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In the fall of 2012, I went to Yellowstone before the tourist hordes descended, and was treated to a wonderful experience

This scene overlooks the terraces above Mammoth, just after a rain shower made me run for cover.

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I overheard while hiking that the top of Mount Rogers is one of the most anticlimactic end to a spectacular hike. You have no views and all that marks the highest point in VA is a small marker embedded in the rock. I disagree with that notion. The spruce fir forest is almost primordial and one of the special places in the world.

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Landscapes "out of the ordinary" as the inhabitants are, that`s Tibet.

 

Kyirong county in South Lato occupies the valleys of the Kyirong Tsangpo River (Trishuli) and its tributaries as well as the adjacent Gungtang-chu headwaters and the basin of lake Pelkhu Tso. To the south straddling the Tibet/Nepal border lie the mighty snow peaks of the Himalayan range: Ganesh Himal (7406 m), Langtang (7232 m) and Shishapangma (8012 m). Further north there are trails crossing the high watershed passes into North Lato, and the Yarlung Tsangpo or known as Brahmaputra valley. The Kyirong gorge and valley form one of Tibet`s most beautiful picturesque alpine regions; and it boasts sites of historic importance, connected with King Songtsen Gampo, Padmasambhava, Milarepa, and Sakya Pandita, among others. The county capital is located at Dzongka,

Area: 8.869 sq km.

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Life on Earth first bloomed around 3.7 billion years ago, when chemical compounds in a "primordial soup" somehow sparked into life, scientists suspect. But what turned sterile molecules into living, changing organisms? That's the ultimate mystery

This almost looks like another planet to me, or perhaps how the Earth looked millions of years ago?

 

The sunset lasted pretty long, this is from the beginning when the colors were still yellow and orange. As the sun dipped down, the color turned into some amazing reds and purples. Hopefully I will be posting some examples of those soon.

 

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Un-named Sculpture at Tout Quarry Portland Dorset

The sea is so mystical. Could have sat here for hours

I need to get you out of your cave, man

I need to let you out of your cage and set you free

If tonight's the night

I'm gonna show you I ain't got no game plan

 

Out from under a rock

From a prehistoric sea, we crawl

We are animal

Animal, one and all

 

Out from under a rock

From the prehistoric sea, we came

We are animal, animal

One unbroken chain

 

I know what you're searching for

I pray you find it on your instinct

I don't need your hurtin', boy

Animalistic

Tripping through the archives. SOOC except conversion from raw to jpeg.

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I recently revisited the beach that was my main "go-to" beach last winter. I have very fond memories of first happening upon this spot. Back then I was unaware of researching spots via search engines; I was just a photographer in search of new locations to photograph. I felt I had found my personal seascape utopia.

 

This winter, I have mostly avoided it. Partly, I still yearn to explore and find new locations, and partly, a lot of my contacts are now shooting here, allowing me to live vicariously through their imagery.

 

But with a recent storm, I headed up to Panther Beach, made my way through the hole in the bluff, and headed south. My heart was racing as I soaked in the mix of warm light and quickly moving storm clouds. Electricity was in the air. Storm waves curled in gnarled masses, often three sets deep. Compositions would be limited due to the surging forces at play.

 

The south end of the beach, once familiar, seemed foreign to me. Sand, scoured away by incessant ocean energy was replaced by slabs of scalloped rock and masses of eroding stone. I jumped into the chaos and started shooting.

 

Thick, churning sea foam was proof the ocean meant business this evening. Huge volumes of water would fill the short distance between my pet rocks and the walls of earth behind me.

 

The primordial sea greeted me, "welcome back".

 

Nikon D300

Nikkor 12-24mm @ 12mm

0.4sec @ f18, ISO 100

Lee .9 and .6 Soft GND filters

Created with Mandelbulb 3d, tweak of a param by batjorge

@odawara, kanagawa, dec/2011

Ricoh GXR

Ricoh GXR Mount A12

Voigtlander Nokton 35mm F1.2 VM + ND400

 

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- (WOWOW ノンフィクションW 「「はじまりの記憶~現代美術作家・杉本博司~」

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Sky by Robert Fripp

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Strongly Inspired by MOC of the same name, made in 2011 by BionicleLama:

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Featuring openable wings (a single push on the dark red armor piece opens all 3 wing sections at once)

Fern Canyon, Humboldt County, California. They used this for some of the scenes in "Jurassic Park".

