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I considered this photo for macro mondays. My reasoning was that even though I've had my skin for nearly three quarters of a century I only get to use it once.
A murky Sunday morning at Hunts Cross and 31422 on a Liverpool bound service crosses from the Down Cheshire to the Up facilitating an easier connection with MerseyRail services for passengers wishing to do so. The garden shed outside the signal box always intrigued me here I always wondered what was within. This picture was originally uploaded 11 years ago with no information and Dan Cross kindly identified the loco as I had no details. His reasoning for it being 422 was thus "Well, this one was a bit of a toughy, to be honest. There's nothing on its own that marks it as 31442 but the position combination of handrails, lamp brackets, blue stars, warning flashes (front and side), BR sign, and finally the flaky paint on the headcode box, do it!" It still amazes me and thanks to him for taking the time to do so. Spring 1988.
I think I have found a way to repeat this shape (not consistently) by setting larger first drop (S1=80), relatively short first delay(D1=50), smaller second drop (S2=20), very short second delay (D2=5), medium third drop (S3=30). With this settings, I can get this shape much easier.
(For those who does not understand what it is above, those are parameters used for my Water Drop Kit, currently on KickStarter)
The reasoning is the larger first drop will create high jet with relatively more momentum, and because of relatively short first delay, when the smaller second drop collides with the jet, it creastes a smaller splash but the jet is still going up because the second drop is small. Then when the third drop collides with the splash, liquid flows along the first splash forming a long tube. Of course, this is my guess, need to see this under my high speed camera once I build my high power light source for it.
Construction date: 1886-1898 (built in stages) - Architect: Benjamin Mountfort - Architectural style: Carpenter Gothic
"St Mary's Cathedral Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is the former Cathedral Church of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland. Located in Parnell, it replaced the earlier Old St Mary's. This wooden Gothic Revival church was designed by the prominent Christchurch architect Benjamin Mountfort and completed in 1897. The building served as the Cathedral Church and principal Anglican church of Auckland until 1973 when the Chancel of Holy Trinity Cathedral, for which the foundation stone was laid in 1957, came into use. In 1982 St Mary's Church was moved across Parnell Road to its present site beside the Cathedral.
Old St Mary's, as it came to be known, was replaced by a large wooden church, for which the Foundation Stone was laid in 1886. At more than 50 metres long, it is the largest wooden Gothic church in the world. Its English born architect Benjamin Mountfort had become one of New Zealand's most eminent architects, responsible for many of the Gothic Revival buildings in Christchurch. St Mary's is the most impressive of his wooden church designs.
The original intention had been to build the church in stone, but the plan had been rejected as too expensive. Mountfort seems to have ignored the perishable and limited qualities of wood, and built a vast church worthy of the finest stone. St Mary's covers an area of 9,000 square feet (840 m2) and has architectural features normally associated only with the great medieval cathedrals of Europe.
Bishop William Cowie instigated the decision to make St Mary's the Cathedral Church during 1887, and the first part of the church, consisting of the Chancel and three bays of the Nave was consecrated and used from 1888.
The church was completed to its present state by the addition of the four final bays and consecrated in 1898. It was Mountfort's final large scale work.
Externally the most noticeable architectural features of the long rectangular building are the numerous gables of the mostly single story structure. The gables, often placed above lancet shaped windows, serve to accentuate the Gothic motifs. This is particularly evident on the exterior of the altar tribune where three tall narrow windows rise up into the gables themselves, the tribune itself is three sided, the wooden construction making the traditional Romanesque curve in stone impossible.
The opposing end of the church containing the principal entrance, displays the full height of the building with one large gable, containing not only ground floor windows but two levels of clerestory windows above. The gable here slopes at two angles. The architect's reasoning for this was to increase the height of the gable at the façade's centre, rather than allow it to rise uniformly according to the width of the building. This central steeper roof pitch increased the ceiling height to the central aisle, as would be found over the central aisle of a true Gothic cathedral. However, the resultant effect has been to create a gable which to European eyes appears as though designed to bear the weight of heavy snow falls. In an area where snow does not occur this gives the façade, with its protruding decorated architrave above the first clerestory, an almost whimsical Swiss chalet atmosphere, which adds greatly to the building's individuality. Almost a hundred years later this feature was subtly suggested in the corresponding roof-line of the new Cathedral Nave.
In 1982 St Mary's Church was moved into the precinct of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, a major feat of engineering when the church was transported across the road and turned through 90° onto its present site."
Extract sourced from Wikipedia: St Mary's Cathedral Church (10th June 2013)
If you read back through my previous shots you'll see the reasoning behind the numbering. Lesson learned here - its not just about what you include in the frame, its about what you leave out. Took agaes to get a comp that excluded the other boats moored off to the right.
The artist Eva Hild won the competition for the artistic design in the urban space located south of Malmö Live and facing the water of the canal. The sculpture "Rubato – free flow" alludes to a musical composition, where you can read movement, rhythm and sound (layer upon layer). The bubbles of the cavities play against the rhythmic structure of the walls. An improvisation and freedom within limits.
The competition jury's reasoning was as follows:
"The expression sweet music is often used to explain the inexplicably beautiful and beautiful. It is used for meetings between people and to express feelings. This artistic creation is inspired by the longing for and the feeling in the sweet music. The piece transforms the music into living soft forms that seem to be in constant motion as they wander inward, outward and upward. It gives the viewer free associations, new thoughts and dreamy images. "Rubato - free flow"; takes the place, catches your eye - and sweet music arises".
