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I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
~ Viktor Frankl
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During college, Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" was my staple. I prefer him over Freud. His psychological theories, for me, are more relevant (because it is based on real human experience--his experience in Auschwitz, and not just a function of the id, ego, and superego.
Anyway, this is for my kabagis, Ge, a.k.a. I Travel East. May you always keep and carry that torch for photography! Keep on shooting bro!
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @35mm
Exif: ƒ11 | ISO 100 | 1/13 sec
Filter: -
Tripod: Manfrotto 055XPROB + Triopo B-3 Ballhead
Flash: not fired
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
(a Sara's shot-under-commission, cropped and edited by dad; I just told her now!)
In the misty morning
When the sun is rising,
When the whole sky is red like blood
Man can realize the real meaning of life
-Amorphis
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I couldn't help it. I was meaning to post another photo, something different, but when I saw this from my old files, I couldn't help but post it. What a breathtaking place -- it sends me daydreaming everytime I go.
Oh, here's a little trivia my friends:
1) The mountain is the subject of the song 'El Capitan' by the Scottish indie band Idlewild.
2) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier opens with a shot of Captain Kirk scaling El Capitan.
3) El Capitan is also a circuit in the Playstation 2 games Gran Turismo 4 and Tourist Trophy.
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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Hooded crow (Corvus cornix)
Meaning behind the name:
Corvus = Latin meaning "Raven" and refers to the family group it belongs to.
Cornix = Latin simply meaning "crow" - nothing special this time unfortunately.
The English word for crow goes back to the Old English era as "Crawe." Many various local names were given to the entire Crow/ Raven family, such as "Croupy craw." It may well have been given to match the "caw" sound they make, as the variants seems to indicate this.
The term "Hooded" comes from Scotland, where the bird gives an appearance of wearing a hood by the black head and throat. It was formally accepted to distinguish from the Carrion Crow by Pennant in 1776, but was already in existence during 1684. Another local name is "Hoodie".
Helios 81N 50mm f/2.0
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The camera in the photo is a USSR made Lubitel 166 of 6X6 film format which I own more than 25years, since I was a kid. It is still full functional and in perfect condition. It is an object of symbolic meaning for me. It was one of the first cameras I owned and it was bought to me by my father. Although I started photography since the age of 11 with a full automatic snapshot camera that was also a gift by father, when I got more involved with photography my father presented to me full manual film cameras with no automation in order to learn the fundamentals of photography. Exposure with no light meter, By calculating the exposure, adjusting shutter speed and Aperture by calculating the light through experience and study of books, light metering charts etc. This experience led me, in the future, in better handling, understanding and use of cameras in order to achieve the desired result in my photos. All these in an age when I use to photograph with film, having to wait for film process to see the results. Through time this knowledge helped me to focus myself better on studying composition techniques. I still have many things to learn though.
The most important thing that the age of film taught me is the value of each click of the shutter in any given situation of photographing. In any case we all to photograph thousands of photos that are not artistic importance but they all do play an important part of self improvement in out personal photography skills.
So a symbolic camera of my small collection of film cameras. We must always remember and pay tribute once in a while to our past. It is from were we started our personal journey and the birth instant of our foundaments in aspects of our lives.
I have done this photo in three versions. A color version, a monochromatic and a light sepia toned which is the one you see. Monochrome was chosen to enhance the feeling of time passed and the light sepia toning to give a light sentimental nostalgic feeling. The lens used is also a vintage nikon f ais mount, Helios 81N 50mm f/2.0 which I own for more than 22years from the time this words are written. Its excellent creamy bokeh and flare creates an excelent mood.
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The meaning of this ancient message in Saguaro National Park is lost. No modern man knows for sure what these petroglyph symbols of the Hohokam culture mean. According to the National Park website, "Current speculation has led some researchers to believe that some petroglyphs or pictographs may tell a story, mark a trail, or commemorate an event."
What story is this? Is this marking the legalities of a territory? A trail? A prayer? Advertisement? A festival? A reminder? Just doodles?
I saw many abstract wheels and spokes at this site. What strikes me is how easily man takes to symbolic representations and conceptual abstractions–or, is this a sign of a later stage of writing development? That is to say that somewhere there should be earlier, less conceptual writing? 🤔
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Signal Hill at Saguaro National Park, Arizona
more (meaning less) from the previously posted borofsky sculpture photo series.
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Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonate minerals left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.
I have been meaning (with lockdown and 'Avoid Contmination Thoughts') to visit the West Pier all year. Last night I got out and headed down. A majical warm evening that has, I think, yeilded results.
I rarely share exif (you have to be in the light, same location and set up if you want the same image) but just for fun: ISO200 f18. Exposure was in the order of 4m 16s at F18 with 4 stop ND + 2 Stop grad ND. I bet you no one asked Money what brand of brushes he used...
I had forgotten how much I love night photograhy and also how much one can get away with in the dark.
Thanks Flickr for the title idea :o)
Hattie.. always searching for something..
Got the sigma lens out today.. searching for bugs for tomorrow's challenge. Camera weighs a ton with that thing on! Forgot how much I like it though..
