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An artistic rendering of a macro view of a Pop It Topper bubble fidget toy. The frame represents a span of two-inches across.
Those who are not familiar with Pop It Toppers can click the below link to a Wikipedia article about them (with pictures). The version I photographed (in its entirety) is a very small topper with only four bubbles on it.
Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights and a steady LED light. The SB900s were placed CL/CR and fired in Manual mode @ 1⁄32 power through 24" gridded soft boxes and triggered by PocketWizard Plus Xs. The LED was placed @ 11-o'clock.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D(AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro) with 12mm + 20mm extension tubes attached.
inspired by Barbara Hepworth!
ODC CONFUCIUS OR CONFUSION SAYS 17 - 23 January
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"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
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The Rufus hummingbirds are beginning to enjoy the season as the flowers open and the sweet odors begin to fill the air
There are two sea stacks that together form Drangarnir. These impressive natural formations have become a symbol of the Faroe Islands’ unspoiled landscapes and untamed wilderness. To me, they conjure visions of a dragon's back, rising up from the icy waters swirling along its base. It is a haven for birdlife and a bucket list item for photographer's fortunate enough to find themselves in this Viking wonderland.
For me, it was an experience of a lifetime and the fulfillment of a bucket list dream that all began with a tiny image I saw on Instagram of a grass roofed cottage. What an incredible privilege to photograph the immense Drangarnir sea stacks (the smaller one rises out of the ocean to a height of over 200 '), probably one of the most iconic formations of the Faroe Islands.
Unfortunately, it is also one of the more harrowing places to get to. If I wasn’t grey already, that day would have done it in spades. Thank God for great travel partners, and our gifted leader, Thomas Vikre, who guided us through the gauntlet of eel-slippery rocks, steep slopes ending abruptly into the North Atlantic, and high tides bouncing our Zodiac around like a ping pong ball. Honestly, I would have turned back each time if given a choice. I have no desire to “prove” myself, or conquer fears at this point in my life, but it was a one way street, so no way to turn back. And in the end, I am glad for that. The beauty and majesty of the place is really indescribable, and to stand in the midst of it was truly an “epic” 😉 experience for us all.
“You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
a forma di Angelo , trovato in un vecchio libro .. Pensiero di Rosa, una cara compagna di scuola, molto dolce, che non ho mai più rivisto.
Sono in contatto ancora con due mie compagne, ogni tanto ci sentiamo
Memory of your school mate Rosa 🌹
An old newspaper clipping with the shape of an angel
Excerpt from the plaque:
Red/Amber Sliced Descending Form by Harvey K. Littleton
Harvey K. Littleton was a pioneer in the use of glass as a material for sculpture. He was the first academic to set up a university glass program-at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963-and he championed the introduction of glass into art school and university curriculums across the country and around the world.
To gain control of the world of space is certainly one of our tasks. The danger begins when in gaining power in the realm of space we forfeit all aspirations in the realm of time. There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
Nothing is more useful than power, nothing more frightful. We have often suffered from degradation by poverty; now we are threatened with degradation through power. There is happiness in the love of labor; there is misery in the love of gain. Many hearts and pitchers are broken at the fountain of profit. Selling himself into slavery to things, man becomes a utensil that is broken at the fountain.
AS CIVILIZATION ADVANCES, the sense of wonder almost necessarily declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information, but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
-Thunder in the Soul To Be Known by God, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Interesting naturally formed loop or naturally formed basketball hoop on some Stag horn sumac trees Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , cropped photograph , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , September 28. 2021
Interesting naturally formed loop
naturally formed basketball hoop
Beautiful sky , a view from the Lake Ontario waterfront park on lake driveway West
Waterfront Park
Teasels on the waterfront trail at Lake Ontario
September 2021
Stag horn Sumac tree
Hoop
Flowering succulent
Waterfront park
Sky
Flowering shrubs
Flowers
Large Oak tree
Information plaque
Fallen tree
canoe boat launch
Ontario
Ajax
Canada
Pickering
Martin’s photographs
Discovery Bay
Trees
Tall grasses
Sunset
March 2020
Favourites
IPhone XR
Squires Beach
Duffins Creek
Duffins Marsh
Waterfront Trail
Rotary Park
Lake Ontario
Rod iron fence
Bridge
Bridge across Duffins Creek
Twilight
Sticks
Stones
Fallen trees
Fallen tree
Fungi
Mushrooms
Cropped photograph
Beach
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Tall grasses
River
Duffins marsh
Duffins creek
Duffins trail
IPhone 6s
In our earth-lab, a life form has existed randomly, thanks to the reaction of atoms of the ingredients which were already there, in the lab, for the creation of this life form. It has started to develop and expand on the earth, randomly. Later, after billions of years, it got conscious, randomly , but not all life forms have headed to the same direction. The evolution occurred according "the tree of life”.
