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I am resilient
I trust the movement
I negate the chaos
uplift the negative
I'll show up at the table
again and again and again
I'll close my mouth and learn to listen
woah woah ooh ooh
these times are poignant
the winds have shifted
it's all we can do
to stay uplifted
pipelines through backyards
wolves howlin out front
yeah, I got my crew but truth is what I want
realigned and on point
power to the peaceful
prayers to the waters
women at the center
all vessels open
to give and receive
let's see the system
brought down to its knees
woah woah ooh ooh
I'm made of thunder
I'm made of lightning
I'm made of dirt yeah
made of the fine things
my father taught me that I'm a speck of dust
and this world was made for me
so let's go and try our luck
I got my roots down, down deep
So what are we doing here?
what has been done?
what are you gonna do about it
when the world comes undone?
my voice feels tiny
and I'm sure so does yours
but put us all together
make a mighty roar
roar
Monument to Marechal Ney in Paris.
Michel Ney, one of the original Marshals of the Empire, had a brilliant military career under Napoleon's rule. He commanded the rearguard during the retreat from Russia, for which he was named "bravest of the brave" and, according to the legend, was the last man to leave Russian territory. Not sure what earned him the title of the Prince of Moscow. In the end, he negated his success by too much flip-flopping. He switched allegiance to the Bourbons after Napoleon's defeat, then rejoined him for the 100 days. After the Waterloo, he was charged with treason and executed by a firing squad.
I'm not trying to make a political comment here. Well, maybe I am, whether I want it or not. But even I cannot break through all of the layers of allusion here. I just think it is a funny title.
Our humanity is a process that begins with negation.
--Bernard-Henri Lévy
Orson Crowley, thank you for falling from the sky into my camera
🌟
Taken @ CORNHUB
This place always challenges me with angles and compositions. It's a floating deck/jetty. This time went for a sufficiently long exposure, whilst negating the bobbing effects of the floating platform. also went for an uniform effect right to the horizon - a dash of 'turned up' contrast, and abstract flush.
You probably have seen the other shots from this place - more warmer in tone when the sun was much higher.
It's interesting to see how the WB/Tone changes within a space of probably 5 minutes.
DRI here. Tone mapped and blended the wooden section.
The color of this abandoned Nebraska house hasn't seemed to help its fate much. It seems in relatively good condition and is near a good road. But in a county of just 2700 people, the scarcity of jobs and long commute to find the necessities and comforts of life probably negate that feeling of " peacefulness" pretty quickly....
In 2010 fuhren die Eurocity Züge zwischen München und Italien bereits ohne Lokwechsel an der Grenze mit Loks der Baureihe 189 (oder ES 64 F4). Im Bild - vom 11. Juni 2010 - ist die MRCE ES 64 F4 - 090 mit Eurocity 83 unterwegs nach Verona Puerta Nueva und wird in Ora in Süd-Tirol fotografiert.
In 2010 reden de Eurocity treinen tussen München en Italië reeds zonder de locs aan de grens te wisselen. Hiervoor maakte men gebruik van geleende locs van de serie ES 64 F4 (189). Op de foto van 11 juni 2010 is de MRCE ES 64 F4 - 090 met EC 83 onderweg naar Verona Puerta Nueva en wordt in het Zuid-Tiroolse Ora gefotografeerd.
Back in 2010, the Eurocity trains - running between Munich and the north of Italy - were already using one engine for the entire stretch (and thereby negating the necessity to switch engines at the border). For this class 189 (or ES 64 F4) engines from MRCE Dispolok were used.
Seen here - in the picture from June 11th 2010 - is engine ES 64 F4 - 090 with Eurocity 83 to Verona Puerta Nueva near Ora in Italy...
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forrest. At dusk when i thought the clouds were going to negate my Milky Way once again this year. They lifted after dark thank god. What a place!, there is nothing like the Patriarch Grove. Not on this earth anyways!
