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.. this time of the year we typically travel to other nice places .. now I try to find them locally .. enjoy the city walk with Felix and stay tuned :) .. happy easter!
A random, 'non-rational', 'non-linear', extempore collage done in a Dada-ist vein meant to undermine and scuttle the impulse to 'snap' images into easy interpretation ... that is, into a quickly discernible packaged meaning.
A kind of 'antiphonal' response to the new high-tech platforms of the current time that rely entirely on linear input. Sure, looks really great but how much chance, accident and intuition goes into it? There's a place, but not all the place.
Title derived from the text elements that were 'automatically' typed in.
Created April 28, 2023.
Zoom in for an immersive view.
In "The Kreative People" group's collage challenge.
www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/721577219187541...
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Music Link: "I Zimbra" - Talking Heads/David Byrne. Originally on the Talking Heads album "Fear of Music" and here performed by Byrne and the "American Utopia" band of 2018. Byrne's spoken introduction really lays the groundwork.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kx03MYsKDY
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© 2023, Richard S Warner. All Rights Reserved. This image may not be used or copied or posted to another website in any form whatsoever without express permission of the creator of this work, with whom the sole copyright resides.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state
Série Changements climatiques
L'effet papillon: la dépendance sensible aux conditions initiales, où un petit changement à un endroit dans un système non-linéaire peut entraîner de grandes différences plus tard.
Climate change series (repost)
The Butterfly effect : the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state.
.. or is there anything in focus ? .. taken on another home office escape photonWALK .. happy weekend my friends :)
.. new lens new look .. it is an out-of-focus multi-reflection of glass brick windows seen through a 2 inch grid .. happy weekend :)
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The Meow Wolf experience is a surreal, interactive multimedia installation that allows visitors of all ages to wander through dozens of rooms covered with floor to ceiling art, unearth secrets and discover the world’s hidden nonlinear narrative.
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
Yellow Allamanda, a common tropical shrub by the roadside
Singapore
February 2022
"I couldn't hear the water, and Caddy opened the door.
'Why, Benjy.' she said. She looked at me and I went and she put her arms around me. 'Did you find Caddy again.' she said. 'Did you think Caddy had run away.' Caddy smelled like trees.
She smelled like trees.
'Come on, now.' Dilsey said, 'You too big to sleep with folks. You a big boy now. Thirteen years old. Big enough to sleep by yourself in Uncle Maury's room.' Dilsey said.
'You a big boy.' Dilsey said, '... Hush now, so you can go to sleep.' The room went away but I didn't hush, and the room came back and Dilsey came and sat on the bed, looking at me.
'Good night, honey.' Dilsey said. The room went black. Caddy smelled like trees.
We looked up into the tree where she was."
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
This quotation is taken from the Benjy section of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner frequently used stream of consciousness in his writing. In the Benjy section, the story is told through Benjy, who has a severe intellectual disability; he is pure and untainted by society, and while he is unable to talk he expresses his feelings through his imagination and sensations of the natural world. Benjy loves his sister Caddy, and Caddy is the only family member who shows genuine care and love towards Benjy. Benjy sees Caddy as his source of comfort and order. He does not distinguish between the past and the present and perceives time in a nonlinear way. Benjy's memory of losing Caddy was associated with him having to sleep alone at the age of 13. In Benjy's early memories of Caddy, he associates Caddy's innocence with the smell of the trees in which they used to play. When Caddy entered adolescence and tries to wear perfume and have relationships, she no longer smells like trees and loses her innocence. This throws Benjy's world into chaos, and he responds by moaning and crying.
Copyright Rebecca Ang 2022. All Rights Reserved.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Wells.
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film. He is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
His first film was Citizen Kane (1941), which is consistently ranked as one of the greatest films ever made, and which he co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in as Charles Foster Kane.
His distinctive directorial style featured layered and nonlinear narrative forms, uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots and long takes. He has been praised as "the ultimate auteur".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles
In the background the city of Fréjus a commune in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It neighbours Saint-Raphaël, effectively forming one urban agglomeration. The north of the commune forms part of the Massif de l'Esterel.
The origins of Frejus probably lie with the Celto-Ligurian people who settled around the natural harbour of Aegytna. The remains of a defensive wall are still visible on Mont Auriasque and Cap Capelin. The Phocaeans of Marseille later established an outpost on the site.
The exact date of the founding of Forum Julii is uncertain, but it was certainly before 43 BC since it appears in the correspondence between Plancus and Cicero and 49 BC is most likely.
For more informatons follow this link :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9jus
Tecnical specs :
Sony ILCE-6000
SMC Pentax-M 1:2.8 100mm manual focus
Novoflex adaptor ring
exposure 1/200 f/8 ISO 100 @ 100 mm
Boaty McWaterface meets Liney McTexturise meets Reflecto McSunlight. I almost want to say that it's a Jackson Pollock but with straight lines, although that would be wrong: clearly it's nothing like that at all.
Maybe it's a comment on the ephemeral nature of thought itself, or perhaps I was attempting to subvert the theoretical limits of the human condition in a tribute to the nonlinearity of the the natural world.
Oh, it's all just too hard to describe!
Can't it just be a photo I took of some pleasing reflections at Chichester Yacht Club whilst on a walk with friends from BRCC?
The Painting While Impaired (PWI) checklist ...
1. Couldn't drive straight ..... check
2. Weaving in the lane ..... check
3. Painting wavy lines ..... check
4. Pulled over ..... check
then ...
