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L’aube des magiciens
Je marche sur les hauteurs de la Grande gorge
Dans la lumière diffuse d’un matin incertain
Une aube imaginée par un magicien.
J’ai, pour seuls repères, mon petit refuge
Et, à l’est, la Muraille
Aussi surnommée la Fin du Monde
Par ceux qui, avant nous, ont habité et compris cette terre.
Sur les hauteurs, le vent empoigne mon corps,
Et la lumière fuyante du matin brumeux,
Emporte ma conscience et mon âme ailleurs.
Ailleurs sur le grand fleuve du temps
Les temps longs qui ont forgé cette vallée
Et les temps courts, ceux qui régulent les espèces vivantes.
Ici, la vie s’accroche à peu de choses.
Et le marcheur doit avoir l’élégance de se comporter comme en « société »*
Car sous ses pieds, des réseaux fragiles
Formés par les racines des arbres, des champignons et des micro organismes
Tissent un internet des bois qui permet aux arbres de communiquer et d’interagir
Pour faciliter la régénération et la survie des leurs.
À la tête de ces réseaux, les arbres Mères, les plus vieux.
Métaphysique? Non, nouvelle frontière d’une écologie forestière
Qui ébranle nos certitudes passées,
Et repousse la frontière de notre compréhension de la nature. **
Les images ne peuvent capter ces émanations mystérieuses de la vie
Mais la conscience et l’âme humaines le peuvent
En cette Aube des Magiciens.
Patrice photographiste, Chroniques du Monde de Poësia
*Formule empruntée à Sylvain Tesson, écrivain et explorateur français
** Voir les travaux de la professeure Suzanne Simard de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique (UBC) (Canada) et son récent livre Finding the Mother Tree : Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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THE DAWN OF THE MAGICIANS
I walk on the heights of the Grande gorge
In the diffuse light of an uncertain morning
A dawn imagined by a magician.
My only point of reference is my little refuge
And, to the east, the Wall
Also known as the End of the World
By those who, before us, lived and understood this land.
On the heights, the wind grabs my body,
And the fleeting light of the misty morning,
Take my conscience and my soul elsewhere.
Elsewhere on the great river of time
The long times that forged this valley
And short times, those that regulate living species.
Here, life hangs on a little.
And the walker must have the elegance to behave as in "society" *
Because under his feet, fragile networks
Formed by tree roots, fungi and microorganisms
Weave an internet of the woods that allows trees to communicate and interact
To facilitate the regeneration and survival of their own.
At the head of these networks, the older Mother trees.
Metaphysical? No, new frontier of forest ecology
Which shakes our past certainties,
And pushes back the frontier of our understanding of nature. **
Images cannot capture these mysterious emanations of life
But human conscience and soul can
On this Dawn of the Magicians.
Patrice photographist, Chroniques of the Lands of Poësia
* Formula borrowed from Sylvain Tesson, French writer and explorer
** See the work of Professor Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia (UBC) (Canada) and her recent book : Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.
Als besonders erstrebenswert gilt es für strenggläubige Hindus, in Varanasi im Ganges zu baden, sowie dort einmal zu sterben und verbrannt zu werden. Entlang des Flusses ziehen sich kilometerlange, stufenartige Uferbefestigungen hin, die Ghats, an denen auf der einen Seite die Gläubigen im Wasser des für sie heiligen Flusses baden und wenige Meter weiter die Leichen der Verstorbenen verbrannt werden. Die Asche streut man anschließend ins Wasser. Ein Bad im Ganges soll von Sünden reinigen, in Varanasi zu sterben und verbrannt zu werden, ist der hinduistischen Mythologie zufolge, der Ausbruch aus dem ständigen Kreislauf der Wiedergeburt.
The Ghats in Varanasi are world-renowned embankments made in steps of stone slabs along the river bank where pilgrims perform ritual ablutions. The ghats are an integral complement to the Hindu concept of divinity represented in physical, metaphysical, and supernatural elements.[90] Varanasi has at least 84 ghats, most of which are used for bathing by pilgrims and spiritually significant Hindu puja ceremony, while a few are used exclusively as Hindu cremation sites. Steps in the ghats lead to the banks of Ganges, including the Dashashwamedh Ghat, the Manikarnika Ghat, the Panchganga Ghat, and the Harishchandra Ghat, where Hindus cremate their dead. Many ghats are associated with Hindu legends and several are now privately owned.
Many of the ghats were constructed under the patronage of the Marathas, Shindes (Scindias), Holkars, Bhonsles, and Peshwas. Most are bathing ghats, while others are used as cremation sites. A morning boat ride on the Ganges across the ghats is a popular tourist attraction. The extensive stretches of ghats in Varanasi enhance the riverfront with a multitude of shrines, temples, and palaces built "tier on tier above the water's edge".
Church of St. Peter, Portovenere, Italy
It is a Roman Catholic church from the 12th century, located in the famous Gulf of Poets (nearby is Byron's Cave, where the poet Byron used to swim) in the province of La Spezia.
The church sits on the tip of a rocky promontory, where once was the site of a Temple to Venus (Venere in Italian), after whom Portovenere was named.
