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it´s the way we perceive events ... grey and blue for the ones... sunny for the others ... up to you !
can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments :-)
Alex Tehrani
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When I walk alone in the park, I'm more perceptive and attentive to my surroundings. Sometimes I feel footsteps behind me and then I realize it is the noise my water bottle makes in my backpack as I walk. (I don't use earbuds since I read about the bear sightings in these areas.) Starting my walk around the lake, I came across this. In my mind I always see things where there aren't any, or that look like others, like this fallen tree whose roots look like a monstrous squid. And what does it look like to you?
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"Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?
Ansel Adams
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picotee japanese camellia, 'Tama Peacock', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Domicile, Duhamel, Québec, Canada
Bird Scape
Merci énormément pour vos commentaires, ils sont toujours très appréciés.
Retour à ce dernier printemps à Duhamel et ce ne sera certainement pas le dernier. J'ai l'intention de revenir sur le meilleur printemps en 35 années avec les Garrots à œil d'or qui m'ont plus que choyé de moments inoubliables.
Voici un de ces moments qui a marqué mon l'imaginaire comme ce superbe petit-matin...
04 h 36 am et je suis étendu sur le quai devant la maison à quelques pouces de l'eau. Le petit jour commence et les oiseaux le célèbrent par leurs merveilleux chants. Un couple de Garrots à œil d'or atterri au large, le mâle s'empresse de commencer sa parade nuptiale devant sa convoitise. La lumière est douce et à peine perceptive avec une petite brume matinale. Ça fait plusieurs années que j'attendais cette chance de capturer ce rituel dans cette base lumière, bien que les Garrots soient éloignés, je décide de tenter ma chance, car l'occasion ne se représentera probablement plus. Un contre-jour divin tout au moins pour moi que je tenais à partager.
Residence, Duhamel, Quebec, Canada
Birdscape
Thank you very much for your comments, they are always very much appreciated.
Back to this last spring in Duhamel and it will certainly not be the last. I intend to look back on the best spring in 35 years with Common Goldeneyes, which gave me more than unforgettable moments.
Here is one of those moments that marked my imagination on this superb morning.
4:36 am and I'm lying on the dock in front of the house a few inches from the water. Dawn begins and the birds celebrate it with their marvelous songs. A pair of Common Goldeneyes landed offshore, the male hastening to begin his courtship in front of his lust. The light is soft and barely noticeable with a little morning mist. I've been waiting for this chance to capture this ritual in this light base for several years, although the Garrotes are far away, I decide to try my luck, because the opportunity will probably not come again. A divine backlight at least for me that I wanted to share.
For John
who passed on too soon
for us
Commemorating your sense of humor and perceptiveness.
I took this foto because the barn was there and I was there and the camera hung heavy around my neck. oh yes, I liked the colors and potential composition...
The nature of your mind will be biased towards intellectualism, and you will be attracted towards the realm of ideas, expressing a creative and questioning curiosity plus the ability to understand the variety of answers that you discover from various sources. Your mind will tend to be analytical; and you are likely to be attracted towards work which involves enquiry, research or teaching. You have the ability to intuit an underlying, synthesising cohesive meaning within the varied knowledge you acquire; and this can be shared with others. Your mind will be penetrative and perceptive, often seeing through the appearances of things into their essential components; and new ideas and thinking will certainly hold fascination for you. The fact that you also have a vivid and creative imagination can help you to make new and interesting connections linking your knowledge into new patterns implying new understanding, perceptions and directions. In your personal relationships, you tend to be straight and direct; and apart from expecting the same form others, you are unlikely to forget any who seem to live by lower standards and choose to be less honest in their contacts with you. Trust and honesty are very important to you; and you require both in any partnership.
Getting only between two and three hours of shuteye a night, the African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) indeed has some interesting eyes. Ultimately, they aren't spectacularly perceptive. In shadowed or otherwise dull light, they can see relatively well. But in the garish light of day, visual acuity drops precipitously. Wildly, eyesight isn't all that important to them and there are documented cases of blind elephants leading herds, guiding their troops by feel! Still, the eyesight they do have, they guard carefully with long eyelashes unaided by Revlon products.
This is a captive elephant living in the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC.
As I took this in January last year, I'm really not quite sure what it was that I was shooting! It looks very much like ice, but somehow I think it might be crystal??? Not sure, but I was somewhat drawn to it when I came across it in my 2015-Q1 folder this past week. Whatever it is, I think it makes for an interesting abstract image.
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"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself, 'Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?'"
