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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!
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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!
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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:
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And too, I created some videos highlighting Ansel's use of the golden harmonies. Enjoy!
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Ok, this is something I really want to go back on. I had to do something regarding proportion of the body, but I didn't want to be bland. Dan Lumley inspired me with his version that included a figure with something larger than life. Colored pencil 8.5×11
My physics equation dx4/dt=ic graces the swimsuits and bikinis, while the golden gun is designed in proportion with the golden ratio, and the photos are oft cropped in divine proportions!
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My Epic Gear Guide for Landscapes & Portraits!
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9 rectangular Kami of 3x2 proportion [11.25cm x 7,5cm] are used to fold the Nonagon Cross Modules. Two 60 degrees folds are added to the other end of each module and assembled to form a 9-Pointed Star.
The model is actually a compound of 3 Equilateral Triangles. The 9-Pointed Star is also known as the Enneagram.
41/ 365 "Ack..ack...ack... we come in peace"-martian
I was doing my 365 this morning when suddenly I saw a very bright light. Next thing I know I'm back in our house with all these slimy stuff all over me..
This was the only evidence that I have of the incident.
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SB800 from alien mothership with snoot @ 1/80
*no one was hurt during the making of this photo
Sony A7RII Golden Spiral, Section, Mean, Rectangle, and the Fine Art Fibonacci Numbers!
Sony A7RII: The golden spiral, golden rectangle, and phi grid rise again! I wasn't thinking about it at all out there, nor even when I got home and finished the photo. It wasn't until a few days later after I uploaded it that I saw the golden spiral. "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." --Edward Weston
"There's a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." --Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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The golden section and golden rectangle influenced innumerable classical works of art and architecture, ranging from Boticell's The Birth of Venus to da Vinci's The Last Supper to William Blake's Newton, to the Parthenon built in ancient Greece.
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One thing that I have found is that the golden mean and spiral seem to naturally show up when basically there is just no other way to compose a photo that makes sense. I mean honestly, looking at the Malibu sunset, or the Grand Canyon shot, or the moon setting through the sea cave, or pro surfer Alana Blanchard kicking out her fins and throwing up foam/sea spray, how else could have I composed it? I never thought about the golden section nor Fibonacci spiral in any of these compositions, but then, when I got home, there it was. :)
Yes, Shakespeare's Hamlet was right, ""There's a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."
And so it is that the golden ratio is oft referred to as "The divine proportion." I'll be posting more of the "golden ratio" on instagram @45surf :)
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Working on a book titled THE GOLDEN HERO'S ODYSSEY!
Check out my epic album: Golden Rectangle, Golden Ratio, Golden Spiral, Phi Grid, and Fibonacci Spiral in Fine Art Photography Compositions!
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Divine Proportion on a Divine Goddess! Golden Rectangle Goddess! Fibonacci Spiral Composition for Classical Goddess and Exalted Fine Art!
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All of the new Gold 45 Revolver and 45SURF logos and designs are inspired by the golden number phi and divine proportion! Just as my landscapes oft employ the golden rectangle and fibonacci spiral in composition, all the bikinis, shirts, and lingerie designs are made with the golden section and gold number Phi (1.618) in mind! The golden grids, rectangles, pentagons, and spirals make a far better system for compositions than does the rule of thirds! And too, the golden mean and divine proportion are found in every model--in her pretty face and in the divine proportions of the 45surf goddess's heavenly body! I'm working on a book on all this beautitful craziness in fine art landscapes and models called The Golden Hero's Odyssey, which also ties it to my physics theory Dynamic Dimenions theory (dx4/dt=ic). :)
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I have been traveling around in Zion, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Bryce Canyon! Will share soon! :)
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I love seeking and exalting the golden harmonies in my fine art!
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Enjoy my books on Golden Ratio Compositions & Epic Landscape Photography!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
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The finely-proportioned figure stands with weight on his right leg, leaning on a tree trunk, a cloak thrown over his left shoulder.
Speculation that he is an athlete or the god Hermes or the hero Achilles is inconclusive. Probably a Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th-4th cent. BC.
Formerly Farnese Collection, Naples, acquired 1864.
The British Museum, London
I can't believe I might have to explain what this is, it's sort of like explaining the pencil, but apparently in modern printing production the proportion wheel is nowhere to be found. We used this to figure out what percentage to reduce or enlarge images in the preparation of negatives, and to figure out cropping to a set amount of space.
Apparently C-Thru still sells these.