Speculation:
Big bang has sealed the fate of our future by creating the atom based universe, like all the necessary ingredients were put in a beaker, in a chemical lab, to become the expected ( not randomly) chemical solution.
A life form is the expected result, depending of the time, of the existence and reaction of ingredients in a beaker.
Toute rayonnante au coucher du soleil...
Réservoir Beaudet, Victoriaville, Qc.
Merci de vos visites, commentaires et favoris !
Thank you for your visits, comment's and favorites !
Single Form, by Barbara Hepworth.
This sculpture stands in Battersea Park London, on the South shore of the lake, and is a smaller version of the one that stands at the United Nations in New York.
The first cast was made in 1963, and was displayed in an open air sculpture exhibition in Battersea Park.
In October that year, It was was shipped to America. It was donated to the Johns Hopkins University, and displayed in Washington D.C.
A second cast was also made in 1963, and was bought by the London County Council and installed at Battersea Park. (pictured here)
Hepworth doubled the size for a casting that would become the largest bronze artwork ever cast at Morris Singer's London foundry.
It was commissioned for the United Nations building, and was erected in New York in May 1964. This bigger version weighs 5.5 tonnes, and stands 6.4m high.
It has now stood at the United Nations for 60 years.
Pentax K-3 mk lll
SMC Pentax-DA* 50-135mm f2.8 ED [IF] SDM
form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Although the common image of graffiti is a stylistic symbol or phrase spray-painted on a wall by a member of a street gang, some graffiti is not gang-related.
Zwei rote Zebras in Form von 189 901 und 905 bespannten am 15. November 2024 den KLV-Zug DGS 43821 von Bremen Grolland nach Verona Q.E. ab München Ost Rbf für die Fahrt über den Brennerpass. Die einheitlich mit Aufliegern der Speditionen Terratrans und paneuropa beladene Leistung befindet sich hier im deutschen Teil des Inntals und wird nach wenigen Kilometern Kufstein erreichen.
Two "red zebras" in the form of 189 901 and 905 hauled the intermodal train DGS 43821 from Bremen Grolland to Verona Q.E. from Munich Ost Rbf for the journey over the Brenner Pass on 15 November 2024. The service, uniformly loaded with trailers from Terratrans and paneuropa, is located here in the German part of the Inn Valley and will reach Kufstein after a few kilometres.
The "AP Hogeschool Antwerpen" is an interesting piece of architecture. This shot was taken on a rainy day - just between to showers :)
FENCH
Mon troisième jour sur Séoul. Une matinée où je traîne encore dans les quartiers environnants la "Galerie K" où j'expose. L'art me semble présent ici et partout, s'affichant sous de si nombreuses formes. Ici aussi, comme à Tokyo, des immeubles peuvent être entièrement consacrés à une galerie unique. Eaux et gaz à tous les étages. Dans l'un d'entre eux, je ne croiserais pas âme qui vive sur 4 étages. Je finirai sur sa terrasse à succomber à l'enivrement des lieux et de la cité. Après un déjeuner délicieux composé surtout d'une poule cuite au bouillon, farcie de riz aromatisé, je file vers l'ambassade des Etats Unis, en passant par le bâtiment 119, histoire de prendre la température suite à l'énorme manifestation de la veille. Calme plat, flics un peu partout. Là se trouve aussi l'immense Palais royal de Gyeongbokgung. Un lieu où tout est vaste. Ici le mystère s'établit pas à pas devant vos yeux. J'y pénétrerai le lendemain et assisterai même à la levée de sa garde. Un peu plus tard après une nouvelle douche à l'hôtel, je reprendrai ma marche errante dans la nuit de Séoul. Le GPS sera ma boussole en des lieux que je ne saurai nommer, désolé.
