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Sudden change in climate.....added so much beauty with amazing playful colour strokes, witnessed at Naya Raipur.
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. - C.S. Lewis
We found a cute little cafe for our cup of tea, called Changing Perceptions. Some info below, for those who are interested!
Changing Perceptions has quickly evolved from Godalming’s best kept secret to a popular and bustling Café and home interior shop. Located at the very top of the High Street this unique and vibrant social enterprise is just a stone’s throw away from the Meath. Meath clients are supported to up-cycle donated furniture in the on-site workshop which is then put on sale in the shop, with all profit going straight back to the charity. It is a very important part of the Meath’s philosophy to help dispel the stigma associated with epilepsy and to assist all of our clients to live alongside people from all walks of life, sharing similar experiences and hopes and dreams for the future.
This is my last photo from this trip, but don't worry, I have another couple of day trips to share!!
Pine cones symbolize child-like wonder, spiritual perception, imagination, creativity, fertility, birth, wildness, freedom, connection, and playfulness. (Native American)
A beautiful depiction of Ganesha, remover of obstacles and the lord of new beginnings.
I have mixed feelings about seeing deities and Buddhas in commercial settings such as a garden centres, alongside garden gnomes, dragons and flowerpot people.
But looking beyond to when these figures are in people's homes and gardens and giving them pleasure and maybe inspiring peaceful contemplation and then my mood changes to something more open to compassion.
Love, Light and abiding Peace to all sentient beings.
We took a trip to Palouse Falls State Park, WA on MLK Day and arrived in the afternoon. It wasn’t an ideal time for taking photos as the Winter sun was already casting shadows on the falls but there were some pretty rainbows.
When I was going through the photos, I saw this image of a graduate. See the graduate’s profile? The rainbow is the tassel. 😊 This reminds me when I taught about Perception- a good example of Foreground/Background.
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception.
Hiking with my wife in Colorado we crossed this old bridge on our 8 mile hike, 4 of those miles in a cold rain!
Understanding and managing perception, both our own and that of others, can lead to more effective communication, better relationships, and greater success in various aspects of life.
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View of the downtown Nashville skyline along the Cumberland River during twilight.
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
I see you as you are,
with your subtle flaws...
but your colors, are
oh so beautiful.
And you softly reflect light,
in your uniquely special way...
like mist in a dream, surrounding
a secrete place in your heart.
It can't be seen or touched...
only sensed with an unusual perception,
call it love.
It's the only way you can make yourself know to me,
and each thought is so delicate, and filled with meaning.
How do I begin to convey
the things you've shared with me.
This time i wrote a little story, based on the song and capture the picture.
I stood at the edge, staring at the line stretched out before me. It wasn’t just a boundary; it was the weight of every expectation I had ever carried, every version of myself that others saw and thought I was. A line drawn by their perceptions, their beliefs, the image they had created of me.
The line was never mine. It wasn’t something I had drawn; it was something they placed in front of me, a standard I was meant to meet. But I couldn’t.
I’ve crossed lines before—simple ones, lines I never thought twice about. But this one… this one was different. Every step forward felt like I was moving away from who they thought I was, and with each step, I felt the weight of their expectations pushing harder and harder, trying to pull me back to where I wasn’t.
I wonder now, as I stand here, if I disappointed them. All of them. Every person who thought they knew me, who believed the picture they had created in their minds. The person they expected me to be.
Did I disappoint you?
The question hangs in the air, unspoken but loud enough to fill the silence. I didn’t ask it of anyone, but somehow, it lingers in my mind, like an echo I can’t escape.
I never meant to be different from what they saw. I never meant to break the mold they cast me in. But I don’t know how to stay in a shape that isn’t mine, one that never fit me to begin with.
I didn’t choose to change; I didn’t choose to feel this distance growing between us. But the more I tried to live up to what they wanted, the more I realized I wasn’t living at all. I wasn’t being true to myself.
Now, I stand here, at the edge of this invisible line, wondering if I’ve already crossed it in ways I can’t undo. Did I disappoint everyone who thought they knew me? Maybe the real disappointment wasn’t in them, though. Maybe it was in me, for trying so hard to be what I never was.
I crossed the line because I had to. Because I couldn’t keep pretending, couldn’t keep fitting into a picture that wasn’t mine. But that doesn’t stop the question from rising: Did I disappoint you?
I don’t know the answer. Maybe I did. Maybe I disappointed everyone who ever thought they knew who I was, who had an image of me that I couldn’t live up to. But as I stand here, looking at the line I’ve crossed, I realize that I didn’t disappoint myself. I just became who I always was, in the end.
