps the world is not made, perhaps nothing is made, a clock without a craftsman. It is too late, it has always been too late, and it will always be too late. (Mr Manhattan in Watchmen)
Je suis fatigué de la Terre, de ces gens, fatigué d'être pris dans la confusion de leur existence. Ils prétendent s'acharner à bâtir un paradis, et voici que leur paradis est peuplé d'horreurs. Peut-être que le monde n'est-il pas fait, peut-être que rien n'est fait, une horloge sans artisan. Il est trop tard, il a toujours été, et il sera toujours trop tard. (Mr. Manhattan in Watchmen)
December in the California desert is an awesome time if you can stand the extreme weather. It can be cold, windy and raining at the same time while taking photos.
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Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah/Arizona. (Taken from our hotel room)
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
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A Marbled White (Melanargia galathea.) and a Cuckoo bee (Bombus vestalis) sharing a Common Knapweed flower (Centaurea nigra). Bath Skyline walk, Claverton, BANES, England, UK.
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This is most likely the single documented memory of this trees existence. At the time I took the photo it was the atmosphere and the isolation from nearby trees that caught my attention. In the long run this has become an oddly historical photo. The backstory, prior to hurricane Irma in 2019 this wetland had numerous mature trees that were decimated by the fierce winds and eventually they were removed by the home owners association. This young tree survived the storm because it was shrouded by the mature trees and it grew quickly after there was nothing to block it’s growth any longer.
After this photo was taken last year some uninformed people chose to remove this tree for unknown reasons. They learned that this tree species is protected by state law after the fact. They were fined and supposed to replace it which there is not evidence that it was replaced. However, the point is they did what was right in their own eyes without knowledge of laws to protect endangered plant and wildlife species. We are all guilty of acting without good intel at one point or another during our lives and this is a reminder we should think twice before leaping.
I am forever grateful that this tree spoke loud enough to my inner being to preserve it’s memory and short life.
UPDATE: I walked the area this week where the tree had stood
and was pleasantly surprised to see that not only one tree had been planted but three new trees had been planted in replacement of this little one who’s time was shortened.
For the year 1225 the existence of a castle in Westerwinkel is documented. A defiant water system must have existed there, protected by a double system of ditches with ramparts, which - witnessed during the Thirty Years' War - were so high that they almost completely obscured the lower row of windows . However, a fortification must have existed at this location earlier. Thus it is evidenced, for example, that Count Arnold von Altena -Isenberg, who was also allowed to bear the title of Count von Hövel , was owned by a fortification in the area of Westerwinkel around 1190. Westerwinkel belonged to the county of Werl until around the year 1000 and then, depending on which of the two theories one follows (see the contribution of Count von Hövel ), either to the counts of Arnsberg or directly to the counts of Hövel. After the division of the estate (from Werl or Arnsberg) Westerwinkel was either around 1003 or after 1124 an integral part of the county Hövel .
In my existence,,i realized that happiness is a very subjective factor in one's life...
Being happy doesnt depend on achieving what you want; it is makin the best out of what is given....
Life isnt fair,,it never was...
the only thing that can make you completely happy is contentment...
be contented of what you have ,,but be sure to aim high and never stop believing you can do better everytime...
but if all else fails,,dont forget that an ordinary you has an extraordinary God to back you up...:)
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A year ago, no load-bearing ice at all that winter... ~sigh~ but an early spring with backlash and snowfall the day after this picture was taken.
One of the most relaxing things for me it's to be on a big beach with no one else. Just the sound of the waves...
Today was the time of one of those moments.
Into the motion of life. The never stopping wheel of destiny and fate. Sometimes not such a linear path. Yet the freedoms we need for love and peace.
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La source d'inspiration la plus importante pour les sculptures de Dirk De Keyzer n'est rien de moins que la vie elle-même. Le monde est transformé en un monde parallèle alternatif dans lequel les problèmes majeurs et quotidiens sont compensés. Sans tomber dans la naïveté enfantine, la positivité et la pensée transfrontalière se voient accorder une place très importante. Cela ressort d'autant plus du fait que les personnages ne semblent appartenir à aucune culture, ni même à toutes les cultures. Par extension, on pourrait dire qu'il s'agit d'une interprétation tout à fait singulière du concept « d'homme universel », élevé au-dessus des caractéristiques extérieures, des différences culturelles et des tendances temporelles afin de mettre l'accent sur l'individu et la diversité.
L'humour est un autre aspect important de l'art de Dirk de Keyzer. Il croit fermement que l'humour, par opposition à la négativité, peut être le fer de lance de la critique sociale. Humour désarmant plutôt que bavardage pour stimuler la perspective et la tolérance. En ces temps chargés, le travail de Dirk De Keyzer nous appelle à réfléchir sur l'insoutenable légèreté de notre existence. Un moment d'introspection pour appeler à une petite évasion de la réalité quotidienne.