ENGLISH
My third day on Seoul. A morning where I still hang in the surrounding neighborhoods "Gallery K" where I expose. Art seems to me here and everywhere, appearing in so many forms. Here too, as in Tokyo, buildings can be entirely dedicated to a single gallery. Water and gas on all floors. In one of them, where I would not cross a living soul on 4 floors. I will finish on his terrace to succumb to the intoxication of the place and the city. After a delicious lunch consisting mostly of a chicken cooked in broth, stuffed with flavored rice, I go to the Embassy of the United States, through building 119, just to take the temperature following the huge demonstration of the day before. Quiet flat, cops everywhere. There is also the huge royal palace of Gyeongbokgung. A place where everything is vast. Here the mystery is established step by step before your eyes. I will enter the next day and will even attend the lifting of his guard. A little later after a new shower at the hotel, I will resume my wandering walk in the night of Seoul. The GPS will be my compass in places that I can not name,sorry.
La chapelle de style néo-gothique et sa nef en forme de carène fait référence à la vocation de lieu de culte pour les marins de l’endroit.
Silhouette de pierre, coiffée d’un toit à deux pentes, recouvert d’ardoises, et aux façades en pierre de taille, ornée de gargouilles à têtes de poisson.
Elle fut édifiée à la suite d’une mission prêchée par le Révérend Père Michel en 1854, les habitants décidèrent d’élever une chapelle dédiée à la Sainte Vierge.
Les marins portèrent à dos et à bras les matériaux destinés à l’édifice.
Le 6 août 1856, elle fut bénie chapelle des pêcheurs et des marins.
L’occupant allemand décida de sa destruction en 1942.
C’est seulement après sa reconstruction en 1950, qu’elle sera rebaptisée sous son nom actuel de « Notre Dame de la Garde » lors d’une bénédiction faite par Monseigneur Martin, alors archevêque de Rouen et sous l’égide de René Coty, Vice Président du Conseil de la République.
Les aménagements intérieurs furent bénis dans un second temps par Monseigneur Lemonnier, Evêque auxiliaire de Rouen.
Cette chapelle très différente de la précédente est l’œuvre de l’architecte Arthur Giraudet et de Monsieur Lanfry, entrepreneur à Rouen, qui a suivi l’exécution des travaux.
De style architectural néo-gothique, sa principale caractéristique est sa nef en forme de carène. La charpente doublée de frise rappellera un milieu bien familier aux marins.
Si l’autel est surélevé de quelques marches, la sacristie elle est semi-enterrée. Six ouvertures aux vitres simples seront crées, puis certaines seront définitivement occultées.
Les vitraux existants seront réalisés en 1964, en dalles de verre par l’atelier Degusseau. Une grille protège l’accès de la chapelle. Sur son devant, à environ 30 m en bordure de falaise, un banc serait dédié à un couple qui avait pour habitude de venir sur le site, il attend les prochains visiteurs qui auront envie de découvrir cette vue absolument incroyable.
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the sun is a sharp chisel, carving light into the tiled floor.
the shopping cart casts a shadow of industrial purpose, a precise grid.
nearby, the soft curve of another shadow, drawn by an unseen lamp.
it shapes the space, an artificial sun in an artificial world.
between form and function, a silent geometry of commerce unfolds.
