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Saint Mary’s Cathedral is located in the historic center of Photi. In particular : В in today’s Central Park. This location of the building was chosen because of the rays perceived from the street.
Photi is a city, which was built according to a plan. 12 squares were joining the central street (twelve Apostles sign) and the ray sign was created. The most important event in the history of Photi was the building of Guria– Samegrelo eparchy’s cathedral in 1906-1907 years, In which’s construction, great contribution belongs to Niko Nikoladze.
The project was created by A.Zelenko. The project is the reduced analog of Constantinople’s Hagia Sofia. Later, after that, R. Marpeld made some corrections in project, the project was approved. The church was entertained to hold 2000 prayers. The construction of the church was tasked to “Black Sea Building Society”. The construction began in 6 July, 1906 and finished in September, 1907. It lasted for 1 year and 3 months. It was opened on 14 September “Jvartamagleba” holiday. The church’s foundation was blessed, by Guria-Samegrelo bishop, Giorgi.
On 22 May, 1907 the cross was erected on the dome of the church. Soviet government, turned the cathedral into theatre. In 2005, by the prayer-blessing of Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, the cathedral returned to the Photi patriarchate ownage.
Perceiving each day
with righteous clarity.
Living each moment
in purposed reality.
Believing each day
is the start of eternity.”
S. Tarr.
Healing trough art.
A 30 second exposure that I did on my balcony.
Sand Villa Hotel, Oahu
"There are three phases to awareness: to look, to see, and to perceive. A camera looks. A mind sees. A heart perceives." - Anonymous
There were several pair of birds investigating boxes along "Bluebird Lane". Once this pair laid claim to a box, the male in particular became quite aggressive. He perched on its top. And if another bird attempted even so much as a flyby, he went into a display of vigorous wing flapping and foot-stomping, accompanied by a steady stream of chattering vocalizations; which I surmise contained very specific instructions for the perceived intruder.
Kernville, Ca.
There are some things and words which have lost all meaning through use and abuse. Words. such as "hero" and objects such as the American flag have lost all the specialness they used to engender. Now the flag has become as much a political statement for the right wingnuts as it has of an honored history (or "perceived honorable"). In a way, America has become a sad parody of itself.
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;
only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
ee cummings
kerstinfrankart textures
"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes. Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas."..... Arshile Gorky
This work is based upon the following work:
7. Confrontation
www.flickr.com/photos/soniaadammurray/5622208159/in/photo...
Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations project.
Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.
Paulo Coelho
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso
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Lisboa
Lisbon
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)
“Everything you perceive is being filtered through your entire belief system. And the result of interpreting everything you perceive by using everything you believe is your personal dream, an entire virtual reality in your mind. Perhaps you can see how easy it is for humans to distort what we perceive. Light reproduces a perfect image of what is real, but we distort the image by creating a story with all those opinions and beliefs that we learned. We dream about it with our imagination, and by agreement we think that our dream is the absolute truth when the real truth is that our dream is a relative truth, a reflection of the truth that is always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory."
― Don Jose Ruiz
The Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, which Lord Palmerston had established in 1859 in response to a perceived threat of invasion by Emperor Napoleon III of France, recommended the fort's construction. When considering the defence of the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock and the anchorage at Milford Haven, the Commissioners believed that there was a danger that an enemy force might conduct an amphibious landing on a beach on the southern Pembrokeshire coast followed by an overland attack on the naval facilities. The Commissioners envisioned a chain of coastal artillery forts extending along the coast from Tenby to Freshwater West covering all the potential landing sites; ultimately, only this fort at Tenby was constructed. Wikipedia
Today we may yet love each other,
to lie, to fall asleep just like that,
before we repent
and curse ourselves.
tune: Ready Kirken-Winston Smith
The video uses excerpts from the film: A Piece of Heaven - a love story about a fleeting meeting of two young people imprisoned in a communist prison in the 1950s.
English translation:
Winston Smith
I perceive there's nothing more,
you're the last thing I'd expect to meet.
I perceive the flight of converging coordinates.
You are my beautiful Juliet, I want all or nothing.
I shall sorely pay for my words,
in a week or a few days or tomorrow, who knows?
Today we may yet love each other,
to lie, to fall asleep just like that,
before we repent
and curse ourselves.
Today we may yet love each other,
to lie, to fall asleep just like that,
before we repent
and curse ourselves.