Les sculptures sont un instantané du monde alternatif de Dirk et invitent le spectateur amusé à pénétrer dans l'univers personnel du sculpteur. De cette façon, le spectateur vit la même expérience en regardant que l'artiste en créant. Dirk voit le processus créatif comme une sorte de thérapie qui l'aide à voir le monde sous un angle différent et essaie de le projeter sur le spectateur. Malgré son propre langage de forme unique, des données universelles telles que la poursuite humaine du bonheur, de la beauté et de l'harmonie se voient attribuer un rôle de premier plan. De cette manière, l'artiste tente d'entrer en dialogue avec son public, dans lequel, tout comme dans la vie elle-même, l'accent n'est pas toujours mis sur des objectifs préconçus, mais plutôt sur le chemin pour y parvenir.
The most important source of inspiration for Dirk De Keyzer's sculptures is nothing less than life itself. The world is transformed into an alternate parallel world in which major and everyday problems are compensated. Without falling into childish naivety, positivity and cross-border thinking are given a very important place. This is all the more apparent from the fact that the characters do not seem to belong to any culture, or even to all cultures. By extension, one could say that it is a quite singular interpretation of the concept of "universal man", elevated above external characteristics, cultural differences and temporal tendencies in order to emphasize on the individual and diversity.
Humor is another important aspect of Dirk de Keyzer's art. He strongly believes that humor, as opposed to negativity, can spearhead social criticism. Disarming humor rather than chatter to stimulate perspective and tolerance. In these busy times, the work of Dirk De Keyzer calls us to reflect on the unbearable lightness of our existence. A moment of introspection to call for a small escape from everyday reality.
The sculptures are a snapshot of Dirk's alternate world and invite the amused viewer to enter the sculptor's personal universe. In this way, the spectator has the same experience while watching as the artist while creating. Dirk sees the creative process as a kind of therapy that helps him see the world from a different perspective and tries to project it onto the viewer. Despite its own unique form language, universal data such as the human pursuit of happiness, beauty and harmony are given a prominent role. In this way, the artist attempts to enter into a dialogue with his audience, in which, just as in life itself, the focus is not always on preconceived goals, but rather on the path to achieve them. to arrive at.
Per ricordarci che nulla è scontato, che anche le piccole, trascurabili cose hanno il loro posto e la loro funzione nel complesso meccanismo dell'esistenza.
To remember taking nothing for granted and realize that even minor, little things have their place and importance in the existence fragile balance.
Apr 11, 2009 # 4
“Once you accept the existence of God, however you define Him, however you explain your relationship to Him, then you are caught forever with His presence in the center of all things."
The tradition of the Fathers has never admitted the existence of a material world apart from a larger creation, from a spiritual universe. To speak more precisely, for them the world, a whole and a unity, is inseparably matter and spirit. What we call the material world is only the reflection of a reflection. . . . It is, as it were, the fringe of their garment: the waves of its light are like the scintillating robe with which the Creator has been pleased to adorn his invisible creation.
-Louis Bouyer, The Meaning of the Monastic Life (London: Burnes & Oates, 1955), 28.
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GÉNÉRATION
En hommage à Florence, ma petite-fille, qui m’a spontanément proposé le titre de cette image.
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Sur ces rivages bordés d’infini, un père initie son jeune fils à l’art de la pêche en eau peu profonde. Au premier abord, on pourrait croire qu’il s’agit d’une simple scène de pêche, pourtant…
Dans nos sociétés, l’idée de génération est souvent réduite à une opposition statique entre le passé et l’avenir, entre l’ancien et le nouveau. Je crois plutôt qu’il faut y voir un mouvement, un mouvement continu de transmission et d’évolution des connaissances et des mentalités humaines. En somme, cette transmission, notamment par la filiation, permets à l’originel de rester original et de poursuivre l’aventure humaine. * Ce que nous appelons « l’avenir » est, en fait, le résultat de l’interaction et de la transmission par toutes les générations. **
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Ici, sur ces rivages bien en retrait des mondes utopiques qui alimentent la fureur de nos sociétés, le père et le fils renouent avec la patience et la modestie fondamentale de l’existence des êtres. Et aussi avec l’enchantement originel devant la beauté et le mystère de notre monde.
La pêche aura été un bon prétexte pour cela.
Patrice
* Charles Coutel, philosophe français.
** Tim Inglold, anthropologue britannique
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GENERATION
In honor of Florence, my granddaughter, who spontaneously suggested the title of this image.
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On these shores bordered by infinity, a father introduces his young son to the art of shallow-water fishing. At first glance, one might think this is a simple fishing scene, yet...
In our societies, the idea of generation is often reduced to a static opposition between past and future, between old and new. Instead, it should be seen as a movement, a continuous movement of transfer and evolution of knowledge and human mentalities. In short, this transfer, particularly through filiations (kinship), allows the original to remain original and to continue the human adventure.* What we call the future is, in fact, the result of all these generations interacting.
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Here, on these shores far removed from the utopian worlds that fuel the fury of our societies, father and son reconnect with the patience and fundamental modesty of being. Also with the original enchantment in front of the beauty and mystery of our world.
Fishing was a good excuse for this.
Patrice
* Charles Coutel, a French philosopher.
** Tim Ingold, British anthropologist.