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Kamiya. I agree its still fair first attempt. Nice Yoshino style neck, cool tail. Work with wings, head, body/adjust back legs proportion, and your done.
out and about today...
have you noticed the horse on the bottom right hand side of the turbine?...
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Of an imposing size given the modest proportion of the church is this two-tier memorial. On the lower level it commemorates Francis FitzHerbert who died in 1619 and above, Sir John FitzHerbert, who died in 1643.
The FitzHerbert baronetcy was created in 1784 for William FitzHerbert, of Tissington Hall, which has been the family seat since the 15th century. They seem to have had the crest since at least the early 17th century, however, which consists of a clenched fist in armour above three lions.
On the north side of the nave, it's in quite a dark corner, and actually overlaps the Norman chancel arch.
Tarlabaşı/Istanbul/Turkey
One of the biggest gentrification projects in the city...
located almost in the centre of the city, is a quirky, urban conundrum in the throes of a government gentrification drive. Officially, they are calling it a renewal programm – in reality, it’s a complete makeover and redevelopment, involving tearing down old structures, which are part of Istanbul’s architectural heritage, to make way for a new commercial zone, comprising shopping centres, malls and hotels.
Photo by Alexandre Fernandez
In Explore, may 19, 2025
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Do you realise that the symbol used to represent pi….you know, that horrible 3.141….thing you had to learn about at school in maths for calculating the circumference or area of a circle….., originated in North Wales?
The first calculation of pi was made by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world, but it was a much less famous man called William Jones who introduced that symbol ‘π’ which until then was just a Greek letter.
William Jones was born sometime around 1675 on the island Anglesey in the parish of Llanfihangel Tre’r Beirdd, about four miles west of the town which is now Benllech. He had a humble up-bringing and was raised on a small farmstead by his parents Siôn Siôr (John George Jones) and Elizabeth Rowland. However his talent for mathematics quickly became apparent when he attended a charity school at Llanfechell. It was to be his only formal education. His aptitude for the subject ensured that he would not follow in the family footsteps. A local squire and landlord of the distinguished Bulkeley family, heard of his skill and took him under their patronage. They arranged for him to work in a merchant’s counting house in London.
It was only the first of many journeys. Between 1695 and 1702 he served in the Royal Navy, sailing to the West Indies during which time he taught mathematics on board a man-of-war, en-route learning about navigation. He was present at the battle of Vigo in October 1702 when the English successfully captured the Spanish treasure fleet as it was returning to the port in north-west Spain under French escort. Ignoring the obvious riches of silver to be had, he went in search of other booty according to an 1807 memoir by Baron Teignmouth, ‘... literary treasures were the sole plunder that he coveted.’
On his return he published A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Navigation which he dedicated to a benefactor John Harris, a writer, scientist and Anglican priest who had taken him under his wing. Back in the capital, his voyages over, he became a mathematics teacher in coffee houses and as a private tutor to the son of the future Earl of Macclesfield. He also became tutor to Philip Yorke, later 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), who became Lord Chancellor and provided an invaluable source of introductions for his tutor.
In those circles, Isaac Newton had already mentioned to the Admiralty the benefit of sending mathematicians to sea. So inevitably it was only a matter of time before Jones came to the attention of Newton after reading “Jones’s Synopsis”, in which the younger man explained Newton’s methods for calculus as well as other mathematical innovations. It was in this book that Jones first used the Greek symbol ‘π’ to denote the pi. More significantly he used it as a constant number - 3.141...
Before Jones, approximations such as 22/7 and 355/113 had also been used to express the ratio. Explaining its use, he wrote: ‘... the exact proportion between the diameter and the circumference can never be expressed in numbers...’. Hence, a symbol was required to represent an ideal that can be approached but never reached. For this Jones recognised that only a pure platonic symbol would suffice.
In 1708 Jones was able to acquire an extensive library and archive, which contained several of Newton’s letters and papers written in the 1670s. The following year he applied for the mastership of Christ’s Hospital Mathematical School, despite references from Newton and Edmund Halley (the astronomer who calculated the orbit of the comet, now named after him) but he was turned down. Jones went back into private teaching but thanks to the papers he had acquired he was able to help his old mentor Newton resolving a dispute with German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, over which of the men first invented calculus.