I perceive I'm the new Winston Smith,
within the walls of London I'm not so alone.
I perceive the movement of your hands, the wild dancers,
you are my beautiful Juliet, I want all or nothing.
I shall sorely pay for my words,
in a week or a few days or tomorrow, who knows?
Today we may yet love each other,
to lie, to fall asleep just like that,
before we repent
and curse ourselves.
Today we may yet love each other,
to lie, to fall asleep just like that,
before we repent
and curse ourselves.
Today we may yet love each other,
to lie, to fall asleep just like that,
before we repent
and curse ourselves.
Today we may yet love each other.
translator: isil81
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map: Summer Trace
flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/3793188@N21/
Sunshine brings out the highlights in our flowers, leaves and shrubs. Brightness makes a difference in the way we perceive the things in our lives that mean so much to us. Gratitude and Kindness should surround us thus bringing us joy daily.
Springtime changes so quickly depending on weather and which cat is perceiving it. As for the "shedding" part, compare the size of her bib here, with the photo that was in last week's Happy Caturday (taken in January this year)... already much diminished. As for "Sniffing", Tikki did spend time smelling the Vinca (periwinkle) flowers as well as the lawn (which also became salad) but sun in springtime was much too interesting to stop and pose nicely for me. (As for photography choices: she has no interest in daffodils or hyacinth, so vinca's the best spring flower I have right now. Tulips not for some days.) Happy Caturday theme 20 Mar 2021 (Vernal Equinox) "Spring."
Introduction
Gospel Video Songs | 2019 English Christian Music Videos with Lyrics | "The Transcendence and Greatness of the Almighty"
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/transcendence-and-greatne...
Verse 1
Fast as lightning, this world can change
always by God’s thoughts, always by God’s watch.
Things will come, things man never dreamed.
What they’ve long had may slip away.
Chorus
No one can fathom the footsteps of God.
No one can grasp the grandeur of His power.
Transcending, He perceives what man can’t see.
Though mankind turns Him away, He saves them still;
and this is the greatness of God.
Verse 2
He understands life and death, He knows the rules of life.
He’s the foundation for man’s life.
Great Redeemer, He resurrects mankind.
Happy hearts He weighs down, sad hearts He lifts up.
Chorus
No one can fathom the footsteps of God.
No one can grasp the grandeur of His power.
Transcending, He perceives what man can’t see.
Though mankind turns Him away, He saves them still;
and this is the greatness of God.
Bridge
He does all this for the sake of His plan,
all this for the work of His hand.
He does all this for the sake of His plan,
all this for the work of His hand.
Chorus
No one can fathom the footsteps of God.
No one can grasp the grandeur of His power.
Transcending, He perceives what man can’t see.
Though mankind turns Him away, He saves them still;
and this is the greatness, this is the greatness,
this is the greatness of God.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
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Image Source: The Church of Almighty God
I'm so sick & tired of being used by other people. The mental strength of a person has certain limits. There are times when you have to ask yourself....will I let myself be treated like garbage and dirt for even longer? I treat myself bad enough there is no room for people who only perceive me if their desire is not tangible. I'd rather stay alone than continue to swallow this garbage. But I am grateful to the few people in whose centers I stand
If I'm not important enough stay away from me!
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters.
Amy Leigh Mercree
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Anonymous
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
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this endangered beauty (due mainly to the loss of habitat) is the largest grouse in north america....'lek activity'......dancing to impress local 'hens' as well as potential challengers...being late in the breeding season I saw no hens on this trip however up to seventy five 'males a struttin'....it's amazing how all grouse species seem to blend perfectly into their surroundings and will 'freeze' when they perceive danger from above....I'm not sure I like the 'balance' of this image however I wanted the second grouse in the background....
I've decided to upload just a single submission for November's homework.
Reason being I wanted this piece to be a little more interactive than usual.
Perspective has a Latin root meaning "look through" or "perceive," and all the meanings of perspective have something to do with looking.
Synonyms:
outlook, view, viewpoint, point of view, standpoint, position, stand, stance, angle, slant, attitude, frame of mind, frame of reference, approach, way of looking/thinking, vantage point, interpretation
It will be great if you could share with me your thought process on how you perceive this image in the comment section.
Cheers ^o^
24mm equivalent focal
課題/Task 31 「perspective」by Fumiko♪
大人の宿題/Adult homework
Downtown
It was a real eye opener for me as a Canadian to initially visit Europe and see how the culture has kept alive the whole concept of community closeness that seems to have eluded North America where we embrace the community from our individualistic point of view.
