“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” Quote - Alfred Stieglitz

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

Quote - Carl Sagan

In life, sometimes shadows appear more grandiose than reality.

Mary.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

― John Steinbeck

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Quote — Alfred Stieglitz

Taken inside the museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands. ;-))

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"Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality."

Quote - Gary Zukav

Sometime it is really hard to see what is real and what isn't……….

The fence and tree branches are tangled up with their own reflections. ;-))

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PARAISO

Broken bottles and charred pieces of glass,

Wadded up newspapers tossed on the grass,

Pouring of concrete and tearing out trees.

This is the environment that surrounds me?

Poisons and insecticides sprayed on our food,

Oceans filling with thick oil crude.

All sea life destined to a slow, awful doom.

These are the things we are to consume?

Mills pumping out iron, expelling yellow fumes,

Airlines emitting caustic gases from fuels,

Weapons of destruction tested at desolate sites.

And this is the air that's to sustain life?

There has to be something that someone can do,

Like raise the awareness to those around you

That if we don't heed the problem at hand

It's your life that's at stake, the destruction of man.

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En traversant l’Univers

Jeune, j’aimais regardé les étoiles

Avec un télescope

Les gens me cherchaient ici

Mais j’étais souvent là-bas

Là-bas, c’est aussi en chacun de nous

Il s’y trouve bien des mondes inexplorés que nous ignorons

Prisonniers consentants de notre réalité quotidienne

En traversant l’univers, celui qui m’habite,

Je n’ai jamais manqué de lumière

Pour aimer passionnément

Les couleurs de ce petit monde

Les choses inutiles

Les chemins peu fréquentés

Les enfants qui rient

L’humeur de tes yeux

Je suis encore là-bas, dansant avec les étoiles

Plus que jamais

Mais, je n’ai plus besoin de télescope

Et les gens ne me cherchent plus

En traversant l’univers, j’ai découvert …

Le rêveur qui regardait dans le télescope

Patrice

Photo originale : Plage Marconi, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, É.U.

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Across the Universe

When I was young, I loved watching the stars

Through a telescope;

People thought I was here,

But often I was up there.

There, is also in each of us,

There are up there unexplored worlds that we ignore,

Consenting prisoners of our daily reality.

Crossing the universe, the one that lives inside me,

I never failed to find the light

To love passionately

The colors of this little world,

The useless things,

The remote roads,

The children that laugh,

The mood of your eyes.

I am still up there, dancing with the stars

More than ever

But, I don't need a telescope anymore

And people are not looking for me anymore.

Crossing the universe, I discovered. . .

The dreamer who was looking through the telescope

Patrice

Original photo : Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, USA

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"And all so-called civilized peoples

Have increasingly become crazy and self-destructive

Because, through excessive thinking

They have lost touch with reality

That's to say

We confuse signs

With the real world

This is the beginning of meditation

Most of us would have

Rather money than tangible wealth

And a great occasion is somehow spoiled for us unless photographed

And to read about it the next day in the newspaper

Is oddly more fun for us than the original event

This is a disaster

For as a result of confusing the real world of nature with mere signs

We are destroying nature

We are so tied up in our minds that we've lost our senses

Time to wake up

What is reality?

Obviously no one can say

Because it isn't words

It isn't material, that's just an idea"

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So, this shot has been sitting on my hard drive since I took it back in January 2017, I loved the fractured reflection and the sort of dark, surreal alternate reality it conveyed with golden glitter and distorted classic architecture. It's as if the building is saying, "Look at me" but it's not real, it's a distortion of reality taken from the surrounding buildings. Take away the reflection and it's dark building that struggles to convey power and strength, a false power and strength but alluring all the same. So it's with this in mind that it never got posted.

I decided to post it today because of some factors that seem to have come together. One is the obvious end of a four year nightmare and one has to do with me just missing a good walk in the city due to COVID. I've been looking through my archive folders at city pics that never were posted and thinking now is the time. Along this line, I was conversing with Leon, a new contact here on Flickr and was a bit surprised to find that he hadn't seen any architectural shots in my photostream. The reason goes back to not being able to get to NYC or any city for that matter since COVID started so not much architectural or travel photography in quite some time.

With this in mind it seems the time is right to post this shot.

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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Quote - Soren Kierkegaard

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."

Quote - Nikos Kazantzakis

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Make me king

Back to reality after a great week in Florida. This was taken on my first day back to work. As I type this it's -18ºc with a windchill of -30º.

18/366

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Beaver Creek at Jordan Lake, North Carolina, USA

Yesterday morning . .

Frost in the garden on the Hydrangea . .

Eindelijk de eerste vorst in de tuin.

Started off as the back of a metal bench with holes. Many different tries.

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As with my previous photograph, "Fractured Reality I", this has been reassembled from the sections of yesterday's photograph of ancient rocks. They are similar, but noticeably different.

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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice... and we see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

Albert Schweitzer

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A magical place in the Austrian Alps - high mountain lake Mooserboden at elevation 2040 metres.

Kaprun high mountains reservoirs, State of Salzburg, Austria

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Осенняя мелодия горного озера

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Радость, печаль, слезы, плач, смех - всему этому музыка дает голос... и мы видим реальность по-новому, как если бы мы сидели у горного озера и созерцали холмы, леса и облака в безмятежной и бездонной воде.

Альберт Швейцер

Волшебное место в австрийских Альпах - высокогорное озеро Моозербоден на высоте 2040 метров.

Высокогорные водохранилища Капрун, федеральная земля Зальцбург, Австрия

Everyone sees their own version of reality...