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"Knowledge is power" ~ Sir Frances Bacon ... but
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” ~Albert Einstein
At least, that is the motto seen here over a side entrance to the old main building of Hamburg University. It is not that old, only dating from 1911. And it did not start as a university (that happened in 1919, in the Weimar Republic) but a "Kolonialinstitut". Germany before 1918 did have colonies. Knowledge as an instrument of power gets a totally new meaning then. But even later, when being a university, this academic institution was rather particular where its knowledge ought to be invested. For the Jews they did not cry when thousands were assembled next door virtually, at the Moorweide, and deported to their death. Knowledge? Yes. But whose knowledge, whose power? Fuji X-Pro1.
It is common knowledge that, in comparison with murals, a mosaic is more expensive, but more durable kind of fine art. Longevity was a very useful property, given the difficult fate of the church after the revolution.
Unlike the mosaics of St. Isaac's Cathedral, which reproduced previously created works of oil painting, the original stories of the Savior on the Spilled Blood were immediately written in the calculation for their execution in the smalt. Inside the temple there is not a single painting work. An amazing carpet of beautiful mosaic paintings covers the whole interior of the temple.
This is not a flower commonly seen in Cape Town - as far as my knowledge goes - but it seems to thrive in the Elgin climate. I'm so taken by the incredible range of colours.
Common names: Columbine, Granny's bonnet.
Genus: Aquilegia (from the Latin for 'eagle').
Family: Ranunculaceae.
Taken at Fresh Woods during Elgin Open Gardens 2016, Western Cape, South Africa.
Wheal Owles Mine (pronounced 'Oals') is located on the cliffs on the north coast of Cornwall, about a mile and a half northeast of Cape Cornwall in the St. Just mining area of north Penwith district. The mine is thought to have been an amalgamation of several smaller and more ancient mines including Wheal Drea, Wheal Edward and Wheal Gendall.
More photographs can be found here: www.jhluxton.com/Industrial-Archaeology/Mines-of-Devon-Co...
To the southwest lies the area worked by Boswedden Mine whilst to the northeast lies the sett of Botallack Mines including the Crowns Mine, Parknoweth, Wheal Chase and Wheal Hen.
There is known to have been a mine in this general area from the 1700's but Wheal Owles' best years were during the decade 1860-70. Wheal Owles continued working until January 10, 1893. On that date about 40 miners were working in the undersea levels of Wheal Owles and some 400 feet below adit level when they accidentally holed into the flooded old workings of Wheal Drea Mine. The inundation resulted in twenty fatalities. None of the bodies were recovered and the mine never reopened.
The area is now part of the National Trust Tin Coast designated area.
In the 1960s when I was around 7 or 8 and already had a developing interest in Cornish Mining my mother took me for a walk around this site. Neither my mother nor myself had any knowledge of the disaster and I was quite happy to explore. However, for some inexplicable reason my mother urged me to leave and she hurried me away, later informing me she had a really bad feeling about the place and just wanted to get away. A few years later, in my early teens I read a history of mines in the area and found out about the Wheal Owles Disaster. Now I can’t say I felt anything peculiar about the site in the 1960s as a child nor on subsequent visits I have made .
[...] Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star [...]
-- Quote by Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Rome, Italy (March, 2008)
Här kommer mitt bidrag till fotosöndags veckotemat - kunskap.
Denna gången så var det min dotter som satt modell. Det roliga var att jag ville ha en annan komposition. Men halvvägs genom sittningen så kliade hon sig på huvudet och hennes uttryck var perfekt. Så vi tog det i stället lol.
My contribution to fotosöndag's weekly challenge - knowledge.
This time my daughter was the model. It was funny as I wanted to go for a totally different shot but half way through posing she scratched her head and the expression on her face was perfect. So we went with that instead lol.
