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Hietaniemi beach, Helsinki.
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Honorable mention Tokyo Foto Awards 2023 - category Architecture
Metaphysics embraces physics, as physics expresses aspects of what is meta. We catch it in moments of balance, when our vision expands across dimensions and we see in depth. It is the sense Blake had when he held infinity in the finite palm of his hand, and eternity for the period of an hour...
… She describes how God created, not to increase goodness, which is already infinite, but to reflect that goodness in the multiple beings of creation. Each can proclaim “I am,” she says, and so echo the divine I AM.
The story of creation unfolds in her account, like a great swoop from eternity, across time, and then back to eternity. The heavens and earth are formed. The beings who inhabit the spheres appear. Humanity falls. Civilizations disintegrate in petty squabbles. Then, surprisingly, she realizes that the fighting and quarrels are a digression.
-Mark Vernon, Dante’s Divine Comedy, A guide for the spiritual journey
Celebrating the publishing of my new monograph Street Metaphysics! The regular 7x7 in. version is now available through Amazon. The special high quality 12x12 in. XL-version is available through Blurb.
The book (62 pages) is divided into 4 sections according to the cities where the images where shot in 2016-2017 (New York, Helsinki, Venice and Prague).
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Book of Shadows pages I created. These are not pre-punched so they can be customized for most any Book of Shadows. These pages are on parchment paper 8.5 x 11 size.
Book of Shadows pages I created. These are not pre-punched so they can be customized for most any Book of Shadows. These pages are on parchment paper 8.5 x 11 size.
this photo dates back to a few decades ago. in my youth I was delighted with shots of this kind as I loved metaphysical painters.
..or should I call it "Sunset #9023984?"
"Terrazza Mascagni" - Leghorn :)
Expired Kodak Gold film, unknown date.
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chance operation + metaphysical intention = strange attraction
(an alternative perspective on the nature of chaos)
i find, at times, that my camera is making exposures that i did not intend. it does this quite a bit, actually - in between shots, on the way to my pocket, switching between camera apps, and so on. these amount, i think, to chance operations, very-close-to-random events that might be considered misfires and discarded were i an actual photographer. but i often find that i like these images, these tiny, overlooked subjects viewed from odd perspectives, blurred by movement, or, simply, out of focus and poorly exposed. so i take this raw material and begin to look more closely, searching for the treasure within, exploring what may lie in the shadows, just below the surface, or hidden in the cascading light. increase the exposure, lighten the shadows, increase the contrast, decrease the contrast, add color, remove color, smear pixels, sharpen the result, knead and shape the pixels, admitting little bits of sensor noise, like salt or leaven, to bring out distinct and tasty characteristics that are there, not there, then there again. and all the while, i watch in wonder. the heart of a something is slowly revealed. sometimes i am able to discern and articulate some meaning in what i see, sometimes not. i continue the conversation, the dance, the follow-me-slowly from here to there until my partner is no longer following my lead, instead choosing to stand on its own, asserting itself in some mysterious way. sigh. i suppose this is not really photography. or is it? does it really matter? there are things in life that i do not understand, cannot explain, that are beautiful and valuable and wholly themselves whether or not i can name them, whether or not i have the vocabulary, the memory to say 'behold the fill-in-the-blank-with-your-own-favorite-subject.' in the end, i think of these images, of this image, as an essence that somehow wanted to be captured, communicating through some arcane mechanism, some inexplicable connection with the tool i have at hand ... and with me. i like that.
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Mercado do Bolhão, Porto.
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Gare de Liège-Guillemins, Belgium.
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Attempting to Uqbar on film.
Milan, June 2021.
135 mm lens, Rollei RPX 25 film.
Perspective adjustment and crop in Darktable.
The University of Saint Andrew is one of the oldest seats of higher education anywhere in the world and I found this location rather interesting. I bet the debates between the students at both of these faculties are intruiging to say the least. It must have been someone with a sense of humour though who decided to sit them right next door to each other.