My wife is currently instructing 2d-year college design students on how to use a T-square. I mean, really.
"[The] ceiling and the supporting architecture was painted by Verrio and illustrates the entrance to Hell as a cat's mouth. The figurative scheme on the walls were added by Thomas Stothard (1755-1834) at the beginning of the 19th century" - info from the Burghley House mini guide.
"Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the Cecil family. The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodellings before 1800. The house is open to the public and displays a circuit of grand and richly furnished state apartments. Its park was laid out by Capability Brown.
The house is on the boundary of the civil parishes of Barnack and St Martin's Without in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire. It was formerly part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally associated with Northamptonshire. It lies 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south of Stamford and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Peterborough city centre.
The house is now run by the Burghley House Preservation Trust, which is controlled by the Cecil family.
Burghley was built for Sir William Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I of England, between 1555 and 1587, and modelled on the privy lodgings of Richmond Palace. It was subsequently the residence of his descendants, the Earls, and since 1801, the Marquesses of Exeter. Since 1961, it has been owned by a charitable trust established by the family.
Lady Victoria Leatham, antiques expert and television personality, followed her father, Olympic gold-medal winning athlete, IAAF President and MP, David Cecil, the 6th Marquess, by running the house from 1982 to 2007. The Olympic corridor commemorates her father. Her daughter, Miranda Rock, is now the most active live-in trustee. However, the Marquessate passed it in 1988 to Victoria's uncle, Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter, and then to his son, William Michael Anthony Cecil, both Canadian ranchers on land originally bought by the 5th Marquess, who have not lived at Burghley.
The house is one of the main examples of stonemasonry and proportion in sixteenth-century English Elizabethan architecture, reflecting the prominence of its founder, and the lucrative wool trade of the Cecil estates. It has a suite of rooms remodelled in the baroque style, with carvings by Grinling Gibbons. The main part of the house has 35 major rooms, on the ground and first floors. There are more than 80 lesser rooms and numerous halls, corridors, bathrooms, and service areas.
In the seventeenth century, the open loggias around the ground floor were enclosed. Although the house was built in the floor plan shape of the Letter E, in honour of Queen Elizabeth, it is now missing its north-west wing. During the period of the 9th Earl's ownership, and under the guidance of the famous landscape architect, Capability Brown, the south front was raised to alter the roof line, and the north-west wing was demolished to allow better views of the new parkland. A chimney-piece after the design of Venetian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi was also added during his tenure.
The so-called "Hell Staircase" and its neighbour "The Heaven Room" has substantial ceiling paintings by Antonio Verrio, between 1697 and 1699. The walls to the "Hell Staircase" are by Thomas Stothard, who completed the work about a century later. The Bow Room is decorated with wall and ceiling paintings by Louis Laguerre." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Dining Room is one. As a well proportioned and elegant space, it runs over half of the original Burnham Beeches floor plan. It features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of found dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I personally found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Dining Room is one. The Study is the other. It features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
My physics equation dx4/dt=ic graces the swimsuits and bikinis, while the golden gun is designed in proportion with the golden ratio, and the photos are oft cropped in divine proportions!
Beautiful Golden Ratio Composition Photography Surf Goddesses! dx4/dt=ic Athletic Action Portraits of Swimsuit Bikini Models! Athena, Artemis, Helen, and Aphrodite! Athletic Fitness Models!
My Epic Gear Guide for Landscapes & Portraits!
Everyone is always asking me for this! Here ya go! :)
My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ...
Epic! Beautiful Surf Fine Art Portrait Swimsuit Bikini Models!
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THE OUTSIDER (CHAPTER THREE)
FOOLS GOLD .
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Standing over the body of Johnny Watkins, a sense of relief pulses through my veins as he breathes one last time before the death rattle grips his worthless bones and sees him across the water to wherever his destiny lies. I'm guessing with his past, it ain't gonna be somewhere pleasant, no green valleys or scenic splendour for one with such a black soul and lack of heart. His younger brother lies not ten feet away, choking and a'spluttering with three bullets in his chest and ruby red blood flowing into the crystal clear river water that lives on as a reminder of what this ghost town was once about. He's not long for this world neither, and I delight in his curious displeasure at staring at the body of his dead kin before he himself meets his maker and faces what punishment the good Lord deems fit to hand out.
