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Le reflet d’un instant de réalité, sans trucage. A moment of true reality, without editing.
“Like Plato’s description in his “Allegory of the Cave”: chained up in a cave, mankind creates a false image of reality, because all he knows of it are the flickering images of the things that a fire lit behind him throws on to the wall in front.” - Rafaelle Giordano, Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One
Photographed at Randfontein in South Africa.
Using the Tamron SP AF 60mm f/2 Di II MACRO 1:1 LD (IF) (model G005N II) lens.
I shoot full manual in Raw and edit in GIMP.
Critique is welcomed.
Thank you all very much for your visits, favs and comments.
At its most basic level, time is often understood as a linear progression of events, moving from the past through the present and into the future. We measure time using various units such as seconds, minutes, hours, days, and so on. This measurement of time allows us to organize our lives, plan our activities, and make sense of the world around us.
However, as we delve deeper into the nature of time, we encounter intriguing questions and challenges. One of the key questions is whether time is an objective reality or merely a subjective experience. Is time an inherent property of the universe, or is it a construct of human consciousness?
When dreams become reality, we truly fly!
A break from my dream walker series. This shoot was one of my all time favourite ones and I will have a big blog post up too.
my little fiend Anushka has been amazing and there are sooo many nice photos. Stay tuned for more. ;)
Thanks so much for those that have so far been supporting me. Please check out the link below. This is my very first competition and every viewer helps. And if you feel so inclined just hit the vote button for me :). Sorry don't normally do this but someone told me I "need to get myself out there". So that's what i am trying to do. :)
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I am not sure why flickr feels the need to sharpen everything. Wait for my blog post it looks much better there :)
Photo of oil droplets from the oil & water macro abstract photography assignment captured via Minolta MD Macro Rokkor-X 100mm F/4 lens. Inside the creative halls of the 494 ∞ Labs. Late February 2021.
Exposure Time: 1/50 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-400 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4656 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Velvia 50 * Adaptor: 1:1 Extension Tube * Tele-Converter: Deitz 2X MC-4 M/MD
Its so true that sometimes the story is so much different than what meets the eye. Here's a shot that I have altered a bit using photoshop (mostly the clone stamp tool) and below is the original. I guess, we all know which "reality" this bird might prefer...
Well, I am trying to learn some PS tricks... hope you like the result.
So this is some of my first shots with my new Polaroid SX-70 camera. I tried a package of the silver shade film first, but I found it a bit too random, beeing extremely sensitive to temperature. I got a little more kick out of this Color shade push package, eventhough it produces a strange purple tint.
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Polaroid SX-70
The Impossible project
PX 70 Color Shade Push!
- The reality is ..... it is a state of consciousness ..........
- La realidad, es....., es un estado de la consciencia........
For my photography project, I followed my friend Gloria around for a day, when going to stage school.
And I just really like this photo. :)
People rarely notice things they don’t expect to see, they're to distracted by their own perception of reality
-Keeper of the lost cities-
know for most of us myself included out dressing tends top be an idealised view of womanhood, a very male version, a fantasy, something that ticks the boxes in the eyes of guys. Lets face it as men we like a good old fashion 50s housewife, a pinup girl, a short skirt wearing lass or a figure hugging dress,
we love tactile materials for they are the first thing we encounter on the road to seduction, gliding a finger over a satin blouse, tracing the outline of lace on the delicate underwear encasing the prize beneath. it probably why we have such a connection with these materials,
And ladies when they want to feel good about themselves or dressing for an occasion tend to wear what we all love to wear most of the time. But that's not their reality.
Everyday life is isn't all posh frocks nice undies satin and lace, What they wear has to be functional and easy to wear hence why most women look dull to us with their everyday fashions.
As a dresser who is almost full time I can kind of get that feel for needing to be comfortable to do anything without worrying about my skirt ridding up or getting to hot wearing that satin blouse and don't even get me going about retro styles, big skirts and petticoats stocking and suspenders pinging of at the least opportune moments.
In all truth this is the reality of life for most women and when you can dress as often as i can this actually becomes rather normal. I till prefer the more glam look though.
It's going to be a quick upload as we are desperately trying to get packed for a week's skiing. I can't wait! Going to take the holga and some Fuji Pro 400 and the Panasonic LX3 so we can do a bit of last minute praying to the digital god, albeit in a compact fashion.
Have a great week whatever you're doing!
Zero Image 2000, Ilford HP5
The title of this is due to the fact that a long exposure really can deceive the viewer into thinking all is calm (Milk effect). In reality I was caught by a wave in record time 10 seconds after setting up so spent all of this exposure in squelching(sp) shoes desperately praying that the waves would break sufficiently far away so that my camera would remain intact.
Over Throwing Reality.
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Steve.D.Hammond.
So many dreams, hopes. The land was plowed, children raised.
Good years. Bad years.
They grew old. Times changed.
The American dream realized. Unrealized.
"Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character"
― Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
Smena Symbol
Kodak Ultramax 400 Expired
Processed as Positive in E6/C41 (More Details)
Scanned with Plustek 8100
Taken: Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Isn't she a beauty? No, not the photo, this red-backed spider, Latrodectus hasselti. The photo is rubbish. What? Did you expect something better when I was lying on my back and peering up into a control box filled with valves, pipes, filters, wires, solenoids and three messy red-backed spiders. Think yourself lucky that I did this well!
We are all born lucky. The odds against our conception, birth, and survival to adulthood are astronomical. But we did, so let's get on with it.
How many times have I heard: "But you live so far away…couldn't you come here"? Yes, but it's just as far for me, and if you're whining like that, what motivation are you offering? Then there's the "Oh, no you have so many 'poisonous' things out to kill me". The latter might have a grain of truth. Could it be your whining that's motivating that emotion? I don't condone such thoughts, by the way, and we can explore that, if you like.
We have sharks: great white, tiger, bull. All can give you a nasty nip. Consider this: they are cosmopolitan species, not unique to this Great South Land. Could it be the habit of popping into the sparkling warm waters on golden sandy beaches that puts bite-sized temptation in their fishy way more frequently that if the water is murky, brown and frigid? No one will force you to come here and enjoy yourself. That's up to you.
Besides, horses, bees, domestic dogs and lightning kill more people than sharks. It's got something to do with their disinclination to come ashore for a snack. There are no extant predators that fill that role. No wolves, tigers, lions or bears. Okay, there are drop bears. You might get a concussion, a compression fracture of your vertebrae, or a nasty fright. I haven't seen one for a while. You should be safe.
Snakes? Arguably the most dangerous snake in the World is the eastern brown snake. Sea snakes are pretty bad too. But because you've decided to avoid the water, well, stop worrying about them. I've been struck at multiple times by brown snakes. Not once has any of them connected. I wouldn't be writing this if they had; possibly. One bit Bessie outside my door. With a bit of help, she lived. Dangerous? I guess. But you don't see one every day, just occasionally, and usually as they are slithering about on some mission involving a rodent they can swallow. Never has one hunted me for food, or attempted to swallow me. Don't think you can escape by going into the water. They are good swimmers too. Instead, stand still and wait till they go away.
Crocodiles, blue ringed octopus and stingers? See shark, above. Yes you might be stalked by a saltwater crocodile on land, if you are that clumsy that you repeat habitual behaviours, day after day, in the same place, and the salty is hungry. They can wait for you to do something dumb. The slow metabolism that enables that patience also means you just need to go somewhere cooler to avoid them. Oh, and yes, as you are already avoiding water: somewhere cold.
Mass casualty events? There aren't any active volcanoes anywhere you'd know. Ever heard of, err Heard Island? No, I guessed that. If you rank those that have happened, the massacre of our continent's original human inhabitants tops the list; multiple times. Ship wrecks are up there, and hostile foreign aggression, once; other times, not so much. The toll against POW escapees was bigger. Some floods have been deadly, and there's one nasty earthquake that hit a built-up area. That was ugly, and a bridge collapsed when a commuter train hit a bridge stanchion. A family member attended in an official capacity. That left many scars.
Our biggest civilian incident was a deranged individual with a semi-automatic weapon in 1996. Those weapons are banned now. And recently, there was another incident. In between? Nothing on the scale that wears the label mass casualty. Why? You might have to visit to understand that, and take note of the policy and practice which limits the likelihood of these things.
Here's some numbers about mass casualties. You watch the news. You've already seen stuff around the world. Here, we've had two events in 29 years. Every loss was someone, a person of equal value. They worked, paid taxes, studied, had aspirations, were part of the economy and society. We mourn them all. Just in 2025, this tragic year, there has been one event too many in a country of around 27 million lives. One per capita: 1/27,000,000. In a socially comparable country, there has been a mass casualty frequency of 1/875,000 people. Where would you feel safer? Thirty one times safer?
Back with the wildlife, we also have the nastiest venomous spider in the World. This isn't it. The Sydney Funnel-web is endemic to the sandstone country of the Sydney Basin. That's a big area! Yet almost as many people have seen a drop bear as has encountered one of these spiders. They can kill you, as sure as a drop bear can. I'd rather take my chances with the spider. The last verified death by envenomation by a red-backed spider was in 1956. They are so timid, they'll roll up and play dead if you poke them. I poked this one, and the other female here in this control box too. The male ran off somewhere; such is their bravado. I picked both of those girls up and took them away where I could not harm them, and let them go. My greatest discomfort was negotiating the return to vertical after lying supine to get this picture!
Perception and reality can be divergent.
What really happens is that the cougar stands up and is really assessing what's the best escape route, not checking us as a food source. As you can see in the photo, he goes in completely opposite direction from where we were "hiding" he knew perfectly well where we were. I just came out with the hiking story, because it might well be the case and it shows how well cougars can hide and how afraid they are from us. The reality in this situation is that the cougar was staying put in that area because he had food that will last for several days. It is in private property and I was able to go because a good friend invited me to go.