Maybe in our rush to embrace the New World in addition casting off the old ways of compliance and subservience we gave up a sense of community responsibility in exchange for a perceived rugged idealistic individualism that makes for great stories but not a great community.
The Netherlands was my easy entry into travel in continental Europe after having spent months in Scotland and some travel exploration of England realizing there exists a world outside of North America not just what you see in TV and Movies.
Spending a lazy weekend in Holland especially with almost everyone speaking English and all citizens seeming very tolerant of ignorant North Americans especially ignorant Maritime Canadians is a great place to spend your first weekend in Europe.
The last thing I want to mention is a photographic tip about leading lines in your travel photos find them and use them they are everywhere and using them to direct the viewer through a picture is as old as photography and one of the most effective tools you have in your arsenal.
I took this on September 19th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 42mm 1/8s, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.
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. R_5507
Your eyes are from where
the snow has not stained the light,
and between the palms the air
invisible is clear.
Your wish is from where
the animal is allied to the bodies
with secret grace
look and smile.
Your existence is from where
thought is perceived
in the sand of friendly seas,
in eternity in time.
Luis Cernuda
It's Only Love
The Common Nighthawk is a common summer resident
throughout Florida. This species is most active during the
early daylight hours and in the late afternoon, flying an
erratic path over fields and pastures as it searches for
insects. During the midday hours this bird usually rests on horizontal tree limbs, fences, and utility wires.
The Common Nighthawk is sometimes called a "bull-bat", due to its perceived "bat-like" flight, and the "bull-like" boom made by its wings as it pulls from a dive.
We always called them "Bull-bats" when I was a kid growing up in Florida.
I found this one in a pine tree along Joe Overstreet Road in Osceola County Florida.
This common tern and his/her partner had two chicks and were very protective of them. Throughout the day we watched them driving off numerous perceived threats, from swans to kites to ospreys, but it wasn't until we were about to leave at the end of the day that they all of a sudden also seemed displeased with our presence there and started to eye our hide suspiciously, leading to us getting the chance to bag a few very nice close-up shots. It goes without saying that we waited until they had calmed down again a little before finally making our way back to the car.
HBW😊😊😍
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Eckhart Tolle
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
Catherynne M. Valente
Your life requires your mindful presence in order to live it. Be here now.
Akiroq Brost
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Alice Morse Earle
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Blue Ridge Mountains. View from Skyline Drive. The Blue Ridge Mountains are known for having a bluish color when seen from a distance. Trees put the "blue" in Blue Ridge, from the isoprene released into the atmosphere. This contributes to the characteristic haze on the mountains and their perceived color.
Taken in our garden this Spring.
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
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
-– C. W. Leadbeater
SERENITY OF SILENCE (My homeland, Arkaim)
You know, probably, each of us needs to sit down like this and think about love. What does it mean for us, how do we express it and whether we can perceive it from others. For most of us, "love blossoms" will most likely mean something bright, expressive, expressive, exciting, over-emotional... well, like loving someone or something for the first time. But the expressions of Love are very different. It can be quiet contemplation, enjoyment, admiration, super-awareness in a smooth flow. This is not the flash that flashed brightly and then went out. This is a constant soft fire that always burns in the heart and soul, and warms in any situation.
Some music for background Shinshu Azumino www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MgLFWefpbk
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. 51904
HAPPY FENCED FRIDAY !!
Oh my, POV (point of view) is so important to both how we perceive the world and how we present it to others through photographs. This "flotilla" of ducks had no idea that they were featured players in this complex image, full of reflections in slanted, late-afternoon light. The reflections are of a mysterious "water fence" near the bank of the Rhine in downtown Basel City.
Location: River Rhine, Basel City BS Switzerland.
In my album: Dan's Reflections.
“This is the first really Spring day . . . . Something analogous to the thawing of the ice seems to have taken place in the air. At the end of Winter there is a season in which we are daily expecting Spring, and finally a day when it arrives . . . .
I perceive the Spring in the softened air . . . . Looking through this transparent vapor, all surfaces, not osiers and open water alone, look more vivid. The hardness of Winter is relaxed. “
- - Thoreau March 1859
Best viewed LARGE.