The rains came early with a vengeance at the very vapourss of the winter season, as a deluge of angry water cast aside all manner of obstacles with relentless force like they were never there, gatherin' up mountain rock and trees the size of homesteads and carrying them away like they was nevermeantt to be there, violently beating a pathway through the canyon and down towards the village way on yonder. As though Mother Nature herself had cast a long overdue judgement upon the sins of the greedy townsfolk, invoking her wrath upon them with a venom and Spite of Vitriolic proportion, she sure laid waste to the landscape in an effort to rightfully claim what was always hers. By now it was too late for shallow regrets and false emotion and the damage was done. The waters swelled with muddy brown silt and debris from the once moss covered rocks so dry and baron for many months previously, as tiny plant life which had sprung up to try and cover the shame of the dried out river bed, were now swallowed up, devoured and willingly played their part in the merciless onslaught by the rampaging water.
The arrogant humans had tried to tame the liquid goddess with dams and boulders, stones and rocks, building the semblance of a town where the glitzy gold strike had caused a stir, put dollar signs into the eyes of each and every prospector and made a bunch of millionaires from worthless souls for their part in the rape and pillage of the landscape . Hastily fashioned ugly wooden boxes sprung up like weeds, masquerading as desirable homes for the prosperous and adventurous who came in their droves to make their money and find a personal piece of someone else's vision of Utopia. Mother Nature sat up and took note as her lush valleys were dug with implementation of flesh and steel. Trees that had lived for centuries as her children, cut down with jagged blades to a cacophony of juvenile whoops of joy. Man against nature and the odds seemed stacked on the humans side. But looks can often be deceptive and she had a plan or two up her sleeve. With every carving of her sinuous landscape she shed silent tears and tiny wails that only those who cared enough to give a damn, could understand.
And did the humans believe that they could plunder her treasures without a fight? Of course they did, the sons of bitches. An arrogance which defied belief brought down upon it a retribution swift and merciless. A couple'a years back I'd have cared little for such plunderin' of the landscape if not for the words to the wise from Grey wolf who shed tears for the white man's disregard, and watched as all he held sacred and of beauty was dug up or pulled down, pushed aside in the name of progress, built upon or burned to the ground. And isn't that the white man's legacy in these lands, the destruction of all and everything of natural beauty just to further his own progress and tend to his own selfish need and greed.
A township fashioned out of land that once was so majestically proportioned, resplendent with all the modern day trappings of prosperity and wealth. Banks and whore houses, gambling dens of iniquity and supplies stores with everything from Winchesters to spades. Resources tapped to their limits and greed fuelling the euphoria of celebrations and drunken debauchery rife, the town grew fat and bloated, spreading like a malevolent force, demanding more of Mother natures precious treasures . Hastily erected, precarious constructions that pierced her body with their wooden struts, and water channels which undermined the very foundations of their civilization hurriedly created, a time for all who dared, prospered, but at what cost? When the drought came, the people prayed to a God who hung his head in shame, in church at the feet of a priest who had sold his soul long ago to the devil himself, for a fistful of dreams and belly full of liquor. Now, nothing could save the people from the winds of fate, and still they couldn't see it, blinded by the gold rush and dreams of makin' it big. The repercussions came none too soon. Tame a river, take a chance, try to tame Mother Nature and you're simply pissing in the wind.
The heavens opened and the rains finally took their revenge. Day after day, the deluge came. Rain lashed down on a demoralised folk for weeks on end, until all but the most brave or foolhardy had drowned or packed their dreams into hurriedly gathered boxes and fled for the mainland. The dam burst her banks and screamed with delight as the water cleansed the valley of all traces of humanity, and the old gold mine imploded, pulled back into the ground until only legends of it's existence remained. Those below ground perished along with plenty above and trying to make their ways to a freedom that seemed so far out of reach. And when the water ceased and the sunrise came, all that had been before was once again restored to how it had been before the plague of man had descended upon the landscape. And now the land lies dormant and uninhabited, the forest thick with lush foliage and left alone to prosper once more. And Mother Nature smiles down exactly as Grey wolf had foreseen, on what is rightfully hers. That ole Injun saw it all with the vision of his forefathers from the days when his people respected the land and knew their place in the wider scheme of things.