In 1712 Jones joined the committee set up by the Royal Society to determine which of them invented calculus. He was now firmly in the mathematical establishment.
He married twice, firstly the widow of his counting-house employer, whose property he inherited on her death.He remarried in 1731, to Mary, the 22-year-old daughter (30 years his junior) of cabinet-maker George Nix, with whom he had three children.
And therein lies the story of ‘π’ and it’s origins in North Wales. My photo is actually of part of some derelict structure of the Penmaenmawr quarry, the quarry that has removed the top one third of this granite mountain. But I thought it looked like ‘π’ standing high above the North Wales Expressway.
Exact proportions in nature can be found in many flowers, including daisies. Resulting in the majority of daisies having 34, 55 or 89 petals i.e the Fibonacci sequence....so get counting!
One of the keys to shooting Epic Landscape Photgraphy is exalting the photograph's soul via golden ratio compositions, thusly wedding the art to the divine proportion by which life itself was designed and exalted.
Dr. Elliot McGucken's Golden Number Ratio Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Composition Studies!
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
Greetings flickr friends! I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
Ansel Adams is not only my favorite photographer, but he is one of the greatest photographers and artists of all time. And just like great artists including Michelangelo, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli, and Picasso, Ansel used the golden ratio and divine proportions in his epic art.
Not so long ago I discovered golden regions in many of his famous public domain his 8x10 aspect ratio photographs. I call these golden harmony regions "regions of golden action" or "ROGA"S, as seen here:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1812448512351066.107374...
And too, I created some videos highlighting Ansel's use of the golden harmonies. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGnxOAhK3os
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlzAaBgsDI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3eJ86Ej1TY
More golden ratio and epic photography composition books soon! Best wishes for the Holiday Season! Dr. Elliot McGucken :)
Die Insel Reichenau, üppig grünenden Gemüsegarten am südlichen Rand der Republik, die Wiege der Kultur im Herzen Europas, die ehemalige klösterliche Hochburg, diesen geschichtsträchtigen Ort, der im Jahr 2000 von der UNESCO in den Rang einer Weltkulturerbestätte erhoben worden ist.
Bereits im Jahr 799, nur wenige Jahrzehnte nach der „Klostergründung“ (724) durch den heiligen Wanderbischof Pirmin wird die erste St.-Peters-Kirche durch den Stifter und Bauherrn, den als Seligen verehrten Bischof Egino von Verona, geweiht.
Egino hat nach seinem Tod im Jahr 802 hier in einer Gruft im Bereich des Chorraums der heutigen Kirche seine letzte Ruhestätte gefunden; sein Haupt ist im Hochaltar in einem Schrein geborgen.
Von dem mit Skulpturschmuck und Wandmalereien reich ausgestatteten ursprünglichen Gründungsbau ist heute nichts mehr erhalten. Im Lauf der Jahrhunderte wurde die Kirche mehrmals umgebaut und erweitert, im Jahr 1080 schliesslich vollständig abgetragen.
Auf den vorgegebenen alten Fundamenten wurde unter Beibehaltung von Abmessungen, Proportionen und Aufteilung der Kirchenneubau aufgeführt. In dieser Gestalt steht er im Grunde auch heute noch vor uns.
Charakteristisch für den romanischen Neubau des 11. Jahrhunderts ist die seltene, weithin sichtbare Ostturmfassade mit ihren beiden Türmen, die sich über den Seitenapsiden erheben.
Nach der Anfügung einer spätmittelalterlichen Vorhalle im Westen kam es dann v.a. vom 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert zu baulichen Veränderungen im Innern und im Bereich der Fenster.
Apsis
Die heute noch sichtbare Malerei in der Apsis stammt aus den Jahren 1104-1105 (logischer wäre - aus dem ersten Viertel des 12. Jahrhunderts) und ist in drei Zonen gegliedert.
In der obersten Zone ist die Majestas Domini, Christus in der Mandorla dargestellt, begleitet von den vier Evangelistensymbolen. Rechts und links huldigen Petrus und Paulus, die Patronen der Kirche, sowie zwei geflügelte Cherubim. In der mittleren Zone finden sich die zwölf (durch das Fenster nur 10) Apostel, darunter sind Propheten abgebildet.
