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E’ di notte che si percepisce meglio il frastuono del cuore, il ticchettio dell’ansia, il brusio dell’impossibile e il silenzio del mondo.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)
It is at night that the din of the heart, the ticking of anxiety, the buzz of the impossible and the silence of the world are best perceived.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)
Der Flop-Effekt… (Flip-Flop)
Graugrüner Schenkelkäfer mit Interferenzpigmente Farbtonflop.
Oedemeridae (Oedemera virescens)
Flip-Flop ist ein farbverändernder Effekt, bei dem im Zusammenspiel mit dem einfallenden Licht und der Lichtbrechung ein oszillierender Farbton wahrgenommen wird.
Flip-flop is a colour changing effect in which, interacting with the light incidents and the refraction of the light, an oscillating colour tone is perceived.
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So often we go through our lives not perceiving the beauty of nature just besides the trails. So i decided i share this image for the upcoming Theme called "natural white". Once more i have to say...nature can be so beautiful !
Thx for this great Challenge to the Smile on Saturday Team :)
Thank you for visits, comments and favs!
Vielen Dank für Eure Besuche, Kommentare und Sternchen!
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me ~ Henry David Thoreau
The harbor was built by the Venetians during their colonization in Crete and specifically between 1320 and 1356. It was an important center, serving the Venetian military ships, as well as one of the most important commercial ports of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. In the 16th century, due to a perceived Turkish threat, the harbor was included to the new fortification plans of the city of Chania. A fort constructed next to the entrance of the harbour and enhanced with bastions even on the breakwater.
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💕 Majestic at Twinlight on the Edge of the Woods -Part II✨ -the 6th Chakra mysterious & mystical✨
💕 Majestuosa al Anochecer al Borde del Bosque -Part II✨ -El 6) Chakra mysterioso & mistico✨
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The 3rd Eye, "Ajna" both open-mindedness and imagination.
The third eye chakra, "Ajna" in Sanskrit, is the sixth of the seven chakras. It is translated both by “know”, “command”, but also by “perceive”, “command” or even “authority”.
It embodies wisdom and reconciles the sensitive (intuition) and intellectual (knowledge) faculties.✨
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✨Misterioso & Mistico ✨ Majestuosa al anochecer al Borde del Bosque ✨
✨💕 Majestuoso - Part II " Mirar mas Alla " ... 💕
El 3er Ojo, "Ajna" tanto la mente abierta como la imaginacion.
El chakra del tercer ojo, "Ajna" en Sanscrito, es el sexto de los siete chakras. Se traduce tanto por "saber", "mandar", pero tambien por "percibir", "mandar" o incluso "autoridad".
Encarna la sabiduria y reconcilia las facultades sensitivas (intuicion) e intelectuales (conocimiento) ✨
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Titanopsis is a genus of about 10 species of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the arid regions of South Africa and Namibia. The name "Titanopsis" comes from the ancient Greek "titanos" (limestone) and "opsis" (looking like).
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Without a doubt, 'the Concrete Leaf' is the most picturesque of the rare succulents. Its scientific name is titanopsis calcarea.
The nickname is due to its rough and rugged appearance. This gives the impression of mineral inlays on its fabrics.
It uses this mechanism to camouflage itself. In this way, birds and other animals do not perceive them among the rocks, on which it grows.
Here, we speak of one of South Africa's rare succulents. Its habits make it difficult to locate. That is precisely why it is so unusual.
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They are small plants, with rosette up to 10 cm high.
Leaves are up to 3 cm with truncate tip and rough warty little tubercles at the apex of the leaves. They look like limestone and are hard to see in the wild.
Yellow flowers with 2 cm diameter appear in late fall.
Candle flames for the Macro Mondays theme: flame. An interesting challenge - what the eye perceives and what the camera records are not necessarily very similar.
HMM!
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Most people perceive darkness as negative. however, i feel safe in the dark. Not everyone can see right through you. You can observe from the dark without being noticed. Thus you recognize the truth from the darkness. And even if it hurts. The truth is positive.
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My Skin is the latest release by StrayDog...grab it at the Access Event ( Round November 20)
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El tranvía está a punto de efectuar su parada en Grau-La Marina.
