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My contribution for this week's theme «in the periphery»; for the Swedish photo group Fotosondag.
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Giovanni Battista Landolina, marquis de San Alfano, était un aristocrate sicilien de la fin du XVIIe siècle, un intellectuel et un grand propriétaire terrien, qui se révéla un urbaniste exceptionnel, lorsqu'il fut question de reconstruire la ville de Noto, détruite par un tremblement de terre en 1693.
L'influence de Giovanni Battista Landolina fut déterminante lors de la reconstruction de la ville de Noto sur un nouvel emplacement, après la destruction de l'ancien site du mont Alveria par le séisme de 1693. Une place de la ville porte aujourd'hui son nom.
Le pouvoir de décision quant à la reconstruction de la Sicile appartenait alors au vice-roi espagnol, le duc de Camastra. Toutefois Landolina parvint à convaincre ce dernier de reconstruire une nouvelle ville à plus de dix kilomètres de l'ancien site. On lui doit la planification de la future cité avec l'aide de trois architectes locaux.
La vision urbaniste de Landolina s'inspirait fortement du mouvement baroque, en séparant les différents quartiers selon le rang social de chacun et en reléguant les plus pauvres à la périphérie. Plus tard, les architectes Giovanni Battista Vaccarini et Rosario Gagliardi édifièrent un grand nombre de bâtiments à Noto. L'autorité de Landolina fut brisée lorsqu'en 1730, son fils Francesco Landolina, marquis de San Alfano, édifia son propre palais, le Palazzo Landolina, dans le centre-ville et à proximité de la nouvelle cathédrale.
Aujourd'hui, Noto constitue une importante destination touristique grâce à ses nombreux bâtiments typiques du Baroque sicilien, construits du temps de Landolina.
Giovanni Battista Landolina, Marquis of San Alfano, was a Sicilian aristocrat from the end of the 17th century, an intellectual and a great landowner, who turned out to be an exceptional town planner when it came to rebuilding the town of Noto, destroyed by a earthquake in 1693.
The influence of Giovanni Battista Landolina was decisive during the reconstruction of the city of Noto on a new site, after the destruction of the old site of Mount Alveria by the earthquake of 1693. A town square today bears its last name.
The power to decide on the reconstruction of Sicily then belonged to the Spanish viceroy, the Duke of Camastra. However Landolina managed to convince the latter to rebuild a new city more than ten kilometers from the old site. He is responsible for planning the future city with the help of three local architects.
Landolina's urban vision was strongly inspired by the Baroque movement, by separating the different districts according to the social rank of each and by relegating the poorest to the periphery. Later, the architects Giovanni Battista Vaccarini and Rosario Gagliardi built a large number of buildings in Noto. Landolina's authority was shattered when in 1730 his son Francesco Landolina, Marquis of San Alfano, built his own palace, Palazzo Landolina, in the city center and near the new cathedral.
Today, Noto constitutes an important tourist destination thanks to its numerous buildings typical of the Sicilian Baroque, built in the time of Landolina.
Portrait of a good friend from Texas wearing his arch-American belt (cowboys etc.) where it fits best. And he is not happy. What? You didn't know? You didn't know that Copenhagen has suggested to annex the territory of the USA as its hinterland or, as the news has it, its "Danish Periphery". The rationale given was that what formerly were US citizens now, as Danish citizens, would be given a proper education. First come good table manners and then matters such as civility and general decency. The Danish Prime Minister also said that Copenhagen would deal responsibly with the natural and human resources of that territory as Denmark has done for centuries in Greenland, the Caribbean, West Africa and Tamil Nadu (India). In the end, it is hoped, my friend from Texas will see things in a more positive light for the Danish are the most lenient kind of masters. Fuji X-Pro3.
A transfer run of shipping containers between Ogden and Salt Lake City arrives at Buena Vista en route to SLCIT. 1.21.2018
Dome periphery
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Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna UNESCO World Heritage site
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Nikon D300 + Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
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Have you ever been so busy that the periphery has to take a backseat? Oh, yeah! Yet, there are motivators that have us going after those things that seem just beyond reach. With just such an influence, I left my house in Durham at 9pm after a hectic day. Arriving at an open spot across from the Hawksbill Mountain trailhead some 3 hours later, I covered up and attempted a few hours of sleep. My plan is to waken by 4:30, but at 4:15, I’m fired up, geared up, and headed up the trail, motivated by expectations of beauty. I would not be disappointed.
Beauty, it has always seemed to me, is one of the great arguments for the existence of God. If we are all only to engage in a pitiless struggle to ensure our DNA survives (as Richard Dawkins suggests), why does beauty matter so much to so many of us?
It was the beauty contained in the Gospel (“good news”) that moved me so profoundly that I became a Christian… I was baptized 50 years ago today, Easter Sunday.
With the help of C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell, both of whom I could relate to, as well as the Bible, I was awestruck. To summarize: God had an apparently insoluble conundrum between his justice and his love. He cannot turn a blind eye to human rebellion and failure without compromising his perfect justice. He had gone before His chosen people evidenced as a pillar of cloud by day and of light by night, directing their steps through the wilderness. Yet, while Moses was gone 40 days and nights to receive the Ten Commandments, the children of Israel fell into abject debauchery. We're not like that, are we? A good look around now shows that little has changed of the human condition over these thousands of years. A term now identifies that condition, “HPtFTU” or “the human propensity to foul things up.” For all that, God’s perfect love means he cannot remain alienated from those he has created and loves.
