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♫ Laura Marling - Hope In The Air ( with Lyrics ).♫
Cómo siempre, la música y mi imagen se encuentran unidas.
The Smooth Transition To A Second Trump Administration by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)
With the music : Christopher Spelman - The Final Journey (The Lost City of Z)
Coming soon to a theater ... that we hopefully will be far away from you :
- Wow! The setting for the inauguration stayed fantastic Mike ! Have the guests arrived yet ?
- Due to Shutdowns I think it will be just the two of us Donald ! But in four years we will make another one even better !
(*) Any resemblance to reality is pure fantasy but in the next four years we can no longer guarantee ...
"La solitude et la reflexion sont nécessaires pour donner aux voeux la force des passionnes." -- Mary Wollstonecraft
je suis toujours reconnaissante pour ceux qui posent pose moi, comme mon amie ici, qui ne posent pas de questions sur ma façon de faire une photo, pour mes raisons et le symbolisme derrière la photo, qui mettent les vêtements que j'amènent à la séance et qui m'aident à capturer sur pellicules les visions qui habitent dans mes rêves.
i am always grateful for those who pose for me, like my friend here, those who don't pose any questions about my approach to making photos, who don't hesitate to put on the clothes i take to the photo shoot, who don't question the reasons behind my photo or the symbolism contained therein, who help me to capture on film the visions that inhabit my dreams.
Bronica sqa, bronica zenzanon 80mm f/2.8, Ilford Delta 400 film, developed by me in Rodinal (1+50 for 12 mins)
La Berceuse
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My photographic version of the van Gogh painting "La Berceuse, portrait of Madame Roulin, december 1888" (Made after different versions as seen in the Kroller Muller museum, Otterloo and the Van Gogh museum, Amsterdam and the Metropolitan museum, New York).
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The background is painted by Polina Mavrikaki, co-painter of the Loving Vincent movie.
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How did I create this photo?
Apart from finding the right clothing and the chair, the biggest challenge was photographing everything correctly.
Why? Well, because Vincent painted Madame Roulin very much out of proportion. This was intented as he wrote to his brother Theo.
But with a specific lens and some photoshop I got it to a certain point it was photographically out of proportions enough for me.
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The whole proces of researching, planning, finding the clothing, the chair and model, testing light set-ups and camera settings, shooting and post-processing in Photoshop, took me about four months.
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Thanks to my dear wife Marcella for helping me find the clothing, props, lighting assistance and being the model this time!
Thanks to the hair specialist Linda Ineke.
Thanks to Polina Mavrikaki for painting the background.
Thanks to Leo Vas for post-processing in photoshop
The Monk Praying In The Bamboo Lake - Bamboo Mystic Symbolism by Daniel Arrhakis (2024)
With the Mantra / Music : Tadyatha Om Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
Bamboo Mystic Symbolism
Bamboo has long been a source of inspiration, especially the ability to be incredibly strong while still allowing for flexibility. The Major characteristics of the Bamboo are : Strength, Flexibility, Strong roots, Continuous growth, Durability.
Symbol of Strength
Looking at bamboo's characteristics, Bamboo is incredibly strong, it actually has an incredible tensile strength, stronger than steel, and has been used in construction as an alternative material.
Additionally, bamboo is a grass so its root system grows and spread out and down, bamboo holds the soil together, making it highly effective in preventing soil erosion and improving soil quality.
- "Be Like a Bamboo Tree" : The meaning behind the saying:
For example, if we stand firm and defend our principles, our inner strength will become stronger and stronger with each passing day.
Por outro lado, if our roots are interconnected, we can count on the strength of good friends and family to help us face any trial in life.
Our strength can even strengthen the world around us, helping our communities stand the test of time.
Symbol of Flexibility
However, strength alone is not enough, you also need to be flexible to adapt to the world around you as it changes. The dense fibers in bamboo cane give the plant extreme flexibility to allow it to bend without breaking.
Bamboo is able to weather significant storms and high winds. It’s strong enough to remain grounded while flexible enough not to break from the pressure.
In this sense, the symbolism is very clear, it is necessary that we adapt to the world we live in but also be flexible and not intransigent towards others and even towards ourselves. Knowing how to recognize that we have made a mistake or that we know nothing about something is in itself a virtue and not a weakness.
Symbol of Simplicity & Continuous Growth
Since bamboo trees are the fastest-growing plants in the world, they’re often associated with continuous growth, and the commitment to learning and developing. Bamboo is also hollow on the inside, and it grows quite simply.
This reminds us that we should never be too full of ourselves and to make sure we keep an open mind and stay open to possibilities of exploration and growth.
Symbol of Enlightenment
In Buddhist culture, bamboo is considered to be a symbol of enlightenment. This may be a nod towards the hollow stems of the plants' makeup and how when we embrace a version of emptiness, we can become a vessel for the energy of the universe to flow.