FGV 4207
N.B. En esta toma la edición con el GIMP ha ido un poco más allá de los retoques habituales, lo que puede percibirse con facilidad.
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Metrovalencia Tram (Line 8)
The tram is about to make its stop in Grau-La Marina.
In this capture the edition with the GIMP has gone a little beyond the usual retouches, which can be easily perceived
National Library of Latvia
Riga
"Looking at the building we see an intriguing form. It is visually attractive to us. What is it like? It is expressive. It is a library, a functional symbol. It is a reminder of an outstanding historical event, important for Latvia, the making of its statehood, as well as praise to the rebirth of the state and its renewed collections of cultural treasures.
The linear nature of words fail to describe fully the three dimensional architectural shape. As to the expressivity the form has many meanings.
To perceive its meaning, it we have to return to the feelings and intuition that accompanied the moment of creation." (the architect Gunars Birkerts about the idea of the project)
Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters, where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. They are gregarious birds, travelling in flocks, hunting cooperatively, and breeding colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees. The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. The birds have been persecuted because of their perceived competition with commercial and recreational fishing. Their populations have fallen through habitat destruction, disturbance, and environmental pollution, and three species are of conservation concern. They also have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography. 6497
Fire, water, earth, air, I was allowed to deal with all four elements this morning.
So I stood on old rock that once emerged from the fire of a volcano and my gaze rested on the perceived infinity of the ocean. There was a fairly intense (but quite manageable) wind that morning, which constantly wanted to push me and my camera towards the abyss. And while I was waiting for the ultimate fire of the sun to appear, I was repeatedly hit from behind by sometimes heavy rain showers, which were striving from the interior of the island towards the sea.
Luckily I had already suspected the latter and so I had suitable rainwear for both me and my camera.
By the way, the best thing about this spot, the Reduto do Portinho was, that it was only a 5-minute walk from my hotel.
Feuer, Wasser, Erde, Luft, mit allen vier Elementen durfte ich mich an diesem Morgen auseinander setzen.
So stand ich auf altem Fels, der einst aus dem Feuer eines Vulkans entstanden ist und mein Blick ruhte auf der gefühlten Unendlichkeit des Ozeans. Es wehte ein recht intensiver (jedoch durchaus beherrschbarer) Wind an diesem Morgen, der mich und meine Kamera ständig in Richtung Abgrund drücken wollte. Und während ich auf das Erscheinen des ultimativen Feuers der Sonne wartete wurde ich immer wieder von hinten mit teils heftigen Regenschauern überzogen, die aus dem Inneren der Insel Richtung Meer strebten.
Zum Glück hatte ich letzteres schon geahnt und so hatte ich sowohl für mich als auch für meine Kamera passende Regenkleidung dabei.
Das Beste an diesem Spot, dem Reduto do Portinho war übrigens, dass er nur 5 Minuten zu Fuß von meinem Hotel entfernt war.
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The White Desert beckons with its vast horizons outlining free standing stacks, all carved by the elements from pure white chalk. These rock formations each carry a unique posture and aura resembling familiar images. One can perceive a giant eagle, a weeping lady, a sphinx, a camel, and even a huge whale. The most iconic of these are the giant mushrooms, which unfortunately are the last forms a chalk structure takes before the forces of erosion cause it to topple.
or three months. Time helps get rid of sentimental attachments to a photograph: "I really liked this person I photographed so the picture must be good" or "I worked very hard on this picture so it must be successful." Time gives you the distance necessary to see the work more clearly :-)
Alex Webb
Justice Matters!
zephyranthes, rain lily, 'Labuffarosea', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Cry No More
Alone I walk as black tears roll down my face,
Searching for my freedom trying to escape,
Surrounded in desolation I cannot break free
As I break down, the tragic part is no one perceives,
The days go bye so fast, that everything I had is left in the past,
The end is near, wondering will it be my last,
Dead leaves on my doorsteps; hollow is my heart,
My soul is fading away, drifting in the dark,
I’m bleeding in the inside, it’s getting harder to breath,
Drowning in my own pool of blood no one could save me,
Up in my horizon, Death Valley in my sight,
Finally, a smile on my face, I finally found the light,
In the doorstep of beauty, death patiently awaits,
When I finally get there, she begins to say,
“Welcome, please come in and take my hand,
You are safe now, you’re in the promise land,
In valley of no sun; in the valley of no rain,
You can finally rest in peace and be healed of all your pain”,
As I take her hand, she embraces me and whispers in my ear,
“No more running, you’ve are home, you can finally stop shedding tears”
By Jose Juarez
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✨✨" Sighs and Whispers of a Little Angel .."✨✨
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Between Reality and Beyond, there is only One Step...!
