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International Festival of Pyrotechnic Art, Courchevel, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, Feb 2017. Fireworks by Pandora Pyrotechnie. A really impressive son et lumiere display (and a fair amount of ash on the piste the following day). 1/25 sec ISO 3200 with monopod; I regret not taking a tripod with me, but I quite like the clouds of smoke.
Murale "Hot Summer Night" Mural
© 2010 MU / Phillip Adams & David Guinn
Habitations Jeanne-Mance (144-154, Maisonneuve-E, Montréal)
Murale "Hot Summer Night" Mural
© 2010 MU / Phillip Adams & David Guinn
Habitations Jeanne-Mance (144-154, Maisonneuve-E, Montréal)
The risk we ran was living: living forever. The threat of continuing weighed, from the very start, on anyone who had by chance begun.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
Grand Feu d'Artifice, Grand Fireworks @ Fêtes de Genève (Geneva), 09.08.2014.
(c) Christophe Losberger
Grand Feu d'Artifice, Grand Fireworks @ Fêtes de Genève (Geneva), 08.08.2015.
(c) Christophe Losberger
Fireworks over the Pont d'Adolphe on the eve of Luxembourg's National Day/ Grand-Duke's Birthday in 2023
Murale "Hot Summer Night" Mural
© 2010 MU / Phillip Adams & David Guinn
Habitations Jeanne-Mance (144-154, Maisonneuve-E, Montréal)
This is a distinction I might bring up to give a clearer idea of before and now: before we swam, and now we are swum.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
No, I'm going too fast; or too slow, I don't know: because this expansion of the universe was infinitely fast yet started out from a beginning so deeply buried in nothing that to push its way out and peep over the threshold of space and time required a wrench of such violence as not to be measurable in terms of space and time. Let's say that, to tell everything that happened in the first second of the history of the universe, I should have to put together an account so long that the whole subsequent duration of the universe with its millions of centuries past and future would not be enough; whereas everything that came afterwards I could polish off in five minutes.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
Space is curved everywhere, but in some places it's more curved than in others: like pockets or bottlenecks or niches, where the void is crumpled up. These niches are where, every two hundred and fifty million years, there is a slight tinkling sound and a shiny hydrogen atom is formed like a pearl between the valves of an oyster.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.