A few weeks ago I was in the Black Forest and a colleague came there from Switzerland. Together we photographed the night sky from the Feldberg. The yellow-orange light you see below is not a sunset nor a sunrise, it is the heavy light pollution that we have here in Germany.
(The human eye doesn't perceive this as strongly as a camera.)
Photographed with a Sony Alpha 7r 20mm 1.8 Sony
Milkyway ISO 640 F1.8 30 Sec
foreground ISO 400 F2.8 112 Sec
I would be very happy to receive feedback!
Instagram: natureshots_sb or www.instagram.com/natureshots_sb/
Lake Parker Park, Lakeland, FL. USA
©Harris Brown-ALL rights reserved. This image may not be used for ANY purpose without written permission.
Nikon D500 camera with Nikon 500mm f4 G VR lens and 1.4 converter.
1/2500 f5.6 ISO 800
Thanks to all who take the time to view, comment on and favor my images. It is very much appreciated.
You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Psalm 139:1-3
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. 54324
Sometimes life can feel like a failure. I get the view that is seen from some. I found that for myself, that it is how one perceives things. A long time ago I felt that I could not win. Then somehow I viewed it that if I am okay with something, then it is okay and good enough. We are in a world where much is expected. Screw them. I like where I am at.
Happy Fence Friday
If I photograph in such a way that I meaningfully evoke a sense of the known and the unknown, I feel I have succeeded.'
Wynn Bullock by Chris Johnson
HPPT! Words Matter!
lotus blossom, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
The glory is all over the place
I'm so happy to be able to perceive it
To be a part of it
By enjoying it
By capturing it
С днем рождения, мой дорогой друг! Чего тебе пожелать, Марк? Счастья, радости и здоровья, больших побед во всех делах, везения и вдохновения, доброты и радости! Что может быть лучше умения с благодарностью воспринимать каждое данное мгновение, радоваться тому, что ты здоров и способен сам строить свою жизнь? Пусть тебе всегда сопутствует позитив, любое дело сулит успех и огромную радость!Марк, я от всей души желаю, чтоб твоя судьба была похожа на отличную первоклассную трассу — ровную, гладкую, без ухабов и неприятностей. Мчись по судьбе, как автомобиль премиум-класса: легко, весело, без проблем! Пусть твоими попутчиками будут только прекрасные люди! Пусть твой мотор — сердце — работает без перебоев! Огромного тебе пробега без капремонтов!Ты родился в весенний месяц март , поэтому я дарю тебе рисунок Весны ...!..................................Happy birthday, my dear friend! What do you want, Mark? Happiness, joy and health, great victories in all matters, luck and inspiration, kindness and joy! What could be better than the ability to gratefully perceive every given moment, to rejoice that you are healthy and able to build your own life? May you always be accompanied by a positive, any business promises success and great joy!Mark, I sincerely wish that your fate was like a great first—class track - smooth, smooth, without bumps and troubles. Race through fate like a premium car: easy, fun, no problem! Let only wonderful people be your fellow travelers! Let your motor — heart — work without interruptions! You have a huge mileage without major repairs!....You were born in the spring month of March, so I'm giving you a picture of Spring...!
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Not so the forest rebel.
He has a tough decision to make: to reserve the right—at any cost—to judge for himself what he is called upon to support or contribute to. There will be considerable sacrifices, but they will be accompanied by an immediate gain in sovereignty. Naturally, as things stand, only a tiny minority will perceive the gain as such. Dominion, however, can only come from those who have preserved in themselves a knowledge of native human measures and who will not be forced by any superior power to forsake acting humanely.
[E. J.]
#MacroMondays - #Macro Mondays - #water
To photograph water is, in its liquid form, by itself impossible because water is absolutely free of any colour and with a structure we can't perceive. What we only can display are reflections on its surface ore the edges where water is touching other elements (other liquids, gases ore solid objects). In case of the last one its still quite difficult to recognice the touching surface. In case of transitions to other liquids ore gases they are vissible more clearly, for instance in the form of droplets ore like you see here in the reverse version. On this photograph You see the blossom of white clover couted by blisters of carbon dioxide in a glas of water (soda).