The sculpture is 6 meters high, 7 meters wide and 6 meters deep. It is made of cast aluminum and painted white.
Rubato was inaugurated on June 3, 2015.
🇸🇪 Escultura Rubato
La artista Eva Hild ganó el concurso para el diseño artístico del espacio urbano situado al sur de Malmö Live y frente al agua del canal. La escultura "Rubato – free flow" alude a una composición musical, donde se puede leer movimiento, ritmo y sonido (capa sobre capa). Las burbujas de las cavidades juegan con la estructura rítmica de las paredes. Una improvisación y libertad dentro de límites.
El razonamiento del jurado del concurso fue el siguiente:
"La expresión música dulce se utiliza a menudo para explicar lo inexplicablemente bello y bello. Se utiliza para encuentros entre personas y para expresar sentimientos. Esta creación artística está inspirada en el anhelo y el sentimiento de la dulce música. La pieza transforma la música en formas suaves y vivas que parecen estar en constante movimiento mientras vagan hacia adentro, afuera y hacia arriba. Ofrece al espectador asociaciones libres, nuevos pensamientos e imágenes de ensueño. "Rubato - free flow" ocupa el lugar, llama la atención y surge una dulce música".
La escultura tiene 6 metros de alto, 7 metros de ancho y 6 metros de profundidad. Está fabricado en fundición de aluminio y pintado de blanco.
Rubato fue inaugurado el 3 de junio de 2015.
Disclaimer: both texts, in English and Spanish, are a free translation from planteringsforeningen.se/projekt/rubato/ and made with Google Translator.
Malmö Sweden Suecia Sverige
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Long tube visor delicousness along US 30 (Lancaster Avenue) at Sproul Road in Villanova, PA The angle of the intersection is the reasoning for the long tube visors.
Prior to this trip to Glacier I wrote a post musing about which pinhole camera I would take. I settled on my Reality So Subtle 6x12, with my reasoning being that Glacier National Park just seems so well suited for a panoramic camera and I had already been with my Reality So Subtle 6x17 on a previous trip. My reasoning proved to be sound when I found myself a couple miles out the Highline Trail and presented with this seemingly neverending (and never exhausting) vista. The Reality So Subtle 6x12 was a camera made for such places. My Hasselblad cut neat slices out of the view, but struggled to take it all in. My Reality So Subtle had no such hesitations. In fact, I worried about overusing it.
Glacier is a park of expansive vistas. It is teeming with them. A lot of them are readily accessible. A bit of hiking gets you many more. And I hear tell of some very adventurous hikes that reward you with even more of them. Should/when I get back to this place, I think there will be little doubt that I will have a panoramic camera of one type or another with me.
Reality So Subtle 6x12F
Silberra Color 50
760 images taken from aug 8 @ 9:33pm until aug 9 @ 4:30am stacked using starstax. each image 30 second exposure, f/5.6, 1250 ISO taken with my nikon 18-200mm zoom.
i set up in my front yard facing north-east in hopes of capturing some of the perseid meteor shower. as you can see in the photo, all i managed to capture were two meteors (upper right). i guess i was a little too north facing and not enough east facing. tonight is supposed to have some clear periods, so i'll see if i can get better luck facing more easterly. it is supposed to be cloudy and rain at the shower's peak aug 12-13 (of course), so this is why i'm trying now.
i had tried the night before with my sigma 10-20mm lens (which gave me a larger view of the sky), but it kept trying to re-focus every shot it took with the interval timer even though everything was on manual. after a long time trying to resolve it i just gave up. it's strange because i've had this issue before, and yet other times it works fine. if anyone knows of a fix or reasoning for the sigma 10-20mm not working with a nikon d7000 please let me know!
see night # 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/lynnharmstrong/28296647683/in/datep...
Honestly, I was really surprised to see that Wikipedia has an entry on these delectable puffs of yummy goodness. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it's been tagged as possibly being inaccurate. Wow, check out the reasoning:
I put up an NPOV because of the phrase "You have to put the entire puri into your mouth at one go and bite into it." I think that while this is the *traditional* way of eating pani puri it is not the only way. However, there was some disagreement, so I am looking for consensus before I change this to "Traditionally the entire puri is eaten in one bite." [Link]
Honestly? Whatever. Yummy!
May 6, 2007
[Project 365 - Day 126]
Recently my life has undergone some changes. Changes that I facilitated to hopefully make it better, ... fuller. Yet, even though these were changes I wanted and implemented myself, they were not without a fear that felt bigger than me. Every day and every night I lamented about them, because change has never been something I just accept without much thought. Underlying the desire or whatever valid reasoning I may have for doing something, I have an immense worry that it will have been a huge mistake. One I can't recover from or which would cause me undue grief or upset the delicate balance of what I think of my life and it will all have been at my own hand. Yet, I know that when I push through that fear there will more than likely be good things I haven't anticipated come from it.
Fear can pound you down. It can feel like there are land mines everywhere. It can make you doubt yourself in ways that aren't healthy for you. Worse, it can prevent you from doing things for yourself that you want to do and need to do, just because you you fear what lies at the other end of that decision.
The reasoning behind my caption "A Romantic Harvest" is because the trees in the background are locally known as the Kissing Trees, I found it appropriate because many people come up here the night after they are married for a walk under the stars, and kiss at the kissing trees. This is a local tradition.