Ansel Easton Adams - photographer and environmentalist, 1902 - 1984
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We had what passes for a lot of snow here (6-7 inches/15-18cm), the Monday before Christmas, and it lasted longer than usual. It reminded me how much I like winter and kind of miss it out here. I love living here, and truth be told, I don't really miss heavy winter driving. Still, I do find the seasonal changes here somewhat gentle. I guess that says more about me than about seasons in Washington. A friend once told me - when I remarked that I missed the seasons while living in California - that I just wasn't perceptive enough to appreciate the subtly of California.
Be that as it may, I have enjoyed every place we've lived, and I've found that every place has its own special seasonal qualities. Here for example, there are year-round hummingbirds, Anna's to be specific. It's really something to see one zoom to the feeder in crack-of-dawn, almost light. Their high-pitched chirps are so loud that I can hear them through the closed windows. Fortunately, I'm an early riser, so I get the feeder out in time for them, but I need to turn on the porch light. I have to bring the feeders in at night so the food doesn't freeze.
All in all, feeding hummers in the winter isn't a bad exchange for lacking a northeastern winter.
visionary
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thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.
"a visionary leader"
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relating to or having the ability to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition.
"visionary dreams"
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a person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like.
"he is a visionary keen on policy-making"
Location: Farm Dam near Durbanville.
Description: It’s becoming really difficult to come up with new names and descriptions for all these over-the-water and straight-into-the-sun Vertoramas that I’ve been posting recently. Heh heh… I think I’ll have to start looking for different subjects!
Tip: Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream?" - Ansel Adams
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Equipment: Nikon D300 (Sigma 10-20mm)
Date: October 2008
Gray wolf. Leader of a pack of seven, he has seemed to me to be a silent, discreet, perceptive, always walking, sparsely emotional being. It was a great meeting.
Mizoram is a picturesque destination for the perceptive visitor with its wide display of dances & festivals, handlooms and handicrafts, flora and fauna, breathtaking natural beauty and temperate climate. The general belief is that the Mizos migrated from China about three hundred years ago, in search of new territory and settled in these remote hills which were earlier known as Lushai Hills.
The term ‘Mizo’ is deriving from two words- ‘Mi’ means man and ‘Zo’ means hills. Today Mizoram consist of a population of over five Lakh who identify themselves as ‘Mizo’.
The Mizos are friendly and hospitable.
The people are simple, happy, carefree, contented, generous and freedom-loving.
Music plays a key role in uniting and strengthening the bond between the Mizo people. The joyful enthusiasm and companionable spirits of the common people have truly made them the real songbirds of this exotic hill station.
From on high, she studies us.
She understands us.
With her keen perceptivity, her cerebral cunning, she knows us and calculates her moves with cold precision.
She instructs her flock so they will know exactly what to do on Halloween night.
Happy Shocktober
When
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
One brushed by a trickster
The other a guardian spirit
I took the path I felt had the chance
Of finding a fox, don’t know why
But dread drummed like the woodpeckers
The further I looked down the trodden path
Those saplings, stretching out their infant arms.
So I came to your derelict patch
Eyes roving
Down the locks
Through the black smiles of factories, forlorn
When a voice found me:
“Why do you search so deep for a trickster so ‘sly?’”
“Because finding you means I’ve lost my way
And taking the path you’re expected to take seems the worst trick of all!”
Knowing the lesson was felt,
The fox revealed itself
With an eye that flashed the world in a line
And an ear that tuned out the fuzz, even in this dead silence.
Listen, some days I don't know what I am doing on this Earth truly. How does it keep happening that I wake up over and over again?
Anyway, I stopped doing this for awhile but yesterday on New Year's Eve was the birthday of one of my very favorite artists of all time, Kazu Makino.
One of the only consolations of living in these times is the fact that we have so many years of art to keep us company. I start listening to Blonde Redhead and it's like I enter a different headspace altogether.
Kind of like when I look at old photos. It took awhile for me to get it right when it came to everything. You have to get it wrong for so many times first. I didn't start photographing anything and have it turn out genuine and brilliant like I wanted. I experienced so much stress and frustration. Combine this with the fact that the bands I love the most always play in darkness. I'll never love Taylor Swift and her 100 ISO bright light extravaganzas. It just doesn't appeal to me artistically or musically.
I take as many photos of bands as I do when I am on vacation. I would say that I probably have at least 2 Million photos I have never even looked at and I mean that literally. I have terabytes filled with them and a constant backup system. One of my good friends recently lost all of his concert photos from the past 20 years or so. I think I'd rather lose an arm.
Time travel for me is when I go back to concerts and look through those moments. There's a whole lot of photos I delete if they are not perfect for me and I have gotten better about not being a hoarder of the unseen so to speak. I liked this one for The New Year as I found it very relatable for me now . Makino was the age I will be turning this year in this moment. She has a look of both hope and anxiety. You can almost hear her gasping through space and time. She is clinging with a slight blur in her hands to a light that won't fit inside. She has so many hopes for the world. It is 2015. Before all of the horrors that came after. We perceptive humans all knew it was coming but we didn't know what. It wasn't tangible and we couldn't put it a finger on it.