It seems fitting that the architects of this failure now come to rest in the river which ended their dreams of a gold rush and pockets filled with money. The Watkins brothers had inherited the land with the ill-gotten gains from their part in the massacre of my family, and through the butchering of the town elders who stood in their way. Staying on to try and rebuild the devastated town once the floods had come and the inhabitants moved on to some other fools paradise in another valley, the boys had sealed their own fate, as I journeyed far and wide to send them to the grave. Like the blood sucking leaches that were this pair of sadistic siblings, the brothers piggy backed onto the towns notoriety with eyes filled full'a dollar signs and the stench of corruption high in the air. Build a reputation and the people will come, as they surely did in their droves, and the brothers were happy to relieve them of their money with gambling joints, two bit protection rackets and fingers in the candy jars at every given opportunity. And if you're thinkin' on squandering a little of your concern on the fate of these two killers who this day have fallen prey to the lead of my pistols, then I'd seriously reconsider if I were you. A pair of more evil sons of bitches you would surely never stumble across under one family roof. With a penchant for beating on young girls barely old enough to spell the profession of their choice, let alone perform the acts demanded of them, and a liking for carving his initials into the innocent flesh on the bodies of the poor girls crossing his path, I once saw James Watkins skin a man whole for stealin' his whiskey glass in a saloon bar out of Fort MacKenzie, and carry part of the skin around as a trophy for the fun of it. Blackness of the soul don't even scratch the surface none of a man who started his kiling out of morbid fascination and dark curiosity. Reloading my Colt with a barrel full of fresh lead, I slowly walk over to where James Watkins lies in so much pain, eyes crumpled and desperately trying to fix me in his gaze as I plant a boot onto that blood spattered chest and push him into the shallow river water. He fights to breathe, a body consumed in pain and delirium, feeble arms flailing around as I allow him up for one last gasp. Amidst the cursin' and spittin' as he tries to clear his face and punch a line of sight through the coverin' of blood and water, his pained expression slowly turns to a wry grin as he fixes me an awful stare, head tilted to one side, the look of devilment in those soulless eyes.
" She didn't die well ya know, Elizabeth. And struggle... man, she were meaner than a bull under the heat of a branding iron. But we had a way of keepin' her silenced as we all took turns with her. And all the while she cried your name. Ain't that just the sweetest thing to note? I may be dead soon fella, but you'll have to live with the pain and guilt for the rest of your life. How does that feel, to be a prisoner to sorrow? "
Anger rips through my bones like never before as I press my boot harder into his chest until my body weight has his face and mouth under the flowing river water. His nose plain cracks open under my force and I can feel him fighting for all he is worth to clutch another breath of air, blood oozing from his wounds and face startin' to turn a lighter shade as the life leaves his wretched limbs and those evil eyes stare ever larger with a strange mixture of surprise and fear etched into them. I release my grip and up he comes, flailing and splutterin' and cursin' me to Hell and Damnation like never before.
" I'll see you in hell ", he splutters between lungfuls of water which fill his nostrils and mouth and cause a gag reflex that sees arms and legs scrabbling to pull him upwards against my weight. I'm done loading my shells and spin the barrel which glistens in the glorious sunlight. I smile and cock the hammer, aiming the gun downwards towards his temple.
" You won't have long to wait my friend". Wa Ka Liva jolts as the sound of the bullet echoes off the surrounding trees and the body stops fighting me, a lifelessness taking over it's form and eyes glazing over as if the sparkle of life is draining away with each fraction of a second. The lifeless carcass collapses back onto the river bed as I spit on it's form and holster my weapon, a plume of smoke and the smell of cordite reaching my nostrils as I turn to walk away. The sun catches something glinting in his open waistcoat pocket, and as I lean over to examine the area, my hands retrieve the small gold pocket watch that I gave to my eldest boy not long before that fateful day. In good faith I sat my boy down and explained to him how one day he would be the man of the house, and how he would have to be strong for his mother, little knowing that the watch and words would be my last gifts to him. A father should not be around to witness his sons buried in his own lifetime, it ain't how things should be, it ain't the order of things so to speak. I had to dig the graves with my own hands, deep enough to ward away the prairie dogs and scavengers from getting at what little remained of my family's burned flesh once the fire had finally died away. Rubbing the metal between my thumb and index finger on my right hand, memories flood my mind and tears well in the corners of my eyes, something that I'm not accustomed to. A man aughtta be strong ya know. Cupping the watch in my hand, I place it into my own pocket and holster my gun once more. There are many miles to travel and four more names on my list of men I have to kill. I will not rest until my retribution is complete.