Symbol of Longevity
Bamboo is a symbol of longevity because of its durability, strength, flexibility, and resilience. It survives in the harshest conditions, still standing tall and staying green year-round.
The tall plant is seen as an indicator of growth and people are often advised to grow it at home. In fact, as a constant companion of Lord Krishna, the plant symbolises long companionship and friendship.
"The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom" (Heart Sūtra) is condensed into the mantra with which the sutra concludes: "Gate Gate Pāragate Pārasamgate Bodhi Svāhā" (literally "Gone gone, gone beyond, gone utterly beyond, reach complete Enlightenment !").
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O Simbolismo Místico do Bambu
O bambu tem sido uma fonte de inspiração, especialmente a capacidade de ser incrivelmente forte e ao mesmo tempo permitir flexibilidade. As principais características do Bambu são: Força, Flexibilidade, Raízes fortes, Crescimento contínuo, Durabilidade.
Símbolo de Força
Olhando para as características do bambu, o bambu é incrivelmente forte, na verdade tem uma resistência à tração incrível, mais forte que o aço, e tem sido usado na construção como material alternativo.
Além disso, o bambu é uma grama, então seu sistema radicular cresce e se espalha para baixo. O bambu mantém o solo unido, tornando-o altamente eficaz na prevenção da erosão do solo e na melhoria da qualidade do solo.
- "Seja como uma árvore de bambu" : O significado por trás do ditado:
Por exemplo, se permanecermos firmes e defendermos os nossos princípios, a nossa força interior ficará cada vez mais forte a cada dia que passa.
Por outro lado, se nossas raízes estiverem interligadas, podemos contar com a força de bons amigos e familiares para nos ajudar a enfrentar qualquer provação na vida.
A nossa força pode até fortalecer o mundo que nos rodeia, ajudando as nossas comunidades a resistir ao teste do tempo.
Símbolo de Flexibilidade
No entanto, a força por si só não é suficiente, você também precisa ser flexível para se adaptar ao mundo ao seu redor à medida que ele muda. As fibras densas da cana de bambu conferem à planta extrema flexibilidade para permitir que ela se dobre sem quebrar.
O bambu é capaz de resistir a tempestades significativas e ventos fortes. É forte o suficiente para permanecer enterrado e flexível o suficiente para não quebrar com a pressão.
Neste sentido o simbolismo é bem claro, é necessário que nos adaptemos ao mundo em que vivemos mas também sejamos flexíveis e não intransigentes para com os outros e até para nós próprios. Saber reconhecer que erramos ou que nada sabemos sobre algo é em si mesmo uma virtude e não uma fraqueza.
Símbolo de Simplicidade & Crescimento Contínuo
Como os bambus são as plantas de crescimento mais rápido do mundo, eles são frequentemente associados ao crescimento contínuo e ao compromisso com a aprendizagem e o desenvolvimento. O bambu também é oco por dentro e cresce de maneira bastante simples.
Isso nos lembra que nunca devemos estar muito cheios de ideias preconcebidas, ter certeza de que mantemos a mente aberta permanecendo abertos a possibilidades de exploração e crescimento.
Símbolo da Iluminação
Na cultura budista, o bambu é considerado um símbolo da iluminação. Isto pode ser um aceno para os caules ocos da composição das plantas e como, quando abraçamos uma versão do vazio, podemos nos tornar um recipiente para o fluxo da energia do universo.
Símbolo da Longevidade
O bambu é um símbolo de longevidade devido à sua durabilidade, resistência, flexibilidade e resiliência. Ele sobrevive nas condições mais adversas, permanecendo alto e verde o ano todo.
A planta alta é vista como um indicador de crescimento e muitas vezes as pessoas são aconselhadas a cultivá-la em casa. Na verdade, como companheira constante do deus Krishna, a planta simboliza longo companheirismo e amizade.
“O Coração da Perfeição da Sabedoria Transcendental” (Heart Sutra) está condensada no mantra com o qual o sutra conclui: "Gate Gate Pāragate Pārasamgate Bodhi Svāhā" (literalmente " vá, vá mais além, vá totalmente além, alcance a Iluminação completa!" ).
♫ HAEVN - Where The Heart Is (subtítulos en castellano ).♫
La música y mi imagen se encuentran unidas.
Copyright Open Aspect Photography
I wonder what I’m looking for at the moment; landscapes with meaning seem to be filing my head; if pretty isn’t enough, then what fills the void? But there is an internal debate about whether meaning is necessary or desirable? And maybe more importantly what is meaning in a landscape photograph?
Meaning can be thought of in very broad terms from the emotional sledgehammer of darkened edges, brooding skies and stark contrast; or socio-political statements of man’s effect on the environment; mundane images that may or may not express something of our empty commercialised lives; to the more subtle versions where meaning is implied through composition and symbolism.