Know Thyself
by Alexander Pope
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest,
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast,
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reasoning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such
Whether he thinks too little or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Decided to do a different version of one of my favorite pictures.
Location: Tempurim
Pose: 5ifth Order
Guns: My new toys Eightball by Breach
KCS Eastbound Freight Train M-SHAR passes through Control Point 554 as they skirt along Cross Lake in Shreveport, LA. about to duck under I-220 at the HWY 173 exit. This days lead locomotive is a Progress Rail Tier 4 SD70ACe EMDX 7207 of which KCS took delivery of in 2019, they are built with a Caterpillar Engine, which is the reasoning for the yellow paint scheme.
Following the directives given to us by our superiors, we geared up for our hunt into the jungles. According to intel from spies off world, there was to be a gathering of those objecting to the Empire’s expansion plans in the system. Politics never seems to bore more than anything and this was sizing up to be another one of those bureaucratic nightmares. Although there are issues we troopers have with the current reasonings we were sent to Sesid, they were orders and there was still progress being done to improve the lives of citizens in areas of the galaxy, including this one, that had been forgotten by the powers of the past. Those who went unnoticed were lifted up and given purpose to help serve a cause that benefits the collective, rather than the higher tables. That being said, even those pure of heart, still have influences from those that look out for their own hind. Not that I blame them, you have to watch yourself, especially in the current climate, both physically on planet and politically. Making our way through the swampy waters & thick vegetation of these tropical forests, we came across the slight fortifications around the compound which we were targeting. Some simple charges in the wall were all that we needed to breach and move in. Within minutes, we made our way through the maze of gardens to acquire our grand prize. - Bandana Clone
One of the few creations I haven’t posted here to Flickr just yet that I’m just getting around to. This one was part of the Sesid Series that I started several months ago. Is more built for story than looks, but it’s got it where it counts.
There is a video where I talk more about the creation over on Beyond The Brick.
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~Noah
Always thought a pet snake would be a good balance for me. They seem rather heartless, total lack of compassion, don't even remember you're the hand that fed them last, and they never, ever, fall in love ;-)
For the month of December I've decided I'm going to count down my 31 best Milky Way shots of the year, each day posting a different shot counting down what I think is my best/most favorite shot of 2016. I'll try and provide the story behind the shot as well the technical details regarding how it was taken and edited.
So to start the countdown I figured I'd start with my first Milky Way shot of the year. After having spent all winter reading and learning as much as I could about tracking and editing techniques using my iOptron Skytracker mount I was excited to put it to use shooting the Milky Way. It was early March and still very cold, but I decided to head up to Rockport Reservoir to get some shooting in. The reservoir was still mostly frozen over and it was still pretty damn cold at night. That night was also the first time I had really shot airglow, which was kind of a surprise given how close to Salt Lake City I still was, I did not expect to be able to see the phenomenon given the light pollution.
Using the tracking mount (and reading the wonderful tutorials by Roger Clark) gave me ideas on how to image the sky in a way to really reduce noise, bring out details, and create a shot that represents the highest quality I think can be produced. It allows me to stop down my lens to sharpen stars, lower ISO to reduce noise, and capture enough light to bring out the most in the night sky. Of course using a tracking mount means that you take long exposures of the sky which causes the foreground to be blurred, this means learning advanced editing techniques to merge foreground and sky shots in post-processing. This has caused my post-processing to be an ever evolving methodology that has changed significantly as I've learned new techniques, new tricks, and practiced new ideas. So with this edit I've combined everything I've learned over the course of the year to maximize detail, color, and creativity while keeping noise to near zero and (hopefully) not making a wildly over-processed looking shot.
This is a panorama of 8 shots total, 4 for the sky and 4 for the foreground, taken with my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens. As with all my images I create using a tracking mount, all the shots were taken back to back, I also try my hardest to make all shots have the same exposure settings. In this case the sky shots were 2 minute exposures at ISO 400 and f2.8, the foreground shots were 2 minute exposures at ISO 800 and f2.8.
I shoot at a white balance setting of 5000k, this white balance is as close to accurate as one can shoot the night sky. Most people shoot at white balance settings in the 3000-4000k range which is not an accurate white balance and produces an image that is too blue. There is a back and forth about the balance between art and science for Milky Way photography among photographers, I'm unwilling to sacrifice the accuracy of a shot based upon scientific backing in this regard and I will do my absolute best to produce an image of the night sky that has the correct color balance. People are certainly free to produce an artistic shot of the night sky, color balancing it any way they choose, but among the hardcore astrophotography community you will find an agreement that shooting at a white balance setting around 5000k is the most accurate DSLR cameras can be set at to produce a natural image of the night sky. If people are curious about reading the reasoning, the actual science, behind this I highly recommend reading Roger Clark's series at www.clarkvision.com/articles/color.of.the.night.sky/
Lake Myers. Ace Campground, Nesco, New Jeresey.
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Childhood memories. I will never forget. The smell, the feeling, the fun, the memories.. The camp.
My grandfather, owned a campground in Nesco, New Jersey for many years. It was called "Ace Campground", his reasoning? Because he wanted it to be the first camp in the yellow pages.. *in alphabetical order*
My whole childhood I remember going to this camp, and spending time with my grandfather. We went in the summer, we went in the winter. That was OUR campground.
When my grandfather was 90 and knowing he was going to pass on soon.. (he did at 91), he actually offered this campground to my father.. (who for some reason didn't want it.. it would have been really nice if he would have just held it for me..) but anyway, my dad said no. So my grandfather sold it to Green Acres for like $15 or something, as long as they kept it safe and unbuilt on and named the lake, Lake Myers after our family.