If you've a head for hedge mazes, you will be rewarded at the end by entrance to a vast and breath-taking library. Who knows what knowledge might lay between those pages!
st michael's hospital; pedestrian bridge between the new research and education building (north) and the old patient care building (south)
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute; International Centre for Healthcare Education & Research;
Doors Open Toronto 2011
July 7, 2014 - Kearney Nebraska US
*** Personal Note ***
This is the original set back in 2014. If there was any type of editing done, I used the free Avery photo editor here Flickr. My Opinion... it wasn't the best but I had no prior knowledge of editing them back then. Plus I only shot in .jpg format not in .raw and I didn't do the best by over coloring and over saturation. There are some in this set this way. I was very under experienced in photo editing back then.
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Always good storm chasing stories to tell about my weather adventures in 2014.
Days right after my knee replacement... Home from the hospital & I definitely wasn't supposed to be out and about. Knee was almost in a cast and I wasn't supposed to be doing anything to aggravate the situation. Though my quest for severe weather never ends and I wasn't going to miss another possible chase especially when its in my backyard. This storm was going to be a photogenic monster... Decision was made & off I went.
Stepped out to the front of the house and directly due southeast of Kearney was this incredible thunderhead display on the back side of this storm. The sun had finally peaked out from the western cloud cover and was really illuminating the back side of this storm.
Another epic set of thunderstorm captures from South Central Nebraska. Though I paid for it with my knee just being replaced. I was super sore and the swelling was unreal a few days after this event. All worth it when it comes to what epic views I caught storm chasing on that particular day!
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For “Knowledge is Golden” the inspiration was specific to the area which the mural was done. San Francisco is seeing its second gold rush with information and knowledge being the currency of today. SOMA, being slated to be developed as the new downtown of San Francisco with technology leading the transformation, is why we chose this location for our message.
Gold miners have been replaced by tech innovators. Pickaxes and shovels have been replaced with laptops and desktops. Though the times have changed, the human thirst for chasing opportunity remains prevalent in these times. And with this influx of new people, San Francisco culture as we know it will never be the same.
This is part of a series of cyanotypes based on images generated with a prompt referencing Jacques Derrida’s On Grammatology, about the connoction of text to knowledge.
Cyanotype, 21 x 21 cm on 28 x 28 cm sheet og Saunders Waterford 300g HP natural paper, limited edition of 16.
Stable diffusion generated the original image, further post-produced in On1 Resize AI, Affinity Design, and Capture One. PiezoDN produced the digital negative. More information here: hlynur.art/arkifa/not-a-knowledge-at-all/
Zenza Bronica SQ-A | Zenzanon-S 80mm f/2.8 | Kodak E100 VS expired 04/2012
Paris - Juin 2016
Loading some quality film in the Pentax.
Ever had the urge to blurt out that you are a cross-dresser? I have!
In fact, I have succumbed to this urge a few times and I can say though many were positive with their reaction once it went very badly and I had inadvertently given someone knowledge they proceeded to use against me. It was not the most comfortable of outcomes.
So coming out as a cross-dresser, why tell anyone? I do feel some people need to know, in my case my wife and family. I did not want it to remain a secret in our lives. However, I have come out to others who are not family but I have many tears of trust with them. My mistake was at times I was bursting with an urge to just tell people and quite frankly it was truly reckless frame of mind to be in.
So I made a big mistake with one person and could only stop them using my secret cross-dressing activities being used to cause me trouble in my working life buy having to come out to more people than I really wanted to. It did at least wipe out the hold the person who despised me for being a cross-dresser thought they could have over me. It was an unpleasant time and it upset my family.
So during my last cross-dressing in March I thought I would record a short video on coming out and my own take it on which is be cautious! Of course, this is just my own view and each of us will feel differently about coming out. I know some people are very open and uninhibited. My own situation is I need to stay protective of my family and my job as I need to provide a stable income to support those I love dearly.
My moments of reckless desire to tell the world I love dressing up as a woman need to be contained. I am now very careful who I come out to. Others have come out to me about their own lives and sexuality so I know we have mutual respect and trust with each other.
