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Perception goes beyond the obvious and what the eye can see.
Eventhough we mostly perceive the world through our senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste & touch - the mind and the heart are responsible for much further input analysis.
Sometimes we call it intuition or a "feeling of"....it is this which brings butterflies in our stomach when we are in love, but also this voice that insists on telling us to be cautious of a situation despite what apparent facts might be.
Should we be a little bit clear with ourselves, then we can most probably trust this voice/ emotion/feeling and dive into a situation with all our heart, despite the risks involved or simply deny to trust, eventhough our ears are being pet.
How many boats are displayed here?...four can be counted, but maybe there are as many more not caputred in the picture....
Always see beyond the horizon.....
...perception is endless and eternal.
Tricky things are eyes and brains. Sometimes, they don't quite tell it as it is. Like here.
We're at Llandudno, it's early evening, the weather is all over the place and so is this picture. But, hang on, look again. The shot is actually perfectly straight. Never mind the half-cock platform lighting or the PIS screen that looks like it might succumb to gravity any second. Go stand in that spot, that exact spot that I stood on. This is what you'll see.
There's every chance that your train wont be 67022 with the Manwag set on 1K96 of course, you have barely 30 minutes 5 days a week for that one. But time it right and it just might be...
1 July 2015
It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see. The
writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if
by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Anais Nin
CONSCIOUSNESS IS QUANTIZED: Consciousness occurs in ‘time slices’ lasting only milliseconds, study suggests.
According to Herzog and fellow researcher Frank Scharnowski from the University of Zurich, neither the ‘continuous’ nor ‘discrete’ hypotheses can by themselves aptly describe how we process the world around us, as numerous studies testing people’s visual awareness seem to disprove both notions.
But what if elements of both hypotheses were taking place at the same time in a continuous interplay between conscious and unconscious thought?
“According to our model, the elements of a visual scene are first unconsciously analysed. This period can last up to 400 ms and involves, amongst other processes, the analysis of stimulus features such as the orientation or colour of elements and temporal features such as object duration and object simultaneity,” the authors write in PLOS Biology.
After this analysis is complete, the researchers say the features we’ve detected are integrated into our conscious perception, compressing all the unconscious recording into something we’re actually aware of.
In other words, while we’re taking the world in, we’re not actually consciously perceiving it. Instead, we’re just mutely using our senses to record data for up to 400 ms at a time. Then, in what could be called a moment of clarity, we consciously perceive the stimuli that our senses have detected.
The team thinks this presentation of information to our consciousness lasts for about 50 milliseconds, during which we also stop taking new sensory information in. And then repeat.
Hmm. Or maybe this is evidence that we’re living in a computer simulation. Also see this.
The Sutro Highlands.
I hosted a small workshop last month on the western edge of San Francisco - along the cypress trees and paths that lead visitors above and among the Sutro Baths. The baths were built by the eponymous mayor of San Franciso, who owned the nearby Cliff House (visible in the last photograph of this post). The baths eventually closed and the buildings burnt during demolition, their ruins now part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area managed by the U.S. Park Service.
The three of us spent about two to three hours walking from the hills, through groves of Cypress, down to the ruins, taking photographs and chatting. Some part of us was shocked that such a monumental structure would be allowed to simply rot here on what seems like valuable property. Perhaps another entrepreneur would have put something here had not the area been taken over by the NPS. In the end, the tranquility of the area overwhelmed us all and we stopped wondering why and focused on using these ruins to frame some beautiful photographs. Contrasting anthropic and natural textures within the frame is a simple and effective recipe for a good photograph and Sutro provides no shortage of opportunities.
This simple frame makes it look as though this image were taken at the end of the world, the last frayed finger of civilization turning to sand before the drumbeat of the waves. It's a quick study in how to compose to alter perception. Turn the camera a few degrees and you see the light pollution from and the buildings of a massive urban center, but, framed correctly, the illusion of isolation and desolation is complete, the end of the sidewalk crumbling in the foreground and the vast, empty and cold, blue sea beyond.
A few minutes earlier and the light was equally beautiful, but much more dramatic. There is a simplicity to making photographs after blue hour has set in, a simplicity I love. It lacks the thrill and pace of trying to immortalize a stunning but fragile sunset, but has all the serenity one can handle. The trick is to wait for the "right" part of blue hour, to wait when the Earth's shadow is deep enough to let through only the foreward scattered, shorter wavelengths of deep blue and violet. Here is an image from the same staircase before the sun had set.
We all learned (and I continue to learn) how quickly sea spray accumulates on the front element. I wished I had brought some glass cleaner and a few wipes with me, as my T-shirt was beginning to prove inadequate towards the end of the night. The wind was whipping chill and water and salt from the tips of the waves onto the glass of my 14mm faster than I could clean it off. Making these images became an exercise in compose, clean, cover and wait. I would get things set, clean the lens quickly, cover it with the lens cap and wait until the waves looked to be just right before quickly removing the cap and exposing before big drops of sea spray had ruined the frame. Here you can see the iconic bows of the Monterey Cypress along the highlands above the baths. The edges of the cliffs are bramble, radiant with small, yellow flowers and the sky in the background is shrouded in fog whipped like cream from California-current-cooled winds.
A few steps down the path and you get a wonderful view of the Marin headlands on the horizon and the setting sun. The two figures on the right, enjoying a peaceful moment together at the western edge of America, make this photograph for me.
An image of the Seal Rocks in the very last moments of twilight, a 3+ minute exposure. One of the things we spoke about during the workshop was how to remove everything you can that distracts from the frame. When you can't remove anything at all, you're done.
Finally, a view from the north of the Sutro Bath ruins - you can see Cliff House above. There is a fisherman down there on the edge of the baths and another photographer walking around somewhere in the frame.
Flash Set-up:
Canon Speedlite 580EXII @ 1/8 power, 50mm zoom, fired through softbox 0.5m above/behind subject.
White paper reflectors positioned in front of subject on both sides.
triggered by Yongnuo RF-602 Tx/Rx.
EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro USM @ f/5.0, 1/160s
I posted this picture a few weeks back as a composite/weird edit. See link below
www.flickr.com/photos/44449030@N07/5463450335/in/photostr...
Its an instant favorite of mine, however, it did not get much attention. So I took out the edit I did and went bare bones here....minus some retouching. So maybe this one will go over better. Constructive criticism encouraged... cheers
31/7/2011 - it feels like ages since i've taken any pictures with a real camera.
just returned recently from my 3 week trip of north america. feels great to be back.
i was very lucky to get the chance to test out a tilt shift lens, the Nikkor PC 28mm f/3.5 AI. this image was taken with this lens, shifted up.
will try my best to take more pictures these few days!
At the Art Institute during the 2012 Lichtenstein exhibit.
More about this painting: blog.artic.edu/blog/2012/08/24/lichtenstein-of-the-week-14/
© Andy Marfia 2012
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Strobist: 1 nissin di8662 in front of the wine glass below the table it was placed on. Triggered using cactus v5s.
Nothing's ever right or wrong. It's merely a flow of thoughts: perception!
will you categorize this painting as pornography?
please answer: YES / NO only.
(...no argumentation needed.... no one will argue...)
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors of perception
14mm - ISO 800 - 1/50 - f11