Wasser zu fotografieren ist, in seiner flüssigen Form, an sich unmöglich, denn Wasser ist absolut farblos und hat eine nicht wahrnehmbare Struktur. Das einizige, was wir darstellen können sind Spiegelungen in der Oberfläche oder die Ränder an denen das Wasser auf andere Elemente (Flüssigkeiten, Gase oder feste Körper) trifft. Während bei letzterem die Berührungsflächen trotzdem nur schwer zu erkennen sind, sind die Übergänge zwischen unterschiedlichen Flüssigkeiten und zu Gasen meist deutlich auszumachen, zum Beispiel durch Wassertropfen oder wie hier, die umgekehrte Variante. Auf dem Foto seht Ihr eine Kleeblüte ummantelt von Kohlendioxid Bläschen in einem Glas Wasser (Mineralwasser).
"It is the beginning of an evolution in which all beings will begin to radiate light.
Light that they can perceive.
And light that can be perceived in the cosmos."
Miranon
Ontario Red Squirrel ... An Artistic oil paint portrait version of my little buddy "Red" who shows up to my backyard from our local park.
Edited with a white matte frame.
Nobody has ever described a red squirrel as laid-back and casual. They seem to live with the accelerator nailed to the floor, zipping around trees and through branches with blinding speed.
Nor are they the fast but silent type. They may be the smallest squirrels in Ontario, but they don’t seem to know that. Any black squirrel that is perceived as an intruder will be chased away in a flurry of chattering and squeaking, every sound accompanied by a stomping of tiny feet and a flick of the tail. The same goes for gray jays and other Ontario birds, small dogs, and even owls: anything that might pose a threat is chased away.
That’s just standard red squirrel behaviour. And come spring, they ramp that up a few notches.
Palacio del Marqués de Santa Cruz, Viso del Marqués, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, España.
El palacio del Marqués de Santa Cruz es un edificio situado en el municipio de Viso del Marqués (Ciudad Real), en la Comunidad autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha, en España. Fue construido a finales del siglo XVI por Álvaro de Bazán, primer marqués de Santa Cruz. Actualmente es la sede del Archivo General de la Marina.
Fue construido entre 1564 y 1586 con modificaciones posteriores, y se trata de un edificio de planta cuadrada y estilo renacentista articulado en torno a un atrio renacentista con una tumba yacente. Los muros y techos se hallan cubiertos de frescos de doble temática: por un lado, escenas mitológicas y, por otro, batallas navales y ciudades italianas relacionadas con la trayectoria militar del marqués y de sus familiares. Los frescos se deben a unos pintores manieristas italianos, los Péroli. Al verlos, Felipe II les encargaría trabajos para El Escorial y el Alcázar de Toledo.
Para levantarlo, el marqués contrató a un equipo de arquitectos, pintores y decoradores que trabajaron en la obra desde 1564 hasta 1586. Para algunos, el diseño del edificio se debió al italiano Giovanni Battista Castello, conocido como el Bergamasco, que más tarde trabajó en El Escorial; para otros lo trazó, al menos en su plan original, Enrique Egas el Mozo.
La arquitectura se percibe como típica española, sin las arquerías italianas, con paramentos lisos y torres cuadradas en las esquinas, influidos por la austeridad de El Escorial y el Alcázar de Toledo, dentro de las relaciones armónicas características del Renacimiento. El espacio central está ocupado por un patio porticado que junto con la escalera forma un conjunto típicamente manierista entendido como estilo elegante y cortesano que desborda el marco meramente arquitectónico. Contaba con cuatro torres que, al parecer, se derrumbaron a consecuencia del Terremoto de Lisboa de 1755.
Las paredes están decoradas con 8.000 metros cuadrados de frescos manieristas elaborados por Giovanni Battista Peroli con Esteban Peroli y César de Bellis. Todos trabajaron para crear un espacio erigido a la mayor gloria de su dueño: por un lado, había que exaltar sus virtudes militares, y por el otro, enaltecer su linaje. Para lo primero, se pintaron en las paredes, las bóvedas y los techos del palacio vistas de ciudades y de puertos, así como los baluartes y las batallas en los que había conquistado su inmenso prestigio. A ambos lados de la escalera se ubicaron dos estatuas en las que aparecía representado como Neptuno (dios de los mares, con su tridente) y como Marte (dios de la guerra), y sobre las puertas del piso superior se colocaron los fanales de popa de las naves capitanas vencidas en las batallas, que eran los trofeos de los marinos. Para elogiar su linaje, y siguiendo la misma tradición renacentista de representar a hombres como dioses o semidioses de la antigüedad, se pintó a los antepasados del marqués y a sus esposas (tuvo dos) e hijos.