I would definitely urge caution. Coming out has it’s immediate moment of euphoria and liberation that you have told someone but the long term consequence is they now know something about you that could potentially cause you big problems in your life if they don’t respect the secret you just shared or they decide to use that new knowledge against you.
Resist the urge to tell! Think carefully about who you decide to share this part of your life with.
Memorial Library — haunted knowledge. Image three hundred and eighteen of my project 365. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
God's Utterance "God Himself, the Unique (III) God's Authority (II)" (Part Three)
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/gods-authority-2-part-three/
God's words in this video are from the book "Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh".
The content of this video:
Progeny: The Fifth Juncture
1. One Has No Control Over What Becomes of One's Offspring
2. After Raising the Next Generation, People Gain a New Understanding of Fate
3. Believing in Fate Is No Substitute for a Knowledge of the Creator’s Sovereignty
4. Only Those Who Submit to the Creator’s Sovereignty Can Attain True Freedom
Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God was created because of the appearance and work of Almighty God, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, Christ of the last days. It is made up of all those who accept Almighty God's work in the last days and are conquered and saved by His words. It was entirely founded by Almighty God personally and is led by Him as the Shepherd. It was definitely not created by a person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. God's sheep hear God's voice. As long as you read the words of Almighty God, you will see God has appeared.
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Another selfie taken on the evening of 25 November 2018 using my phone’s camera. I increasingly desire to spend more time out in the world as a woman. I should say for the record, my last (and first) trip out in public dressed as a woman was back in May 2017. That trip out precipitated a huge change within me. I found I had broken free of a lifelong inhibition and inner fear of the knowledge that deep down I wanted to be a woman.
Walking across a village square in the gentle warm breeze of an early summers day in Perthshire, Scotland I felt elation like I had never previously experienced in my life. I was finally a woman! I was outside, as a woman, walking in public and passing other people and I was amazed it was happening. The euphoria of that day still lingers within me despite the passage of time, I was free! The real me was free and out there!
I reacted emotionally in a way I never do as a man and was rather overcome. I don’t mind admitting that despite my joy, I was also a bit tearful for having wasted so many years avoiding this moment and I had only myself to blame for that.
After my day out as a woman in the Perthshire countryside everything changed in my head, I knew from now on I could actually do this, I could venture out as a woman. I have no intention of transitioning despite knowing I am transsexual as I have a life I do not wish give up and people who are precious to me and mean more to me than my own desire to be female. I can settle for being honest with myself and the occasional trip out as a woman.
One of the effects from that day has been a real need to try and look female physically. This means not just my body but also my face. This is, I admit, a bit of a problem. I have worked on my body physicality a lot over the last year and I am fortunate to be small for a man and not too masculine to start with. In a few weeks I will be 60 years of age so time is against me, I left all of this far too late, why oh why did I not do this when I was 18? I was terrified and full of fear about it, that’s why! I let that fear control me and squander my opportunities.
Now my face is ageing, I don’t have feminine skin and I do have to make compromises so my regular male appearance does not show too many obvious signs that I prefer to feminise my appearance. This is a concession to my family as I know I would push it a lot further left to my own motivations.
I will confess I now have an obsession about wanting to pass in bright daylight as a woman. This means if I am close to people, such as an exchange in a shop or cafe with other people, I want to look female facially even if I have less than ideal skin. My beard area is not at all smooth and requires a lot of make-up to disguise the dark shadow. I enjoy wearing make-up, it does boost my confidence so I’m okay with wearing somewhat heavier make-up compared to what many women may apply to their faces. I have noticed there are a lot of women who wear similar amounts of make-up as I do so I can happily fit myself into that group of women, I’m not self conscious about it.
All of this inner desire to pass as a woman in the real world has led me to taking selfies in less than ideal lighting to try and reveal the realties of my appearance when I cross-dress as a woman. I am not young, I’m not a babe, I’m not gorgeous, I have lines on my face, but I wonder can I do it? Can I look female despite my limitations and the fact I am a man?