Um 1750 erfuhr die Kirche eine umfassende Neugestaltung im Rokoko-Stil.
Im Zuge einer umfassenden Restaurierung 1970-1977 suchte man die Baugeschichte der Kirche zu erhellen und den romanischen Eindruck weitgehend wieder herzustellen.
One of the keys to shooting Epic Landscape Photography is exalting the photograph's soul via golden ratio compositions, thusly wedding the photographic art to the divine proportion by which life itself was designed and exalted.
Dr. Elliot McGucken's Golden Number Ratio Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Composition Studies!
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
Greetings flickr friends! I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
Ansel Adams is not only my favorite photographer, but he is one of the greatest photographers and artists of all time. And just like great artists including Michelangelo, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli, and Picasso, Ansel used the golden ratio and divine proportions in his epic art.
Not so long ago I discovered golden regions in many of his famous public domain his 8x10 aspect ratio photographs. I call these golden harmony regions "regions of golden action" or "ROGA"S, as seen here:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1812448512351066.107374...
And too, I created some videos highlighting Ansel's use of the golden harmonies. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGnxOAhK3os
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlzAaBgsDI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3eJ86Ej1TY
More golden ratio and epic photography composition books soon! Best wishes for the Holiday Season! Dr. Elliot McGucken :)
The pattern of seeds within a sunflower follows the Fibonacci sequence, or 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144...
The individual seeds create spiral arms, curving to the right and the left. The number of spirals to the left, is however not equal to those spiraling to the right. The spiral arms to the left and to the right are always two successive numbers of the Fibonacci sequence.
This is when I wish I'd paid more attention to my maths lessons at school!
B O L Y, NITA AND THE BIG BAD WOLF
Nita was a child out of the ordinary. Apparently his appearance was ordinary. She had a round face, with rosy buffs and that kind and naïve expression that girls have at their age. She was taller than her years and therefore her figure was somewhat ungainly, her limbs were too long in proportion to the rest of the body.
It could be said that she was graceful, although as everything in her was in transformation it could not be said if she was going to be beautiful or not. The hair was a separate chapter, it was really beautiful, a long jet black mane that framed green eyes diluted in a little dark gray. As a counterpoint a funny nosed up.
At home it was the desperation of his parents, especially his mother.
He didn't help her at all with household chores, he didn't even have her room tidy. It was a total lion, you could hardly enter the chaos that existed.
They lived on the outskirts of town, in the countryside. He didn't milk the cows, he didn't milk the goats. Nor did he put hay on them or take them out for a walk. When he did not see her, his father even took a pebble and threw it to the cat so that he ran out of fright. Or he would squeal into the chicken coop to scare away the roosters and hens.
I only ate tomato cake and drank milk. Never fruit, he was unable to taste an apple, a pear, or even a sweet banana. Neither eat a stew or a beef stew.
She dressed in any worn rag of her older sisters and wore simple slippers.
She got along badly with her brothers, she became like a porcupine, they could not approach her.
At school it was also a very unique case. He did not obey the teachers; Disobedient, he went to his ball without paying attention in classes. According to a test they gave her, she was smart and smart but she didn't want to know more than just enough so they wouldn't kick her out of school.
Her parents had often gone to talk to the teachers, even to the school principal, who informed them of their daughter Nita's indifferent and passive attitude. She didn't identify with any classmates, had no friends, and didn't participate in common playground games. Little by little they were leaving it aside. Or maybe she was the one who went to a corner without wanting to know anything about anyone.
After the interviews with the director the parents armed the marimorena, what was going to become of her tomorrow, no boy would approach her and things like that.
Nita nodded to everything paying close attention but as if nothing. Then everything remained the same.
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Like every night after eating his piece of cake and drinking his milk, he went to the bank of the river that passed by. His parents didn't want him to go there. Sometimes a stranger would hover around and could give him a good scare. As the stranger brought her carelessly, they scared her by telling her that a hungry wolf that had eaten an entire chicken coop was prowling. And it was true But also the fierce canid worried a cumin.