5. Couldn't find a straight line to walk ..... and check
The visualization of multiple points across the 4th dimension simultaneously...and a tractor...
straight out of the camrea. no photoshopage
My first multi-night image, using frames taken in May and July 2021
1 stack of 105 60s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 400mm f5.6 lens at f6.3, iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker. 50 darks, 120 biases. Processed in PixInsight as below
* CC defect list + master dark (sigma = 8)
15*(1-(FWHM-FWHMMin)/(FWHMMax-FWHMMin))
+ 15*(1-(Eccentricity-EccentricityMin)/(EccentricityMax-EccentricityMin))
+ 20*(SNRWeight-SNRWeightMin)/(SNRWeightMax-SNRWeightMin)
+ 50
img 4002 ref
* ESD integration, range exclude
* drizzle integration, gaussian kernel
*****Linear processing
*** Initial
* Crop
* DBE tolerance 3, manually placed points outside the dust clouds
*** Color calibration
* PCC using a dust cloud as background, aimed at Triffid, background ref upper limit 0.002
* SNCR 0.8 green
*** Decon
* Using EZDecon, create the following:
* PSF - autogen
* background - autogen, then invert, range selection lower 0.03 smoothness 49, clean with clone stamp, range mask again, invert again - background_range_mask
* star mask: extract luminance, run EZSoftStretch, star mask noise treshhold 0.3 scale 9 smoothness 8 aggregate binarize. Add a couple of ellipses, 2x convolve - decon_star_mask
*** Denoise
Using jonrista.com/the-astrophotographers-guide/pixinsights/eff... as implemented by EZSuite.
* TGV edge protection 3e-5, default MMT
***** Nonlinear processing
*** Initial stretch
* MaskedStretch, default settings
* extract luminance, stretch with shadows 0.05 mids 0.4, apply as mask inverted, stretch mids to 0.3
* ACDNR chrominance only, lightness mask, stdev 4 iterations 6mids 0.2 on lightness mask
***MLT stretch
www.stelleelettroniche.it/en/2014/09/astrophoto/m42-ngc19...
**Initial (fine details)
* created a new multiscale linear transform, kept 6 layers
* diffed from original image to create a "blurred" version of original image
* extracted luminance from original, used as mask on blurred version
* used curves to pump rgb and saturation
* pixelmath sum the 3, rescaled, back to original image
**Second (nebula)
* created a new multiscale linear transform, kept 6 layers, and diff from original
* extract luminance from diff Use as mask on blurred version
* s-shaped luminance curve, gentle, big sat boost
* pixelmath sum the 3, rescaled, back to original image
*** Finishers
* Star reduce with EZscript, 8 layers of morpho
* With the previous star mask on (raw), unsharp mask with default settings)
* Dark structure enhancement
* EZDenoise, default settings TGV, no MMT
* pump up sat in reds and blues
* MMT sharpen, 6 layers biases 0.1 0.1 0.05 0.05 0.25 0.12
* downsample 3x
Excerpt from the plaque:
To Thread a Needle with Memories
Gunjan Thapar (echoes), Embroidery
This body of work explores the intricate relationship between memory, resilience, and the neurodivergent experience of retaining memories. Living with ADHD, I have often found myself navigating the vibrant, nonlinear terrain of memory – where moments overlap, coexist, and sometimes elude focus. Through this series, I seek to honor the complexity of memory as a phenomenon, reflecting its chaotic beauty and its power to preserve both joy and connection.
The title “To Thread a Needle with Memories” encapsulates both the metaphorical and literal essence of my practice. The act of threading a needle demands patience, precision, and care, much like the process of holding onto memories – especially joyful ones – amidst the shifting landscape of time and trauma. My embroidered works are an attempt to stitch together fleeting moments, giving them permanence and form, while honoring the resilience that underpins this effort.
Each piece is a meditation on the act of threading together the fragments of memory: a delicate process that required intention, care, a consistent struggle with anxiety and the recognition that even amidst chaos, there is beauty in what we choose to preserve.
For this rendition of the 2-panel mosiac, I ran all of the subframes through the same PixInsight WBPP run so that they would all be at the same local normalization, I applied ChannelCombination to the RGB masters for each panel separately before merging the panels, and I produced separate star and nebula images before applying nonlinear stretches. The stars image was stretched delicately while the nebula image was stretched very agressively. I like the stars that resulted from this treatment.
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/5.4)
Losmandy G11
NINA for session management
PixInsight for processing
Each panel consisted of qty 8 240s subs each for RGB, and qty 16 subs for L. Total integration time was 2:20 per panel.
Description: This image of the Pleiades Star Cluster M45 was developed by me from 120x300s subs or 10.0 hours of total exposure time.
Date / Location: 9-11, 13, 14, 16-19 December 2022 / Washington D.C.
Equipment:
Scope: WO Zenith Star 81mm f/6.9 with WO 6AIII flattener/focal reducer x0.8
Cooled camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro at 100 Gain and 50 Offset
Mount: iOptron GEM28-EC mount
Guider: ZWO Off-Axis Guider
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 174MM mini
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Light pollution filter: Chroma LoGlow Broadband Light Pollution Reduction Filter - 2"
Software: Pixinsight
Processing Steps:
Preprocessing: I preprocessed 120x300s subs (= 10.0 hours) in Pixinsight to get an integrated image using the following process steps: Image Calibration > Cosmetic Correction > Subframe Selector > Debayer > Select Reference Star and Star Align > Image Integration.
Linear Postprocessing: Rotation > Dynamic Crop > Dynamic Background Extractor (both subtraction to remove light pollution gradients and division for flat field corrections) > Background Neutralization > Color Calibration > Noise Xterminator.
Nonlinear Postprocessing and additional steps: Histogram Transformation > Local Histogram Equalization > Curves Transformation > SCNR Noise Reduction. Multiple passes of Histogram Transformation, Local Histogram Equalization and Curves Transformations were made in small doses.