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Houston, TX
30 sec. daytime
NIKON D800E + NIKON 24-70mm /2.8
Filter: ND X1000
Long exposure that turns people into ghosts. The checkerboard square becomes a metaphysical space – the seated figures are solid, the moving figures are dissolved. It is a meditation on time as stratification: those who stand still leave traces, those who move disappear. There is a deep melancholy in this photo – it almost seems like a memory, not a present. Fog or gray sky above adds a sense of temporal suspension.
Metaphysical Painting or SL sunset02
Homage to Rene Magritte.
For [Visions of Surreal]
If you have free time. Please visit this exhibition.
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[Visions of Surreal]
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Blip Mumfuzz
CherryCarr
LeanaJuline
Mareea Farrasco
Micky Siamendes
nekonuko Nakamori
Shakespeare
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tutsy Navarathna
Taxi
As the marvelously metaphysical Monkees once said in a very different context, "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday"... ;-)
Model: Skye McLeod Fairywren
Female Robot Avatar: Frost Kit (FK!)
Headpiece: Lily (ice) by
Riding Horse by Water Horse with iHorse Robot mod & cyber saddle & bridle (with ao) by JINX
SIM: Echoes, Metaphysics of frequencies @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA24/131/175/24
Created for The Dark Side of the Light Contest 9 - Signs and Portents: www.flickr.com/groups/thedarksideofthelight/discuss/72157...
Created for The Blind Pig Speakeasy Haunted House activity thread: www.flickr.com/groups/photopigs/discuss/72157647106658699/
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[Henry Cartier Bresson]
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Metaphysical Painting or SL sunset01
Homage to G De Chirico.
For [Visions of Surreal]
If you have free time. Please visit this exhibition.
IMAGO Art Gallery Presents
[Visions of Surreal]
—Artists—
Blip Mumfuzz
CherryCarr
LeanaJuline
Mareea Farrasco
Micky Siamendes
nekonuko Nakamori
Shakespeare
The Wolf FR
tutsy Navarathna
Taxi
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Unusual for me to take a photo, process it and post it within 24 hours but I did with this! (do I hear rapturous applause? - no, thought not! hehe)
It's a scene from Stanton Moor in the north of the peak district, a lovely serene place with a real feel feel for ancient history, stone circle, standing stones, burial mounds, etc - and lots of Birch woodland.
This is two side by side shots stitched together and Andyfied - various blurring techniques then I made two copies, slightly bloated one and then merged the two slightly to give it a nice hallucinogenic feel. Finally, two copies again, one colour and and one B&W with a top to bottom merge at reduced transparency just to make sure you see the LSD goblins chasing around!
Looking up, a deep philoshophical, spiritual and metaphysical act, tearing apart the very essence of one's existence...
Location, Lemnos island, Hellas.
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Ligurian sea (Italy)
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snowshoeing in the Southern Adirondacks. 518. 1/4 sec. at f/16 with 5 stops of neutral density. Pentax K3. 8 degrees F.
A view of the Gulf of Trieste, with the futuristic sailing ship SY A at anchor.
www.vesselfinder.com/it/vessels/details/1012141
Colpo d occhio sul golfo di Trieste, che ospita l'avveniristico veliero SY A ancorato in rada.
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La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.
This very accurately describes my thoughts as I viewed this scene at the end of my first visit to Yellowstone.
London, UK
June 2016
We experience the physical and metaphysical aspects of time. We often say "time flies", but what has moved?
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Italia, Emilia-Romagna, Tresigallo, Primavera 2023
Tresigallo è un comune italiano vicino a Ferrara, in Emilia-Romagna, Italia. Nonostante le sue origini medievali, fu trasformata da un ministro dell'agricoltura fascista in una città utopica dal 1927 al 1934, secondo i canoni dell'architettura razionalista. Due assi sono stati tracciati attraverso il paese per collegare i principali aspetti della vita quotidiana: sull'asse orizzontale c'erano la Chiesa (spiritualità) e la Casa Balilla, un centro giovanile, ribattezzato Casa della G.I.L (Gioventù Italiana del Littorio); sull'asse verticale c'era il centro civico (vita quotidiana) e il cimitero (memoria). L'edificio su cui campeggia una grande scritta “SOGNI”, è uno dei simboli della città metafisica. Inizialmente era destinato a spogliatoio e bagno per i giovani appartenenti alle formazioni propagandistiche del regime.
Tresigallo is an Italian town near Ferrara, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Despite its medieval origins, it was transformed by a Fascist Minister of Agriculture into a utopian city from 1927 to 1934, according to the canons of rationalist architecture. Two axes were drawn across the town in order to link the main aspects of everyday life: on the horizontal axis there was the Church (spirituality) and the Balilla House, a youth center, renamed Casa della G.I.L (Gioventù Italiana del Littorio); on the vertical axis there was the civic centre (everyday life) and the cemetery (memory). The building on which there is a large sign “SOGNI” (Dreams), is one of the symbols of the metaphysical city. It was initially intended as a dressing room and bath for young people belonging to the propaganda formations of the regime.