Listen to me when I tell you that without certain things in my life, I would not be breathing. Music is one of them. I listen to music every minute of my day and night. I even listen when I am sleeping. If there is a server crash and the music stops, I wake up immediately. I cannot function without music. I cannot move. I cannot even blink to show that I'm not in a deep coma.
"You know we are all equally damaged."
Happy New Year.
blonderedhead.bandcamp.com/track/for-the-damaged
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In september of 2019 I challenged myself to upload one photo every day to flickr.
That forced me to browse my then ~90k Lightroom catalog, select, review, and edit shots to find something to post.
And of course it also provided me with an incentive to take my gear out more regularly, even if the pandemic reduced the opportunity to travel, leading to some monotony in the available subjects.
Today marks a streak of 1,000 daily pictures:
www.flickr.com/photos/christiancorsano/albums/72157711201...
It is not always top quality shots, but I am still proud of the result, and more importantly of keeping the pace going.
Lack of time also led me to dramatically reduce the time I spend on the site, and I deeply apologize for not commenting or even responding to all your lovely comments, which I used to do in the beginning.
Hopefuly I will manage to fit that in my daily routine again soon.
And if you read that far, thank you so much for your visit !
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Now for some technical details about this particular piece, as contrary to my 1st year celebration, this is more than just a montage:
This picture is generated by a small throwaway C# program, using Flickr APIs and a handful of dependencies (mainly ImageSharp).
The code starts loading all pages of the album, then proceed to load the size for each photo to get the URL of the "Large Square" 150px x 150px thumbnail and download them to memory.
This can take a couple of minutes, especially since I avoid hitting the Flickr API too hard (downloading the photos is fine though, so they are fetched in parallel), so the photo infos and thumbnails are cached to disk to allow quick iterations on the fun part: building the mosaic.
I went for 42 columns and 24 rows, which gives 1008 tiles to fill. It does mean that I take 8 random pictures and duplicate them to fill the gaps.
Going for the max resolution (because why not), final mosaic is 6300px x 3600px.
Next step is to prepare the pattern I want to match, here simple "1000" in text, so I generate a small image with the black text, written in 64pt.
It is low resolution, but that's fine as the scaled up version will have a nice blur that we would have to apply anyway.
To fill the pattern I started dumb, got okay results, tried a smarter solution, which made it worse, and went back to the dumb solution to refine it a bit.
The dumb solution was to compute the brightness of each of the photos, do the same with each tile of the text pattern, order the photos and tiles by that value and distribute them.
The smarter solution was to replace the brightness by the computation of a perceptive hash of each image and pattern tile, to be able to get a similarity score for each of them and place the best match on the tiles.
It didn't work well, I suspect because the hashing algorithm work best for very similar picture and here most of the pattern tiles are completely white or black gradient.
So taking some of the more involved sorting and matching and reinstating the brightness approach is what I went for.
Even with that, the lack of very dark pictures in my set meant cheating a bit, and I do reapply the text as a 0.2 opacity darkening mask on top of the completed mosaic.
If I ever get to rework the code to make it somewhat readable I might share it, so let me know if you are interested.
_DHS0404
Marie Majerova is mistakenly interpreted as a Czech communist writer. It's not true. It is a social writer, very perceptive. She does not say that the world can be changed by uniformed Commissioners with red flags. She calls! Feel the poor and unfortunate, and act humanely. That is why I, together with my friends avoid renaming the street after the revolution in Czechoslovakia. The political right is in fact just as disgusting as the communists!
Marie Majerova je mylně vykládána jako česká komunistická spisovatelka. Není to pravda. Je to sociální spisovatelka, velmi vnímavá. Ona neříká, že svět lze změnit pomocí uniformovaných komisařů s rudými prapory. Ona vyzývá! Vnímejte ty chudé a nešťastné a chovejte se lidsky. Proto jsem společně s přáteli zamezil přejmenování této ulice po revoluci v Československu. Politická pravice je totiž stejně odporná jako komunisté!
"The owl is nocturnal with keen senses of sight and sound. It sees through the shadows of the night and hears the sounds in the silence; the illusion of the darkness. This teaches us to see past our own illusions and trust our intuition and perceptive senses."
― Anonymous
"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation." - Ansel Adams
Anywhere... Till the end
Soundtrack // Bande-Son: Georges MOUSTAKI ("Ma Liberté"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CusCZ6Yijo
"Ma liberté... C'est toi qui m'a aidé... A larguer les amarres... Pour aller N'IMPORTE Où... Pour aller JUSQU'AU BOUT... Des chemins de fortune..."
"Très beau cadrage ! Risqué mais la perceptive est superbe !