I would even say that their World fits into Ours in an invisible subtlety. . .like the breeze of the wind that we dont see, but that we feel, with sometimes shivers that run through our whole body.
Life is Feeling, Life is Emotion, Life is Sensitivity for those who let their Heart Feel and Guide their Steps...
There are only those who have this exacerbated Sensitivity, who can better than any other, perceive bits of the Invisible of the Beyond.
Happy and Blessed are those who have received this unexpected Grace, even if it's only Once... .
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Entre la Realidad y el Mas-Alla, solo hay un Paso...!
Incluso diria que su Mundo encaja en el Nuestro en una sutileza invisible. . .como la brisa del viento que no vemos, pero que sentimos, con a veces escalofrios que nos recorren todo el cuerpo.
Vida es Sentimiento, Vida es Emocion, Vida es Sensibilidad para aquellos que dejan que su Corazon Siente y Guie sus Pasos...
Solo hay quienes tienen esta Sensibilidad exacerbada, quienes mejor que nadie, perciben retazos de lo Invisible del Mas-Alla.
Bienaventurados y Benditos los que han recibido esta Gracia inesperada... aunque mismo sea una sola vez... .
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Entre Réalité et Au-Delà , il n'y a qu'un Pas ... !
je dirais même que leur Monde s'imbrique dans le Nôtre dans une subtilité invisible . . .comme la brise du vent que nous ne voyons pas, mais que nous ressentons, avec parfois des frissons qui nous parcourent tout le corps.
La Vie est Sentir, la Vie est Emotion, la Vie est Sensibilité pour qui, laisse son Coeur Ressentir et Guider ses Pas ...
Il n'y a que ceux qui ont cette Sensibilité exacerbée, qui peuvent mieux que tout autre, percevoir des bribes de l'Invisible de l'Au- Delà.
Bienheureux et Bénis sont ceux qui ont reçu cette Grâce inopinée ... même si ce n'est qu'Une Seule Fois ... .
Lea Aboma 21/07/2022
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when I took this picture, I couldn't find a reasonable setting to get a good result.
Today I tried it again. This is how I perceived the view at that time, maybe even a bit stronger in the colours, but I didn't want to exaggerate.
Als ich dieses Bild machte, konnte ich kein vernünftiges Setting finden um ein gutes Ergebnis zu erzielen.
Heute habe ich es noch einmal versucht. So habe ich den Blick damals wahrgenommen, vielleicht sogar noch etwas kräftiger in den Farben, aber ich wollte es nicht übertreiben.
"If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe." - Nicola Tesla.
In reference to the sacred geometry, that all things return in numerological degrees to 3 6 or 9. it also said that, "The numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 represent the physical world while the 3 6 9 represent the divine realm of the physical world." Which in accordance to how one receives, perceives and transmits the universe can yield the translation of the same, but numbers are in infinite and so are we!
This bridge has been a noticeable feature on many of my walkabouts in Berlin, on this particular day it on my route. I always pick a destination and head straight to it, as the crow flies so to speak, then zigzag between locations of photos toward the route back home. This bridge was one of those moments. This way I have a definitive photographic goal which is then also spliced with a "come what may" approach to my homeward direction. Thus hybridising a mental target with an open mind.
I hope everyone has a Happy Easter and all are well, so as always, thank you! :)
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten
I'm pretty sure this is the female bald eagle who spends a great more deal of time at the nest, watching over the eaglets than the male. That said, I've seen the male suddenly appear when a perceived threat approaches, such as another eagle, so I believe when not out hunting for the family he's keeping an eye on things. The male is the one that usually brings food to the nest, typically a fish; after he's consumed the head. The female is slightly larger although it's hard to tell. Harriet, the famous Fort Myers eagle appears to have been lost and the male has taken up all of the duties of parenthood. I've been told other females have flirted with him but so far, he's remained a single parent. I'm not sure a new mate would care for his chicks, a fact I'd love to learn if anyone has witnessed that behavior. (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Society is unity in diversity.
