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Like so many, we experience cabin fever after spending weeks at home in isolation. We escaped to nature for a photoshoot at a nearby trail in Cupertino, California. We had fun experimenting with different poses. Here she is sitting on a wooden bridge in a meditative state.
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Namtso is one of the three holy lakes in Tibet and significant for Tibetan Buddhists. Kora is a Tibetan word that means "circumambulation" or "revolution". Kora is both a type of pilgrimage and a type of meditative practice in the Tibetan Buddhism. Thus, Namtso Kora means pilgrimage walk around the Lake Namtso.
Namtso literally means heavenly lake in Tibetan language. Located around 240km northwest of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, it takes four hours’ driving from Lhasa. Extending 70 km from east to west and 30 km from south to north, the lake covers an area of 1,920 sq km and has an altitude of 4748 m above sea level. It is biggest lake in Tibet and the second biggest salt lake in China as well as one of the highest lakes in the world. The water in the lake is crystally clear and blue. The blue sky joins the surface of the lake in the distance, creating an integrated, scenic vista.
In every Tibetan year of sheep, thousands of Tibetan Buddhism believers will come here to worship this sacred lake. As a rule, they will walk clockwise along the Namtso Lake in order to receive the blessing of the gods.
There are several fine Tibet treks around the lake. The shortest one is roughly 4 kilometers and takes less than one hour. It starts from the accommodation area to a hermit’s cave hidden behind a large spinter of rock. The kora continues to a rocky promontory of cairns and prayer flags. At the promontory, pilgrims undertake a ritural washing in the lake. And then the trail continues past several caves and a prostration point where there are two rock towers looking like two hands. Pilgrims squeeze into the deep slices of the nearby cliff face as a means of sin detection or drink water dripping from cave roofs, even swallow holy dirt.
Namtso is one of the three holy lakes in Tibet and significant for Tibetan Buddhists. Kora is a Tibetan word that means "circumambulation" or "revolution". Kora is both a type of pilgrimage and a type of meditative practice in the Tibetan Buddhism. Thus, Namtso Kora means pilgrimage walk around the Lake Namtso.
Namtso literally means heavenly lake in Tibetan language. Located around 240km northwest of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, it takes four hours’ driving from Lhasa. Extending 70 km from east to west and 30 km from south to north, the lake covers an area of 1,920 sq km and has an altitude of 4748 m above sea level. It is biggest lake in Tibet and the second biggest salt lake in China as well as one of the highest lakes in the world. The water in the lake is crystally clear and blue. The blue sky joins the surface of the lake in the distance, creating an integrated, scenic vista.
In every Tibetan year of sheep, thousands of Tibetan Buddhism believers will come here to worship this sacred lake. As a rule, they will walk clockwise along the Namtso Lake in order to receive the blessing of the gods.
There are several fine Tibet treks around the lake. The shortest one is roughly 4 kilometers and takes less than one hour. It starts from the accommodation area to a hermit’s cave hidden behind a large spinter of rock. The kora continues to a rocky promontory of cairns and prayer flags. At the promontory, pilgrims undertake a ritural washing in the lake. And then the trail continues past several caves and a prostration point where there are two rock towers looking like two hands. Pilgrims squeeze into the deep slices of the nearby cliff face as a means of sin detection or drink water dripping from cave roofs, even swallow holy dirt.
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This look-up of Wolfgang Buttress' "The Hive" was captured beneath the open-air structure which recently opened inside Kew Gardens. The abstract installation is 17 metres tall and weighs close to 40 tonnes, with its 170,000-piece aluminium latticework originally forming the centrepiece of the UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo, where it won the gold-medal for best pavilion.
At a distance the structure resembles a giant swarm of bees, but standing inside it is an immersive and strangely serene experience, with 1,000 LED luminaries and a low meditative humming both controlled by the activity of bees inside an actual hive located nearby. The installation is also intended to highlight the worrying decline in bee population in the UK, and to provide a visual symbol of their role in feeding the planet given that they pollinate 70 of the most important crops we eat.
Between my visits to the location, the installation was heavily advertised across London's underground stations and saw a significant influx of visitors during the school holidays, effectively removing the opportunity to photograph the structure when it's empty. Kew Gardens was already the 15th most-visited attraction in the UK last year, and given the installation's upper-tier glass floor and its educational elements, it's easy to see the family-friendly appeal. During my first visit, however, I was able to capture the image I wanted, narrowly missing several entertaining opportunities to incorporate children into my photo, many of whom had discovered they could crawl across the upper glass floor, peer down at the person holding a camera beneath them and wave enthusiastically. As challenging as it was to capture this shot, it was also a lot of fun.
The image was taken by resting my camera flat on the ground and triggering the shots with a shutter remote. I captured multiple exposures in order to later blend them using luminosity masks in Photoshop, which was invaluable as the mid-morning sun was already high by the time Kew Gardens opened and the darker exposures allowed me to tone down the highlights, while the brighter exposures allowed me to recover the detail in the metal latticework. Once this phase of the workflow was complete, I shifted the balance of the image towards a muted blue tone using a combination of Colour Balance, Selective Colour and Colour Lookup adjustments. After this, I applied a Solid Colour adjustment set to Soft Light, with a layer mask created using Apply Image to target the highlights. Using this, I added a pale yellow tone back into the centre of the image, where sunlight was casting a gentle glow against the aluminium. I then gradually blended in brighter exposures at the centre of the image using a radial Gradient Mask, as well as darker exposures with an inverted version of this Gradient Mask to create a natural vignette. This was important to me as I felt it was what gave the overall image its shape and depth, and the softer and slightly warmer tones at the tip of the structure are what draw the viewer's eye to the centre of the frame.