So he sat on the shore and began to watch the water flow. From time to time a frog would jump and splash in the water by splashing it.
But what he liked most was to see the stars. How many times he wanted to count them, he couldn't. They were pretty. And they shone in the blackness of the sky. They looked the same but Nita discovered a different intensity in each of them. He would be stunned and end up with neck pain from staring at them for so long with his head raised.
The moon was reflected in the river. And even the stars, so quiet that the current was. That's why he saw so clearly the face of the wolf next to him. He had a large head and teeth protruded from his mouth.
Nita didn't panic.
- Hello, wolf. – he said calmly.
The animal opened its mouth to give a big yawn and it was not known if it was out of boredom or hunger.
- Sit with me, wolf. I am always alone and your company will be good for me. Look up. I present to you Orion, to Pegasus, to Ursa Major, to Ursa Minor, to all the inhabitants of Heaven. Look how beautiful the stars are, there is nothing like it.
The wolf leaned its hind legs on the grass and looked into infinity. His eyes widened at times.
They certainly formed a most unusual picture. An innocent girl and a huge and terrifying wolf, ecstatic in the contemplation of the stars. Nita stroked the wolf's head and the wolf growled pleased.
And if that was surprising, it was even more so that the radiance that appeared before their eyes and came to meet them.
It was a gigantic orange ball and it fell right next to where they were. Everything was so sudden that they didn't have time to startle.
They discovered a very deep hole from which smoke was coming out and smelled scorched.
Nita and the wolf peeked out and heard some moans.
- Help me out of here - sounded a voice down there.
Nita reached out gropingly, half her body inside the hole as the wolf held her dress with his teeth.
When he found something that looked like a hand, he pulled with all his strength upwards. The wolf also made a great effort, and at last they managed to bring that to the surface.
What they saw blew them away. It was a mixture of Caponata and Spinette hen, although it did not have a well-defined shape, it was somewhat rare and released colored sparks. It was about the size of the girl.
"Hello," said that thing, "my name is Boly and I come from a place far away.
Who are you? You don't look like them at all.
- My name is Nita and he is a wolf. How did you come here? Are you a Martian? What a scare you have given us.
- I don't know what a Martian is. I come from Perolandia, and I've left home, I don't want to live there anymore.
- What nonsense, leaving home, with how well you are, your parents always looking out for you.
- I'm gone because I'm small and nobody pays attention to me, no matter how much I talk they don't listen to me. And because I'm so ugly, I'm horrible.
Nita and the wolf looked at him carefully. He was nothing like them, of course. He had two eyes that as he moved his head in which direction they turned into four, or six, he was curious. Each of a different color. Seen one by one they were beautiful, they shone. The hands were like mittens and he had two ears, yes.
"Tell me where I am," Boly asked, "I got on the rocket and it shot out without knowing where I was going.
- You are on Earth, where the wolf and I live; well, my family and everybody," Nita explained.
- Well, it's all very dark, I don't know if you've noticed.
- You're dumb, don't you see it's night?
- I don't know what night is, and what a fool is. I don't understand anything about Earth
Nita armed herself with patience and gradually updated him on how everything was; that when it was dark it was called night and when there was light it was day. And that a fool was someone who didn't know things.
- Well, in Perolandia there is always light, it is never night. And I'm not a fool, I study the quintennium and soon the sentenium. I know the sidereal spaces, the squares of the circles and the alypios of Mars. And I've been analyzing the Andromeda quasar. And triple factor math has no secrets for me.
- What words you spend - the wolf decided to speak - you have left us checkered.
And he let out a chuckle between his jaws. But it was too late and Nita and the wolf hid Boly in the same hole covering him with branches promising to return the next night.
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The night after they found Boly outside the hole and as soon as he saw them he told them he was very hungry, to bring him something. So Nita got what she could from the fridge; One apple, two pears. a banana and remains of beans with chorizo and half a plate of macaroni that had been left over.
Little Boly got a kind of little band out of his head and deposited the food there; First the beans, then the banana and then the other.
And as the food came in, it sounded like a kind of music, it was the most curious.
