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John Ruskin wrote a famous essay about this painting in which he referred to the "cruel ship". T.S. Eliot referred to that wording as the "pathetic fallacy".
This is the EXACT PERCENTAGE that I give a flying FUCK about what your religion (OR ANY) says about homosexuality.
Exact.
Note: this is in response to the nonsense going on with this.
Shasta daisy from my garden.
Way back in June I was mucking about on the iPaddle (as one does) playing with the distortion filters in Affinity. I probably should have been doing something more constructive but, hey-ho, life is too short.
So this is a set based around a flower pic. I chose it as a starting point because it’s a high-contrast image with oodles of radial symmetry, and I thought it would show up the distortion effects. (A slippery deceit of course as I conveniently invented the reasoning for my chaotic creative meandering after the fact - I suggest you never believe the fallacy that I really know what I am doing! :) ).
I’ll cover the processing notes for all the variants and replicate the commentary so you only need read it once (if at all, lol).
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment.
Edit 1 - Colour
A plain colour version, then given a harsh gritty feel by duplicating the image and blending back probably with hard light (though I am not entirely sure).
Edit 2 - Plain B&W
The colour version converted to B&W. Bilateral blur (an edge-preserving blur which effectively smoothes out the petals. Glow filter … for a bit of glow (though te be honest I think it’s a bit of a misnomer) :)
Edit 3 - Twirl
Starting with the plain B&W version, added twirl in the centre and also a radial blur. Blended the original back to the twirly version with Soft Light.
Edit 4 - Shasttered
This used the Diffuse distortion filter (not the Diffuse Light filter) to create the diffusion look, starting with the plain monochrome version. Tweaked that a bit and then took the original B&W version and blended it back with the Subtract mode. This overprinted the diffuse look with an inverted version of the original.
I really like this effect - it reminded me of splatter painting in my young days (back in the caves in France ;) ). Or perhaps printing with a flower using black paper and white ink…
For Sliders Sunday. I’ll also put the three B&W versions into the 100x challenge as I am rather behind (as life around me doesn’t seem to pause for long enough).
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x!
[Handheld in daylight.
Raw development and all the subsequent processing done in Affinity Photo.]
what an intricate fallacy.
watch a cute bear video!
today I will attempt to sew teddy's head back on. kind of makes me want to cry.
I don't think I've ever said thank you for the comments you guys leave and such. I really appreciate it - it makes my days :)
Edmonton has a dandelion problem. I took this at a park near our house. I distinctly remember one of our less impressive city councillors, Kerry Diotte, commented that if only the citizens would take care of their yards the City would not have problems with weeds. I think this picture demonstrates the fallacy of his argument. Mr. Diotte is now an MP for the Conservatives.
The often repeated "fast lenses being useful for shooting low light scenes" is a fallacy unless you are taking a shot that utilises the look of a shallow DOF or the scene is flat.
Personally for scenes that has depth, the longer the focal length, any faster than f2.8 is kind of pointless and I'm better off shooting on tripod and stopping down the lens.
Taken with FE 55mm f1.8 ZA at f2.2, the so-called "CA monster" (regurgitated ad nauseam) for those who are clueless on how to utilise their tools.
The scene was partially illuminated by the headlights of a vehicle outside the frame.
Meanwhile the Z7 has been out for a while, been checking the Z7 Flickr groups hoping to be inspired but oddly, nothing much really jumps out. Not sure what's going on, is it the gear or the user? I suppose it is safe to say that any gear released over the past few years is more than capable of taking decent pictures, in the right hands.
Some recent talk of Canon bringing out their Gen 2 FF mirrorless 70+mp with IBIS.
I have a book, written nearly a hundred years ago called Bird Facts and Fallacies by Lewis Loyd (1927). He says that like the Robin and Swallow, the Crossbill is said to owe its red plumage to drops of Christ's blood which fell upon it during its efforts to ease his agony on the cross. It goes on to say that it is believed, particularly by peasants across certain parts of the Continent, that the crossed beak resulted from its efforts to remove the nails from Christ's hands and feet, and remains as evidence of those efforts. Also, on many parts of the Continent realistic representations of the crucifixion may be seen by the roadside. Locals (he calls them natives) say that Crossbills may often be seen striving to pull out the nails by which the image is suspended.
I found this same story in another old bird book (Bird Lore by CE Hare 1952) which also has a three verse German poem translated by Longfellow describing this legend. I won't quote the whole poem but "At the ruthless nail of iron, a little bird is striving there" are a couple of lines from it.
I photographed this red male Crossbill not far from home a few weeks back. If you zoom right in on the beak you can just see the crossed tip of the lower mandible protruding.
- From Walled city to World city - 9 November 1989 -
Freely Walking the Line along the 1.3 kms of History and Art
Once,it was the Berlin Wall - Now, it’s the longest open-air Gallery in the world.The East Side Gallery takes a section of the Berlin Wall and makes it an open-air Gallery.
Immediately after the "Wall of Shame" came down,118 artists from 21 countries began painting the East Side Gallery.
