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Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
« La réalité est une chose mystérieuse et fluctuante, car la perception que nous en avons ne reste jamais la même. » de Joe Tan
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Highest position: 15 on Sunday, November 18, 2012
"Depth Perception:" Aldous Huxley has stated, "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." Looking into this scene, it became difficult for me to tell the depth of the water; some of the submerged rocks were visible below the surface, but the reflections from the trees and rocks above began to play tricks on my eyes. I did end up crossing the creek and found the deepness varied with the undulating terrain below.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
Words by William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Got stuck in rain today while coming back from the visa office, and the Fuji X100 came to rescue! I wish the microbus wasnt there in the frame,but what the heck:P.
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Seventh photo from our series Perceptions
We perceive the world as we see it. Our perception is based on what we see and what we want to see.
The reality is, if you imagine positive, you’ll end up in having a positive image of your surroundings.
Sunsets have always been part of my inspiration, it always attracts my attention, that brings me close to the nature.
(Clifton Beach, Karachi - Pakistan)
I absolutely love the fact that the title is portrayed in the picture.
'Selective perception' is the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages while ignoring opposing viewpoints. It is a broad term to identify the behavior all people exhibit to tend to "see things" based on their particular frame of reference.
«'Cos every time that we think we make progress, you come and destroy what we fought to rebuild.»
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Another shot from the lake at Earlswood Common. The way the light has fallen on these shrubs - and the shadows they've created - has left me thinking of something else entirely...
The other two pictures are just for fun but you can click through if you wish
schmocus : mine i like : common
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Cézanne Le Rocher Rouge. Photographie prise au Carrière de Bibemus à Aix en Provence à l'endroit même où le peintre a réalisé son paysage. Ce montage pose des questions de perception; oppose et lie photographie et peinture... queendotkoong.tumblr.com/post/31838316699/en-ce-moment-si...
Elle écrivait les rêves qu'elle allait bientôt faire. C'était sa manière de s'arracher au temps présent.
Isn't she a beauty? No, not the photo, this red-backed spider, Latrodectus hasselti. The photo is rubbish. What? Did you expect something better when I was lying on my back and peering up into a control box filled with valves, pipes, filters, wires, solenoids and three messy red-backed spiders. Think yourself lucky that I did this well!
We are all born lucky. The odds against our conception, birth, and survival to adulthood are astronomical. But we did, so let's get on with it.
How many times have I heard: "But you live so far away…couldn't you come here"? Yes, but it's just as far for me, and if you're whining like that, what motivation are you offering? Then there's the "Oh, no you have so many 'poisonous' things out to kill me". The latter might have a grain of truth. Could it be your whining that's motivating that emotion? I don't condone such thoughts, by the way, and we can explore that, if you like.
We have sharks: great white, tiger, bull. All can give you a nasty nip. Consider this: they are cosmopolitan species, not unique to this Great South Land. Could it be the habit of popping into the sparkling warm waters on golden sandy beaches that puts bite-sized temptation in their fishy way more frequently that if the water is murky, brown and frigid? No one will force you to come here and enjoy yourself. That's up to you.
Besides, horses, bees, domestic dogs and lightning kill more people than sharks. It's got something to do with their disinclination to come ashore for a snack. There are no extant predators that fill that role. No wolves, tigers, lions or bears. Okay, there are drop bears. You might get a concussion, a compression fracture of your vertebrae, or a nasty fright. I haven't seen one for a while. You should be safe.
Snakes? Arguably the most dangerous snake in the World is the eastern brown snake. Sea snakes are pretty bad too. But because you've decided to avoid the water, well, stop worrying about them. I've been struck at multiple times by brown snakes. Not once has any of them connected. I wouldn't be writing this if they had; possibly. One bit Bessie outside my door. With a bit of help, she lived. Dangerous? I guess. But you don't see one every day, just occasionally, and usually as they are slithering about on some mission involving a rodent they can swallow. Never has one hunted me for food, or attempted to swallow me. Don't think you can escape by going into the water. They are good swimmers too. Instead, stand still and wait till they go away.
Crocodiles, blue ringed octopus and stingers? See shark, above. Yes you might be stalked by a saltwater crocodile on land, if you are that clumsy that you repeat habitual behaviours, day after day, in the same place, and the salty is hungry. They can wait for you to do something dumb. The slow metabolism that enables that patience also means you just need to go somewhere cooler to avoid them. Oh, and yes, as you are already avoiding water: somewhere cold.