Das Reichstagsgebäude
ein Nationalsymbol Deutschlands, wurde nach Plänen des Architekten Paul Wallot zwischen 1884 und 1894 im Stil der Neorenaissance im Ortsteil Tiergarten am linken Ufer der Spree errichtet. Er beherbergte sowohl den Reichstag des Deutschen Kaiserreiches als auch den der Weimarer Republik. Zunächst tagte dort auch der Bundesrat des Kaiserreichs. Nach schweren Beschädigungen durch den Reichstagsbrand von 1933 und den Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde das Gebäude in den 1960er Jahren in modernisierter Form wiederhergestellt und diente Ausstellungen und Sonderveranstaltungen. Von 1995 bis 1999 wurde der Reichstag für die 1991 beschlossene dauerhafte Nutzung als Parlamentsgebäude von Norman Foster grundlegend umgestaltet. Am 19. April 1999 fand die Schlüsselübergabe an Bundestagspräsident Wolfgang Thierse statt. Seither tagt dort der Deutsche Bundestag. Eine Landmarke im Stadtbild ist die begehbare Glaskuppel über dem Plenarsaal nach einer Idee von Gottfried Böhm.
Der Reichstag gilt mit jährlich fast drei Millionen Besuchern als das weltweit meistbesuchte Parlamentsgebäude
Exotic! Coral like. Brilliant in color and form.
This is a strange one! The tree is very large and tall but the flowers all hang from stems 10 feet or so from the ground so it seems like they're growing on a vine attached to the tree rather than the tree itself! These are called cauliflorous... flowers that grow from the trunk.
In the rainforests of South American, fruits of the Cannonball tree sway and clash in the wind, creating loud noises like artillery fire! These fruits really do resemble big, rusty cannonballs as they hang in clusters on the side of the tree attached to rope like tangles that emerge directly from the trunk.
The Cannonball tree’s beautifully complex and fragrant flowers resemble huge orchids. At night the flowers become particularly pungent in order to attract swift-flying pollinators. This particular Cannonball tree was collected in 1913 at Jamaica’s Hope Gardens and has flourished at Fairchild since it was planted here in 1938."
Couroupita guianensis, whose common names include Ayahuma and the Cannonball Tree, is an evergreen tree allied to the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa), and is native to tropical northern South America and to the southern Caribbean. In India it has been growing for the past two or three thousand years at least, as attested by textual records; hence it is possible that it is native to India also. It's part of the family Lecythidaceae and grows up to 25m (82ft) in height. The "Cannonball Tree" is so called because of its brown cannon-ball-like fruits. The majority of these trees outside their natural environment have been planted as a botanical curiosity, as they grow very large, distinctive flowers. Its flowers are orange, scarlet and pink in color, and form large bunches measuring up to 3m in length. They produce large spherical and woody fruits ranging from 15 to 24cm in diameter, containing up to 200 or 300 seeds apiece.
Cannonball Tree, Couroupita guianensis
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
Mechanische Aufbaudrillmaschine SITERA 3000 mit 3,00 m Arbeitsbreite ist mit einer Kreiselegge bestückt.
Steyr 6195CVT leistet 196PS und ist von 2005-2007 produziert worden. Der 6195 ersetzte 2005 den 6190 der ab 2003 in gleicher form gebaut wurde.
Wie bei CNH üblich, hatte diese Steyr Baureihe auch blaue und rote Schwestermodelle in Form von New Holland TVT195 und Case IH CVX 1195.
The common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family. The male is brightly coloured with a blue-grey cap and rust-red underparts. The female is much duller in colouring, but both sexes have two contrasting white wing bars and white sides to the tail. The male bird has a strong voice and sings from exposed perches to attract a mate.
The chaffinch breeds in much of Europe, across the Palearctic to Siberia and in northwestern Africa. The female builds a nest with a deep cup in the fork of a tree. The clutch is typically four or five eggs, which hatch in about 13 days. The chicks fledge in around 14 days, but are fed by both adults for several weeks after leaving the nest. Outside the breeding season, chaffinches form flocks in open countryside and forage for seeds on the ground. During the breeding season, they forage on trees for invertebrates, especially caterpillars, and feed these to their young. They are partial migrants; birds breeding in warmer regions are sedentary, while those breeding in the colder northern areas of their range winter further south.
The rock formation "Twelve Apostles" in morning light. Australia is still closed for most tourists. So, all we have left are "postcards" like this one.
"Die zwölf Apostel" strahlen in der Morgensonne. Australien ist immer noch für die meisten Touristen geschlossen. Also, bleiben uns nur "Postkarten" wie diese.