Berlin was a divided city for nearly thirty years;the two parallel walls dominated by watchtowers,guards,barbed wire and the zone between them,called "the death strip",became history.
East and West Berliners made history that night of November.They climbed over the concrete walls,crowded through the narrow border crossing points and retook their city in its entirety.Touching were the moments of this historical event when East & West Berlin reunified.
However,after the Iron Curtain came down more and more walls are going up in the world.They come in steel and concrete,with watchtowers and barbed wire.
The only frontier that has ever existed is the self.
Man is a "hive minded" species by nature.
I recall Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" and wonder if
Good fences make good neighbours ...
"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." ...
Why all those new divisions ?
Why Mankind is building separation barriers in an era when Globalisation was supposed to tear the barriers down ? History shows that walls rarely do what they set out to do.
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Isaac Newton
Well,I know in my heart of hearts that this is classic Wishful Thinking or an informal Logical Fallacy as subconscious desires appear through assumptions of truth ...
Yet,I will never give up hoping for Peace throughout the World ...
* Just some thoughts of superannuated idealism ...
* We should care more about the substance of the world than its shadow ...
Excerpt from www.tracesofwar.com/sights/4685/The-Hague-Resistance-and-...:
The monument is situated opposite the "Vredespaleis" (Peace Palace) and is composed on a square with on the one side two high columns and in front of these columns there are four smaller columns and a stone wall running behind all columns.
This stone wall symbolizes a "dike of obstinacy of the unyielding". The four smaller columns represent different groups of the community: neutral, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish. The text on the smaller columns cannot be deciphered any more but according to some research it ought to read as follows:
The first column:
"Remove the tyranny. 1940."
The second column:
"May their souls be connected inside the band of the living."
The third column:
"Don’t let yourself be conquered by evil, but conquer evil by doing well."
The fourth column:
"Who pierces my hearth. 1945."
At the other side of the square there are a number of benches and a memorial column with the following text:
"As the city of the Royal Court and seat of the Government, The Hague had been targeted with aerial attacks already on May 10th 1940, the very first day of the treacherous offensive towards The Netherlands. The first destructions took place and the first victims were killed. Because of the war and the occupation between May 1940 and the liberation in May 1945 almost twenty thousand of our co citizens would lose their lives, as soldiers, as resistance fighters, as deported persons, as slave labourer, as prisoner in a house of correction or concentration camp, as a victim of the bombing raids and of starvation during the last winter of the war, but above all, as persecuted persons because of race or religion. Amongst those, over sixteen thousand Jewish co citizens did not survive the camps of destruction.
This monument intents to memorize all, without segregation, that have lost their lives because of the fallacy from which the National Socialism has been derived. It calls in silence to be alert for motives in the human minds that may stimulate such fallacy and may lead to such inhuman political systems. In that sense this wants to be a sign for future generations.''
The gallery of the former nazi offices at the Gauforum (now Weimarplatz) in Weimar. The ceiling now is a home to birdsnests.
She became a rabbi, in 1935, but was killed in Auschwitz in October 1944, and was essentially all but forgotten. In 1972 Sally Priesand was ordained at Hebrew Union College, and was referred to as the “first female rabbi ever,” this fallacy was never corrected, even by Jones’ male colleges, and others who knew better. Only when the Berlin Wall came down, in 1989, and the archives in East Germany were made accessible was the legacy of Regina Jones rediscovered.
I am at a loss about the deeper meaning of the writing on the wall. "America is great b(e)c(ause) america is"? That's of couse a false conclusion and a natural fallacy of the highest order.
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Stationary Vehicles, Rain and the Ruined Chemical Works
This building was perfect the other day and was something of a landmark for us coming off the Runcorn Bridge and heading for Warrington. Today the whole face of the building has been destroyed. The weather as in the pathetic fallacy echoed my mood. Thank goodness I was in the passenger seat but my little camera got soaked as we drove past and the pictures are of diminishing quality due to rain on the lens. I have mainly used a "Low Key" filter from the Google Nik Suite to emphasise the mood and a layer on which I used "Render Fibres" to exaggerate the rain.
'Silent night'. This is my favourite Owl...I have childhood memories of my Father and I raising an injured Tawny Owl fledgling and bringing it back to health, then releasing it back into the wild. Portrait here of our iconic silent woodland hunter the Tawny Owl, Strix aluco. West Yorkshire, UK.
Many thanks for visiting my Flickr pages...Your visits, interest, comments and kindness to 'fave' my photos is very much appreciated, Steve.
Tawny Owl Notes:-
Though our most familiar and widespread owl, it is strictly nocturnal and rarely seen during the day unless disturbed.
The typical nest site of a Tawny Owl is a tree hollow, wherein the owls will nest directly on the interior hole's surface. Tree hollows used may be as much as 25 m (82 ft) above the ground, but are usually within about 12 m (39 ft) off the ground.