# Immanuel Kant is one of the influential German philosophers of his time. He was born in the Prussian city of Königsberg, which is today's Kaliningrad located in present day Russia.
# He is known for his ideas in the fields of Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics and Logic.
# His 3 major works are : Critique of Pure Reason (German: Kritik der reinen Vernunft), in 1781 which was his Magnum Opus; Critique of Practical Reason (German: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft), in 1788 and Critique of Judgment (German: Kritik der Urteilskraft), in 1790.
# His philosophy on ethics (Kantian ethics) is considered central in Deontology. His major work, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten), in 1785, explained his philosophy on morality.
# He believed himself to be a compromise between the Empricists and Rationalists of his time and thought that human understanding of Metaphyics can be enhanced or bettered through our study of Epistemology, which is the study of the nature of human knowledge.
# Kant's ideas are studied as Kantianism, and include ideas such as the Categorical imperative, Transcendental Idealism, Deontological Morality, Synthetic A Priori, Noumenon, Schema, Sapere Aude, Nebular hypothesis.
# Though not regarded as a Political Theorist, Kant used his ideas to expound some political views like the classical republican theory which was explained in his work Science of Right.
# The Kingdom of Ends is another thought experiment of Kant which he explained in his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. His is a hypothetical kingdom based on his idea of morality taking shape from the Deontologically moralistic idea of the Categorical Imperative.
"That from which is everything that exists and from which it first becomes and into which it is rendered at last, its substance remaining under it, but transforming in qualities, that they say is the element and principle of things that are. …For it is necessary that there be some nature (φύσις), either one or more than one, from which become the other things of the object being saved..." Aristotle. Metaphysics. Originally Thales of Miletus
After the nifty-fifty adventures, curved abstracts etc etc I still like returning to hi-key work.......
Gondoliers on the Rio dei Barcaroli, Venice. Long exposure through moving crowd. Part of my Street Metaphysics project.
- Milano Design Week -
Euroluce 2023
My interest has been to show some scenarios I had the privilege to see and wanted to put together some objects, lights and modular structures I liked.
These are examples on how Euroluce showed different ways to use in a parsimonious way the electric light and, since the top keyword has been "Sustainability", I will be sustainable with my non-pro profile and spare up-loads from my yet reduced quota, putting 4 photos in the same diptych, a quatropod (or a quadriptych ?)
My compo is entitled "Addy hasn't the Silver, she has the quick Gold on! " and is dedicated to my dear Friend
Addy Van Rooij aka Adriënne.
No need for presentations, I believe almost all know her for her Art and her long lasting volunteer work as Admin of many groups.
I want to dedicate to Addy this work for celebrating a lil project we have in common and our friendship. May we be brightened and enlightened, cheers and blessings!
In this picture:
- left : a large knitted fabric in gold yarns can be wholly illuminated by just a micro light (the silhouhette is not another fabric but the beautiful shadow formed by the gold lighted by this micro light positioned to the left on a long thin black bar).
- Right: a huge ceiling of golden pepitas that I could fit in a small space but, instead, was supended on top of a very large hall. All the pepitas were illuminated by just low voltage deemed micro lights and able to refract and multiply the overall illumination. Sustainable, yes, because not in gold but, probably, made with just crumpled and tinted aluminum film.
And, among asters (or pepitas, lol) and a golden moon, a very strange mystic jewel, precious as handmade, like a little shrine treasuring some drops...of light... (See details by zooming in)
Finally the round and triangular lamp is a truly genial one: just one little light bulb surrounded by a system of mirrors can multiply the light reflection infinitely, lightening a large area by consuming almost nothing. (Spotted at the Exhibition "The Lights of Tomorrow").
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@Nanzen-ji Temple area, Kyoto
CarlZeiss Distagon 35/1.4 ZM on Sony a7R
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This is a new frontier in photography that I'm experimenting with: seeing a real landscape, imagining the finished product in my mind on an abstract level, shooting, and then refining the idea with the help of AI. It starts with an idea, through a real shot, and you achieve a goal. It's a synthesis of human intelligence and AI.