The final touches were made in Colour Efex Pro, with a sparing amount of the Detail Extractor filter applied to bring out some of the texture in the metalwork, as well as Pro Contrast to intensify the sunlight overhead and give the pattern in the latticework a little more definition. For me, this final stage of editing was when the latticework gained its impact and when it became possible to see how perfectly the structure reflects the natural organisation and arrangement of a bee hive. Despite the industrial and inherently man-made aspects of the metalwork, there's something elegant, organic and fundamentally beautiful about the structure's interlocking pieces and overarching geometry, which perhaps reflects the harmony within nature and underscores the thought that went into this installation's design.
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Photographing in nature is meditative. I feel that the process is one way I can truly lose myself and leave behind some of the weight of these days (which is so very needed!). I hope my images can do the same for someone else.
Patterns as a form of meditative expression.
You can see all of the images in this series by visiting the album this image is linked to, flic.kr/s/aHskvueZLv
Waterfilm is a series filmed since 2012 based on the idea of filming with a freehand camera for a period of exactly one minute. This series illustrates the meditative qualities of water in an urban environment. It is my belief that the close observation of this essential element has the ability to influence our perceptions. Each film is intended to be a short meditation – take your time to feel it, but don’t swim away too far...
Yanomano
caught mid-glide, the gull hovers like a whispered prayer between stone and sky. below her, the blurred cross and church walls seem less fixed, more like echoes. it’s a fleeting gesture of grace — a hymn without words.
This black and white photograph captures the tranquil, almost meditative atmosphere of a secluded garden. Nature surrounds a small, traditional stone lantern standing at the center of a cobblestone path, lending a touch of Zen aesthetic to the scene. Deep shadows and dense foliage create a sense of seclusion, inviting the viewer to immerse in the silence of the moment.
This profoundly moving and almost photo--realistic portrait of a Roman woman around the first century CE
Adventures in Seeing # - Water
These are shallow waters on the lake front where there are narrow sandy beaches. The gentle ripples catch the sunlight as the move back and forth, creating patterns.
I love to spend time near the water.
"It has been shown that being near, in, on or under water can make you happier, healthier, more connected, and better at what you do" from the book "Blue Mind", by Wallace J. Nichols.
A time to reflect...
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I Wish all my flickr friends a wonderful and a very happy new year 2016.
I'm grateful to all of you for your consistent support, inspiration and fruitful criticism throughout the year 2015, without which I couldn't have continued my work at all!!
Wish a lot more wonderful work from you too my friends! I will have all my inspirations and best wishes for you. Remember we all belong to a wonderful and lovely flickr family!!!!!
[A re-posted photograph.......! Straight from the camera! No photo-shop. No superimposition!!]
Parisian film director Neels Castillon combines music and movement with his customary fluidity of style and magnetic energy in F Major—a new track taken from virtuosic Polish pianist Hania Rani’s forthcoming album, Home.
« Listening to Hania’s music over and over, I began to dream of a single sequence shot that would follow her music floating in the wind of an unreal Icelandic landscape, » says Castillon, who asked each dancer (Mellina Boubetra, Janina Sarantšina, Fanny Sage) to interpret the music through movement. « We were very lucky to succeed in this insane artistic performance despite the great cold of minus seven Celsius, it was such a moment of truth. »
With a trio of beguiling dancers moving against Iceland’s dramatic landscape, Castillon creates a sense of perpetual movement that mirrors Rani’s infinite sostenuto and meditative sequence of arpeggios.
directed by Neels Castillon
producer — Louis Arnoux
executive producer — Ariane Cornic
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It is da dedication of its use to da pursuit of da Divine ......
.......which renders it a catalyst to worship
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"Da inherent imagination and spiritual receptivity is definitely influenced by dis differential chemical endowment."
"They say the least beating of wings of a butterfly is able to cause a hurricane on the other side of the world."
"Si dice che il minimo battito d’ali di una farfalla sia in grado di provocare un uragano dall’altra parte del mondo.
Dicono che prima o poi il sole si spegnerà, e rimarremo al buio per sempre.
Dicono che anche se vediamo una stella brillare, potrebbe essersi già spenta.
Dicono che una goccia d'acqua possa erodere la pietra.
E dicono ancora che l'amore non durerà mai in eterno...
Io penso, credo e ti dico, che se la mia vita si basasse su ciò che dicono gli altri
sarebbe un'agonia perenne, senza scampo.
Ed è per questo che non penso, non credo e non dico... ma vivo."
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I spotted these Buddhist prayer cloths over a greve in the woods above Colstrope on my walk last week
P is for pensive, as well as sad, which I am not necessarily feeling these days. The word pensive represents profoundly or severely thoughtful. It feels right here. More often than not, I find myself in this mindstate, contemplative, meditative, or reflective.
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Joel Robison's theme for February is an Alphabet Challenge: one image each day, beginning with letter A.
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