Mass casualty events? There aren't any active volcanoes anywhere you'd know. Ever heard of, err Heard Island? No, I guessed that. If you rank those that have happened, the massacre of our continent's original human inhabitants tops the list; multiple times. Ship wrecks are up there, and hostile foreign aggression, once; other times, not so much. The toll against POW escapees was bigger. Some floods have been deadly, and there's one nasty earthquake that hit a built-up area. That was ugly, and a bridge collapsed when a commuter train hit a bridge stanchion. A family member attended in an official capacity. That left many scars.
Our biggest civilian incident was a deranged individual with a semi-automatic weapon in 1996. Those weapons are banned now. And recently, there was another incident. In between? Nothing on the scale that wears the label mass casualty. Why? You might have to visit to understand that, and take note of the policy and practice which limits the likelihood of these things.
Here's some numbers about mass casualties. You watch the news. You've already seen stuff around the world. Here, we've had two events in 29 years. Every loss was someone, a person of equal value. They worked, paid taxes, studied, had aspirations, were part of the economy and society. We mourn them all. Just in 2025, this tragic year, there has been one event too many in a country of around 27 million lives. One per capita: 1/27,000,000. In a socially comparable country, there has been a mass casualty frequency of 1/875,000 people. Where would you feel safer? Thirty one times safer?
Back with the wildlife, we also have the nastiest venomous spider in the World. This isn't it. The Sydney Funnel-web is endemic to the sandstone country of the Sydney Basin. That's a big area! Yet almost as many people have seen a drop bear as has encountered one of these spiders. They can kill you, as sure as a drop bear can. I'd rather take my chances with the spider. The last verified death by envenomation by a red-backed spider was in 1956. They are so timid, they'll roll up and play dead if you poke them. I poked this one, and the other female here in this control box too. The male ran off somewhere; such is their bravado. I picked both of those girls up and took them away where I could not harm them, and let them go. My greatest discomfort was negotiating the return to vertical after lying supine to get this picture!
Perception and reality can be divergent.
A little space-out effects video. Sometimes our minds end up going to the Moon and reality distorts around us.
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Perceptions On Dreams.
Corws Dawnsio angylion rhyfeddol penillion nodedig deffro,
Situation catatonique scènes souterraines de LSD de la musique électronique microgrammes tête flipper,
κρέμονται κουρτίνες οροφής αναβοσβήνει καρδιά απίστευτα διαστάσεις οξύ κρανία εκδηλώνεται,
concepções instantâneos simpatias unseeded sensíveis deliciosas vistas sentimentos especiais,
Atem häufige Blitze Schatten Polygone Augenlider orientalischem Dankbarkeit Erhaben entdeckt,
יסמין החיננית נצח שירה עצום מתחת שמשות תכלת הרים מפהקים מילות חיבת שלום,
бушует ярость огня бросая ярость охватывает стойких бляшки пиршества речей облачным фантазии заражает,
particule stralucitoare noapte rătăcire în percepțiile plângând vegetație anihilarea călătorie binevoitor mormânt mai departe,
巨大な朝のモンスターアラームを湧き新興広大な庭園の金巨大な岩黄色ハーブ暗い迷路.
Steve.D.Hammond.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as at is - infinite.
William Blake ( 1757-1827)
English poet
" Depois de todas as tempestades
e dias ensolarados, hoje eu percebo.
Os conceitos e pré-conceitos caem,
e a nuvem que outrora embaçava
minha percepção não mais, me traz medo."
" After all the storms
and sunny days, now I understand.
The concepts and preconceptions fall,
and the cloud that once clouded
My perception is no longer brings me fear. "
©2012 Susan Ogden-All Rights Reserved
Without getting into this too deep...let me just say that perception is an incredible thing! It is all dependent on individuals...and it is not right or wrong. it just is.
what people perceive me to be, depending on who THEY are, is something rather interesting to me...often when i was younger i was shaped by these perceptions, and by my reactions to them. Now that i am (chronologically!) grown up, negative perceptions of me don't effect me quite so much, (as in i do not give a rats patoot) and positive ones just confound me, because my perception of me is so different than theirs!
i need to stop looking thru the hole in the leaf, and only seeing the small part of me....at the very least, it will allow me to attempt to live up to what the positive perceptions of me are. i have several nicknames, that have puzzled me, based on perceptions....given to me by friends. i have not ever seen myself as any of them...maybe it is time to see me thru their eyes.....however, i do not ever think i will understand the nick name "Pickle"!! Perhaps that friend is just plain crazy :)
The weekend cometh.....go forth and enjoy!