Sponsored by [LOB], .::DEATH INK::., TANAKA, also Post for [TRAP]
and a little teaser of the new Neverending Theme, where i took the picture
Wearing:
Pants:
[LOB] 2PAK PANTS - Fatpack @TMD
comes with hud to change varies parts of the pants with different textures
Tattoo:
.::DEATH INK::.-CHAOS INSIDE Evox Unisex Tattoo
i thought this tattoo fits well for my choosen theme. Using the black EVOX option
Mask and Voodoo Dolls:
[TRAP] Destroyed Mask and[TRAP] Voodoo Death
the mask is resizeable and you can texture it with different options. The dolls comes with a hold pose and also a hud to texture each of them different
Scythe:
[TNK] MORI SCYTHE - RED
Picture is taken at Neverending, a little teaser. Opening soon!
More infos and links in my Blog
For those who are new to this series, here is some context.
I was in Messina, Sicily, for a convention - Messina, the city of the Strait. The city of the two seas, the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian - not two whichever seas, but the very stuff of myths and epics. Scylla and Charybdis haunted these narrow, deep, perilous waters.
As you would expect, I had tried to leave my camera at home (it was work, after all...), but it sneaked into my backpack anyway, along with my Samyang wide angle lens and my tripod. Unfortunately neither of them told the remote shutter, so it stayed safe and cozy within my gear bag at home. Oh my gosh! What was the use of having a tripod while lacking a remote shutter? I just hoped that enabling the Delay exposure Mode would be sufficient to compensate for my awkward finger actually pressing the shutter release button.
So I began my Sicilian days with just as many sunrise sessions. Wow.
The weather was consistently unstable - an ever changing sky enlivened by an endless turmoil of clouds (sometimes benign, sometimes threatening and ominous), sudden showers followed by warm sun, and then again. There was at first a peculiar ambiance - a stormy mood, I would say - an epic character reminiscent of remote ages, when the gods and Cyclops trod these lands and monsters haunted these waters. I could understand the sense of awe the ancient dwellers of these places felt while contemplating such views. I could feel the presence of the gods of old just before me. Just all around me.
Siciliy and the coastal regions of Southern Italy were not just a land of myths and legends, and of epic deeds: they were also a land of philosophy. Pythagoras emigrated to Croton, in Calabria, and the first community of Pythagoreans were founded in that city. The whole Magna Graecia was imbued with Greek art, culture, and philosophy - not least because people who had troubles in their homeland often found useful to settle in the Italian colonies, as things often go.
Plato travelled three times to Sicily, more specifically to Syracuse (yes, that in the USA is not the only one - the Sicilian city is the original!), apparently considering Sicily the best setting to try and make his idealized Republic real (there is an enormous amount of information in the web, but if you are intrigued by the subject you could enjoy reading part of a book I have found freely available in Jstor, Politics and Performance in Western Greece: Essays on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy, ed. by Christos C. Evangeliou: part VI). Scholars believe that Plato might have developed the well-known Allegory of the Cave thinking of the 7,000 Athenians imprisoned and chained in the quarry Grottoes of Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War.
It was my last morning in Sicily and I was gifted with what I previously described as the "Apollo sunrise" (have a look at my Apollo's Fiery Chariot on the Horizon, even though I do not love it too much). It was a crystal clear windy morning and the world was so sharp and crisp that it felt like it had just been created. When the chariot of Apollo rode above the horizon everything was flooded with a powerful warm light that sculpted everything just like it was the perfect model from which our human perceptions derive. Yes, in that magic place, the very horn of the island, for some minutes I felt like the freed slave that was allowed/forced to leave the cave in Plato's allegory, the man who was blinded by the glare of the Real world whose confused shadows he was able to see while dwelling in the cave. A painful, yet revealing experience. I kept shooting as my camera was struggling to capture the real essence of reality, knowing that such shots would testify that fleeting, dizzling epiphany to my fellow photographers much better than any words.
All that said, I do not love the sky of that morning, and it keeps coming out accordingly (maybe it resents my feelings) - however this is my image, with its limits and its beauties, and I hope you enjoy it. Have a nice Sunday!
Explored on 2023/01/16 nr. 63
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to several parts of the scene, absolutely excluding the sky.
As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and played a bit with dodging and burning.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
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Guess who finally got their hands on BG3 two years late? Meeee!! I haven’t done one of these animations in awhile and wanted to dip my toes in again. (hehe, lake pun)
Same day, same flowers just a different focus. Thankful for the joy of a beautiful spring day, of seeing the light of the sun on the flowers and the green grass, to see the ripples from the wind on the water and to feel the warmth. Thankful for this gift of a camera that we can capture these moments and share with our friends.
Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonie Szczecin.
Architects: Barozzi Veiga, Barcelona
Planning participants: Studio A4, Szczecin (execution, construction management); Boma SL, Barcelona/Szczecin (structural engineering); GLA Engineering and Elseco, Szczecin; and Anoche Iluminación Arquitectónica, Barcelona (technical installations); Arau Acustica, Barcelona (acoustics); Ferrés Arquitectos y Consultores, Barcelona (facade)
Client: City of Szczecin
Completion: 2014
Location: Ulica Malopolska 48, 70515 Szczecin, Poland