Flowing onto the scene at top speed, Current unleashes an electrifying blow to Negator, trying to knock him out in a single punch; denying the villain the opportunity to use his ancient artifact to rob Current of his powers...
Really just playing with how to add more in-world action effects to my shots... I think this looks pretty good...please feel free to chime in and give me your thoughts!
Taken in The Ruins of Ellisar
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/City%20Of%20Metropolis/81/...
Another two-image set with a standard edit and a version for Sliders Sunday. It’s of a white paeony with yellow twiddly bits, subsequently twiddled to something quite different.
I’ve done this sort of thing before with a flower and quite liked the result. The basic approach is to duplicate the flower image layer, use a Diffuse adjustment on the top layer and then try various blend modes on that layer to blend it with the underlying layer. Difference, Subtract or Negation modes seem to produce quite interesting effects The result is often quite dark, but colourful, so you just need to brighten it and twiddle the colours… or mess about with it another way ;)
This version was blended using Subtract. The underlying image layer was formed of two, duplicated image layers blended with Colour Burn at 26% opacity.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera image in the first comment as the standard edit took it some way.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
Sometimes bad guys win. Negator uses his scepter to remove Imperium's powers, leaving him susceptible to a heck of a left uppercut.
Local News reporter Maria Merlang interviews Imperium after his capture of Negator, while Beast the super dog watches over the criminal.
Taken in Elite City, part of the Multiverse online Hero RP
“The contemplative life is not, and cannot be, a mere withdrawal, a pure negation, a turning of one’s back on the world with its sufferings, its crises, its confusions and its errors. ... The freedom of the Christian contemplative is not freedom from time, but freedom in time. It is the freedom to go out and meet God in the inscrutable mystery of God’s will here and now, in this precise moment in which God asks humanity’s cooperation in shaping the course of history according to the demands of divine truth, mercy and fidelity.”
-Thomas Merton
Asian water monitors (varanus salvator) have very long tails so that, if you photograph the whole animal, you can negate some of the detail around the head - so here's a close-up in profile. Photographed in Cha-Am, Phetchaburi, Thailand.
Nondescript white flower :)
I seem to have a whole collection of this style of top-down, individual-flower shot in my archives. This is not a bad one as it goes (save perhaps for the clipped petal) but I thought I would have a break from proper flower image processing and try interpreting this for Sliders Sunday, mainly to see how far we could get.
The limitation was set by the available equipment: just Affinity on the iPad with no filters or textures.
Because I was messing about this is actually quite complicated with a lot of little tweaks. But the starting position did most of the work, and it was one I had discovered before (see: flic.kr/p/2jLSd9j ).
In this case I duplicated the developed image onto another layer, applied a Diffuse Blur and then blended back with Negate blend mode. I then added an Invert adjustment. That gave the basic colour and speckled effect.
Then it was downhill from there: increase the colour with Curves in LAB mode and tweak away. Here we have also used a low-opacity gradient map to add to the colour diversity, posterisation, a light vignette, a Lighting filter (spot from above), and also a Depth of Field Blur to really soften all the edge content.
Somewhere in there I also mangled the colours with an HSL adjustment layer and a Vibrance layer. All good fun. I quite like the splatter-painted art look - takes me back to my misspent youth...
I'll post a link to the starting in-camera image in the first comment.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[Handheld in daylight.
Developed and processed just in Affinity Photo on the iPad.]
This is an artwork installation reflecting datasets by Anna Ridler. It's made up of 10,000 Polaroid photographs of tulips taken by the artist throughout the tulip season, with each one hand-labelled.
Each tulip is different. This photo shows 425 of them. A winner of the Beazley Designs of the Year Award 2019, exhibited at the Design Museum, London.
These images became an AI training data set - the information given to an algorithm to learn and recognise. it shows the human aspect behind machine learning, BUT it suggests that AI is benign and harmless, which is far from the case. AI IS EVIL - but that doesn't negate the beauty of this image in my eyes or the original artistic purpose of the installation.