All of this is a huge motivation for me to push myself as far as I can physically and mentally to assume a female appearance and persona and to modify my behaviour so that when I become Helene I can switch gender completely, albeit I admit, on a temporary basis.
The Sunday evening I dressed and became Helene, my female alter-ego, I wore a dress I had bought a few months ago and been saving for my next cross-dressing opportunity. It was fitted scoop neck dress with a zip up front, three quarter length sleeves in a shade of blue I thought may suit me. I partnered the dress with a pair of yellow sling-back platform shoes and chose a longer hair style from wig collection. I was keen to see if my efforts to lose weight and achieve a slimmer physical body would work. I had been steadily losing weight for many months but fearful of making myself ill so I put in an effort to stay fit and healthy and eat as healthily as possible. I have managed to stop eating any kind of junk food, no more chocolate, no more biscuits, no more cakes. Sounds grim? Actually, it’s not bad once you manage to lose the craving and I switched to eating fruit when previously I may have gone in for a wee snack of chocolate or cakes.
All of this reaped its reward for me as after applying my make-up when I slipped on the blue dress and zipped it up, donned my wig and fastened the straps on my sling back high heels and stepped in front of the mirror I was overcome. I do require the addition of breast forms and a hip shaper but I felt I had finally got a female silhouette in terms of body shape. I had completely shaved off all my body hair, which felt absolutely incredible after not having done so for over a year and a half. Now, it was all down to the limitations of my face, the one aspect I can’t do much with apart from try and change it with make-up.
I was rushing, due to my inner excitement, so abandoned shaping my eyebrows a bit too early now I see this picture. Next time I will be more disciplined.
I did take a lot of selfies that evening for the reasons I outlined earlier and they came out a bit grainy due to the low light levels in the room, it is winter now here in Scotland and my cross-dressing opportunity came in the evening so there was no daylight to work with. I have quite a few pictures from that evening and I recorded a few musings on video as I was so excited I simply had to chat about it and the camera became my listener. I did edit a video from ramblings recorded that evening but i exceeded the Flickr maximum running time of 3 minutes, the video is 5 minutes. Should anyone have any interest in seeing it (it is indulgent) it is on You Tube here: youtu.be/FZfQf4IXGD0
For all of the pictures and videos I recorded that evening I used my phone and despite the lower light (not ideal for quality photos) I liked the immediacy and simplicity it gave me in just being able to record something very quickly, it was all rather spontaneous. I intend to explore using my phone a lot more in the future for pictures and video recording in regard to my cross-dressing.
I will finish by saying I am still thrilled and elated from my last cross-dressing session and I am very excited about the coming year. In 2019 I intend to take my female self further than before I venture out as a woman once more. Having got over the barrier last year, I genuinely can’t wait to be out and about as Helene walking amongst others and interacting as a woman. Next year is going to be fun :-)
Alaric de Cournouiller continues his Journey to get to reach the city of Sognéterno. He has found some regenerating roots in Grandcastell Canyo on the way and has discovered a shiny crytal.
After a few days of walk without finding anything good, red dots in the distance caught his attention, it was red mushroom. He wanders if he can truth his knowledge and bring these with him, might be useful.
For the signs and the fences, I got inspired by
LEGO Hanged Man’s Tree - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt"
Happy New year ! The first and certainly the last of the year :)
This is my second moc for the 'Feodalis' role play organized by
Les Bricky Blinders, and it's my also entry second for the ‘Capturing Character’ category of
Brickscalibur, because why not (:
Hope you like it :)
Sorry my knowledge is very limited on ID.
I love the Flickr automatic tags. they have tagged this as food. I may go back and have it on my toast. Wonder if I will have a bad belly afterwards?
That said, I may get a Flickr viewer saying it is edible. Egg on my face then. Sorry about the pun.
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I was slightly annoyed how over exposed the book was, it was difficult to make the arm look natural because of this. However it was all I could get my hands on and I was losing the light quickly so I had to make do. I'm still very happy with this though, it turned out exactly how I wanted it to.