The hooting of a male tawny owl is frequently used in TV and radio programmes and films to capture the essence of night. It is often misused in Irish dramas: tawny owls have never occurred in Ireland.
Because they don’t like flying over water they are also absent from many of our islands, including the Isles of Man and Wight, as well as the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.
Only the male owl utters the familiar drawn-out hoot: both males and female also make the well-known kewick call.
Male tawny owls will occasionally hoot during the middle of the day.
It is relatively easy to imitate a tawny owl by blowing through cupped hands. A study found that more than 90% of male owls can be duped into responding.
Concern about our tawny owl population prompted the BTO to undertake a recent survey. It revealed that numbers were stable.
Owls are often credit with great intelligence: this is a fallacy.
There are many superstitions surrounding owls.
The hooting of an owl was often thought to be an omen of death.
Hill hooter and screech owl are both old names for the tawny. Several names are a reminder of its daytime roosts: wood owl, beech owl and ivy owl.
The pioneer bird photographer Eric Hosking lost an eye to a tawny owl while trying to photograph it. His biography was aptly titled An eye for a bird.
Tawny owls are famous for the fierce defence of their young: bird ringers usually wear crash helmets with visors to protect themselves when ringing baby tawnies.
Tawnies are specially adapted for hunting in woodland, for their short wings give them great manoeuvrability.
Like almost all owls, the wings of a tawny owl are completely silent.
Though small mammals are their favoured prey, an amazing variety of prey has been recorded in the tawny owl’s diet,
ranging from small fish and lizards to bats and hawkmoths.
Among the unlikely birds noted as prey are adult mallard and kittiwake.
The average distance ringed tawny owls have flown between being ringed and being recovered is 1km.
Adult tawnies drive their youngsters out of their territories after the breeding season. As a result, nearly two-thirds of youngsters die in their first year.
They like to nest in holes in trees, but will readily adopt nest boxes.
Few birds are harder to census than these, so estimates of the British population are really only educated guesses. It is thought that the British population is around 20,000 pairs, living with birds notes.
The Overcomers' Testimonies | Christian Movie | "Sweetness in Adversity"
Introduction
Christian Han Lu was monitored and tracked by the CCP police officers, which led to her capture. The police officers have brutally tortured her, and they have also used rumors to try to brainwash her, used her family to try and coerce her, and other despicable methods to try to threaten her in an attempt to compel her to deny God and betray God. However, under the guidance of the word of God, Han Lu has made it through many interrogations under torture and has powerfully refuted the various rumors and fallacies of the CCP with truth. Within the bitter environment of the CCP's persecution, a beautiful and resounding testimony has been made …
It's storm season and I love the drama, beauty and energy of storms and shoot them every chance I get. Yesterday, the sky was getting dramatic and I was psyched to get some shots having recently watched one of my favorite movies about storm chasing, Twister. It's a movie I can watch over and over and never get tired of it. Because I know it so well, I sometimes have a habit of saying the lines at the same time as the characters or maybe a beat or two before.
"The Suck Zone. It's the point basically when the twister... sucks you up. That's not the technical term for it, obviously."
"it's the wonder of nature, baby!"
"Why do you call Billy the extreme?....Because... Bill is.....the EXTREME!!!!!!!
When eerie silence fills the air as a raging tornado abruptly ends, the scientist called Preacher and I say, at the same time and in the same reverent tone...
"It's the cone of silence" I love that line but it's a fallacy that tornadoes have a cone of silence. It's really a radar term. Directly over a radar tower is a blackout area where the weather readout is blank, it's a visual cone of silence, like my umbrella. But for the movie it's a great line and we don't care too much about accuracy,...it's a movie!
Sometimes I have to warn the characters...where'd it go? it's gone (meaning the twister)
"No, it's not, it's gonna back-build... It's back-building! It's gonna drop right on top of you! Get the hell out of there!"
"Getting yourself killed is not gonna bring your father back Jo!"
"It's not gonna fly, The pack is too light, it needs more weight! I told you it needed more weight!"
My hubby looked up at me perched on the back of the couch with my fists in the air and he said, I feel like I'm at the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Ha! for those who don't know, That's a cult classic horror spoof that was popular years ago to which everyone would go dressed as the characters every night and recite the lines. Imagine having that excitement right in the privacy of your own living room.
For ODC ~ S
'Into the woods'. This is my favourite Owl...I have childhood memories of my Father and I raising an injured Tawny Owl fledgling and bringing it back to health, then releasing it back into the wild. Our iconic silent woodland hunter the Tawny Owl, Strix aluco. Study here its short wings that are ideally adapted for flitting through trees in search of wood mice on the forest floor. West Yorkshire, UK.
Many thanks for visiting my Flickr pages...Your visits, interest, comments and kindness to 'fave' my photos is very much appreciated, Steve.
Tawny Owl Notes:-
Though our most familiar and widespread owl, it is strictly nocturnal and rarely seen during the day unless disturbed.
The hooting of a male tawny owl is frequently used in TV and radio programmes and films to capture the essence of night. It is often misused in Irish dramas: tawny owls have never occurred in Ireland.