How could one resolve such a conflict without compromising one of these twin absolutes? By human logic, it is impossible! But, as Jesus taught his disciples, our logic is not the last word. The Gospel of Matthew records that Jesus told his disciples, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” The astonished disciples ask, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus replies: “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
God’s solution is not to sacrifice his perfect standards of either morality or love, but to maintain both by sacrificing himself. That is the heart of what Christians commemorate at Easter: that God himself intervened in human history, humiliating himself by taking the form of a helpless infant, living a life in perfect conformity with his moral law, and dying an excruciating and shameful death on the Cross.
I know that some consider this a vile doctrine, that what God allows to happen to Jesus makes him a moral monster. They fail to grasp the importance of the understanding that Jesus was fully human and fully divine. It is in that way that God himself pays the price for restoring humanity.
Or, as the Apostle John more poetically puts it: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
I love chasing beauty with the camera as much as circumstances allow. But I’ve found that the greatest beauty is moral beauty – compassion, generosity, self-sacrifice – and the most beautiful expression of it that I have found or could conceive of is what Christians celebrate at Easter in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ.
One of the most beautiful and inspirational verses in all of God's word I’ve found is John 20:16 where you begin to realize the restraints to Jesus’ “divine capacity” were off in a most wonderful way… Jesus called a very bereaved Mary by her name. That's literally all there is to the verse... Jesus said, “Mary.” She thought He was the gardener, and she wasn't far off in that assessment. He did create it. That's what makes this verse so powerful; Jesus is the Word that was there from the beginning (John 1:1). He had just proved Himself through the resurrection. He was victorious over death and sin… in that moment, there was nothing in Nature over which He didn't prevail. The very Universe would snap at His command, yet He cared enough for Mary, not even a mere speck in that Universe, to reach out to her with heartfelt compassion. She had gone in search of Him, but He found her. In this, Jesus set a precedent that differentiates Christianity from all other religions… because He cares for us all no less than He did Mary. That’s why He went to the cross! God wants us to know Him. God not only allows, but also encourages such a relationship. That’s because Christianity in its truest sense isn’t a religion; it’s a relationship, plain and simple… and it's a relationship that's available to us all.
Thank God, Jesus is risen… He is risen indeed!
A small herd of deer navigate the periphery of Paynes Prairie as the rising sun begins to reveal their position, Alachua County, Florida. I'm standing at the top of a 50 foot observation tower, and from this vantage, I found the way the light hits the bare tree branches to resemble bright brush-strokes. The deer are a relatively hard-pressed lot, having to get by on vegetation growing in fairly nutrient poor soils, and beset with ticks. To add to these already significant travails, there are also alligators to worry about when it comes time to find drinking water. One of the trails on the north side of the Prairie is famed for the alligators that can be seen at close range. Paynes Prairie also contains the Alachua Sink, where surface waters disappear through the soil and become groundwater and aquifer, and the area hosts over 270 species of birds.
Explored 2017-03-29
It’s a paeony and… [he checks briefly] … it’s not wet :)
Another experiment. I’d seen an image of a rose which I really liked. It had been processed in high key with a white vignette. I thought I’d have a go.
When the paeony flowers are coming out the buds are tight balls of convoluted petals. All the petals seem to have random edges which I find really quite interesting.
When I started this Flickr account I posted a similar image of a paeony bud (in pink) and it has proved my most popular image. I have no idea why. It’s not one of my particular favourites. And I certainly have no idea why it as invited to an erotic photography group - I didn’t like to ask :)
This is a macro covering about an inch in the centre of a paeony flower bud. The result of the processing wasn’t quite what I expected, but then it never is.
For the Thursday monochrome group.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Monochrome Thursday!
[Handheld in daylight.
Developed in Capture One for tonal range.
Rotated and cropped to a 16:9 ratio to tweak the composition and get the widescreen aspect, in Affinity Photo.
Sharpened using Unsharp Mask and clarity. A balancing act to get a bit of detail but to retain the emphasis on the form of the edges.
Converted to B&W in Nik Silver Efex, with no toning or vignette. More balancing.
Back into Photo and then a curves layer to play with the tone and get a more high key look. More fiddling.
A very subtle recolouring (4% saturation) to add a little pink back in which warms and softens the image though you are not meant to notice :) (I tend to find pure B&W very austere and you lose a lot of the tonal smoothness because of the technical shortcomings in the digital format, which is why I like to tint a bit.)
A final teeter on the edge of everything with a bold white vignette to take out the detail on the edges.]
A fiery September sunset, West Kerry Ireland.
Being out very much on the edge of western Europe, emigration has always been a feature of Irish life on these remote west coast peripheries... The abandoned cottage here faces the dramatic beauty of the Skellig Islands which lie 13km offshore, famous for it's profiles, thriving seabird populations, Star Wars and UNESCO world heritage site early christian monastery.
This is an image from a project i shot from a recent exhibition, the project is titled 'Periphery' if you would like to see more from the project here is a link to my online portfolio, still not complete but there a few things to look at on there.
sites.google.com/view/philip-jones/home
Cheers.