- Mmmm, I've never eaten anything so delicious, in Perolandia we don't have this tasty food. I want more, bring me everything you can.
- Now it's too late, Boly, tomorrow I'll bring you more again, okay?
- And you, what do you study? You know mathematics and arithmetic, history, do you speak several languages like me?
The girl and the wolf looked at each other not knowing what to answer, but the wolf said:
- I am a wolf and wolves never went to school, as children our mother teaches us to obey the head of the pack and to hunt rabbits and hares, partridges, and all those little animals that can serve as sustenance. To look for water and above all to protect ourselves from the man who considers us his enemy and whom we only approach to visit his chicken coops and flocks when hunger squeezes us and we can no more.
Boly waited for Nita's answer. She thought the answer.
- I go to school and learn things.
- What are things?
Nita lowered her head. He didn't know how to tell her the things he knew. And Boly understood.
- You have no studies, Nita, you do not know what there is to know. The other girls will be more advanced than you, right? You don't know Mathematics, Grammar, and you don't speak languages, right?
Nita was embarrassed. In short, I had told her that she was ignorant. And that hurt him.
- Nita, I didn't mean to offend you, nobody is born taught. But we have to learn many things to fend for ourselves and move through this complicated world and be useful to others. But we could do one thing, Nita: I'll teach you the things you don't know and I'll learn to cook the tasty meals you bring me, okay?
Nita liked the idea and the next day they put it into practice. Boly proved to be such a good and patient teacher that the girl inadvertently acquired the knowledge she had not assimilated in school.
At school he armed the revolution, was the astonishment of the teachers. Suddenly Nita got very good grades and no one could explain this unique fact. When he went out to the blackboard, he left his teammates with their mouths open. And she was always so happy that she was part of the other children's rings, she was the first to sign up for the games.
At home his mother could not believe that change. He took care of the animals in the stable, milked the cows and goats and took them out to the meadow. And, most surprisingly, he suddenly wanted to learn to cook and wrote down all those recipes that his mother stewed to put them into practice; He made potato omelette, fried squid, chicken chilindrón, little by little he acquired practice.
But a surprising fact happened: for the first time in her life Nita tasted and tasted all those foods that her mother made. The cause was Boly; he liked the meals the girl brought him so much and was so comfortable that Nita was curious and then envious watching him eat. He understood how many flavors and good things he had overlooked.
But the wolf also benefited from the teachings of both. He learned algebra, syntax, English, and notions of French, even how to make a rich garlic oil and a sponge cake.
They formed a very close team and the hours they were together flew by. But Nita was thinking about it and she told Boly.
- And you, Boly, why did you leave your planet leaving your home?
- I already told you; I am very small, everyone overwhelms me and nobody pays attention to me. Besides, look at me, don't you see how ugly I am? Horrifying.
- Boly, do you have a picture of your family? I would like to meet them.
- I'll do better than show you a picture. Look......
From one of their eyes came a ray of light and appeared as a giant 3D television screen, giving the feeling that they were part of the scene. Nita and the wolf saw images of Boly with his family. They were very tall beings, phosphorescent colors and extremely beautiful and fantastic. Of course Boly was right, he was very small by his side and not at all graceful compared to his parents and siblings.
Nita immediately realized the situation that Boly was going through.
- Boly, I think I already know why you are so small and look so nasty.
-Yes? You don't say......
- It's very easy to know what you're going through. Just answer me a question, Boly: when you were born your brothers were as big as they are now?
- Yes, of course, they were that tall and well-formed, and I was a birria next to them, although now I am not as small as I was then.
- Well, that's the key to everything, don't you realize? You are like the protagonist of a story that was read to me as a child and was called "The Ugly Duckling". It was very small and black, it did not attract attention at all. And when he grew up he became what he was, a beautiful swan that caused admiration. Thus, Boly, as time goes by, you will become tall and attractive like your parents and siblings, you will wear those colors so bright and amazing, and you will have only three eyes and not five or six as now. And your legs will be longer and your hands bigger and your voice prettier.
You are not ugly, Boly, you will be handsome and cause admiration. Now you are growing, you have to go through this stage.