George Herbert Mead
Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
Harold Washington
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen Covey
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
William Butler Yeats
We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.
Antonio Guterres
Diversity is a mix and inclusion is making the mix work.
Andrés Tapia
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi
A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
Sam Brownback
Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
John Lewis
Before God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
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A camera looks. A mind sees. A heart perceives :-)
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pansy, featuring the ubiquitous pine pollen, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
We perceive yellow visually as bright, warm, luminous and relaxed. It stands for cheerfulness, warmth and optimism but also for envy, selfishness and stinginess.
Looking close....on Friday!
Sevilla, ES, 2023
[PT] Entre ruas, sombras e ficções
Contemplo ruas, pessoas e pedras, entre ficções e esquecimentos, inspirado no poeta, talvez, percebo as sombras dos gestos de outros, a poesia do crepúsculo, um desassossego.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de não sei quê, sombras de gestos feitos por outrem, efeitos encarnados, consequências que sentem.” (Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego, v.164)
[ES] Entre calles, sombras y ficciones
Contemplo calles, personas y piedras, entre ficciones y olvidos, inspirado en el poeta, quizás, percibo las sombras de los gestos de otros, la poesía del crepúsculo, una inquietud.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de no sé qué, sombras de gestos hechos por otra persona, efectos encarnados, consecuencias que sienten.” (Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego, v.164)
[ENG] Between streets, shadows and fictions
I contemplate streets, people and stones, between fictions and oblivion, inspired by the poet, perhaps, I perceive the shadows of the gestures of others, the poetry of twilight, a restlessness.
“...we are all equally derived from I don't know what, shadows of gestures made by someone else, embodied effects, consequences they feel.” (Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet, v.164)
and its very existence, with new eyes :-)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
HGGT! Truth Matters!
dahlia, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Sonhos de uma tarde de inverno
Sevilla, ES, 2023
[PT] Entre ruas, sombras e ficções
Contemplo ruas, pessoas e pedras, entre ficções e esquecimentos, inspirado no poeta, talvez, percebo as sombras dos gestos de outros, a poesia do crepúsculo, um desassossego.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de não sei quê, sombras de gestos feitos por outrem, efeitos encarnados, consequências que sentem.” (Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego, v.164)
[ES] Entre calles, sombras y ficciones
Contemplo calles, personas y piedras, entre ficciones y olvidos, inspirado en el poeta, quizás, percibo las sombras de los gestos de otros, la poesía del crepúsculo, una inquietud.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de no sé qué, sombras de gestos hechos por otra persona, efectos encarnados, consecuencias que sienten.” (Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego, v.164)
[ENG] Between streets, shadows and fictions
I contemplate streets, people and stones, between fictions and oblivion, inspired by the poet, perhaps, I perceive the shadows of the gestures of others, the poetry of twilight, a restlessness.
“...we are all equally derived from I don't know what, shadows of gestures made by someone else, embodied effects, consequences they feel.” (Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet, v.164)
ꒌ ИЗЛАЗАК ПУНОГ МЕСЕЦА, последњег пред летњу дугодневицу 21. јуна 2022.
► █░▓ At 22:58, this is ALMOST AN HOUR into the twilight (sun has set at 22:00 sharp gorgeously, I'll post an image). The actual moonrise was 16 minutes before this very moment, but to me the ideal horizon is blocked by buildings and trees so I had to wait. In those 16 minutes the moon has traveled 3° to the south and 2° up from the horizon where it had appeared at 137° southeast. Some cloud formation came handy to give an illusion here that it's a real moonrise. Full moon is 99,8% here today (on 14 June 2022), six days left to summer solstice. By the end of the night the illuminated part will wane down to 99,2%. Believe it or not, a difference of already 0,3% (when the moon reached the highest point on the sky due south in the middle of the night), can already be perceived by the naked eye.
To my disappointment I can't spot the moon at SE due to set there at 5:40, either the sky is too bright already (sun rises soon at 5:20) or the clouds or mist are blocking it low on the horizon.
