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The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí (1931) is one of the most famous works of modern art, often reproduced and parodied. In a section of this painting, ants gather on a pocket watch lying at the edge of a box, next to a clock that has melted over the side, making it useless for telling time. Despite its small size (24 × 33 cm), the painting is filled with many details. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Not only did it survive, it seems it will thrive. Amazing how a self-seeded plant will grow in the unlikeliest of places while something that we plant and nurture might languish or die.
Art Deco-influenced Architecture in Albury
Jones Street Street
Albury NSW Australia
© Dirk HR Spennemann 2011, All Rights Reserved
At 3:42AM on Sunday May 1, 2022 the Los Angeles City Fire Department responded to 1325 S Los Angeles Street for a reported structure fire. The first arriving fire company found heavy fire showing from a two story building, part of a row of commercial units, doing business as "Nice Cap".
Sparks flew from rotary saws as firefighters cut open multiple rolling steel doors to gain access to the unit. Due to the quantity of stacked, packed textiles, firefighters faced challenges reaching the seat of the fire located on the 2nd floor towards the back of the unit. The fire burned through the roof and caused a partial collapse.
The heavy, raging fire combined with the safety hazards of the partial collapse required a transition to defensive operations. Crews deployed master streams and hit the blaze with a deluge of water. They succeeded in knocking back the bulk of the fire which allowed them to return to an offensive operation and resume an interior fire attack.
Accessing the stairwell to the second floor continued to prove difficult due to the interior storage conditions and the remaining fire. Ultimately, 134 firefighters operating under the command of Assistant Chief Antoine McKnight achieved a knockdown in two hours and four minutes with no injuries reported.
The persistence and dedicated efforts of the firefighters saved the two adjoining businesses from fire damage.
LAFD Arson and Counter-Terrorism Section (ACTS) responded, per protocol, and the investigation remains active.
Use of This Photo Permitted via Creative Commons - Credit: Branden Silverman
LAFD Incident: 050122-0197
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This decaying fencepost in the middle of the Alvord Desert Basin is a remnant from a borax mining operation from the 19th century.
Visiting the Alvord in March presented some photographic challenges in the form of huge storms that would blow in every hour or so. The one in the background had just blown past me, giving me a rare and welcome patch of sunlight to work with.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
photographed in Fox Lake, Wisconsin
072211
This is a cropped version of a picture I took at the Fashion District mall in Philadelphia on July 22, 2022, 2:07 p.m.
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Museo Nacional de Ballas Artes.
"Stubborn Persistence" by Alfredo Hlito.
Part of a special exhibition of works of Alfredo Hlito from July 28, 2023 to October 21, 2023.
Painted in 1931 by Salvador Dalí “The Persictence of Sheepery” was planed as an angry accusation of the horrible, but in those times often practised, practise of sheep bathing and then leaving them hanging out to dry for days.
Unfortunately, just before he could put it on display and show the world what the poor sheep had to go through in his native country, Salvador Dalí went mad.
Forgetting all about being an ambassador of all things sheep he threw the painting away and made a new version with silly melting clocks and thus losing the heartbreaking message of the painting that could have saved so many sheep from their horrible ordeal.
Dalí, still quite mad, felt a deep resentment towards him whenever he encountered a sheep on his walks and soon after fled the country and settled in the United States where his madness went unnoticed.
“The Persistence of Sheepery” meanwhile disappeared, never to be seen again until it´s recent discovery in an attic by a certain sheep on a cookie search.
These little fellas are starting to take over!!
Thanks again to ghostbones for an awesome texture! www.flickr.com/photos/ghostbones/
Persistence pays off as I finally get a clear shot at Low Wood Bay.
Shame it was an Enviro on a 555 and not the intended Volvo B5 but with only one 599 an hour that chance had gone as by the time of the next one the sun would've been too low.
Still, quite happy with this one and took a second shot of just the lake, enabling this two-shot panorama to be made.
Should we get one I'll go back on a sunny weekday for a better chance of an uncluttered shot of a 599 here.
Lefthand Sector
The Top Shelf
Squamish
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Every so often in life we come across something or someone that inspires us to do better. It can be ever so subtle or completely hits us in the face, a realisation if you will. In this instance I had a real 'face-plant' moment.
I came across the exemplary work of Regina Pagles recently, better known here on flickr as Shineylewis. Her work is in my humble opinion simply stunning. By her own admission she lives, eats, breathes, sleeps and even dreams about Photoshop, her work shows the mastery she possesses with such a marvellous piece of software.
But it doesn't end there, in fact it doesn't even start there either.
Peruse her photography as you would rushing through any others photostream and you'll miss one heck of a lot, the Photoshop skills are clearly evident but there is also much more to her imagery. For me there is a life force in her images, the hard work, dedication, artistry and connectivity clearly shows in each and every picture. Her writings and comments tell of her struggles, the hours spent learning lighting, honing her retouching skills and then to top it all she shares the resources she's found. Bloody marvellous I think.
The inspiring bit?
Her humbleness, the slight embarrassment at receiving praise, the simple shrug of the shoulders when someone condones her work, her persistence in doing what she does and a lot more besides. Above all her fantastic work!
Just like her if anyone wanted a 'tutorial' for the 'process' I used you'd be hard pushed. This was in GIMP rather than Photoshop but I fiddled, played, made layers, deleted some, made more, fiddled, fiddled some more, almost gave up and then finally something started to come together I liked. Luck? Maybe, but I took notes so the 'luck' will be a bit easier to come across next time ;-)
Put it this way, it wasn't a one-click plug-in process, it took flipping hours.
An artist friend of mine when asked how he paints such exquisite pictures always replies with, "Oh, it's easy really, I spend days pushing paint around a canvas". Couldn't be better said.
Boring bits following that seem to be a posting requirement here on flickr, as about as important as to whether I scratched my bum or picked my nose whilst taking the image........
Lighting - 23" beauty dish made from the crud coated lid of an old Weber barbecue lid, sand paper used to remove said crud and then painted with white satin radiator enamel...poorly. Bolted onto a home made boom arm, diffused with an old pillow case. Weighs a ton.
Vivitar flash, old crap one. No, not the crap 283 but the crappier 550FD, about half power.
All lit rather poorly, (or well?), to ensure that I didn't lose the shadows or blow the highlights for later fiddling with GIMP.
Shot with a camera........the Olympus one, the 'old' one,(e410), with my old slide film strip DIY IR filter on the pop-up just to trigger the Vivitar optically via a home made micro-controller optical slave.
Kit lens, about halfway, hooded and sat at the bottom of the 'beauty dish' just touching, dish tilted, didn't have a protractor handy so it was just tilted down to about where my head would be.
EXIF data, really? No EXIF data, couldn't be bothered to bolt it back onto the image which is manipulated so much it doesn't really matter.
Think that's enough......oh yeah, bum scratching - must have been twice, nose picking - zero.
(Look at the size of my nose, one pick and you'd get lost in that big old hooter and fold inside out! Only the big ears would stop that happening.)
i just got back from a few days in barcelona. there is a new market in town with an amazing roof. the only problem is is that you can't see the roof from the ground and there is no view point. my friend gisela decided that we were going to get a picture of the roof even if it killed us. she went door to door around the market until she found someone willing to let us in to their apartment to take a picture. persistence pays off.
Persistence finally paid off after months of watching and waiting for the right conditions.
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