- You mean I'll stop being small and with six eyes? That I will have the colors of my brothers?
- Sure, Boly, you'll see.
The little perolandio's face suddenly lit up and something that looked like tears peeked through his multiple eyes.
The wolf, who had remained silent all the time, rested one of his paws on Boly and affectionately said to him:
- I want you to know, Boly, that you are the most of the most, I never met anyone as amazing as you. You are funny, loyal, witty, funny, and even being small and with six eyes you are beautiful and attractive, really.
- Thank you, wolf, your sincerity moves me. I would like you to know my world, there you would not have to chase rabbits or chickens.
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After a while had passed, it was time to separate. It had been a time of fun, of surprises, but also of learning and above all of happy and affectionate friendship.
Nita learned through Boly and the Wolf to relate to others by abandoning her individuality and participating fully in her family life.
Boly regained confidence in himself and realized that no matter the size or physique of each one, that the main thing is what we carry inside and share with others.
The wolf discovered that he was at ease with humans and had good feelings and that there were beings and worlds as extraordinary as Boly
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Nita is still looking at the stars every night. She is enraptured by so much immensity and beauty. And she, and no one else but her, is able to hear the howl of her unforgettable and beloved wolf coming to her from the other corner of the universe.
And a sweeter-than-honey tear slips down her rosy cheek....
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The famous Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio has captivated mathematicians, artists, designers, and scientists for centuries.
The golden ratio ("phi") is approximately equal to 1.618 and exists when a line is divided into two parts and the longer part (a) divided by the smaller part (b) is equal to the sum of (a) + (b) divided by (a), which both equal 1.618. I know that sounds nerdy but it is amazing how often it occurs in nature.
The spiralling patterns seen in seeds in a sunflower head, spirals in sea shells, winds in a hurricane, and the human face can all follow this pattern. In a so called ‘perfect smile’, the visible surfaces of teeth will follow the Golden Proportion and the real nerds in the Dental profession may even have a set of calipers which reproduce the ratio 1.618.
The Fibonacci sequence can also be seen in the way tree branches form or split. A main trunk will grow until it produces a branch, which creates two growth points. Then, one of the new stems branches into two, while the other one lies dormant. This pattern of branching is repeated for each of the new stems. This sand pattern reminds me of that.
I write this at 12.58, unable to get to sleep. How the hell this stuff doesn’t put you to sleep is beyond me!
The proportions of the rock of Gibraltar are impressive compared to the city! And there's an airport with a very short landing strip, a real aircraft carrier
Impressionnante la proportion du rocher de Gibraltar comparée au reste du territoire ! Remarquez l'aéroport à la piste très courte, un vrai porte-avions !
Credits: ESA/NASA
134E2443
Designed and folded by me.
Medium: 35x35 cm^2 Biotope
When I see blue whales, I think about their giant mouths in proportion to their body, and how they balloon out when it ingests a swarm of krill or plankton. Thus, I wanted a model that captured just how colossal the mouth can get. Almost everyone who has designed a rorqual emphasizes the grooves underneath the mouth (and rightly so), but to really make the grooves stand out, I made the whale look as if it was in the process of taking a big gulp. The model is almost completely closed entirely with exception to the tail.
Biotope was not bad, but I think something like Elephant Hide would be nicer and have the potential for wet-folding.
Another off-topic note I would also like to make - about 2 months ago, I was ecstatic when OrigamiHouse published one of my designs on their prestigious Tanteidan Convention booklet. I have seen so many Kamiya sheeps, Kato's beetles, Heynen's geckos, and Yoon's rabbits... and rightfully so as they are outstanding designs. Sometimes I see other people fold other models, that show up once or twice in my feed. However, it really disappoints me to say that while I have seen almost, if not all models in the book at least once within these two months, I have not seen a single rendition of my design _once_ from the time the book was released, to now. By no means was I expecting my model to be "top-tier", nor am I the best or most popular designer in the world, but I was definitely expecting at least one person to at least make an effort or an attempt... it really lets me down when there is no one that appreciates what I make. You don't realize that feeling as if you had contributed nothing and that nobody recognizes you is one of the worst feelings in the world.