Ancient fears rewaken as the northern hemisphere slips back into the dark phase. Halloween is the gateway. This is my time.

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C&O Canal National Historic Park, Falls Church Quad, Montgomery Co, MD

As the latest paroxysmal eruptive episode at Etna's New Southeast Crater drew to a close on the early morning of 17 November 2013, the full moon was setting right behind the raging crater. This photo was taken while the moon was still somewhat higher in the sky. The view is from the "Mareneve" road near the village of Fornazzo, on the eastern flank of the volcano

Marine iguanas [Amblyrhynchus cristatus] on raw lava rocks.

 

Isabela Island

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

"La sociedad actual, lo mismo que todas las formaciones totalitarias que niegan la libertad -la colectiva tanto como la individual-, se fundamenta en la noción de felicidad y en la exacerbación del pánico al dolor y al sufrimiento. Las utopías, que pergeñan sociedades infaustas, brindan un orden sin dolor, un milagrero paraíso en el que no existirá displacer ni pesadumbre ni padecimiento, en donde todo será regocijo, disfrute y satisfacción.

  

Una primera verdad experiencial aduce que el sufrimiento es parte constitutiva de la práctica humana y porción inerradicable del hecho de existir. Toda vida lleva en sí una porción de dolor, de la misma manera que contiene una fracción de deleite. Vivir integralmente es aceptar su totalidad, sin excluir ni amputar nada sustantivo, haciendo que el todo finito de lo humano se realice en el yo.

  

Quienes proponen una existencia sin dolor prometen lo irrealizable, además de lo indeseable. Ya los filósofos cínicos establecieron que “Quien teme al dolor teme lo que ha de suceder”. Aspirar a un sufrimiento cero es anhelar un modo de estar en el mundo que no es humano, por artificial, inauténtico y degradado, además de irreal. Cada cierto tiempo el dolor intenso e incluso avasallador visita a todo individuo, le zarandea y posee, y a diario los pequeños dolores, frustraciones, contratiempos y padecimientos son la inevitable compañía.

  

Aprender a vivir con el dolor es parte primordial del aprender a vivir. Por eso la pedagogía en curso, asfixiantemente hedonista, al negar a la infancia y juventud la experiencia del sufrimiento está haciendo sujetos escasamente aptos para la vida auténtica. El conocimiento práctico del padecer, en todas sus formas: displacer, angustia, frustración, decepción, fracaso, soledad, ansiedad, incertidumbre, temor, agobio, cansancio y dolor físico es parte de la educación integral de la persona. El niño deformado por la pedagogía contemporánea, sustentada en el espanto ante el dolor, será un ser insustancial e inmaduro, endeble y pasivo, asustadizo y sin libertad personal, destinado a padecer todas las formas de opresión y explotación, un ser nada sin épica ni acometividad ni fuerza interior ni virtud.

  

Quienes “venden” felicidad olvidan que la condición humana conoce momentos más o menos intensos y auténticos de felicidad pero nunca la felicidad como estado permanente. Esto es irrealizable, y el felicismo simplemente es estafar al público[1], aunque se comprende que lo haga con gran éxito en una sociedad como la actual que lleva el acto de sufrir en muchas de sus expresiones concretas a un nivel, extensión y grado pocas veces conocido. Dicho de otro modo, una sociedad multi-sufriente y un individuo variada y dolorosamente disminuido, mutilado, necesitan de la lúgubre fantasía de la felicidad total y perpetua como narcótico espiritual.