Can meaning in landscape really be communicated in the image only or do we require words to back it up, titles, descriptions and artists’ statements? I think the answer to that is “yes it can” but that requires both an effort on behalf of the photographer and the viewer, but that begs the further question of what are the requirements for that engagement? The answer to that will probably vary between viewers, but will include engaging visuals to attract attention and whether the photographer’s work is considered important, but there is a third factor that Minor White termed “Equivalent” an image that forces you to engage on a subconscious level because it has no obvious meaning or meanings are revealed by further study. This symbolic meaning strikes a deeper strand simply because the effort to engage means we are examining deeper elements of our own minds. Engagement is forced or invited by the very nature of the subject.
Minor White took as his key inspiration for the notion of Equivalent the cloud pictures of Alfred Stieglitz , images that seemed to pose more questions than answers, simply because the subject matter was just clouds, nothing else. If I look at these images for a while, then I begin to see patterns that develop into emotions and thoughts, compositional elements amongst the vague shapes, that pull from me emotions and meanings which weren’t apparent only a few seconds ago. It’s a thrilling journey! Shades, textures and shapes reveal themselves to have emotional meaning far beyond the immediate in way that some might expect colour to have an emotive response. Freeing the photographic world from literal translation seems to me to be a progression towards art that some artistically inclined photographers should not ignore.
I went to this location with a head full of such thoughts, but actually came away with something considerably less vague, so I suppose I hope it makes up in immediate appeal what it perhaps fails to achieve in subconscious depth. There are however some images in the series which may be equivalent and I’ll reveal that shortly, but you may have to be prepared to engage!
Meaning & Symbolism of Anthurium
With their open, heart-shaped flowers and tropical disposition, it's no wonder that anthurium have come to symbolize hospitality.
Also known as the Flamingo Flower, Boy Flower, Painted Tongue and Painter's Palette – because of their distinctive shape and color – the name anthurium comes from Greek, meaning "tail flower." Exotic and compelling, with bold, typically red flowers and shiny, dark green foliage, anthurium, like the hospitality they represent, are long-lasting and irresistibly beautiful.
Thought to bring luck and protect against evil, legend has it that when the anemone closes its petals, it's a signal that rain is approaching. Still other mythology connects the anemone to magical fairies, who were believed to sleep under the petals after they closed at sunset. Perhaps it's because of this magical and prophetic tales that today in the language of flowers, anemones represent anticipation
VICTOR BORISOV-MUSATOV - On the balcony. Loneliness (Sorrow) / pastel on paper 44.0 × 54.0 cm.
☆📝Location: Serpukhov Historical-Art Museum, Serpukhov, Russia.
Source: serpuhov-museum.ru/virtualnie_vistavki/odinochestvo/
This shot reminds me of a passage from _California_and_the_West_, Charis Wilson's wonderful recounting of Edward Weston's Guggenheim adventures:
"Edward photographed the warning sign and the twisty, but mild enough looking, beginning of the Carrizo road. He assured me he would be accused of symbolism because the shadow of the sign made a cross on the sand. (No one has noticed it yet.)"
The apparent shadow cross in this shot never occurred to me when I shot it, but looking at it after the fact I can't help seeing it, to the point that I, like Edward, have a self-conscious concern that viewers will think it the entire intention of this, and the source of whatever meaning it might have. In truth, it has no meaning: it was just pretty window light falling across these boxes.
Filmborn edit, Pan-F, curve adj.
Symbolism : "a thing that represents something else, especially a material object representing something abstract"
Walking through Spitalfields market I noticed this stall holder selling these tiny fridge magnets all symbols of iconic London, not only the places such as Big Ben, London Eye, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge, St Paul's etc to name a few, but also the characters and objects that only London has and one immediately associates with this great city, such items as the red telephone box, the red letter box, the red bus, the uniforms of the royal guards with their red jackets and bearskin hats, Paddington Bear, the blue uniform and hat of the policeman on his beat etc. All these little objects truly symbolise in their own way what is truly the life and culture of London.
St. John's, the Anglican chapel in Markyate, Hertfordshire. This is a layperson's attempt (made by children I would guess) at representing or 'translating' the notion of "Water of Life", traditionally a reference to the Holy Spirit, in a visual language that connects past and present.
Mitakon Speedmaster manual lens at around f4.
Sacred Symbolism of Passion
Flower
Even the history of this striking flower is rich with reverence. Called "Espina de Cristo" (Christ's thorns) by Spanish Christian missionaries who first discovered it in South America, each part of the flower holds symbolic meaning in recognition of the crucifixion story - the passion of the Christ. Five sepals and five petals refer to the ten faithful apostles (excluding Judas and Peter). Three stigma represent the three nails that held Christ to the cross, while five anthers represent his five sacred wounds. The tendrils of the flower are said to resemble the whips used in the flagellation, while the filaments, which can number in excess of a hundred depending on the flower, depict the crown of thorns. This powerful symbolism has led to the inclusion of the Passion Flower among the ornamentation of various churches, such as in stained glass window designs, altar frontals and lectern falls.