To those of you that willfully pass me over and take me for granted - I'm just going to say that I'm going to keep folding and designing whether you like it or not. I will also continue to make an effort to publish models whether you think that I take up needed space in a publication that could have been used for another "better" artist or not. I have little reason to stop doing what I really like doing just because you prefer an artist to another. That does not change the fact that I exist, and that I am capable of making an impact throughout origami.
However, aside from the previous negativity, I also want to dedicate some time to say that to those of you that comment, favorite, or criticize, I thank you for the time you put into me, even if it were only a small glance. Everything you do really brightens my day and encourages me to advance further throughout my origami experience and try new things, be it in origami or in the real world. When I post designs through Flickr, I don't just inspire other people who see my creations, but I also inspire myself - to try new things and discover more that I would have thought was not possible for my skill level.
Again, with all my sincerity, thank you - I cannot capture all my feelings with just two words.
Recently, many aspects of being got a different proportion. Things that previously rushed into life slowly but surely lose their speed. In this process, it became evident that not all of them deserved the attention they got. In contrast to that, it becomes clear that one would love to invest in more devotion in other aspects.
Hence, reality flusters individual perspectives, and suddenly everything feels upside down. In this mess, the proportions of relevance reinvent themselves with some surprises.
While it is possible to observe where the journey is heading, it is easy to fall victim to enduring separation on the way. Though one might try to be satisfied with little, the loneliness and separation from those who could bring comfort at this difficult time represent a tremendous personal challenge.
While it is difficult to accept this current reality, it also provides the possibility to evaluate the new proportions. However, one must not forget that there will be light at the end of the tunnel, and it might shine brighter than before.
One of the keys to shooting Epic Landscape Photography is exalting the photograph's soul via golden ratio compositions, thusly wedding the photographic art to the divine proportion by which life itself was designed and exalted.
Dr. Elliot McGucken's Golden Number Ratio Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Composition Studies!
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
Greetings flickr friends! I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
Ansel Adams is not only my favorite photographer, but he is one of the greatest photographers and artists of all time. And just like great artists including Michelangelo, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli, and Picasso, Ansel used the golden ratio and divine proportions in his epic art.
Not so long ago I discovered golden regions in many of his famous public domain his 8x10 aspect ratio photographs. I call these golden harmony regions "regions of golden action" or "ROGA"S, as seen here:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1812448512351066.107374...
And too, I created some videos highlighting Ansel's use of the golden harmonies. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGnxOAhK3os
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlzAaBgsDI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3eJ86Ej1TY
More golden ratio and epic photography composition books soon! Best wishes for the Holiday Season! Dr. Elliot McGucken :)
A large proportion of the First Aberdeen fleet are now temporarily out of use due to the reduced pandemic timetable now effect.
All double deckers, artics, B10BLEs, and the majority of B7RLEs are now out of use plus 63213 and 67090 which were out pre virus presumably awaiting parts.
The out of service fleet is parked around the sides of the depot as seen here allowing space for the active fleet. Note 38206 had only just received this mega rear for CALA Homes prior to coming off fleet.
Pink Polka Dot Victoria Secret Bikini! Pretty Bikini Model Malibu Beach! High Res Photos of Gorgeous Surf Girl! Beautiful Portraits & Headshots! Beautiful Surf Goddess! Athletic Action Portraits of Swimsuit Bikini Models! Sexy Aphrodite! Pretty 45SURF Tall, Thin, Fit Windy Woman! dx4/dt=ic!
My Epic Gear Guide for Landscapes & Portraits!
Everyone is always asking me for this! Here ya go! :)
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Most all of my work is composed and cropped in accordance with the golden ratio! The golden number and divine proportion informs all my logos and clothing designs!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Love exalting the Venus Archetype in portrait and model photography! Shoot from thw heart and aim for the soul! Enjoy my Epic Book Exalting the Venus Archetype: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ...
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Epic books, prints, & more!
Pretty Portraits & Headshots! Beautiful Surf Goddesses! Athletic Action Portraits of Swimsuit Bikini Models! Athena, Artemis, Helen, and Aphrodite! Fitness Model! Pretty Woman! Sexy hot women!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
Epic Art & Gear for your Epic Hero's Odyssey:
Enjoy my physics!! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical Reality of a Fourth Expanding Dimension: dx4/dt=ic !