  

Quienes niegan el carácter natural del sufrimiento lo maximizan. Los apóstoles de la felicidad hacen al desventurado sujeto actual aún más desdichado, por más débil y quebrantado, puesto que le dejan confuso, paralizado, desarticulado, sin respuesta e inerme ante el hecho ineluctable del padecer. Por el contrario, la admisión del dolor como parte de la condición y el destino humano nos reconcilia con él, otorgándole sentido y haciéndole de ese modo tratable y superable, o cuando menos más llevadero.

  

Las causas del dolor son varias. Las pueriles utopías sociales prometen constituir una sociedad perfecta, ilimitadamente justa, libre, próspera y dichosa. Pero ignoran que aunque resulta posible, y además muy conveniente, constituir un orden social cualitativamente superior al actual por medio de la revolución, es imposible que dicho orden esté desprovisto de contradicciones internas, por tanto, de tensiones y desajustes, de manera que será siempre imperfecto, conflictivo, inestable y por ende causante de ansiedad y apremios. En segundo lugar, la libertad tiene un modo de existencia peculiar, como permanentemente en peligro y sempiternamente necesitada de pelear por ella y arriesgarse para realizarla, lo que significa persecución, es decir, padecer agresiones, soportar la represión y, en consecuencia, sufrir. En tercer lugar, el dolor posee causas vivenciales, que son ajenas y están más allá de todo orden político y social, de manera que aunque éste fuera “perfecto” el sufrimiento, inherente a la condición humana misma, permanecería.

  

La estructura última de lo real, contradictoria, antinómica y conflictiva, no permite estados duraderos de equilibrio, lo que convierte en quimeras y sinsentidos las categorías epicúreas de armonía, paz, serenidad, placidez y calma, que son modos de huir de la realidad, un medroso escapar de lo que es y existe para refugiarse en algún paraíso artificial, donde no hay sufrimiento porque no hay vida. Lo real es dinámico y autocreado debido a que es contradictorio interno, al estar traspasado por un haz de antinomias, tensiones y discordancias. Todo ello, al reflejarse en la mente humana, induce muchas formas de perturbación, agobio y dolor psíquico, a la vez que estimula la creatividad, el esfuerzo y el ascenso de la vitalidad..."

 

(Félix Rodrigo Mora)

  

Fire Wave

Valley of Fire State Park

Nevada

 

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Seen from the Pap of Glencoe, I think this is Stob Coire nam Beith - part of Bidean nam Bian.

 

Replace the cloud with smoke and this seems (at least in my mind) like some recreation of the smouldering volcanic processes that might have produced these mountains.

humble homage to Jim Patterson who introduced me to Panther Beach at a cleanup!

 

from the recent Bay Area Large Format Meetup Group meeting at Wilder Ranch and Panther Beach. Among others, in attendance were: Shailendra and Vijay...

Cromosaturación

1965, Reconstrucción 2009

Carlos Cruz-Diez

  

Periférico Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo. Venezuela

Siquijor, like most islands in the Philippines, is a tranquil and bewitching province-island anchored in the heart of the archipelago and marketed over the top by the bandwagoner tourism industry of the country. Even so, the tv commercials and other tourist come-ons are nothing more than klutzy portrayals of its natural beauty and the spiritual communion the place forthrightly offers.

5xp handheld HDR rendered shot taken of a trout pond at a park we visited in Rotorua.

 

Vegetation looks like something you'd see in Jurrasic Park.

 

Rotorua, New Zealand

The right forefront of the rock looks like a set of proto-feet on some creature from the sea.

Remixing Day 3 of Modavia Fashion Week 2011

For credits go to: Oh My Ohmai

Camera: Olympus E-3

Lens: ZD 12-60mm SWD

Location: Taman Maluri, Cheras.

Date: Sun, 2nd Nov 2008

Released: 08.30.18

 

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Deep in the woods of Anderson Lake State Park I came across this algae and duckweed covered pond. I was hoping to see tadpoles, frogs, or turtles. I saw no life whatsoever except plant life. One might think there would be dragonflies. Still, I find it strangely attractive and fascinating. I was cruising/ exploring iNaturalist and found a nearly identical photograph.

Some more lightning action from last night. Lighting up the clouds nicely.

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