Since he got rid of the camp, the buildings have been demolished, (the bathhouse, the store, the water pump houses, the office, Margie's house on the hill by the stream, etc. All of the electrical wires removed, water pipes , etc. But what still remains is still beautiful.. and holds so much memories for me..
The lake with a rotted dock. The foundation to the store, bathhouse, office, all structures.. The Artesian Well, & the dirt roads around the lake (which he had made btw), the lake and the river/stream that runs thru the lake.. Where kayakers and canoers often go thru.
This place will always be near and dear to my heart.
So, since all of this happened 21-22 years ago.. I have often looked it up.. and found some silly stuff. I'm all for checking out abandoned places, haunted places, etc. & Taking photos.
But the stuff that's on the internet about this place is just plain SILLY.
They write about it being haunted.. and bringing up my grandparents.. Saying it's haunted by them.
If there was ANYTHING scary about this place, I wouldn't feel safe walking around it ALONE.. & feel like I'm in 'heaven on earth'. I'm sure to other people it may be creepy, but never to me.
I love this place.
I'm actually too young to think about it, but I have thought about it.. I'd like to be cremated and have my ashes spread here. So I never have to leave.
I miss my grandmom and poppop. Pearl & Merle (Charles) Myers.
I will always have fond memories of them and this place .. and my heart will always be here.
My PopPop called me his, "Little Debble" - like Devil with B's.
I'll always be, his little Debble.
I'm looking forward to seeing them again in the kingdom of heaven - one day, long from now.
And I hope I've made them proud.
They loved me so much and looked out for me so well..
I know for a while there I may have been a bit of a disappointment, but my PopPop showed me unconditional love up until the day he died. *He just took out his anger on my boyfriends (I was young). LOL He was an ex state trooper.. and told them he'd blow them away.. as he chased them in his walker.
But he never so much as raised his voice at me... and he told me that I could be anything..
He knew I loved to visit strange places and take pictures..
Right before he died, he sent his nurse out to buy me a book about all of the haunted and weird places to visit in NJ.. and signed it.. and wrote how much he loved me in it.. and told me to visit those places.
I've been so many places since that day, and lost so much.. I no longer have that book, but I do have those memories.. and that love in my heart.. and this photo.. and the empty campground land is still there.. I can go visit.
But, I think he'd find it hilarious,AND VERY IRONIC about how we used to discuss these abandoned/ weird/ haunted places.. and now if you research it online, you'll see that HIS CAMP happens to be one of those places, according to local skeptics. *I still find that so ironic and funny, I'm sure he thinks it's as funny as I do. Because we know, him, my grandmom, me, my dad.. our hearts will always be so alive there, even when it's all gone.. our hearts are all still there.. happy & laughing.
Shasta daisy from my garden.
Way back in June I was mucking about on the iPaddle (as one does) playing with the distortion filters in Affinity. I probably should have been doing something more constructive but, hey-ho, life is too short.
So this is a set based around a flower pic. I chose it as a starting point because it’s a high-contrast image with oodles of radial symmetry, and I thought it would show up the distortion effects. (A slippery deceit of course as I conveniently invented the reasoning for my chaotic creative meandering after the fact - I suggest you never believe the fallacy that I really know what I am doing! :) ).
I’ll cover the processing notes for all the variants and replicate the commentary so you only need read it once (if at all, lol).
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment.
Edit 1 - Colour
A plain colour version, then given a harsh gritty feel by duplicating the image and blending back probably with hard light (though I am not entirely sure).
Edit 2 - Plain B&W
The colour version converted to B&W. Bilateral blur (an edge-preserving blur which effectively smoothes out the petals. Glow filter … for a bit of glow (though te be honest I think it’s a bit of a misnomer) :)
Edit 3 - Twirl
Starting with the plain B&W version, added twirl in the centre and also a radial blur. Blended the original back to the twirly version with Soft Light.
Edit 4 - Shasttered
This used the Diffuse distortion filter (not the Diffuse Light filter) to create the diffusion look, starting with the plain monochrome version. Tweaked that a bit and then took the original B&W version and blended it back with the Subtract mode. This overprinted the diffuse look with an inverted version of the original.
I really like this effect - it reminded me of splatter painting in my young days (back in the caves in France ;) ). Or perhaps printing with a flower using black paper and white ink…
For Sliders Sunday. I’ll also put the three B&W versions into the 100x challenge as I am rather behind (as life around me doesn’t seem to pause for long enough).
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x!
[Handheld in daylight.
Raw development and all the subsequent processing done in Affinity Photo.]
www.thetoptens.com/warriors/most-evil-warrior-cats/
Built for the final round of GOURD PARTY.
It is my great regret to inform you that my chosen weeb theme song is Patchwork Staccato (www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkIpRTq1S6A). I didn't know what to pick for something like this - I wanted something edgier so I could play it off as ironic, but the MV's scissors-and-red-thread motif matched my build too much for me to pass up. It's a little upbeat for a build this macabre, though I've been told that kind of contrast might make me look smart and sophisticated. Luckily, the lyrics have just the right amount of wistfulness to not be COMPLETELY out of place for this guy. Maybe it's what he listens to while he dissects his victims to keep himself distracted.
Theme: Horror.
Sabotages
Creative Liberties: Opponent names + writes description of your MOC (within reason).