I take a final look around at the land of fools gold where dreams, like river water flowed on borrowed time and drunken hopes. The lure of money, the promise of a better tomorrow, the power of fear, the greed of mankind all displayed so neatly here in one little town that was, but is no more. Talk of dreams and people will listen, sell a dream and they will surely buy, try to tell them the error of their ways and they'll fill you full of lead soon as look at ya. Ain't we just the damnedest race. I'm thinking soon the posse will be joined by more bounty hunters taking those pictures of me from the town doors with a couple of new murders to my name, a couple of hundred dollars added to the bounty for me dead or alive. It's time to saddle up and leave, there are many miles to cross.
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Written January 1st 2010/Rewritten April 5th 2011
Photograph taken at the Nooksack Falls Creek off Wells Road on the Mount Baker Highway 542, Washington State USA on September 15th 2008
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Durst Automatica 1956-63. Possibly the best looking camera ever made. Form, proportion, materials, finishes, fonts...it absolutely embodies the era. It's Hepburn and Peck on a Vespa. It's Bertone, Tano Festa and Valentino all in one. A Latin counterpoint to Leica and Dieter Rams. It doesn't need to be interesting under the skin but it is, being the world's first 35mm aperture priority camera and doing it pneumatically. The 4th and final camera produced by enlarger-maker Durst SA of Bolzano up near the Italian Alps. They had a thing for pneumatic escapements - the Durst 66 was another example and both of mine work well today, 60 years on.
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Arizona is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Its other neighboring states are Nevada to the northwest and California to the west. It also shares an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest. It is the 6th-largest and the 14th-most-populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix, which is the most populous state capital in the United States.
Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. Historically part of the territory of Alta California and Nuevo México in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848, where the area became part of the territory of New Mexico. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase.
Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with extremely hot summers and mild winters. Northern Arizona features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees; the Colorado Plateau; mountain ranges (such as the San Francisco Mountains); as well as large, deep canyons, with much more moderate summer temperatures and significant winter snowfalls. There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff, Sunrise, and Tucson. In addition to the internationally known Grand Canyon National Park, which is one of the world's seven natural wonders, there are several national forests, national parks, and national monuments.
Arizona is home to a diverse population. About one-quarter of the state is made up of Indian reservations that serve as the home of 27 federally recognized Native American tribes, including the Navajo Nation, the largest in the state and the country, with more than 300,000 citizens. Since the 1980s, the proportion of Hispanics has grown significantly owing to migration from Mexico and Central America. A substantial portion of the population are followers of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Arizona's population and economy have grown dramatically since the 1950s because of inward migration, and the state is now a major hub of the Sun Belt. Cities such as Phoenix and Tucson have developed large, sprawling suburban areas. Many large companies, such as PetSmart and Circle K, have headquarters in the state, and Arizona is home to major universities, including the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University. The state is known for a history of conservative politicians such as Barry Goldwater and John McCain, though it has become a swing state in recent years.
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Navajo Upper Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon in the American Southwest, on Navajo land east of Lechee, Arizona. It includes six separate, scenic slot canyon sections on the Navajo Reservation, referred to as Upper Antelope Canyon (or The Crack), Rattle Snake Canyon, Owl Canyon, Mountain Sheep Canyon, Canyon X and Lower Antelope Canyon (or The Corkscrew). It is the primary attraction of Lake Powell Navajo Tribal Park, along with a hiking trail to Rainbow Bridge National Monument.
The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tsé bighánílíní, which means 'the place where water runs through the (Slot Canyon) rocks'. Lower Antelope Canyon is Hazdistazí (called "Hasdestwazi" by the Navajo Parks and Recreation Department), or 'spiral rock arches'. Both are in the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation. They are accessible by Navajo guided tour only.
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Ever felt small?
Certainly, I'm not, 6 foot and 16 stone. But next to a mile and a half long coal train and a 150 feet high grain elevator?
I'm small.
Vernon, Texas, 10 in the morning.
Just a little east of a downtown that could have been lifted from a 1920's gangster movie is this, the Wilbarger elevator.
Built in 1960, much of it's surroundings were laid to waste by a tornado 19 years later. The town is at the southern end of Tornado Alley, the area where warm dry air from Mexico collides with warm moist air from the Gulf coast and colder dry air coming south from the north western states.
The resultant clashes of weather fronts produce frequent storms and tornados. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska tend to cop for it, indeed during my stay in Fort Smith AR, there were 4 reported tornados one night just over the border in Oklahoma, all occurring less than 30 miles from where my head was laid that night..
Passing on the right is a BNSF coal train, presumably Powder River Basin coal, going south east to keep those Texas lights burning bright.
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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.
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