Because they don’t like flying over water they are also absent from many of our islands, including the Isles of Man and Wight, as well as the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.
Only the male owl utters the familiar drawn-out hoot: both males and female also make the well-known kewick call.
Male tawny owls will occasionally hoot during the middle of the day.
It is relatively easy to imitate a tawny owl by blowing through cupped hands. A study found that more than 90% of male owls can be duped into responding.
Concern about our tawny owl population prompted the BTO to undertake a recent survey. It revealed that numbers were stable.
Owls are often credit with great intelligence: this is a fallacy.
There are many superstitions surrounding owls.
The hooting of an owl was often thought to be an omen of death.
Hill hooter and screech owl are both old names for the tawny. Several names are a reminder of its daytime roosts: wood owl, beech owl and ivy owl.
The pioneer bird photographer Eric Hosking lost an eye to a tawny owl while trying to photograph it. His biography was aptly titled An eye for a bird.
Tawny owls are famous for the fierce defence of their young: bird ringers usually wear crash helmets with visors to protect themselves when ringing baby tawnies.
Tawnies are specially adapted for hunting in woodland, for their short wings give them great manoeuvrability.
Like almost all owls, the wings of a tawny owl are completely silent.
Though small mammals are their favoured prey, an amazing variety of prey has been recorded in the tawny owl’s diet,
ranging from small fish and lizards to bats and hawkmoths.
Among the unlikely birds noted as prey are adult mallard and kittiwake.
The average distance ringed tawny owls have flown between being ringed and being recovered is 1km.
Adult tawnies drive their youngsters out of their territories after the breeding season. As a result, nearly two-thirds of youngsters die in their first year.
They like to nest in holes in trees, but will readily adopt nest boxes.
Few birds are harder to census than these, so estimates of the British population are really only educated guesses.
It is thought that the British population is around 20,000 pairs.
Living with birds notes.
My lucky stars so bright
Darkness seems so far in this light
When lost; you are my insight
Lucky stars, stay bright tonight.
...and Rain - this last my Friend
from distant past transmitting
drop by drops in hands
above horizon expected long
ago flashing Rainbows, existence
and reality of Lord in one of
multiple fragments by sharpie
peaks of spectral hues, from early
feelings of calming warmth, such
permanence of naivete's
proximity as obvious symptom,
anticipation of upcoming miracle
embraced by jolt of mellow from
childhood dreams, and streams,
and sparking glares, reality of
every day believe in green longevity
of Forest's leafs, reflecting Light from
sleeping Times, through waters been
firmaments of tangible pulsating
matter to object radiating bliss,
vibrating, subtle trace of memories
by crumbs well known by tactility
of acute senses, reflecting steps of
running passers-buses, and polls,
and rails in nights, and streets still
called my name, by echo far above
all rusty fallen lore, malicious
agendas, without drop of wisdom,
and axioms, aroused by fallacy off
premises, evoking song of Winds
through carcasses of bridges tied by
iron grasps spasmodically suspended
upon Neva-river, still walled by
monumental granite slabs as utter
deviation from modern age of Arcs,
chimeras-towers, and Parthenon's of
Whitest of the Nights in shadows off
steps from sleeping Summer Garden
between eternal marble-tiny guards
projecting brittle hands through
whispering infinity of dropping frozen
blast of crippled snow flakes to paint
somewhere in such distant Alps
fragment - imagine(!) tempera
a fresco on the walls by modern
style with always smiling and
agile Reindeer above with polar
entourage on blue tormented
skies above a Tundra with escort
of grown trees amongst fluidity of
bluish skies and luminosity of ice;
imagine(!) - far above Ding-Dong,
prone to folklore of deepest skies,
all day and night for long eons
deployed, and never since forgotten,
but still Ideal for living all...
............................... shot at Oniro - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bristol%20dAlliez/118/198/31
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyLnQLbNwj8
Image of mine are you just a myth?
Aiming for the stars and a need to exist
Singing your life to its final bar,
Staging all the scenes to avoid who you are.
Idol of mine will you lead me on?
Build for me the dreams that I'm longing to own.
Make me secure - be my fallacy.
You are all my world if for only today.
............................ ♥ .....................................
My most grateful THANKS to all of you, each and everyone !!!
For your additions, comment & valuable feedback <3
Autumn is Inevitable
Life is far more behind me
Than it is ahead of me.
How is it that when I finally understand
That I am a mere vapour
Or drop of dew that quickly fades,
I am become the one I never imagined.
How is it that like all youth
I longed to be older?
Assuming the callow fallacy
That doing as I pleased
Was freedom.
Childhood seemed a cage
That withheld me from my dreams,
Until I learned maturing
Bore the fetters of responsibility and onus
And the dreams of youth were worn away and
Forgotten like long lost toys.
I have had my spring when everything
Was new and bright until
The luminous sun lessened the
Shadows of summer until the first traces
Of the inevitable autumn.
No longer adorned by youth, I know
Vanity is vanity,
Though allure had its day.