Battle Scars: Build must visibly incorporate at least 5 broken, damaged, poorly painted, or otherwise marred pieces.
The Uncanny Valley: Build must visibly incorporate at least 1 Star Wars CCBS head.
A New New Low: Include a weeb (touhou preferred) theme song for your build (must provide reasoning in min. 100-word short answer).
The Purist Nightmare: Build must incorporate substantial non-LEGO elements.
Whoops!: Stress test video required.
The Ol’ Switcheroo: Switch 2 parts of your build and keep them that way (switched torso and head).
Yes, I am on a bit of a pano bender at the moment, doing my best to break the Flickr grid so to speak.
Pano might just be my favorite format, even though I don't do much of it seemingly. If I was really forced to list my favorite formats the 6x12 or 6x17 would be near the top as would 6x7 (is there a more beautiful rectangle?) and then probably 6x6. My reasoning may be a bit odd, but I like pano so much because I am a big fan of peripheral vision. I mean, how nifty an evolution is peripheral vision. And I am fascinated by the things you see out of the corners of your eyes, but then when you turn to look fully at them, they change in appearance. Not only does the panoramic format fit normal vision + peripheral better but it takes those things at the edges and allows you to look directly at them while keeping what is directly in front of you still visible as well (not that this image is a terribly great example of that concept, but you get the idea perhaps).
But the panoramic format is not the easiest format to employ. It can be tough to find room for these elongated rectangles to fit neatly into the world. And despite the fact that it only takes four or six exposures to fill up a roll of film, these cameras tend to be my slowest moving, sometimes taking a month or more to finish a roll of film in them. I pick and choose pretty carefully.
Anyway, this is Peyto Lake in the Canadian Rockies. It is a lake of incredible and unusual color. I was reading an article on-line this morning about the most vividly colored landscapes of the world, and while I did not disagree with the lack of mention of some of the lakes of the Canadian Rockies I was nonetheless reminded of these breath-taking landscapes.
All I See is You
I want to be your fragrant musk,
I want to be that soft breeze that gently touches your soul,
I want to be that fire, which enflames your heart,
I want to bathe in the ocean of your passions,
And feel the caresses of the waves of your love,
I eat, I drink, I sleep you,
These words resonate in me,
“Blessed be thou forever”,
God above- only knows what I desire,
I am sinking -yes I am sinking
Into that labyrinth of love.
I am now a captive of your spell,
My reasoning is blocked,
My sanity stolen,
My normal life seems so out of reach,
You surround me by your powerful aroma of musk,
You so far away across the ocean,
Yet that asian perfume so powerful,
Draws me to you,
My heart is trapped by your love,
And when the shades of twilight close the day,
All I see is you! ! ! -you! ! ! -you! ! ! .
17-08-08
ANJALI SINHA
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Sooc.except for a small crop and hooray a photo without using the 50mm haha!I don't know where this idea came from..i think its possibly one of my bizarrest!
there is no actual reasoning behind it, the chair was already placed there,i just added the butterlies onto the wall
I had to go to Edinburgh for a meeting today and thought I'd spend some time at the christmas market but it was pretty cold. My day started off badly because I decided on a whim to carry a load of raw data with me to save postage and it weighed a tonne, then I decided against a taxi reasoning that it was only a 5 minute walk to the bus stop, only then I found that all the bus stops have changed because of the tram building roadworks so I walked almost the length of Princes Steer before realising this was stupid and walked all the way back and another 10 minutes the other way until I found a bus stop I could use so I was just a bit late for my meeting and my back is seriously unimpressed with me!.
Similarly on the way back I thought I would try the big woolworths to see if they stocked the poster frames that the Stirling shop doesn't only to give up when I couldn't find a Woolies any where!! By then I was pretty annoyed and very cold and not at all in the winter festival spirit *bah humbug* ;)
The words "Appeal to Heaven" on the banner is not a quote from the Bible, church, or Christian sources. In the Pine Tree flag of the Continental Navy that George Washington commissioned, the Patriots quote directly from John Locke's Age of Enlightenment argument. Locke's 1690 book, Second Treatise on Government, rejected the superiority of the divine right of kings by virtue of their position, reasoning that when kings or any government do not serve their citizens, then citizens have their own "appeal to heaven" to band together and revolt for their liberties. Locke writes:
"And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven."
What I find fascinating is that this quote from scholarly and philosophical reasoning of the time (pretty dense reading)–i.e., John Locke's Second Treatise on Government–passionately motivated common American patriots to rally around. The flag's "Appeal to Heaven" quote is short. Kind of catchy. In fairness to another military branch, the Marines have a classic motto that they adopted in the late 19th Century, Semper Fidelis, which sounds rather scholarly in Latin. These are still a far cry from the modern branding quotes of: "I like Ike," "Because You're Worth It," "Make America Great Again," "Affordability," or "Just Do It!" These bumper sticker quotes really sound like the common man to my modern ears.
We could copy our forefathers' method of operations. If doing so, we might quote Harvard political scientist Jane Mansbridge for a future, motivating flag, or bumper sticker. E.g., "Replace weak connection by recursive representation." 😉
Fascinating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnBYWI8pxmU
Deep down in my heart I always knew it. I tried my best to just tell myself it was not true. Low and behold you now have made it clear to me. Now I see all the words you have ever told me hold no value. All the times you held me in your arms saying you loved me was never true. I don't even know what to believe anymore.