Beautiful Surf Goddesses! Athletic Action Portraits of Swimsuit Bikini Models! Athena, Artemis, Helen, and Aphrodite!
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Nikon D810 with the Nikon MB-D12 Multi Battery Power Pack / Grip for D800 and D810 Digital Cameras allows one to shoot at a high to catch the action FPS! Ballerina Dance Goddess Photos! Pretty, Tall Ballet Swimsuit Bikini Model Ballerina Goddess! Captured with the 50mm F1.4 Art Lens and the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens! Ballerina dancer dancing ballet in pointe shoes! Jete! Arabesque!
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Ballerina dancing ballet! Pretty ballerina girl with dark brown hair and black eyes!
A pretty goddess straight out of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey!
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Pretty, Tall Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess!
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Ask me any questions! :)
She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic odyssey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
ALL THE BEST on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
Been busy traveling and shooting landscapes and working on my books The Golden Hero's Odyssey about the golden rectangle and divine proportion I use in a lot of my compositions! Also working on my physics book on Dynamic Dimensions Theory! The equation d4/dt=ic is on a lot of the 45surf swimsuit and shirts and all! :)
Follow me & 45surf!!
www.facebook.com/45surfAchillesOdysseyMythology/
One of the keys to shooting Epic Landscape Photography is exalting the photograph's soul via golden ratio compositions, thusly wedding the photographic art to the divine proportion by which life itself was designed and exalted.
Dr. Elliot McGucken's Golden Number Ratio Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Composition Studies!
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
Greetings flickr friends! I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
Ansel Adams is not only my favorite photographer, but he is one of the greatest photographers and artists of all time. And just like great artists including Michelangelo, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli, and Picasso, Ansel used the golden ratio and divine proportions in his epic art.
Not so long ago I discovered golden regions in many of his famous public domain his 8x10 aspect ratio photographs. I call these golden harmony regions "regions of golden action" or "ROGA"S, as seen here:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1812448512351066.107374...
And too, I created some videos highlighting Ansel's use of the golden harmonies. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGnxOAhK3os
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlzAaBgsDI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3eJ86Ej1TY
More golden ratio and epic photography composition books soon! Best wishes for the Holiday Season! Dr. Elliot McGucken :)
One of the keys to shooting Epic Landscape Photgraphy is exalting the photograph's soul via golden ratio compositions, thusly wedding the art to the divine proportion by which life itself was designed and exalted.
Dr. Elliot McGucken's Golden Number Ratio Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Composition Studies!
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
Greetings flickr friends! I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
www.facebook.com/goldennumberratio/
The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
Ansel Adams is not only my favorite photographer, but he is one of the greatest photographers and artists of all time. And just like great artists including Michelangelo, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli, and Picasso, Ansel used the golden ratio and divine proportions in his epic art.
Not so long ago I discovered golden regions in many of his famous public domain his 8x10 aspect ratio photographs. I call these golden harmony regions "regions of golden action" or "ROGA"S, as seen here:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1812448512351066.107374...
And too, I created some videos highlighting Ansel's use of the golden harmonies. Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGnxOAhK3os
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlzAaBgsDI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3eJ86Ej1TY
More golden ratio and epic photography composition books soon! Best wishes for the Holiday Season! Dr. Elliot McGucken :)
Sony A7R2 Bishop California Fine Art Autumn Landscapes! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography!
Been busy traveling and shooting landscapes and working on my books The Golden Hero's Odyssey about the golden rectangle and divine proportion I use in a lot of my compositions! Also working on my physics book on Dynamic Dimensions Theory! The equation dx4/dt=ic is on a lot of the 45surf swimsuit and shirts and all! :)
Follow me & 45surf!!
www.facebook.com/45surfAchillesOdysseyMythology/
www.facebook.com/elliot.mcgucken
My fine art landscape lenses for the A7RII are the Sony 16-35mm Vario-Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS E-Mount Lens and the Sony FE 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS Lens ! Love the Carl Zeiss and super sharp Sony Glass!