Aperture priority, set fully open for the longest throw of this zoom lens. Handheld, supported by the balcony railing. For the full frame equivalent of 800mm not a bad result with the shutter speed of a 1/13 of a second. Soon after this I lowered the ISO from 3200 to 400 and obtained the same handheld result with 1/2.5 sec and much less noise. But the yellow moon had by then already emerged from the mystical clouds. And became the true moon - here it resembles the sun actually.
Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 1.10.5. Cropped at the top and bottom to fit the 16 by 9 format.
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Often, when one looks in the mirror, how you perceive yourself in the mind is different from what you actually see. This is definitely the case here; the tree's reflection is quite different from the the original - but don't forget that the original is still beautiful.
Suprematism is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles). The term refers to a form of abstract art based on the supremacy of pure artistic expression rather than on a visual or literal depiction of objects. It is entirely subjective and gives room for the artist to present what they think or perceive versus what they may see.
An old photo from my archives, and not great a bit grainy and dark. I wanted to remember this caring father fox, Big Red.
My own very wonderful father died one year ago. I miss you everyday dad and love you.
This photo is also to honor all those beautiful wolves who were chased down and murdered recently in our state. Animals and wildlife care about their young just like we do. Predators are gravely misunderstood. As author of the book NVER CRY WOLF Farley Mowat stated so well:
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
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Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters, where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. They are gregarious birds, travelling in flocks, hunting cooperatively, and breeding colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees. The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. The birds have been persecuted because of their perceived competition with commercial and recreational fishing. Their populations have fallen through habitat destruction, disturbance, and environmental pollution, and three species are of conservation concern. They also have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography. 44319
Looking close... on Friday!
Pebbles
As a general rule, geologists perceive all stones and pebbles as rocks, but not all rocks are considered stones (or pebbles). A pebble is a small stone that has had its edges smoothed by water erosion.
Harvest is coming soon
There are dark thunderclouds across the country. What do they bring us? Strong storm? Heavy rain? Thunder and lightning? Hailstorm? Destruction and devastation? Or nothing at all? This time they brought rain and wind. I was just taking photos of this natural miracle by the rain otherwise nothing happened. So I just got a little wet. But the threatening impression of the clouds did not reveal anything good.
Sometimes we see only dark clouds in our lives and find no way out. We can no longer perceive the beautiful things around us, even though they are still there. So I experienced this moment, when I stood alone on the edge of this cornfield, with the forces of nature around me. I felt so small and realized that it is only for grace that I can see all these miracles. As I was about to leave, the sun came out between the dark clouds for a little moment, making a golden miracle of brilliancy and vitality out of this cornfield. So quickly can something dark and hopeless appear in our lives chance to a moment of joy and gratitude.
To the photo: Not far from my house is a cornfield on a steep hill. From there you have a wonderful view of the Swiss Alps. I photographed the grain field but exactly on the opposite side. The sun had already passed and the gold-brown cornfield shone the last time on that day in the rays of the sun. I always had to look up from my point of view to the end of the hill. It was simply a fascinating look up.
Kind regards to all my faithful flickr friends. Thank you very much for all your lovely words here and signs of recognition.
Erwin
I have a dream..... that there is no sadness anymore...
Mark Knopfler - Local Hero (Live)
Criquet verte-échine
(Chorthippus dorsatus (Zetterstedt, 1821)
Du soleil plein dans l'oeil,
le meilleur moment pour faire de la photo Macro,
le sujet en règle générale ne vous voit pas, mais attention la réaction ne se fait
pas attendre à la moindre ombre perçue....
Ici un très beau Criquet... et dire qu'il en a qui les mangent.....!:
Full sun in the eye,
the best time to do Macro photography,
The subject as a rule does not see you, but be careful the reaction is not made
not waiting for the slightest perceived shadow....
Here a very beautiful Locust... and to say that he has some who eat them.....
Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters, where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. They are gregarious birds, travelling in flocks, hunting cooperatively, and breeding colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees. The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. The birds have been persecuted because of their perceived competition with commercial and recreational fishing. Their populations have fallen through habitat destruction, disturbance, and environmental pollution, and three species are of conservation concern. They also have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography. 44312
Madrid, España, 2023
[PT] Entre ruas, sombras e ficções
Contemplo ruas, pessoas e pedras, entre ficções e esquecimentos, inspirado no poeta, talvez, percebo as sombras dos gestos de outros, a poesia do crepúsculo, um desassossego.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de não sei quê, sombras de gestos feitos por outrem, efeitos encarnados, consequências que sentem.” (Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego, v.164)
[ES] Entre calles, sombras y ficciones
Contemplo calles, personas y piedras, entre ficciones y olvidos, inspirado en el poeta, quizás, percibo las sombras de los gestos de otros, la poesía del crepúsculo, una inquietud.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de no sé qué, sombras de gestos hechos por otra persona, efectos encarnados, consecuencias que sienten.” (Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego, v.164)
[ENG] Between streets, shadows and fictions
I contemplate streets, people and stones, between fictions and oblivion, inspired by the poet, perhaps, I perceive the shadows of the gestures of others, the poetry of twilight, a restlessness.
“...we are all equally derived from I don't know what, shadows of gestures made by someone else, embodied effects, consequences they feel.” (Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet, v.164)
These lovely tulips in our garden basked in the early summer sunshine.
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip
"In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself."
"The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying."
Reading Proust in a fog ^_^
I need lots of help to understand things, everything...
Sundown and sadness - when being distant is perceived as being a good thing and time slips away -
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This old Wisconsin round barn was in pretty dilipidated shape until recently when a new roof was installed. Too often these marvels of rural architecture are left to their own devices, and the results are heartbreaking. More work still needs to be done to this old beauty, but now it has time,and can be enjoyed by a new generation....
Round barns gained a short lived popularity in the late 1800's and early 1900's because of their perceived efficiency. But the high cost of construction was a obstacle to them becoming popular...
Subject and object—the perceiver and what is perceived—are not one, nor are they two. They are mutually dependent.
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, “Tricycle Online Course: Finding Freedom”
A starry sky is seen through a sandstone arch on Hunt's Mesa.
Everywhere and always, human beings have struggled to understand and express their relationship to the infinite, their place in the grand spiritual design that they perceive in the cosmos. Whenever I point my camera towards the heavens I'm reminded of the massive expanse we live in, that's our neighborhood in the left eye. We're just a dust speck floating along unfettered, minute and ignorant. Isn't ignorance Bliss!!!
On our way back from shooting the sunset on Hunt's Mesa, we used an alternate route back so that we could stop by this incredible triple window arch. The thing was so massive Wayne and I were having a hard time shooting it. My widest fastest lens is the 16-35mm f2.8 so I used that but still couldn't get it all in after several attempts, this being one of them. After I merged the series It looked like some kind of drama mask or a stone giant's face, up close. Hope you like it.
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Been once more outdoors for some shooting. While i rested on an parkbench i created this scenery. The contrast between the bench and the flowers made them almost pop out.
Even Color does not exist, but is created in our brains. In order to see color we need light, an object and our eyes. Color arises in the presence of light. Whenever light falls on an object, some of the rays are reflected by the object and the remainder is absorbed. The part that is reflected, determines the color.
Our eyes cannot perceive the light that is absorbed by an object. An apple, for example, absorbs all colors, except green. Because the green is reflected and is captured by our eyes, we see the green color of the apple.
The most ideal light for seeing color is diffuse daylight, when the sun is more or less behind the clouds and it is slightly rainy. This produces the most truthful colors.
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Color does not exist, but is created in our brains. In order to see color we need light, an object and our eyes. Color arises in the presence of light. Whenever light falls on an object, some of the rays are reflected by the object and the remainder is absorbed. The part that is reflected, determines the color.
Our eyes cannot perceive the light that is absorbed by an object. An apple, for example, absorbs all colors, except green. Because the green is reflected and is captured by our eyes, we see the green color of the apple.
The most ideal light for seeing color is diffuse daylight, when the sun is more or less behind the clouds and it is slightly rainy. This produces the most truthful colors.
Thank you for all your visits, comments and faves
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters, where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. They are gregarious birds, travelling in flocks, hunting cooperatively, and breeding colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees. The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. The birds have been persecuted because of their perceived competition with commercial and recreational fishing. Their populations have fallen through habitat destruction, disturbance, and environmental pollution, and three species are of conservation concern. They also have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography. 56787