Green eyes still stare back at me
When I gaze at some mirror,
But gravity is a law
That judges all.
Grooves and furrows are begun
Though not yet the corrugation
That imprints the very aged.
The proud strides of youth
Will become a shuffle
The far seeing eyes
Will lose their focus
The lustrous hair,
Thin and gossamer wisps.
I do wonder as I have been warned I would,
Whether I have been
Worthy of the years I have been allotted.
I was warned that the things
I could never undo or unsay
Would be replayed in my mind like shadows.
Who needs grace
More than the old?
Until everything stops,
And everything fades,
And I breathe my last,
And there is eternity.
C.Hill, 2021
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- Praia Grande, Portugal -
On a stupendous scale, we have put the emphasis on material things instead of spiritual things! This fallacy has brought our generation to the brink of ruin!
Excerpt from Cpt. Grim’s log: I guess the General felt bad for the Tund fallacy. Anyways, I was offered a permanent captain’s plaque. Being tired of working to find work, I accepted. My first official mission sent me to Kowak. Good soldiers follow orders!
Some time later...
Turned out it wasn’t the locals, or the Zygerrians that resisted our presence. It was the fauna. Luckily, a dozen D-63 Incinerators kept most wildlife out of our camps.
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One of my last entries for Factions 1.0 - really fun to work more with vegetation...
Thanks, and credits to @Gubi0222 for the speeder bike design!
Handheld shot with Olympus 75mm f1.8, my fav lens for shooting flowers.
Nothing has been done to the background, it is purely a result of this lens’ natural bokeh rendering.
Yet regardless of lens quality, bokeh can be badly messed up or even mangled in shot and in particular by atrociously poor post-processing!
Bokeh will get messed up when shooting in electronic front curtain shutter mode above 1/1,000s.
Even worse is bad post-processing, just look at those gear forum image threads on kilo class 50mm f1.2 lenses, yet these same lens owners with images showing badly mangled bokeh keep waxing lyrical about their behemoth f1.2 boat anchors!
Conversely, some hobbyists like to complain about lenses being overly contrasty hence affecting bokeh quality. Fact is, contrast in bokeh can be handled via post-processing if required but it’s onion-rings and all kinds of structures within bokeh balls that cannot be easily dealt with in post-processing.
There’s just way too much fallacies being propagated in gear forums. The worse of which are those from certain Nikon “Z”-ealot fanbois shills, no other brands’ fanboism ever reach such ridiculous levels of obnoxiousness and delusion, this is likely a consequence of extreme insecurity over their brand totem!
Some crazy “Z”-ealot fallacies;
1. “Z”-ealots loved to claim that the wider Z mount will lead to more efficient lens designs but what actually happened are Z lenses being bulkier, heavier and more expensive than equivalent lenses from other brands. The “Z”-ealots have largely stopped beating this widest mount drum these days for obvious reasons and have instead pivoted to suggesting that Nikon prioritized lens quality over size but doesn’t this mean that Nikon Z is the new Sigma of old!? Nikon F mount was way narrower than Canon EF but that didn’t preclude Nikon from making the class leading AF-S 14-24mm f2.8 G which Canon had no answer for a long time but yet Nikon “Z”-ealots will poke fun at other brands with smaller mounts.
2. The oft quote that you buy into the Z system mainly for the lenses when “Z”-ealots shills try to convince others (especially Nikon DSLR F mount users) to switch is obvious acknowledgement that the Z bodies are not competitive in terms of features and price. The Z7 series is not pro-spec unlike the D850 which is pro-spec, Nikon said so themselves. Then you have reality being laid bare with irrational exuberance over adapting lenses from other systems per below. If the Z lenses are as great as these shills claimed, why bother to adapt lenses from other mounts!?
3. A rampant Nikon “Z”-ealot fanbois shill with multiple user names on various gear forums was seen hyperventilating over the new version 2 of the Megadap E to Z adaptor recently. Shows how limited Nikon’s Z lens choices actually is and how slow Nikon is at bringing out new needed and interesting lenses. This notorious shill even suggested that “it makes sense to built a system based on a Nikon Z with some Sony lenses”. No surprise here since this was the exact same situation back in DSLR days when Nikon had a noticeably inferior lens lineup, this was Nikon at a much stronger no.2 behind Canon but Z’s current market share is a lot smaller with the Z mount being even more closed off to 3rd party lens makers than F mount ever was! This ridiculous Nikon Z shill even postulated that adapting Sony lenses on Nikon Z bodies will make Canon less relevant as a system when factually Nikon has a long and notorious history of crippling 3rd party lenses via firmware updates! As it is, Nikon already crippled their own FTZ adapter such that their own F-mount lenses get only 3 out of a possible 5 axis of stabilization. There’s no mention of IBIS effectiveness with the Megadap ETZ21 adapter.