Our wedding, did our vows mean anything to you? I'm guessing not because after about three days of being married you left me. I should have snapped then when you went to your "sexy latina" our vows didn't mean nothing to you. I never understood until now what it truly meant when people say love is blind. It looks completely different when you're on the outside looking in. When you see a person stay with their partner even tho time after time they stray and it's no secret in their relationship that they are not faithful. I now get it. I now see how love can blind you from all the bad even tho the pain is there you choose not to see it as the love you have for that one person overpowers every other emotion. You stay in hopes they will change. I had faith in that. Even though "Let's see if you still love me after I spend the night with with my whore!" Roared out of your mouth played over and over in my mind every time it did my heart cracked all over again. I had chosen to overlook all the bad that has ever happened. In the end I got use to your over the top tantrums. Your excuses or reasoning to sleep with other women didn't hurt in the end. It was something I got accustomed to you doing.
No one no matter how much love you give a person will change them. They only have the power to change themselves. That was the hope ive always had for you. Thank you for finally telling me this was nothing but a game to you. I hope you had a great time pretending to love me. Yall deserve each other the kettle and the pot. Doesn't really matter who's who as there both black.
The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation :-(
― Thomas A. Edison
HBW!! the background bokeh is lespedeza, 'Little Volcano'
variegated eastern redbud, 'Floating Clouds', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
The absolute morality that a religious person might profess would include what, stoning people for adultery, death for apostasy, punishment for breaking the Sabbath. These are all things which are religiously based absolute moralities. I don’t think I want an absolute morality. I think I want a morality that is thought out, reasoned, argued, discussed and based upon, I’d almost say, intelligent design [pun intended]. Can we not design our society, which has the sort of morality, the sort of society that we want to live in – if you actually look at the moralities that are accepted among modern people, among 21st century people, we don’t believe in slavery anymore. We believe in equality of women. We believe in being gentle. We believe in being kind to animals. These are all things which are entirely recent. They have very little basis in Biblical or Quranic scripture. They are things that have developed over historical time through a consensus of reasoning, of sober discussion, argument, legal theory, political and moral philosophy. These do not come from religion. To the extent that you can find the good bits in religious scriptures, you have to cherry pick. You search your way though the Bible or the Quran and you find the occasional verse that is an acceptable profession of morality and you say, ‘Look at that. That’s religion,’ and you leave out all the horrible bits and you say, ‘Oh, we don’t believe that anymore. We’ve grown out of that.’ Well, of course we’ve grown out it. We’ve grown out of it because of secular moral philosophy and rational discussion.
Richard Dawkins
A classic pair! This is what we imagine when we think of “snowflakes”, right? Pseudo-symmetry and balance in the shape of a star. While these are depicted in decorations, movies and cartoons, they are just one narrow example of how snowflakes can form – and the deeper you look, the stranger things can become.
The very center of the larger snowflake is a small dark dot. Is this what “nucleated” the snowflake? No, it’s the remnants of a column-type crystal that grew plates. Snowflakes do, however, need something to start their growth – a speck of dust smaller than a grain of sand is all it takes. It could be started with airborne bacteria! The central column here is the smallest feature we can see, but it illustrates that this particular snowflake is a “split crystal”.
Split crystals form when plates grow on either side of a column, with each set of corners fighting for building blocks. Six simultaneous battles ensue, one for each point on the parallel hexagons. If one of the two points ends up growing slightly larger than its competitor, it’s game over. Whatever sticks out the farthest, grows the fastest. In this specimen, the top plate won three (top, bottom, upper left) and the bottom plate won the remaining three plates. The snowflake is stuck together by a very fragile column of ice in the center; it wouldn’t take much to break it into two pieces, and snowflakes of this design after reach the ground in fragments.
There’s also the anomaly in the lower left branch. It appears like a sheet of ice is ground on top of the branch as it leaves the center. What gives? It’s hard to be certain just by looking, but I have seen some spines on branches reach a considerable height above the branch and shape into a near-90-degree edge. This, in turn, can cause outward growth from the top, like an anvil. It’s the basis for a rare type of snowflake referred to as a “skeletal form” crystal, but we see hints of it in more common specimens. Interestingly, the same reasoning can apply to the “sheet” behind the top branch. Since this branch has (most of) its surface features opposing the camera, the sheet of ice is also growing on the opposite side of the crystal.
The smaller stellar snowflake in the upper right is a fun example of growth conditions – these snowflakes formed in the same cloud, at the same time, yet they come out differently. Broad branches tend to mean stable, lower-humidity growth, but a cloud isn’t a controlled environment. The two primary variables of temperature and humidity are always fluctuating, and the tiniest change results in unique features. Each snowflake flies its own path in nature, which is why you’ll never find two identical snowflakes in the natural world. Even lab-grown crystals from my friend Ken Libbrecht at CalTech, in their attempt to be “identical twins” still have a unique fingerprint to them.
This image was photographed using my Lumix S1R with the Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens, a combination I have used reliably for most of my snowflake imagery. Lighting is provided by a Yongnuo YN-14EX II ring flash, F/2.8, ISO 200 and 1/160 sec exposure time (this is the fastest flash sync speed of the camera). I could shoot at ISO 100, but the flash would be required to double the light output, and it wouldn’t be able to keep up with the rate of shooting. Even at ISO 200, an external battery back needs to be plugged into the flash to keep it firing for every image.