1952–1954
"The Henry Ford Building was originally designed on the American model as the main building of a large university campus for up to 10,000 students. The U.S.-American Ford Foundation covererd the cost of construction in the amount of 8.1 million West German marks.
There were 28 submissions to the tendered design competition in 1951. The commission was given to the architects Franz Heinrich Sobotka and Gustav Müller, who after the Second World War were among the most influential architects in West Berlin. Their task was among other things to design the new building to fit in with the residential character and landscape of its surroundings. Sobotka and Müller succeeded in designing a building that in spite of a total area of 200,000 square feet does not give the impression of being monumental. By constructing the entire length of the foyer in glass, the architects created a lightness that almost completely negates the actual mass of the building.
In line with the motto “democracy as client” the architecture of this building suffused with light epitomizes freedom, openness, and transparency – values that Freie Universität has stood for since its founding in December, 1948. After two years of construction, the Henry Ford Building was officially opened on June 19, 1954."
Reference: www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/hfb/geschichte/bau/index.html
Drosera rotundifolia, known more commonly as the round-leaved sundew, is a carnivorous species of flowering plant that gets extra nourishment from 'catching', dissolving, and absorbing insects that get stuck on its sticky protrusions. The plant grows in bogs, marshes and fens throughout the northern hemisphere.
Where I photographed this specimen, there were millions! And there were equal numbers in many locations I visited in Newfoundland. The leaves are covered with long, stout hairs, with a ball-shaped bit at the end. Glands on the tips secrete a sticky, clear fluid. The leaves are fairly small, about 4 - 10 mm, so getting down low helps you view them better. The plants do flower, producing small white blooms on a long stalk.
This image is a stack of 48 images taken using my macro lens (hand held). Processing was done in Photoshop, which did an OK job, but if you look closely, you might notice some defects. It was my first try using this technique, so still lots to learn and have no idea how to negate the issues I see.
Much to Negator's surprise and chagrin, Blue Steel has no superhuman abilities for his scepter to siphon; he just has incredible training and skill. And, while Imperium's super dog, Beast, COULD be effected; he is still at heart a loyal dog who just saw his best friend assaulted...
None of this bodes well for Negator.
Taken in Elite City, part of the Multiverse Online
Hey Donald, are you still going on with your negation of the climate change …. ?
Spare a thought for the victims of the Californian fires
PSP**** : Hut
Even though he dodged Negator's throwing stars, Current still found himself close enough to the villain's scepter that he lost some of his power to him.
Taken on the roof tops of DewXon City
Next to will
I value reason
the glass of things
the air as womb
the negation of thirst
and of seduction
the breathing of a body
that hurts to touch
The deep pool
where the wind swims
a secret vagina
with its corridors
i am lost to time
I am lost to time
enclosed in my
fruit
with breath inside
SWIMMING POOL
Maria Teresa Horta
#2115
140
The Fort of Santa Marta was probably built in the 1640s, later than of the other fortresses that are distributed along the coast of Cascais, since it was not mentioned in the inventory of forts of Cascais made in 1646. This fortress was built with the intention of preventing the approach of enemies to the Cascais Bay area. In the second half of the eighteenth century the fortress was the object of additional work, the most significant being that of 1762-1763, during which the parapet was widened, and that of 1793, in which battery spaces and quarters were expanded
In 1864 the fort was considered to be no longer militarily necessary. However, the strategic position its location had for military reasons also applied to navigation and it was decided to build a lighthouse on the site.[4][5]
Concluded in 1867, the Santa Marta lighthouse started to signal its area of the coast of Cascais, crossing with the Guia Lighthouse. In 1868, a small tower was added. A report from 1897 stated that the lighthouse had a fixed red light, given by a dioptric lens directed by a catoptric apparatus. This light was replaced by a 5th-order, fixed-light catadioptric system in 1908. In 1936 the tower was increased in height by 8 meters, due to new buildings in the vicinity that impeded the existing light. In 1949 a foghorn system was installed featuring three seconds of sound followed by seven seconds of silence.[6]
The lamp was electrified in 1953, and an automatic light source backup system was also installed, operated by acetylene incandescence. In 1964, a generator was installed thus negating the need for acetylene. Between 1980 and 1981 work was carried out on the complete automation of the lighthouse, which was included in the telecontrol network of the approaches of the Port of Lisbon and in 2000 a new monitoring system was added.