As a multiple system user, I would rather acquire E-mount or even M-mount Voigtlander lenses which can be used on both E and Z mount than limiting myself with the same Voigtlander lenses released specifically for Z mount since these cannot be used on any other mounts. I can even get to use an AF adapter for M or E-mount Voigtlander lenses on the Z if I really wanted to.
This is the insiduous nature of these “Z”-ealot shills, always trying to distort reality to mislead others in favor of the brand they worship, have to wonder if these are in fact paid influencers! Nikon “Z”-ealot fanbois shills are truly the worst as no other brand users are anywhere near as obnoxious and delusional in belittling all other brands, such insecurity over just a camera brand, their constant propagation of fallacies are a real disservice to other users!
For beginners, take what you read in gear forums with a sackful of salt especially those forumers who seemed to practically live only in the gear forums and have no decent photo galleries to showcase. More often than not on gear forums, ability and words not only don’t match but the gulf can be really wide, beware of internet hot air!
Irrelevant Doctorate.
Конечные вопросы ходатайства вопросы различные формы составные принципы принципы исследования спорные аргументы смешные ответы,
generalia principia cognitionis quae obscurant sensum simpliciter falsa inductiones refutandis singulis sensibus comprehendit digeruntur,
behauptete fragen unmöglich substanz prädiziert unendliche kategorie kontinuierliche abteilungen vorausgesetzt geometrische fallacy die zur verfügung gestellten definitionen,
ακανόνιστοι λόγοι εναλλακτική διαχρονικότητα προσεγγίσεις μετασχηματισμένες κυκλικές εκτιμήσεις κατανεμημένες αμοιβαία προβλήματα πρωταρχικές κινήσεις αντιθέτως αποτελέσματα,
opienfolgjende getallen bewarre dingen begripe ideeën folsleinens saken frijheid paradox modifikaasjes tegearre foarmje problemen as eleminten,
absolutne korupcje wyjaśnienia doskonałości stowarzyszenie przypadkowe stwierdzenia sumienia mieszane zdarzenia postulowane ruchy odpowiednie środki,
同等の力同一の要素増加するアカウント仮定違い誤った見方感受性性質主張構成確立された結果情熱的な思想家馬鹿げた.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Here is a standard Dipper shot albeit perched on a mat of floating grass rather than a stone in the stream. Dippers have acquired many folk names but little or no surviving folklore. I found one interesting name in a book published nearly 100 years ago that has not appeared in later works. This name is from Devon and is "Curtsey Chick" as the habitual dipping they do is rather like a curtsey. For completeness the book (Bird Facts & Fallacies by Lewis Loyd) says the name has latterly been corrupted to Gotchy Chick. The same book also quotes some lines that are unmistakeably about a Dipper from the little-known Dartmoor poet Noel Carrington (1771-1830).
On his marge I mark the cheerful bird that loves the stream
And the stream's voice, and answers in like strains
Murmuring deliciously
Those lines really capture the warbling song of the Dipper that is always accompanied by a babbling brook in the background. Have a listen here on xeno-canto: xeno-canto.org/593120
Pianura Padana/Modena.
In lontananza si possono vedere le colline e le montagne, quasi buio anche in questa immagine ... i colori dopo che il sole era tramontato, diventavano sempre più belli e sfumati.
Foto All'Originale ! In questi casi di tramonto con i suoi colori lasciati, non si può assolutamente fare nessun ritocco!
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È sempre emozionante il tramonto,
indigente o sgargiante che sia,
ma ancora più emoziona
quel bagliore finale e disperato
che arrugginisce la pianura
quando l’estremo sole s’inabissa.
Fa male sostenere quella luce tesa e diversa,
quell’illusione che impone allo spazio
l’unanime timore della tenebra
e che a un tratto svanisce
quando ne percepiamo la fallacia,
come svaniscono i sogni
quando scopriamo di sognare.
(Jorge Luis Borges)
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In the distance you can see the hills and the mountains, almost dark even in this image ... the colors after the sun had set, became more and more beautiful and blurred.
Original Photo! In these cases of sunset with its colors left, absolutely no retouching can be done!
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Sunset is always exciting
indigent or flamboyant,
but even more exciting
that final and desperate glow
that rusts the plain
when the extreme sun sinks.
It hurts to support that taut and different light,
that illusion that imposes on space
the unanimous fear of darkness
and that suddenly fades
when we perceive its fallacy,
how dreams disappear
when we discover we are dreaming.
(Jorge Luis Borges)
I get it. Confirmation bias: Humans naturally rationalize what deep down we want to see. Seeing in the law what she is predisposed to pluck, a judge bends and blinds justice. A franchised business buyer in love with the thought of owning a business focuses only on one franchising brand with no other franchise from another brand to compare it with. Worse yet, he ignores and discounts the bad in a bad business from an already meager one-brand effort of due diligence. Such logic fallacies and biases are a noteworthy word of caution.
Truisms appear wise and interesting; but frankly, I'm wary of unsubstantiated thought experiments dished out in broad strokes, even when I like it.