On average, I photograph 2-300 images of each snowflake gathering slices of focus handheld, and then choose an average of 40 images with different parts of the snowflake in focus to bring the entire image sharp from tip to tip. Even still, I sometimes miss a frame and there is a slight blurry area where the details of adjacent slices of focus don’t completely cover the gap. A trained eye can spot it – can you? There are two areas in this image where the details lack perfect sharpness.
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and simple physics demand for
I've been very curious how just a half of my old doubleanastigmat would render wideopen on 8x10. And even more, de-focussed on purpose.
It's a High Five
and a bye
I can't tell
I just did
I saw it,
I asked for the hand*
& click
I could tell a bit
but all those would be afterwards reasoning and explanations for myself
I do see them
and remember
but for the image
it's in the world
and that's what it is about in the first place
and it would be afterwards reasoning really
looking back I wonder
cause all I connect with it now
has not happened yet, back then
It's nice to work like that
especially with all that size
*it's impossible to do this alone. You're working with millimeters here.
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Roidweek 2015.2 # day 3
Sinar P 8x10 / Polaroid 809, exp. '87
Ards Forest Park Salt Marsh, Creeslough, Sheephaven Bay, County Donegal, Ireland
Legend states that Saint Patrick banished all the snakes out of Ireland with his magical staff long ago. Most folk don’t believe this story which is understandable by reasoning of modern science…. However, what if there was some potential proof? Well maybe there is! hidden right under our noses in plain sight all this time 👀
Here on Sheephaven Bay you can see how river estuaries slowly carved their way into this salt marsh on their winding paths out to sea. But for today only, let’s have a little fun and imagine that these are instead the actual tracks and scars on our landscape at the very point where Saint Patrick chased all the snakes out of Ireland 🐍
Just imagine thousands of them all in rows slithering and carving their tracks into this landscape. All being commanded outwards onto the distant sandy shore before finally entering the sea, banished forever from Irish soil.....
Obviously my tales a little bit of craic on this symbolic day, but let’s be honest as who really knows what really happened over a thousand years ago? So enjoy today and let your imaginations run wild 😊
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The plan was to approach Potsdamer Platz from the southern direction. My reasoning was that starting late afternoon, there should be splendid sunlight on the buildings. Well, here it still was the case.
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In Argento's death he left a skeleton of communication networks, contacts, resources, weapons, even several stock piles of old Soviet era gear still in its packaging. In this skeleton we found Doctor Henry Amir. Better known as 'Prince of Death'.
He locked himself away in his personal research facility after being written off by the Iraq Assistive Services for dark biological research. There he experimented for days on end developing a chemcial weapon he dubbed; 'mustard posion'
The way he explainned it, essentially he reconfigured mustard gas, bolting on several other deadly viruses via use of a genetic 3D Printer. Suffice to say we now have a fighting edge on our enemies.
-The Butcher
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Dr. Amir - Observe gentleman, unannounced to my assistant I've minimially breached his biological suit.
Butcher - Your reasoning behind this, doctor?
Dr. Amir - Reason? I wanted to see him suffer.
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Life updates, didn't end up moving out of my apt/dorm thanks to random last minute emails. Woo! Also CB Day 5 was freakin nuts, y'all some freakin savages, I don't think I've seen it all go that fast, even during the earlier CB Days :P
Either way got some really rad stuff that will certainly work its way into future scenes and the UIC. Enjoy!
-Christian
- Francis Bacon.
Let me present to you another new bird from our trip to Holla Bend NWR, the Dickcissel. Arguably the most uniquely named bird I have ever entered. I did a double-take when the merlin app provided me with the details of the bird. They were everywhere in the park, singing loudly from the top of every bush. After a few minutes of listening to them, you will understand the reasoning behind the name. They have this unique song that sounds a lot like “dick-dick-see-see-see.”
They have an excellent tolerance for humans, and I could get pretty close to them. I even had time to switch my camera into video and shoot short clips of the birds singing. Almost 80% of my images at the refuge were of this guy.
Edited with pixlr-o-matic
To phone or not to phone
I am no fan of phone photography, but I have to accept it’s the camera that is always with me and in that light, it’s the best camera to have. I am amazed at the silly things that many people write about ordinary folks that use a cell phone to take pictures. They are accused of killing photography, of having no photographic skills, of not being photographers at all. So what, why is it so unbearable for some illuminati to see picture taking all of the time? I wonder if they had a special training to eat, to digest, something that makes them so snobbish as to scorn of all things photographic that don’t conform to their reasoning?
I think it is pretty understandable when you have been somewhere many times over to get to thinking that there aren't any more photos to be found. I am certainly guilty of this sometimes. Paradoxically, I find the more familiar you become with a location the easier and more difficult it becomes to photograph it. On the one hand, greater familiarity allows for a more nuanced take, for more complex and understanding photography to happen, you explore corners of the subject that escaped initial passes. On the other hand, it is easy to think, "seen it ten times, seen it all" or some such line of reasoning. Of course, what ultimately happens is it is never the same place that you end up revisiting. The time changes, the light changes, the weather changes, the graffiti changes, the passerby change, the buildings change, the cracks in the sidewalk change. There are so many variables at play that any subsequent visit sees more that has changed than has remained the same since your last trip. But these are all external factors. There are a ton of internal elements within you that are constantly in flux. Your mood changes, your temperament, your perspective, your level of interest and patience, your willingness to pause, or crouch down on your knees. It is easy, and understandable, to not be inclined to revisit a location because you think you have already seen it all, but it is that very idea which arguably needs to change the most.
