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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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!

After several failed attempts (done by cloud, DVT leading) I finally bagged this shot at Huttons Ambo. 68029 “Courageous” heads 1F62 1034 Scarborough-York.

Straight from the camera.

Light painting trip with Lauri Laurén. Piece by Kaos.

Nisa Khan - restriction | persistence at The National Justice Museum, Nottingham, UK.

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“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” – Marabel Morgan

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!

Strypemonde, Voorne-Putten

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Rokkor 58mm f1.2

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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. |

where there's a will there's a way !

Day 3 of the 56 day b&w challenge I got from 'Cindy's Here'.

I'll pass the torch to Doris today :))

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:

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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. . .

Happy First Day of Spring!

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.

Diana camera + Agfa RSX 200 (Expired October 2006)

Not a re-post but a return to a theme.

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sometime ago @ Fortress Hill,

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persistence of flight

After wildfires, in Cinque terre.

A lonely tree on top of the Masada, beside the Dead Sea.

Camera: Zero 2000 Pinhole

Film: Kodak Ektar 100

Exposure Time: 2 minutes

Location: Japanese Garden, Washington Park Arboretum – Seattle, Washington

I sat down Sunday evening with the intention of writing about my struggle to transform my photography from the negative/scanned image into a print. Twice I got several paragraphs in only to find it long winded and wandering upon rereading it. Frustrated I decided to scrap them and instead let the thoughts flow free and open, and yes I admit it’s still rather long. The short version of the story is I lack confidence in my work when it’s in print form.

Over the past year or so my ability, knowledge and photography style has grown exponentially, more so than the previous four years combined. I feel at ease holding a camera, no longer struggling to comprehend its dials and settings, this has allowed me to slow down and concentrate my efforts in creating the image itself. Sure I still make mistakes…. ok a lot of mistakes, but I no longer see them as failures but rather learning experiences. This attitude has resulted in the best work I’ve ever produced. Nothing makes me happier than getting film back from the lab and realizing I nailed an exposure. One great image negates a roll filled with bad ones in my opinion.

I am still often surprised when viewing some of my better photographs that I actually made them and not someone else. I’ve never considered myself a talented or artistic person. I’m not musically inclined, or possess a natural ability to draw or paint. Heck my drawing skills have failed me more than one during a game of Pictionary. Film for me is a labor of love. Where I lack natural talent I strive to make up for it with patience and persistence.

I think about photography on a daily… almost hourly basis. I am obsessed with it, never in my life have I found something that has interested me so much as film photography. I yearn to hold a camera in my hands peaking at the world through its view finder, hearing the ca-chunk of it’s shutter, and the sound of it advancing the film. But still my photographic process is lacking, where I have grown confident in my ability to create an image with a camera, and satisfaction with my scanning skills, I still lack faith in my work when printed.

I’ve struggled with this for nearly a year now, my inability to make hard copies of my photography. A mental block of sorts that I have come to equate as being similar to what it must feel like to have writers block. It must seem silly to my family and friends who praise a given photograph and suggest I print and frame it, only to have me shrug them off and say I am not ready. What does it mean to be ready anyway? Its strange I can look at one of my photographs, like the one above, on a computer screen and marvel at it, beaming with self-pride. Yet I still can’t bring myself to make a print of it.

I think part of my issue is I have this feeling that to print and frame something is to makes it real. Viewing it on the computer screen is one thing, but on the wall? Now that is something completely different. Its more concrete set in stone if you will. Real things are more open for judgment and ridicule, which is where my lack of self-confidence comes in. I still don’t think on some level that any of my work is worthy of being printed and displayed. And it eats me up inside.

I’ve made a few prints in the past. Most of which have turned out darker than they appear on the computer screen. This is of course an issue everyone deals with as LCD screens display things more vividly than a printer can. There seems to be no easy fix to it, aside from fiddling in postproduction or obtaining various forms of expensive software, which calibrate your screen. Postproduction as a whole is not something I’d say I am overly interested in as it is, so the prospect of having to do more of it has deterred me from making prints.

Hopefully I can overcome these issues, and conquer the unknown. Two years ago I didn’t even know what medium format photography was, and now I shoot it almost exclusively so I have come along way already. I know the only true way to learn something is to dive right in and that’s my goal, right now I’m just waiting for that swift kick in the ass to get me started…

persistence in nature

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.

"Ambition is the path to success.

Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

Bill Bradley

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Cloudy afternon in Cala S'Aguia (Blanes, Costa Brava),

a difficult but challenging location.

Haida 3.0 + CPL + Black Card

watercolor acryl and chinese ink on paper - 30/21cm

Washington, DC, 2019

curtain light

Water flow and time will always win.

From Poelaert.

Photographers are always looking for inspiration - it can be elusive - the last couple of weeks I have not felt much inspiration - but I know this feeling comes and goes and the only remedy is to keep shooting.

This image was captured at Little Austinmer about an hour south of Sydney - I have shot this location quite a few times but without much "luck". But persistence is key and so on this day I got "lucky" and we had beautiful light and water flow. It was a terrific shoot and I got a number of keepers and was able to experiment.

Processed in PS CC and captured on my Nikon D810.

Brendan is a amateur photographer based in Sydney Australia who loves exploring and shooting sea/andscapes/nightscapes in different areas sometimes with good mates other times by himself to improve his skills. I'm always after followers so don't be afraid to follow me on my photographic adventures.