Mettle Strike©
Let go of all those pieces that no longer keep you together
Shattered like ice, broken like glass, scattered like crystals
Into the ocean with a fanfare of seagull birds of a feather
Thrashing like metal, an alternative death for the ex pistols
I bleed all I cannot feel by navicular fingertip
Floating endlessly till I can no more equip
These pilfering pains that filtrate my very life, my very walls
That play dance with me by bloodthirsty candlelight
Waxing and waning it raps all it bloody well forestalls
Health may be a damned fallacy rather than a human right
And it'll not half give me a fright should it ever be returned
To the sender of the unwanted label so unearned
What a mixed up world whereby doors open and close
At the most inopportune moments, time turning time and again
Turning over a new page that became too heavy and froze,
Everything's wrong to be righted without refrain
So we will sing it's appraisal a segueing style
Paranoia no more rules the waves nor can it any longer rile
Presently my window affords a tricolour November scene
At the 3rd Strike I'm reminded of the dispraise of unfavourable days
The immobile dream on a hairpin between affection and the angered complexion unseen
They coalesce yes, as does a coastline with seafaring ways
Yet such abrasion is jarred, scarred and very often avant garde
Where recovery has recuperation's very deepest regard
It's the place I return to in the depths of desperation
That escapism of victory's finest parade of memories fond
Reality is the fantasy of dreamlike worlds model creation
Beginning a valiance over timeless lands and even beyond
A tertiary flight of fancy that can take as long...as it likes
And I will, I will testify that good health is captured as occasionally as lightning strikes.
by anglia24
11h45: 26/11/2008
©2008anglia24
'Portrait on a post’...The Silent Hunter.
The night’s work begins as dusk is setting for our most common Owl here in the UK...The Tawny Owl, Strix Aluso our silent woodland hunter.
The Tawny Owl is the most common of the five resident Owl species in the UK and British Isles, with roughly 50,000 breeding pairs. Like the Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl and Long-eared Owls, it is a native species (unlike the Little Owl, which was introduced in the 1800s.
I have childhood memories of me and my Father raising an injured Tawny Owl fledgling and bringing it back to health, then releasing it back into the wild.
Many thanks for visiting my Flickr pages...Your visits, interest, comments and kindness to 'fave' my photos is very much appreciated, Steve.
Tawny Owl Notes and information:
Though our most familiar and widespread owl, it is strictly nocturnal and rarely seen during the day unless disturbed.
The typical nest site of a Tawny Owl is a tree hollow, wherein the Owls will nest directly on the interior hole's surface. Tree hollows used may be as much as 25 m (82 ft) above the ground, but are usually within about 12 m (39 ft) off the ground.
The hooting of a male Tawny Owl is frequently used in TV and radio programmes and films to capture the essence of night. It is often misused in Irish dramas: Tawny Owls have never occurred in Ireland.
Because they don’t like flying over water they are also absent from many of our islands, including the Isles of Man and Wight, as well as the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.
Only the male Owl utters the familiar drawn-out hoot: both males and female also make the well-known kewick call.
Male Tawny Owls will occasionally hoot during the middle of the day.
It is relatively easy to imitate a Tawny Owl by blowing through cupped hands. A study found that more than 90% of male owls can be duped into responding.
Concern about our Tawny Owl population prompted the BTO to undertake a recent survey. It revealed that numbers were stable.
Owls are often credit with great intelligence: this is a fallacy. There are many superstitions surrounding Owls.
The hooting of an Owl was often thought to be an omen of death.
Hill Hooter and Screech Owl are both old names for the Tawny. Several names are a reminder of its daytime roosts: Wood Owl, Beech Owl and Ivy Owl.
The pioneer bird photographer Eric Hosking lost an eye to a Tawny Owl while trying to photograph it. His biography was aptly titled An eye for a bird.
Tawny Owls are famous for the fierce defence of their young: bird ringers usually wear crash helmets with visors to protect themselves when ringing baby Tawnies.
Tawnies are specially adapted for hunting in woodland, for their short wings give them great manoeuvrability.
Like almost all Owls, the wings of a Tawny Owl are completely silent.
Though small mammals are their favoured prey, an amazing variety of prey has been recorded in the Tawny Owl’s diet, ranging from small fish and lizards to bats and hawkmoths.
Among the unlikely birds noted as prey are adult Mallard and Kittiwake.
The average distance ringed tawny owls have flown between being ringed and being recovered is 1km.
Adult Tawnies drive their youngsters out of their territories after the breeding season. As a result, nearly two-thirds of youngsters die in their first year.
They like to nest in holes in trees, but will readily adopt nest boxes.
Few birds are harder to census than these, so estimates of the British population are really only educated guesses. It is thought that the British population is roughly around 50,000 breeding pairs.
Though you may not be alive, you can still fool people into thinking that you are.
Try these tactics:
1) appear to be engaged in a drama
2) pose in ways that living things do
3) appear to be exorcising strong emotion
Hope this helps.
Good luck!