From: Wikipedia
At least you can't see its teeth. Gratitude is in order. Zoom at your peril, lol... (gnom... gnom...) :)
A late entry for the Smile on Saturday enigma challenge.
It's monochromed and toned so not the true colours. Think Orange and Cyan... and you will be suitably misled.
It should be easy to guess (don't you just hate it when people say that?), certainly if you are familiar with my stream.
Have fun anyway... Thanks for looking.
[Tripod mount, underwater, flashlit.
Topaz AI gigapixel, denoise and sharpen. Nik Silver Efex; toned, vignetted and generally magicked.
IR filter; solarisation; Exclude blend mode, Contrast Negate at 50% opacity. 11-fold mirror distort.
Some of the above is complete imagination (aka subterfuge, deceit and perfidious lies, not to mention misdirection and false autosuggestion... )
The previous statement is a lie, but this isn't... maybe :) ]
"I can no more; for now it comes again,
That sense of ruin, which is worse than pain,
That masterful negation and collapse
Of all that makes me man."
Cardinal Newman, The Dream of Gerontius [1865]
I believe this is a Royal Tern but any confirmation or negation would be appreciated. I was trying to decide between Royal Tern and Elegant Tern. I finally realized the Elegant Tern is only found on the Left Coast.
Not quite the “Hanging Gardens of Nineveh” but the “Floating Veggie Gardens of The Trent”!
This barge was chugging his way through Newark on the River Trent yesterday! A good capture for our walk beside the river! He appears to be growing all his own vegetables, negating the need to visit the shops.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD4So09454&feature=related
St Germain .... Alabama Blues
Bluesy atmosphere
The vibrations from the car negate perfect focus and clarity
The absence of light also ( 300mm )
It is my city
View of Montreal Downtown
Dusk
October12 2009
Vista from Champlain Bridge
Quebec
Four commuter service E's are drifting west from the 14th Street Yard en route to the wash racks located just west of Union Ave Tower. Once or twice a week commuter units and trainsets were washed. This cumbersome practice of routing these moves through the busy Union Avenue Interlocking was negated when new wash racks were built at the 14th Street Yard during a 1988 Metra funded upgrade of the 14th St facilities. The ramp above the units is part of the St Charles Air Line.
I suppose the caliber used negates a necessarily tight grouping of shots :-)
Abandoned, eastern Washington State.
I saw Glasgow's Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian) speak about his new novel "Nobody's Empire" last night at Constellation in Chicago and I was trying to describe this whole human to my. mother....he is just "gentle" describing how he still believes there are more good people than bad and the transformative power of people meeting up on behalf of art. Well, anyway, this is a mural from Glasgow and now a couple of personal things:
When you are living in a country controlled by a demon from Hell, you have to look out for changes, even if they seem inconsequential. Last Friday, a kindergartner drew a Swastika and some of my older students are adopting an avatar that purports to be a "ski mask" but actually just resembles "Black face." The thing about racism is that it's a virus about 10,000% more potent than Covid and you have to make sure it doesn't take hold. We have a president holding our emotions and mental health hostage who insists on us all acting on our basest selves and instincts, negating what it is to be actually human and have a frontal lobe in the first place.
Where is the human among us who will protect and take care of the most vulnerable, the little petite bird who could freeze over the winter and deserves shelter like any majestic eagle? That is the human that separates us from the wolves. Actually, sometimes I think wolves get a really bad wrap and they are actually MUCH kinder than humans!
We have to remember to keep our communities safe no matter what happens. We have to realize the potential to commit evil (and get away with it!) is more tempting than ever to certain bodily entities who claim to have a heart beat and we have to continue to insist there is a better way to not just survive but thrive...to create a better world for all where we can all be free.