Estos dos grupos de representaciones se aderezaron con trampantojos, pinturas que simulaban puertas, columnas y otros elementos decorativos y arquitectónicos; y también con motivos grutescos que incluían animales mitológicos, sabandijas y follajes. Conforme una temática muy variada que se puede interpretar como defensa del catolicismo defendido en Trento.
Las estatuas sepulcrales de Alonso de Bazán (hermano de don Álvaro) y su esposa María de Figueroa, son el único ejemplo de escultura funeraria perteneciente al primer tercio del siglo XVII. Fueron ejecutados para el Monasterio de la Concepción que ocupaba la Comunidad de Religiosas Franciscas de El Viso del Marqués, ubicándose a día de hoy en el muro del Palacio más cercano a los jardines. Su creador fue Antonio de Riera, escultor relacionado con la corte de origen catalán. En ellas, aparecen los marqueses en actitud de orante, arrodillados en un reclinatorio, todo ello en mármol blanco que resalta sobre el mármol negro de los nichos. Se advierte en ellos cierta similitud con la elegancia y el clasicismo de los Leoni, a pesar de cierta rigidez formal, siendo de especial relevancia la forma en la que están ejecutadas las telas y el detalle de los vestidos.
The Palace of the Marquis of Santa Cruz is a building located in the municipality of Viso del Marqués (Ciudad Real), in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. It was built in the late 16th century by Álvaro de Bazán, the first Marquis of Santa Cruz. It currently houses the General Archive of the Navy.
Built between 1564 and 1586, with subsequent modifications, it is a square, Renaissance-style building centered around a Renaissance atrium with a recumbent tomb. The walls and ceilings are covered with frescoes depicting two themes: mythological scenes, and naval battles and Italian cities related to the military career of the Marquis and his family. The frescoes are by Italian Mannerist painters, the Pérolis. Upon seeing them, Philip II commissioned works from them for El Escorial and the Alcázar of Toledo.
To build it, the Marquis hired a team of architects, painters, and decorators who worked on the project from 1564 to 1586. Some believe the building was designed by the Italian Giovanni Battista Castello, known as El Bergamasco, who later worked at El Escorial; others believe it was designed, at least in its original plan, by Enrique Egas the Younger.
The architecture is perceived as typically Spanish, lacking the Italian arches, with smooth walls and square towers at the corners, influenced by the austerity of El Escorial and the Alcázar of Toledo, within the harmonious relationships characteristic of the Renaissance. The central space is occupied by a porticoed courtyard that, together with the staircase, forms a typically Mannerist ensemble, understood as an elegant and courtly style that transcends the purely architectural framework. It had four towers that apparently collapsed as a result of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755.
The walls are decorated with 8,000 square meters of Mannerist frescoes created by Giovanni Battista Peroli with Esteban Peroli and César de Bellis. They all worked to create a space built to the greatest glory of its owner: on the one hand, to exalt his military virtues, and on the other, to honor his lineage. To this end, views of cities and ports, as well as the bastions and battles in which he had earned his immense prestige, were painted on the walls, vaults, and ceilings of the palace. On either side of the staircase were two statues depicting him as Neptune (god of the seas, with his trident) and Mars (god of war). Above the doors on the upper floor were the stern lanterns of defeated flagships, trophies of the sailors. To praise his lineage, and following the same Renaissance tradition of depicting men as gods or demigods of antiquity, the marquis's ancestors, his wives (he had two) and children were painted.
These two groups of representations were embellished with trompe l'oeil paintings simulating doors, columns, and other decorative and architectural elements; as well as grotesque motifs that included mythological animals, vermin, and foliage. This varied theme can be interpreted as a defense of the Catholicism championed in Trent.
The sepulchral statues of Alonso de Bazán (Don Álvaro's brother) and his wife María de Figueroa are the only examples of funerary sculpture dating from the first third of the 17th century. They were executed for the Monastery of the Concepción, which was occupied by the Community of Franciscan Nuns of El Viso del Marqués, and are now located on the wall of the Palace closest to the gardens. Their creator was Antonio de Riera, a sculptor of Catalan origin associated with the court. They depict the marquises in a prayerful attitude, kneeling on a prie-dieu. All in white marble, which stands out against the black marble of the niches. There is a certain similarity to the elegance and classicism of the Leoni family, despite their formal rigidity, with the execution of the fabrics and the detail of the dresses being particularly noteworthy.