It is interesting, but a likely fallacy, in my estimation, that humans form bonds on a different, or "higher level" than non-human animals. Most certainly, cooperation has played a major role in the evolution of our species, and in our softer, less tangible aspects, things we might call spirits, or souls. For me, it is no less in a non-human animal. They bond, show affection, cooperate, and have lives that are just as significant as ours. The Universe does not single us out as the "most important" animal - only we are arrogant enough to do that. What we can do, with the skills we have developed, is help other non-human animals to cope with the deleterious impacts we have made on their health and environment. We can use our knowledge and technologies to help them recover, and to build a world that is more harmonious for all. May we do this readily, and with reverence to them, and the Great Spirit that gave them an Earth home.
Shasta daisy from my garden.
Way back in June I was mucking about on the iPaddle (as one does) playing with the distortion filters in Affinity. I probably should have been doing something more constructive but, hey-ho, life is too short.
So this is a set based around a flower pic. I chose it as a starting point because it’s a high-contrast image with oodles of radial symmetry, and I thought it would show up the distortion effects. (A slippery deceit of course as I conveniently invented the reasoning for my chaotic creative meandering after the fact - I suggest you never believe the fallacy that I really know what I am doing! :) ).
I’ll cover the processing notes for all the variants and replicate the commentary so you only need read it once (if at all, lol).
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment.
Edit 1 - Colour
A plain colour version, then given a harsh gritty feel by duplicating the image and blending back probably with hard light (though I am not entirely sure).
Edit 2 - Plain B&W
The colour version converted to B&W. Bilateral blur (an edge-preserving blur which effectively smoothes out the petals. Glow filter … for a bit of glow (though te be honest I think it’s a bit of a misnomer) :)
Edit 3 - Twirl
Starting with the plain B&W added twirl in the centre and also a radial blur. Blended the original back to the twirly version with Soft Light.
Edit 4 - Shasttered
This used the Diffuse distortion filter (not the Diffuse Light filter) to create the diffusion look. Tweaked that a bit and then took the original B&W version and blended it back with the Subtract mode. This overprinted the diffuse look with an inverted version of the original.
I really like this effect - it reminded me of splatter painting in my young days (back in the caves in France ;) ). Or perhaps printing with a flower using black paper and white ink…
For Sliders Sunday. I’ll also put the three B&W versions into the 100x challenge as I am rather behind (as life around me doesn’t seem to pause for long enough).
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x!
[Handheld in daylight.
Raw development and all the subsequent processing done in Affinity Photo.]
why the earth and humanity is out of balance? dfp
The "ghost in the machine" is a term originally used to describe and critique the concept of the mind existing alongside and separate from the body. In more recent times, the term has several uses, including the concept that the intellectual part of the human mind is influenced by emotions; and within fiction, for an emergent consciousness residing in a computer.
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Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976) was a philosopher who lectured at Oxford and made important contributions to the philosophy of mind and to "ordinary language philosophy". His most important writings include Philosophical Arguments (1945), The Concept of Mind (1949), Dilemmas (1954), Plato's Progress (1966), and On Thinking (1979).
Ryle's Concept of Mind (1949) critiques the notion that the mind is distinct from the body, and refers to the idea as "the ghost in the machine". According to Ryle, the classical theory of mind, or "Cartesian rationalism", makes a basic category mistake (a new logical fallacy Ryle himself invented), as it attempts to analyze the relation between "mind" and "body" as if they were terms of the same logical category. This confusion of logical categories may be seen in other theories of the relation between mind and matter. For example, the idealist theory of mind makes a basic category mistake by attempting to reduce physical reality to the same status as mental reality, while the materialist theory of mind makes a basic category mistake by attempting to reduce mental reality to the same status as physical reality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine
3dmanipulated art with gimp/pixlr
The Brazilian crab spider (Epicadus heterogaster) is one of the most beautiful of the neotropical crab spiders. Ranging in colour from pure white, to cream, to yellows and pinks. Nestled amongst flowers the modified abdomen helps it blend in and avoid detection from potential predators. Though like most other crab spiders, they fluoresce under UV light, thus being visible to their prey and indeed attracting them (a fact that is difficult to reconcile with the commonly held notion that their camouflage is used to ambush prey. A point which though logical, is in this case a fallacy).
Photo from Mindo cloud forest, Ecuador.
Excerpt from Cpt. Grim’s log: I guess the General felt bad for the Tund fallacy. Anyways, I was offered a permanent captain’s plaque. Being tired of working to find work, I accepted. My first official mission sent me to Kowak. Good soldiers follow orders!
Some time later...
Turned out it wasn’t the locals, or the Zygerrians that resisted our presence. It was the fauna. Luckily, a dozen D-63 Incinerators kept most wildlife out of our camps.
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One of my last entries for Factions 1.0 - really fun to work more with vegetation...
"Just for you to know: It's a common fallacy that shrimps are delicious. They're also bad for your cholesterine... Don't believe me? Go and ask your surgeonfish! Better do so! Not?" Have FUN!
Who am I, what and why / 'Cause all I have left is my memories of yesterday / Oh these sour times (Portishead)
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