**All photos are copyrighted**
"Invest in litigation / in negation / in persistence
and do not despair / bottomloss is a condition /
less than zero"
I think this negates my life insurance policy.
Nikon D7000
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
ƒ/5.0
56.0 mm
1/1000s
800 ISO
2016-04-27 12.21.20
Day 9/365
www.brandonhilder.com/portfolio/light-bulbs/
Unlike the main islands of Japan, Ogasawara islands are "oceanic islands" that have never become part of the continent. Such islands generally develop unique eco-systems that often lack in major species in the continent.
In this sense, it is vital to prevent the incursion of invasive species from outside the islands. This may sound good but it is noted that human is also an invasive species, and the elimination of invasive species is subject to a negation of its history of development, residents and economy.
Good or bad, invasive species are rampant in Chichijima.
I cannot identify the trees in the photo exactly, but a botanical identification software of my iPhone reported that one of the trees on the trailside was a "strawberry guava," a species native to Brazil that is on the opposite side of the globe from Ogasawara.
This optical manipulation was captured by placing a mirror on its edge into the tide under the setting sunlight, parallel with the horizon; I tilted the mirror towards the surf to negate the view of the ocean and leaned over the top for the photograph, which was taken shortly before the water touched the glass.
With this angle of the reflection, there is an illusion of a sky when in fact, it is merely the oncoming surf and the abysmal landscape just a crack in the sands of Zuma Beach, CA.
I'm sad to say the end of an era has been reached. For those lucky enough to have travelled on the Maria Island Ferry would no doubt be aware of the owners, John and Anne who have taken 500,000 passengers to the island during their 10 year service. Their passion towards the island was evident in their rapport with tourists from all over the world. I will so greatly miss them and their service and I made sure I got to ride this very last run.
Here John guides the ferry gently towards Darlington Wharf for the last time on Thursday 30th March, 2017.
Photo By Steve Bromley
As a P.S.
I got to see the new vessel today also and it is impressive but the price for the comfort is going to be a killer for some including me. Casual daytrippers will be ok as their fare will include entry to the park despite a $10 increase in the fare which will be negated by the Parks Pass. For backpackers and locals wishing to camp and stay over there is going to be a huge increase in price.Each piece of luggage will cost $10 and that is only to 15kgs. So with tent, and all the other gear it will cost even more so instead of just walking on the boat now everything's going to be complicated and expensive. So unless they change their pricing for campers this once happy camper might not be going there too often or at all.
Autumn leaves.
There is something alluring about walking under a tree canopy in autumn and looking up to the bright sky and seeing the glorious colours of the chlorophyll-depleted leaves….
And if you have a camera with you there is the niggling call of that inner visual hunter that just longs to capture it. And so you point the camera and click.
Then you get home and look at the result. And sigh.
It’s never quite the same - the essence has evaporated, that ephemeral zephyr of fleeting beauty has flown. And so you consign the image to that huge collection that clutters your disk, labelled “Tried… and failed”.
This is one such taken in November of last year (see the in-camera original in the first comment).
So what to do?
This was a mess about on the iPad for Sliders Sunday this week. It’s a play with the colour in the image employing some of the usual culprits.
The main effect was created by using a Maximum Blur filter adjustment layer (at a low level) with the Contrast Negate blend mode. This particular mode isn’t available on Photoshop and is a rather curious one. It’s a kind of inversion blend - if you blend a copy of an image with the original using this mode you end up with a zero contrast image: a sheet of plain grey. So negating contrast indeed.
But if you use the blend mode like this on different layers it creates some interesting colour sports in a negative-style image. And that is what I was looking for.
The rest was done using Curves in Lab mode, to introduce a greater variety of colours, and then using an HSL adjustment layer to mess with various colour ranges.
Finally a bit of USM sharpening to harden the edges - it always seems to help a bit. (The image is rotated a bit to get the branch coming out of the top left corner.)
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image :)