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You know, I've had this conversation with several people recently......about perception and perspective. I find it fascinating how several people can be in the same location at the same time, but yet see completely different things. This becomes quite apparent while with a group of photographers on say a workshop or a photowalk. I love looking at the images after one of these to see the perspective of another visualist. Although I knew I wanted create a unique perspective of this scene upon capture, I must admit that the real adventure truly happened in post while playing in photoshop. It will, however, open up my mind's eye while looking for new perspectives on future walks!
So, rambling on a bit more....
There seems to be an intense focus on positive thought and mind control recently (or at least, that I have noticed it more...once again, a perception). Certainly a process that I am working on as I continue my journey through life. I know that this down economy has hit a lot of people in a pretty hard way, but with every challenge comes an opportunity. I know this sounds like a lot of horse shit to some people, but its true. I can think of no better time in history to work hard on creating and visualizing the future you want for yourself. Through what appears to be a great need for this positive energy, there is an endless supply of great websites, books, and CD's to feed your mind.....so grab a plate and dig in. Feed your mind with the fuel it need to excel and propel yourself into the future you deserve!
Took some photos of my friends local band from Tucson. I love these guys, music is everything to them and they put everything they have into each set. Help them kickstart their EP here.
I'm never stimulated by the ideas, my art is the constant reflection of my perception. Sometimes Stimulated and sometime Virtual, but always its on my perception. May be depth is required to enable to quench the thirst.
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors of perception
14mm - ISO 800 - 1/50 - f11
One of my little side-projects: photographing doors, in a project I call "Doors of Perception" (yes, I am a fan of The Doors).
"Every perception of colour is an illusion... we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another."
-Joseph Albers
Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda
(Detail Best Large)
I've always admired the Barbican, along with many of the "utopian" projects from the brutalist period. Unfortunately many people, led by Prince Charles seem to despise these buildings. It's very much a challenge of perception, and how we are often mislead. This is a series of two images which have simply been post processed differently, and shows you how easily the mind can be warped.
“How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”
(Duane Michals)
One of my little side-projects: photographing doors, in a project I call "Doors of Perception" (yes, I am a fan of The Doors).
woo hoo! The month is over!
This piece of art was installed at the front window of the Monte Clark Gallery in Granville Street. It's a collage of Strathcona's "favourite" little orange pinto. Flickr is partly responsible for making a mini-celebrity of this little orange pinto and it is almost serendipitous that it should be made into a work of art by local artist cameraman.
Originally for the guesswherevancouver group.
For the Scavenger Hunt Pool 101 # 37 A Work of Art
Made Explore #79! Thank you very much for your support of this photo!
“Let me tell you something about perceptions: If a public safety officer pulls up right now and sees us talking, he’s going to see a black homeless guy talking to a white guy. He’s not going to think that you wanted to talk to me. He’s going to think that I’m panhandling you or trying to hustle you. My point is, sometimes you’re considered guilty until proven innocent.”
Memphis, Tennessee
Can you realy trust what you see?
Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness
Perception (from the Latin perceptio, percipio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sense organs. For example, vision involves light striking the retina of the eye, smell is mediated by odor molecules, and hearing involves pressure waves. Perception is not the passive receipt of these signals, but is shaped by learning, memory, expectation, and attention.
Perception can be split into two processes. Firstly, processing sensory input, which transforms these low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition). Secondly, processing which is connected with a person's concepts and expectations (knowledge) and selective mechanisms (attention) that influence perception.
Candid shot, Trondheim Norway.
An abstract study on "interference patterns". On a psychological level, it illustrates how any number of people can perceive the same thing or event and get a completely different result, based on mindsets, emotions, etc. View On Black
I used two photos for this: a tree shadow against vinyl siding, which photo was very grayish in tone, so I added a sky texture for colour and mixed it in before processing as you see above.
"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." John 7:24
We each carry a wound. And with it comes the pain of shame, regret, guilt, and fear… fear that if others knew, you could never be forgiven. You determine that you can never be known, will never be truly known. Complete honesty never leaves your lips, vulnerability develops a calloused cage, and love can only penetrate so deep before it finds the locked door with no key.
What would it take to let down the pretense and the bluff? What would it take to determine that you’re enough? These wounds that mar and scar could never detract from who you are. They do not define you as weak but strong… as long... as long as you let them heal. Who you are and what you’ve done do not define who you will become. No it is what you choose to do with the blows your dealt. Let healing come and wear silver scars as the battle wounds that they are.