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I hope this description provides both a sufficient explanation for the picture and an update on how Sophia is doing. I also ironically came across thie photo today: www.flickr.com/photos/gilliancrane/2283683243/ . Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers!
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It is almost uncomfortable for me to look at particular photos from the summer of 2006. Many of them are strangely ironic.
I am aware of the fact that the overall idea for this photo is cliché: something I have previously done before and is one that has consistently been accomplished. In all essence, however, this is a photo I love. But perhaps the love is more for the symbolism and story behind the meaning; the way it connects to those previous ironic photos -the ones that were more of an uncanny foreshadow –something that strangely unfolded throughout the upcoming months. I am talking more specifically about my “Operation Sunshine” and “The Unknown World.” I thought it would be interesting and fulfilling to re-shoot this idea after almost two years since the previous.
I have had many ask me about my cousin Sophia, wanting an update on how she has been doing. I am amazed by how sweet and supportive people are. I feel badly for avoiding the topic, but I felt a photo like this would be a decent “re-introduction” or whatever you want to call it.
Last winter, Sophia, my now 8-year-old cousin, was found with a 5 cm brain tumor around her pituitary gland. It was an incredibly difficult time in my family’s lives and my own. She is practically my little sister. I, to this day, continue to ask myself, “Why?” I am irritated by the fact that such injustice is so often brought upon the innocent.
The first surgery was a Tuesday February 13, 2007. After over 24 hours in other various operations, the doctors successfully removed the tumor. I don’t think anyone knew what would be in store for the upcoming months, nor do we know what is to lie ahead. What I am certain of, however, is that Sophia will continue to improve. There is an innate, strong will in children that astounds me.
Due to the nerve damage, Sophia lost her peripheral vision in her right eye and is legally blind in her left. She has enough vision in her right eye to get around, do beads, read, etc, but the vision is still poor. (Hence the photo, in which her right eye is shown –the same one that I unconsciously showed in my previous “The Unknown World” photo). Sophia’s hypothalamus was also damaged. She can, thus, no longer tell when she her stomach is full. It remains a constant, day-to-day struggle for my aunt and uncle. In addition, her body can no longer produce any hormones –from adrenaline to growth hormones. She takes daily shots and pills to aid this particular issue.
Those constant struggles and evasive problems are devastating and frustrating, but also tend to be blinding. It is important to remember all the good that came out: the fact that she is living, breathing, laughing, smiling, playing –being the sweet girl that she has always been. Sophia continues to get better everyday and has improved so much since last year.
I took this picture about a week ago. Throughout the upcoming years, I would like to morph it a series.
Thank you for reading; for you thoughts, support, and prayers.
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Please do not use this photo in any way without my permission
Verbal Paradoxes.
تعبت مهمل يجاهد عقول جرداء تقيد بالوديان العميقة الغيوم تنبت بأزقة تغرق في الأراضي تغني أغاني الأغاني الرثاء المحيطات الكلمات,
mondo cavo che brucia alberi che soffiano fumo ruggente vergogna infuria torrette d'oro frutti verdi lacrime dubbi passi pesanti antichi brividi,
endroit ombragé tresses lune délices émerveillés morts les plus chaudes intensités les plus profondes lumières impériales cœurs glacés palpitant feuilles feuilles digues,
manos preciosas movimientos místicos heridos heridos vientos espumosos huesos respiraciones ocultas obediencia colinas diamante ganador,
skládací dveře nejsilnější hlasy šeptání sliby projíždějící květiny kázání maxima formální radosti soumraky otočí strašidelné slavnostní věže,
散漫な口笛を吹く散歩的な散文戦闘の梁敵の陰窩ダンス理解拍手報酬暴君.
Steve.D.Hammond.
In 2554, the World is Coming to its End, unless an impossible mission through 600 years of time travel succeeds.
Maternal instinct knows no boundaries, including the nano-neural-net intravenously installed in Dannia Weston’s mind to repress her identity, allowing her to perform a mission 300 years before her time.
Transported to the year 1954, Dannia becomes a woman with a mid-twentieth century persona, college educated with an aptitude for mechanical invention. Due to her work during the war, she is employed by the U.S. government on a secret project. But what no one knows—including Dannia or those who sent her back to tinker with the mechanical past to reduce future pollution—is what might happen should she become emotionally involved in 1954.
