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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)
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.
One of my little side-projects: photographing doors, in a project I call "Doors of Perception" (yes, I am a fan of The Doors).
Our perceptions of aesthetic value are determined by a host of factors which we typically fail to consider. This is apparent not only in the realm of art, but in every aspect of our everyday interactions with the world in which we live. We humans experience such a bombardment of sensory input throughout our day that we can’t help taking for granted the objects which make our lives more enjoyable. Often, our ability to properly appreciate the subtle beauty held within the seemingly mundane is restricted by the limitations placed upon our eyes. I would like you to consider as an example the humble strawberry. Enjoyed by many for its taste, as well as the connotations which it arouses (warm summer days in the garden), the strawberry is truly one of nature’s greatest gifts to the world. Considering this, it seemed only fair to me that people should be able to truly comprehend the hidden magnificence of this tragically underappreciated object. The fine details which comprise the strawberries beauty are, unfortunately, far too minute for the naked eye to decipher. We are fortunate to live in a time in history in which details of the world which our eyes would be otherwise incapable of seeing are now available thanks in part to technology. With the right equipment, a person can now transform the most humble of insects into terrifying aliens. For my alien, I utilized a digital camera with a macro bellow attached to a 50mm lens. I painstakingly photographed one hundred and twenty nine separate images of the slice of strawberry you see before you. Afterward, I pieced together each individual image in much the same way the one puts together a puzzle. In the end, I was left with a magnificently detailed image which a single photograph would never have been capable of creating.
There is the popular question, " If a tree falls and there is none to hear it, does it make a sound?"
If sound only exists as sound because our ears drums haveinterpreted the silent air compressions into perceptual information, sound is not an external entity but a series of information being internally represented as sound.
In a similar way to this the world is not really as we see it, the colours we see, the smells we sense and sounds we hear are but mere illusions, representations of the vast sea of information around us.
Due to the seemingly infinite combination and varying threshold of sensory receptors we hold, the world we see is essentially as unique as the individual it sees.
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.
One of my little side-projects: photographing doors, in a project I call "Doors of Perception" (yes, I am a fan of The Doors).
I shot this at a moving background and Like the way my grand-daughter blends into it.
I was not going to post it, but she told me to post it and see what you all think. It is sootc. ?
W5 great for this.
Moon Moods | Myth Busting, Rolling and Lunistice
Topics Covered:
a) Moon Size near Horizon, b) Moon Size vs Orbital Distance, c) Moon Rolling and iv) Major Lunar Standstill.
Popular belief suggests that, when near the horizon, the rising (and setting) moon appear to be larger compare to same at higher elevations in the sky. Here, I am about to show that this perception is not borne out by facts, but also counter-intuitively demonstrate that the moon can instead appear smaller as it rises above the horizon.
Case in point, are pictures taken with a fix magnification 500 mm prime lens during the evening of 16 October, 2024, the day before the official harvest (full) moon shown in composite image of Figure 1. The just risen moon had a horizontal diameter identical to that of the moon at near its maximum elevation (49° vs max of 53°). However, the moon near the horizon appeared flattened on its vertical axis; its projection compressed by conditions such as atmospheric refraction and temperature inversion. The degree of the optical phenomenon quickly diminished and eventually vanished as the moon rose up in the sky. In spite of the unbiased camera sensor showing the illuminated face of the moon appearing somewhat smaller near the horizon, most observers would perceive the moon as being bigger as a result of human’s brain misinterpreting the relative proportions of the moon when the field of view includes foreground land features. Notwithstanding atmospheric distortions, the apparent moon size is not magnified by the passage of its light through the atmosphere just above the horizon. Myth Busted!
FIGURE 2 shows that the size of the moon in our sky does change as it travels on its 28-day elliptical orbit around earth. For example, on 16 October, earth natural satellite was a super moon, so called because it approached its nearest point to earth (Peregee) and appeared 14% larger than the Waxing Gibbous moon near its outer limit (Apogee) on 24 March. But this change in moon size does not take place overnight and was not the cause of the full moon perceived (but not measured) as being larger near the horizon on 16 October.
The moon is tidally locked with earth in that it is on a synchronous orbit (i.e. one moon rotation per period around earth), hence why we always see the same face of the moon notwithstanding some minor wobbling throughout its monthly orbit around earth. Nonetheless, as shown in FIGURE 3, the moon rolled clockwise by 21.3° while traveling for 4.75 hour through the night sky on 16 October. Indeed, data from www.timeanddate.com showed that between its rise and set time spanning 13.5 h, the moon rolled 92° (i.e., by a quarter). By comparison, on 16-17 October, the city of Quito located on the equator in South America, saw the moon rolled 180° in the 12 hours between moonrise and moonset. Given that Kingston is located at 44°N latitude, a simple back of the envelop calculation [ 180*((90-44)/90)=92 ] indicates that the degree of moon roll is associated to the observer’s latitude location on earth’s surface. In fact, however, the moon does not roll at all. The phenomenon is strictly related to the observer’s (including camera) perspective changing relative to the moon as the earth turns. I wish there was a term used to describe this specific optical illusion, but I found none.
Last but not least, we have entered a Major Lunar Standstill (aka, Lunistice) which occurs every 18.6 years in the lunar cycle, each two years in duration, with this particular one lasting through the end of 2025. During this time, and for each 28-day lunar cycle, the moon rises (and sets) at its most extreme northerly and southerly positions on the horizon and anywhere in between. In the case of Kingston, Ontario, FIGURE 4, one standing on the western end on the Waaban bridge may see the moon, full or otherwise, rise up from the horizon anywhere from 48°NE to 132°SE (i.e., ± 42° from due East). So, saying that the moon rises from the east is very imprecise at this time. The overhead view of Kingston in FIGURE 5, shows that if standing on the west shore of the Inner Harbour between Molly Brant Point and Doug Fluhrer Park, one may expect to see the moon rise from a wide range of directions covering the entire 84° range shown. A more typical range would be around 54° (± 27° from due East). Simply put, the wider range of moonrise directions arising from this Major Lunar Standstill offers an equally wider range of opportunities to observe and photograph our natural satellite with land-based natural or man-made features that necessarily would not be available for more normal moon cycles.
“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Such is the salutation to the dawn.” - Sanskrit Proverb
Thanks to ghostbones for the texture.
In the aftermath of tornadoes, a rendered phone-pole appears to levitate, defying perception -- and boggling the mind.
Nashville, Tennessee.
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