Rolleiflex 2.8GX (this was a really nice camera to test out)
Ilford Pan F (I don't use this film enough)
HBM
The word is “Coyote.” In the Falls, we pronounce it Ki-yote, everywhere else it is “Ki-oh-tee.” Can’t believe so many folks could be so ill informed, and the reasoning is said to in part come from a cartoon character named, Wile E Coy-oh-tee.
A sweet trouble maker who dances to her own beat.. 💓
She is a nightmare dressed like a daydream, a troublemaking lover, a blood spiller and drinker, with a heart of flame. She quarrels with the sky, fights with fate, and burns like a fire in a rushing sea. She is so mean, so sadistic but sweet and loving.
OR
She is a daydream dressed like a nigthmare, a dream lover, a sweet love spiller and drinker, with a heart of life. She painted the sky, fights for happiness, and burns with affection. She is good-hearted who is lost and irritable sometimes.
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Same woman but perceived very differently
The contrast between Alpha and Beta perception is profound, representing a divide in the very essence of human experience.
The Alpha's perspective is rooted in 'a meticulous analysis of facts' and an unwavering commitment to objective truth. Their world is a complex tapestry woven from empirical evidence, anchored by the rigors of logic and reasoning.
On the other hand, the Beta perceives the world through the lens of sensory experience and the vivid landscape of dreams. They embrace intuition and imagination, finding truth in 'what they see, hear, and feel', and allowing the heart and soul to reign supreme.
The fundamental differences between these two modes of perception have far-reaching implications for how we interact with and understand the world. The Alpha seeks to uncover hidden truths through a quest for knowledge and understanding, while the Beta embarks on an adventure of the senses, exploring the beauty and mystery of the world around them.
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" That is why Alpha is more successful in taking care of his women because he loves and takes care of her based on the fact and who she is, not just based on his own feelings and fantasies.
The chances of them being deceived are less than Beta because they don't deceive themselves.
Most Beta didn't believe even you keep telling the truths about yourself to them, it's because they love to believe their feelings more than the facts. "
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last winter
i have no problem with the whole no comment thing but saying your reasoning for it is because "the pictures are too private" is horrible. You are putting them publicizing them...
i never used the term "private." if a picture was too private then, yes, i agree that it would be rather counter-intuitive to upload it to a website for anyone to see. i said personal. i upload those "personal" pictures to share them with others, or because they comfort me to have among my other pictures for whatever reason, and the purpose of sharing should not be for an expectation of reciprocation.
i would like for you to reply to this. i am not trying to be argumentative, i would just like for you to understand.
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"a lot of them i leave un-comment-able if they are personal or memories or something."
OKAY NICK. PRIVATE AND PERSONAL ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. YOU'RE SO FRUSTRATING
Meeting point for persons interested in the Rastafarian culture
Traditional reference at the festival for all those who are interested in approaching the Rastafari livity or are simply curious to learn more about it. A space to reflect upon and discuss around this theme.
House Of Rastafari, features Nyabinghi chants, Reasoning Grounds, art and photography exhibits, as well as fundrising activities to support solidarity projects in Ethiopia and Jamaica.
Program:
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Rototom SunSplash 26º European Reggae Festival.
Benicàssim 16-22 August 2019 (Spain)
AVR-4 pops out of Whitehall Tunnel on the former B&O W&P Sub with AVR 3001 leading on the return trip back from the Wheeling interchange at Bruceton. Special thanks to the railfan who let me borrow his 70-200 for this photo, name withheld for specific reasonings! But you know who you are, thanks again!
Futuristic Architecture Manipulating the Hierachy of Space ...
Marina Bay Sands & SkyPark Integrated Resort in Singapore
Such Great Heights!
The SkyPark floats atop the 3 - soaring Marina Bay Sands Hotel Towers and looks like a surfboard or spaceship docking on a tripod.On top you literally feel you stand amongst the clouds.
SkyPark is a roof like no other,perched 200 metres in the air with an infinity pool and an observation deck in the clouds which offers you unobstructed 360-degree views of the Singapore skyline.It's a remarkable feat of engineering designed by visionary Moshe Safdie architects.
The giant,gravity-defying platform,is one of the largest in the world,large enough to park four A380 Jumbo Jets.It also houses lush gardens,top-notch restaurants and an exclusive,infinity-edge swimming pool with a legendary view.The 150-metre pool,the world’s largest elevated body of water outdoors,has been designed with a vanishing edge.It is as if there is nothing between the swimmer and the skyscrapers in front.
After experiencing "Heaven" on SkyPark,you can descend to "Earth" where a world of shopping,dining and entertainment attractions awaits you at the rest of the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort.
The complex resort,which opened in 2010,includes a 2,561-room hotel, a huge convention-exhibition centre,the Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands Mall,a museum,two large theatres, restaurants,two floating Crystal Pavilions,a skating rink, and the world's largest Atrium Casino.
Enjoying it while considering the Complexity of Applying Aesthetics & Functional Utilitity in Architecture & the Relationship between Human beings & the Frenetic technological progress ....
"A line is length without breadth ... "
"There is no royal road to geometry ... "
"Ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι, ὅπερ ἔδει ποιῆσαι.Καὶ τὸ ὅλον τοῦ μέρους μεῖζον ἐστιν ... " in other words :
"Proved,done.And the Whole is Greater than the Part ... "
Euclid 325 B.C. - 270 B.C. Greek mathematician-father of geometry
To all lovers of accurate reasoning & of mathematical learning ....