Et très belle atmosphère automnale avec la brume et ces couleurs :-))" // "Lovely framing ! Risky but the perspective is superb ! And a very beautiful autumn atmosphere with the mist & those colors." (FLORENCE.V / www.flickr.com/photos/flo59/)
"J'aime la douceur et l'ambiance de ce tableau qui me fait penser au chanteur Jacques Brel - Le plat pays - !" // "I like the sweet atmosphere of this picture, which makes me think of the singer Jacques Brel and his famous 'flat land'." (Claudy LAGARDE / www.flickr.com/photos/131430984@N02/)
A good family pet, Rat Terriers are amazingly perceptive and intuitively respond to your moods. They have a great desire to please, love praise, and will follow you around the house.
Mind bending mud cracks in a remote area of Death Valley.
8 image panorama, mountains perceptive corrected for the ultra wide angle.
via Photo a Day Project - David Kingham www.davidkingham.com/photo-a-day-project/2016/1/17/day-268
Victorian style Ai generate caption:
Ah, the celestial ballet of the heavens on the 19th day of September in the year of our Lord 2021! On this most auspicious evening, the moon, in her resplendent glory, graced the night sky with a visage that was nigh unto full. The lunar orb, in her waxing gibbous phase, was illuminated to a splendid 98%, casting a silvery luminescence upon the earth below.
As the sun dipped below the horizon, the moon ascended in the eastern firmament at precisely 7:03 PM, her ethereal light bathing the world in a soft, otherworldly glow. Throughout the night, she journeyed across the heavens, her visage growing ever more radiant, until she reached her zenith, a beacon of celestial beauty.
The moon, in her waxing gibbous phase, was a harbinger of the full moon to come, a promise of the lunar cycle's inexorable march. Her illumination, a testament to the sun's unwavering embrace, was a sight to behold, a reminder of the delicate dance between light and shadow that governs the cosmos.
In the constellation of Pisces, the moon found her home, her presence a symbol of sensitivity and perceptiveness. The night was imbued with a sense of mystery and wonder, as the moon's silvery light wove a tapestry of dreams and reveries, a fitting tribute to the celestial grandeur that has captivated the hearts and minds of humankind since time immemorial.
Yet, amidst this celestial splendor, the earthly realm was not without its trials. On this very day, a forest fire raged in the Sierra de Bahoruco, Dominican Republic. The flames, driven by the capricious winds, devoured the verdant landscape, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. The fire, though not of a large scale, caused concern among the populace, as the brave fire brigades toiled tirelessly to quell the inferno. The Ministry of the Environment assured the public that the situation was under control, yet the scars left upon the land would serve as a somber reminder of nature's duality—its capacity for both breathtaking beauty and untamed fury.
Thus, the night of September 19, 2021, was marked by a juxtaposition of celestial wonder and terrestrial strife, a testament to the ever-changing tapestry of existence.
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Lugar de Observacion: Lugar de captura /Taken: sierra de bahoruco, Pedernales, Dominican Republic.
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It helps to get early morning photos if your internal alarm goes off anywhere from 4-5 a.m. My wife and I were up before sunrise earlier this week to get a ringside seat to what these cows and their calves were seeing. I am sure they do not have any idea where Canada is but their suspenseful environment was due to the smoke from fires there drifting over parts of Minnesota.
As we were stopped alongside a gravel road taking in the scene, the person in the seat beside me wondered aloud if I thought the cattle ever take notice and communicate to each other about a sight like this. I was at a loss for words.
I don't know how long these smoke mornings will occur in our area but the magnificence they produce is well worth savoring. There is a scientific explanation why the sun looks so much larger during times like this.
Here's a couple of statements from those who study this stuff:
"When particles, such as smoke or dust, fill the atmosphere, the longer wavelengths of light — which look red — scatter more effectively."
Regarding size: "It doesn’t actually appear larger, but seems that way when seen in the same field of view as large objects or the horizon (the same perceptive illusion makes the full moon seem larger when it is near the horizon.)”
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments :-)
Alex Tehrani
HMM! Public Education Matters! Higher Education Matters! Resist the Ignorant Orange Clown and his Cabinet of Stooges and Buffoons!
narcissus, daffodil, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Black Vulture seen along the way sitting on the roof of this little old farm house that has sat vacant for about a year now. As we drove by a group of about a dozen were taking baths in a little creek that runs in front of the house. They would come out of the water and find a spot to spread their wings to dry in the morning sun. It's interesting that they pick this rather odd spot and come back to it; I've seen groups of up to two dozen using this creek.
The Black Vulture is a magnificent creature, please take the time to watch them, read about their symbolism and learn their history.
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS
(A bit of the process in the first comment.)
Chopped up Texture I think by Lenebem-Anna