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"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence.”
John Muir
No doubt, some will find this ugly. But to the rest of you who find ALL of Nature beautiful...
First, my apologies to Salvador Dalí and his haunting painting, "The Persistence of Memory," from which I borrowed for the latter part of the title.
What you're looking at is a leaf that has fallen perfectly centered to drape and fold itself neatly over a branch - and there to remain over time to slowly decay. The tree is deep in thick woods, so the leaf has not blown away. I have no idea how many season cycles it has taken for the leaf to reach this stage in it's decomposition, but I would guess at least a couple.
I was lucky - as I was walking through the woods on a nice Fall afternoon in finding sunlight "winking" at me from off to the side of the path. I found it to be coming at me through the few transparent/translucent sections remaining in this persistent beauty.
Sorry for the inevitable few green light spots in the photo, but they came with the angle required in order to get the shot and light I wanted. So be it - Nature is never perfect nor neat.
PERSISTENCE OF THE HORIZON / THE FINAL / CHRISTELLE GEISER & AEON VON ZARK / NAKED EYE PROJECT BIENNE / ALTERED STATE SERIE / THE WEIRD DREAM / PORTRAIT.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.(Hal Borland
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Thanks very kindly for any gracious comment, views and invites. Much appreciated!.... Peace and love be with you.
Namaste.
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A big tree had come down in the sandstone slot that marks the entrance into Mermaid's Cave. A Banksia had also taken a tumble, but was still alive, and growing over the fallen tree. Life finds a way! [Blue Mountains, NSW]
This fella found me particularly annoying, and flew to three different perches to try to shake me. Persistence pays!
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
— Calvin Coolidge
Dedicated to my daughter, who persists in everything, including climbing 500 foot sand dunes, where you slide back 2 feet for every 3 feet you ascend.
After several failed attempts (done by cloud, DVT leading) I finally bagged this shot at Huttons Ambo. 68029 “Courageous” heads 1F62 1034 Scarborough-York.
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity .. on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory . Creativity ²
stratified as:
Memory . Creativity ² = ∪ { Mimesis . Catharsis ² }
Mimesis . Catharsis ² = ∪ { Metabolê . Catabolê ² }
Metabolê . Catabolê ² = ∪ { Mitosis . Cytosis ² }
Mitosis . Cytosis ² = ∪ { Molecula . Chymia ² }
Molecula . Chymia ² = ∪ { M . c ² }
. . and . . M . c ² = ∪ { E }
. . whe(re)n . . ∪ { E } ≤ Entropy
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Study of the day:
Rien ne sert de mourir, il faut savoir disparaître.
There is no point in dying, we must know to disappear.
( Jean Baudrillard )
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Quelle est l'épaisseur des apparences, Jean, vue de l'hyporéalité ?
. . . .. siaM ! ercalumis nu'd ellec ,fej emêm al tnemetcaxE-"
. . . "! secnerappasèd releppa sel ed siamrosèd ètnet tôtulp sius ej
What's the thickness of appearances, Jean, seen from the hyporeality ?
. . . .. tuB ! murcalumis a fo eno eht ,fej emas eht yltcaxE -
. . . ! "secnaraeppasid" meht llac ot detmet erom m'I ..
approximate deciphered translation with the hyporeal authorization of Jean:
. . . - Exactly the same jef, the one of a simulacrum ! But ..
. . . I am more tempted now to call them "disappearances" !
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| . rectO-persO . | . E ≥ m.C² . | . co~errAnce . | . TiLt . | . pOla. |
These tiny little white flowers are very presistent......trying to survive the bitter cold weather. They are only about 1/4 inch in diameter and so sweet.
...longing for warmer weather myself!
A lone leaf still hangs on a branch of a European Beech tree at the Morton Arboretum on January 2nd, 2021. Snow and freezing rain the previous evening made for a tough night in Chicagoland but a beautiful morning afterwards.
Persistence pays off! So happy to have finally seen the elusive black-backed woodpecker. Well worth the wait as he was so busy pecking, he paid no attention to his admirers.
I saw these flowers poking through the fence on my way to work when it was foggy out. I made a mental note to go back after work and when I did, these lovely clouds were out to make the perfect backdrop. I was laying on my back shooting as cars were driving by : )
A Catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron catawbiense) hangs on, barely. This is part of a disjunct/relict community of typically montane plants, in the Hollow Rock area of New Hope Creek.
Pentax K-1, pixel-shift mode
Mirex tilt/shift adapter
Pentax-A 645 macro 120/4
Iridient Developer
I am in the tedious and exciting process of scanning and editing forgotten and found images from the 50s. It's quite moving to discover places that are no more, people that are most likely gone and parties nobody remembers. I have fallen in love with that wonderful shot and decided it deserved to be shared. It also seemed to illustrate a song I enjoy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmh1cZQuXk
When I’m traveling far from home
On the wide horizon
I can feel you’re still around
And the dream overtakes me
Then I know, you’ll stay in this moment
We’ll go where it’s flowing
You’ll be what you want to be
Right here, with me
When I’m out here on my own
And it all cuts through me
I see you’re safe alone
Ah, then it hits me
And I know, you’re here in this moment
Right where it’s flowing
You are what you want to be
Right here, with me
Stay in this moment
Go where it’s flowing
You are what you want to be
Right here, with me . . . with me . . . with me. . .
I spied the little fella yesterday as I was cleaning out a flower bed, noted his beauty, and since then at length have considered his lesson. This morning as I set out for another day of yard clean-up, I carried my camera down the stairs with me for I was remembering from yesterday this little creation.
He is trying to be a tree.
He was ordained to be a tree, and somehow in his “guts” he knows he is destined to be such a living thing. It is in his genes, his DNA. Even so, it has not been easy for him. Blog post continues writenow.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/trying-to-be-a-tree/
A powerful cascade of whitewater thunders down a rocky cliffside in Yellowstone National Park. Sunlight glints off the rushing current as it churns past jagged rocks and fallen logs, framed by rich textures of stone and forest. Captured during a memorable vacation with my son, this moment represents both the awe-inspiring force of nature and the joy of shared exploration.
Requested for publication by Mark Batty Publisher
for "Everyman’s JOYCE" of "W. Terrence Gordon, Eri Hamaji & Jacob Albert”
“Picasso merely shrugged and declined the invitation to illustrate an edition of Ulysses, dismissing Joyce as an obscure writer that all the world can understand ... Can, not does.”
Through the power of illustration the Everyman’s Series illuminates complex bodies of work by some of the 20th century’s most vital thinkers. Picasso’s assessment of James Joyce as a writer that “all the world can understand” speaks to how a perspective that favors the visual can see through dense texts, allowing meaning to take shape. W. Terrence Gordon’s examination of the James Joyce canon and its impact on the world, both in terms of literature and culture at large, provides accessible and singular evaluations of why Joyce, no matter how impenetrable his books may seem on the surface, continues to attract readers today. In Everyman's Joyce, Gordon’s close readings and biographical insight gel with contemporary visual cues that usher Joyce into the 21st century.
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Etude du jour:
La bêtise et le cynisme sont-ils les derniers noms d'Entropie ?
En Birmanie ? En Chine ? En Tchétchénie ? A Guantanamo ? A Gaza & Cisjordanie ? . .
Study of the day:
Are silliness and cynicism the last names of Entropy ?
In Burma ? In China ? In Tchétchénie ? In Guantanamo ? In Gaza & West-Bank ?. .
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