The 2254 science team programmed the nano-net to prevent the possibility of pregnancy, but each person reacts to strong emotional stimuli differently, and using birth control not available in 1954 is out of the question.
When Dannia falls in love with Peter Hersh and becomes pregnant, her hormones erode a small section of the nano-chained network that stabilizes her new identity, triggering a mild memory rebirth…and threatening her mission and the fate of the world.
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As this year is ending, I've been feeling rather empty recently, losing motivation, the tic-tac in my head sounding louder and louder.
I would say that I'm rather a nice person, but paradoxically, at the same time it's not always easy to approach me. I know sometimes it's hard to have access to the whole of me, because my whole being is afraid to get attached. Because in the end I guess I'm afraid of rejection.
In the past few weeks, some lil challenges, awareness and conversations in the "real world", made me realize how challenging it is for most people to really connect with others.
We fragment, we censor ourselves, we demean ourselves, we're not the same person everywhere because it's not easy. Because we're afraid.
We stay on the surface because it's dizzying to be real or vulnerable. Because we rather be judged for what we're not instead of what we are. Like it gives us a way out or something.
And yet. I try to remind myself that 100% times I've been whole, I've survived and I've even grown up.
Anyway. I put this random (meaningless?) thoughts here to remind myself, and maybe to remind you if you ever need.
May peace be upon all of you.
I watched a television documentary recently that was dealing with Meta-physics and the nature of conscious. (Well it was A LOT more in-depth than that), but it went into the history and highlighted how fluid our knowledge in this area is, by documenting the key paradigm shifts. This program was challenging in many ways, (as it was way over my head and some of the in-depth mathematical equations didn’t interest me) but what did, was the way that our knowledge of we think is “real” is totally and utterly not what it seems.
The thing that totally amazed me, was the way that our known laws of physics seem to change the smaller you went. It was as though the ever-decreeing circles distorted the ‘reality’ of the previous.
It kind of solidified my beliefs that what we think of as real and solid is in fact not the case. In fact it is probably more accurate to say that there is an infinite amount that we ‘do not know’. I see it rather logical to say we know such a small minuscule amount about ‘anything’, that its impossible to even perceives our lack of solid ground.
This statement leaves me with mixed feelings. massive insecurities (fear of the unknown) but wonderful optimism, (massive excitement at the mind blowing possibilities) a paradox. It’s almost true to say that everything your imagination can perceive is in fact possible. WOW just imagine that for a second……parallel universes (were mentioned), sprits, aliens, (I know I'm sounding weird and a tad science fiction, but all possible in an infinite world).
I seem to remember the presenter saying that they only knew that quarks existed because of what they ‘couldn’t’ see. He said that the very act of looking for them, (and my spine is tingling at the thought) changed the very physical reality. WOW…. Now I'm probably not making much sense, and I'm struggling to remember precisely what he was saying, but my mind resonated at the unimaginable possibilities that what he was saying offers us.
I personally find this type of conversation vastly inspirational. a world without the confines of so-called laws of psychics, would be truly creative. No boxes to think outside, no rules! But how does it relate to this photograph?
Now it seems to me that when you look at a scene (especially a moment in time like this), that you aren’t really seeing what is there. yes it ‘looks’ like the place I took the image of, and for the purists amongst us, its not to dissimilar from documenting the colour, lighting conditions, sharpness blar de blarr de blarr. But the very act of capturing this image with a camera, that in a couple of years will be considered redundant, begs the question at the importance of those questions. (I have to get the dig in don’t i). It isn’t ‘real’, it isn’t even close to ‘real’, what the hell is real? Our own perception of reality is distorted by our unique experiences. We all see this differently because we do not only see it, we engage emotionally with it. We feel something which changes our perceptions of it.
So to sum this up before I ramble on too long, what does this mean to you? Is it a collection of pixels? A massive chain of zeros and ones, or is it a dull wet cold winters day? Maybe a beach on a parallel universe. May I leave you with a final thought. Imagine if every grain of sand on this beach was a sun and around each and every one there were 20 or so planets……are we alone?
