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SPNC Year 3 Instruction #04: "Give me an illusion of reality. Your reality." - Andreas Paradise
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The title for this shamelessly approximated from an exhibition of women photographers and artists I attended yesterday. The one photographer commented that initially she had used textures and a torn look to try to hide the identity of her subjects, but that this, over time led her to think more about the duality of the hidden and the apparent. These concepts got me thinking about the 'realities' of our mind, and the ways in which others may note what is misleadingly apparent to interpret the 'real' us. In these slumbering, grey days in Istanbul it is easy to sink into our individual dreamscapes, which perhaps (or not) are our realities . . . In the cityscape of a wintery Istanbul, this is always tinged with a hint of nostalgia or huzun.
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She's dreaming to be like what's reflected on the water,
I'm dreaming for a more relax time.... :P
This pic was taken in the neighborhood of my new rent house (yes I just moved). It is a very nice place to live in.
I'm still busy, but I miss working with camera & photos :(
Thank you, my friends, for dropping me messages while I'm gone.
Really nice to know that I've been missed.
I will still be slow in flickring. Hope you guys are well.
ODC - DREAM
BDPC - In the garden
This picture was made in Montenegro, just near the view to the gorgeous Lake Scutari. And the whole viewpoint reminds me of my dreams, where I can create my own reality.
When people tend to escape from reality they are often called dreamers, but in a negative way. They imply that dreamy people have no connections to the present life and have their heads in the clouds. There is a term for that – escapism, which means a tendency of an individual to escape from the reality into the world of illusions and dreams.
To be honest, I do not consider it to be a getaway from the reality. For me it is more a sort of supplementation to the life of an individual. My dreaminess can be vividly observed in my photography. I do it deliberately. I am obsessed with pictures being cinematic and having deep meaning, a dreamy story to be told. These are my goals when I create an image.
It is my positivity and desire to combine the reality and dreams that help me to create a photographic cocktail of my viewpoint.
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Tested the Fooocus AI platform. Here's what I got.
On the left: a ‘live’ (real) model, on the right - its generated copy
On the return from our walk the sky began to glow. The clouds and colours were beautiful.
Our Daily Challenge ... creative reality.
This is not my prefered photo, but I used it for an experiment with the Liquid Rescale Gimp plugin.
This image was originally 2314 x 3474 pixels, it was scaled to a square ratio 3474x3474... I'll let you spot the artifacts ;)
The plugin uses seam carving technology to avoid loosing features aspect ratios when resizing the image to a different aspect ratio.
[Canon 7D | Canon 35mm 1.4 | Natural Light ]
Highland Park is a city within the city limits of Detroit proper. In addition to being home to Henry Ford's first assembly plant (now defunct and abandoned), it is also home to a sizable, mostly African-American, Sunni Muslim community.
I was inducted into that community when my family converted to Sunni Islam when I was around 8-years-old.
Qasim was associated with the community in Highland Park. He is also the director of Mooz-Lem: The Movie - a locally-filmed movie that is still in development . It features Danny Glover, Nia Long and quite a few other impressively notable Hollywood cast members.
Its good to see a member of my old Ummah doing his thing. Neither of us could remember if we knew each other growing up. We do both know a young man named Kareem. I happened to bump into Kareem and Qasim a couple of weeks back and they were gracious enough to let me make a couple of frames of them (Kareem, you're next).
That said, I'm no longer a member of the Highland Park Islamic community. In fact, I've removed myself from the larger intellectual community of religious believers altogether.
I've always had a distrinct aversion to fanticiful thinking - no matter how reassuring and comforting. When I was in 1st grade, before my family converted to islam, a classmate opened a bag of chips, crushed them in his hand, turned toward me, started to wiggle his backside and sing an impromptu schoolyard nursery rhyme/taunt:
"I've got more! I've got more!..."
I remember calmly looking at him, shaking my head and saying,
"No you don't. They are just in smaller peices..."
He broke into tears and tried to fight me.
Sorry, kiddo. But the facts are facts.
Though I was devout through my high school years (at Highland Park High School, I'd stop in the middle of Mr. Wojinowski's Chem class to make the afternoon iteration of the 5 daily prayers required of Muslims), the religious explanations for how reality worked became exponentially less convincing with each passing year; and with each passing grade in biology, geology, and history.
The religious explanation simply did not accord with the facts. As much comfort, solace, and certitude my religious faith had provided me in trying circumstances, I found myself increasing unable to abide them.
Sorry, kiddo. But the facts are the facts.
By my second year of college I was more or less bereft of all superstitious belief.
I'm not sure what the tone of Qasim's finished movie will be. It's my understanding that the main character has a crisis of faith.
If nothing else, I hope that his movie will encourage people to take another look at their bag of potato chips.
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A famous Cambridge landmark, Reality Checkpoint is supposed to have got its name during the 60's when students in an 'elevated mental state' would have to traipse home back over Parker Piece after a night out in town - arriving at the tangible Reality Checkpoint in the fog was presumably some reassurance in the middle of the empty and mysterious Parkers PIece.
The lamppost is regularly scrawled with its adopted name, and I have seen engraved brass name plates stuck on there too (the Council seems to take exception to any such supposed abuse, and quickly removes student daubings or other pranksters attempts to name this shrine).
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This image was taken at the Petrified Forest in Arizona. It is quite a breathtaking place. I'm glad I was able to see it covered in snow. It was like a beautiful winter wonderland. I only saw six people the whole time I was in the national park, so that was really an added bonus. I've got more of these photos coming up later....once I get to them ;)
Here is an alternate view.