Photo of Mount Shasta and its satellite cone Shastina, located to the right, elevation 14,179 feet above sea-level, captured via Minolta MD Rokkor-X 85mm F/1.7 lens. Looking towards the Shasta-Cascade & California Cascades Eastside Conifer Forest sections within the Cascades Range. Shasta-Trinity National Forest. North State. Siskiyou County, Northern California. "State of Jefferson." Late July 2020.
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6200 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Provia 100F
I've been meaning to tell you
I've got this feeling that won't subside
I look at you and I fantasize
You're mine tonight
Now, I've got you in my sights
With these
Hungry eyes
One look at you and I can't disguise, I've got
Hungry eyes
I feel the magic between you and I...
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Three of the old Doggie Diner pups that used to ride around town on a flatbed trailer, refugees from the former Doggie Diner hot dog stand chain that ruled the San Francisco Bay area between 1949 and 1986, each of these Doggie Heads once stood watch over a store, perched atop a tall pole...
“I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.”
Raymond Chandler
Been meaning to go back to blake dean ( further up hebden waters from hardcastle grags)once the autumn colours start to show and I wasn`t disappointed. .
The day was foggy and misty and was just perfect the colours really stood out .
Given to Tom Watson MP/ British House of Commons (2008)
I want to give another layer to the paintings that I select to collage over. I try to give my own interpretation to the painting without denigrating the original.
Painting:
Virgin Annunicate 1475
by Antonello da Messina
Palermo, Galleria Nazionale della Sicilia
Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing of thermal spring water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.
The ancient Greek city of Hierapolis was built on top of the travertine formation which is in total about 2,700 meters (8,860 ft) long, 600 m (1,970 ft) wide and 160 m (525 ft) high. It can be seen from the hills on the opposite side of the valley in the town of Denizli, 20 km away. This area has been drawing visitors to its thermal springs since the time of classical antiquity. The Turkish name refers to the surface of the shimmering, snow-white limestone, shaped over millennia by calcite-rich springs. Dripping slowly down the mountainside, mineral-rich waters collect in and cascade down the mineral terraces, into pools below.
It was added as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 along with Hierapolis.
(Source: Wikipedia)
[explore #41 on 10.11.08]
well, this one is silly, and shitty, and totally no meaningful.. but why everything has to be meaningful?
I feel empty today.
confession: sometimes the idea that I have to take a good picture everyday really make me stressed. it's like people expect good things from me, but I hardly ever like my shots. I feel under pressure.
at least purple is my favourite color :)
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Nowrūz (Persian language: نوروز [noʊruːz]), meaning 'New Day') is the traditional ancient Iranian festival and also the start day of Iranian "New Year".
Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranian peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some ethnic groups in Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia.
Nowruz marks the first day of Spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Iranians, the same time is celebrated in the Indian sub-continent as the new year. The moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year and Iranian families gather together to observe the rituals.
The term Nowruz in writing, first appeared in Persian records in the second century AD, but it was also an important day during the time of the Achaemenids (c. 648-330 BC), where kings from different nations under the Persian empire used to bring gifts to the emperor also called King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Persia on Nowruz.
The UN's General Assembly in 2010 recognized the International Day of Nowruz, describing it a spring festival of Persian origin which has been celebrated for over 3,000 years.In 2009 Nowrūz was officially registered on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Since 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognizes March 21 as the "International Day of Nowruz".
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
"You weren't expecting to see Death here, were you? Well, let me tell you, I see all the people at the end of their lives."
"Here's the thing about the "Meaning of Life": you can't express the meaning of life in a few words; the meaning comes through really living life. So before you meet me at your end, make your life mean something: love and be loved; be kind and inspire kindness; learn and pass it on; appreciate and create beauty; let yourself be awestruck by nature; let your spirit live. Those who have really lived are not so regretful when Death comes as those who were dead their whole life!"
"I'll be seeing you!"
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Created for this week's Toy Sunday theme, Meaning of Life
Thanks to Wilfred.B for the use of Capbreton as Death's bleak landscape.
(If you you can imagine Death's monologue performed in Vincent Price's voice, you will probably come closest to the tone intended.)
German, meaning ’Back then’
This homestead stands just like it did in the 1850’s
On the east coast of Scania, where you still can see much of the old times.
Sometimes when you look at a photograph, it can seem as though you almost "see " reality in a new way, as though what you normally see is really only a part of the truth. This image is one of those - I have seen this same scene so often, and photographed it too plenty of times, and yet this time the combination of atmosphere and light give it a totally different look. The simplicity of the composition suggests ideas of a glimpse of some of the fundamental meanings of life, rather than what it actually appears to be. Not just my photographs can be like this, plenty of other talented people have produced shots with the same... thought provoking feel - something that makes you stop and really look, and realise that life - even everyday life - is filled with unexplained, unexpected wonder.
Today I went to the library to be part of the Matariki Storytime. Matariki is a Maori festival, now resurrected and made, this year into a NZ public holiday. Melbourne has a very substantial Maori population and this is the first time I have been able to attend. Our Maori storyteller read and sang songs celebrating the meaning of Matariki and handed out this sheet with the star names on it. It is part of an activity pack for kids ( see this link) and celebrates family, food and ancestry.. www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/m...