The weirdest thing has happened in the last few days. I’ve had a lot of views and faves due to the great fortune of being placed at number one in the explore pages. Now I'm very flattered and honoured to be given such a high accolade, but at the same time disturbed at my own behaviour as a result. I have let my insecure self take the better of me and get drawn in by the hype. Please don’t get me wrong, I'm not criticising the system but instead myself! I have been tempted to value the hits and faves and have become obsessed by their frequency. Its very weird I find myself in a paradox, I want the wider attention that it brings, in order to forge my artistic path but I also want deeper more meaningful communication with people in order to develop. The two don’t seem to fit into the same place.
I don’t mean to rant, honestly I'm honoured by the attention, but I want to get a grip of my insecure ego before I turn into the kind of person I despise.
Anyway ill push off now and get the sleep that a bottle of wine and a curry are demanding from me. I'll be sobering up tomorrow! Cheers Jason
Ps. this is polpero again, fantastic moonscape location. I must go back with the tripod and more time, the ndgraduated filter and shallow dof, doesn’t do this place justice.
Yashica ML 28mm f2.8. A quite a few let us say, more advanced, features of Darktable are used like multiply blending mode for D&S module.
Concept: The truth of choosing a "way of life" is probably that no matter the happiness and serenity it produces, it still brings pain and suffering, leads to a final end (pre-realized) and ultimately cracks with it's vanishment (or death). But the free choice option keeps us from picking it anyway, bounded or not.
Background: Again no pessimism here, the above statement should not be read in it's absolute meaning. Just a thought on the options life serves us in the 20th century, freedom, hah.
Manipulation info: I again found some older and newer shots and merged them together. Simple PS overlaying/blending with minor brush painting, adjustment layers and the likes.
Just sitting watching the wind ruffle the surface of the water on this rock pool at Cullen, where the Burn of Deskford flows into the sea. The rocks and the water, hard and soft, flowing and rigid, with the sand there that is rock in another form.
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
Lao Tzu
HTT ;o)
Lensbaby Sweet 50: Here
My Textural Tuesday set here: Here
Links to my articles on photography are on the About page: here including 6 articles on the Lensbaby. The final two pages are looking at the Lensbaby optics as "Where Art Meets Glass"
Part 1 here
Part 2 here
The Perfect Wife? 1/4
An examination on the paradox of expectations of a wife's role.
Motherly and Sexy. Attentive and Pensive. Entertaining and Reticent.
at once the same
and different
one of the earth
the other of the sea
but both weave their essence
in three dimensions
one ephemeral
the other enduring
but both create melodious memories
which you can hum for a lifetime
we gather flowers
we gather shells
we gather moments
I hope you all are having a good week. Today and tomorrow are teaching days for me, hence not much time for Flickr. But I shall try my best to visit your streams as soon as I can. You know that I eventually do.
Some proverbs do contradict themselves and are, therefore, paradoxical. An example of this is:
"Don't judge a book by its cover" and "But clothes maketh the man"
Taken for the group Macromondays. The theme this week is 'Paradox'.
The schooner Paradox sailing in Swansea bay, with one of the yellow boats operated by "Gower Coast Adventures" speeding by.
No.1 in Explore!
do I love tresless spaces, greyness, large commercial banners, communist relicts, coca cola and chaotic architecture? no.
do I love Warsaw? yezzzz.
moreover, I find it deeply beautiful.
Horseshoe Bend is named for the horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River seen here from its lookout point. Naturally, the waveform of a river is constantly changing and the phenomenon of the “tea leaf paradox” is used to explain the formation of this riverbank. The processes in which greater curvature results in more and more erosion of the bank, is caused by faster flowing water in the inside of the bend and slower moving water on the outside. Like tea leaves in a cup after being stirred, sediment migrates to the center and bottom of the bend from its spiral force, leaving the outside of the bend unprotected and therefore vulnerable to faster erosion, thus creating a loop.
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Lentille zoom ReeFLEX GSeries 240 mm lens + anneau 200 mm macro ring
Cette barre rouillée attire mon attention. En regardant de plus près, je me découvre qu'une délicate plante grimpe s'enroule autour.
This rusted bar attracts my attention. Looking at it closely, I discover a delicate vine wrapping around..