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Yeah, never be in too much of a hurry: photography is about endless time and patience.
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I can shoot frames for hours. The movement and the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks sooths me to the point where i totally forget time and surroundings. So frequently, after water shooting sessions, i end up with hundreds of very similar frames and people around me say: " Oh, but they all look the same" well, uh... not for me. I can notice the smallest differences between all the frames and relate them to every thought crossing my mind while i was shooting 'em. This one was shot standing from a very high spot on the cliff look down to sea. (see where Luis is standing on the previous shot)
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Wildflowers, light and a flat blue sky. Oh, what a clichée and a big one www.yesterdayslife.com/photofront/matilde :)
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A series of very long exposures shot way after the sun had set. This one was shoot around 7.12 pm at ISO 800. The colors depicted were achieved by playing with white balance, ISO, exposure time, filters and polarizers all at once (the "bend and break" approach aka "let's see what comes out of it", LMAO)
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...fate chooses relations, i will choose my friends.
My dear friend T. shot yesterday while enjoying the most beautiful, tranquil scenario and after watching the great ball of fire rise up, a very special moment i have to tell you. I've never seen such a beautiful sunrise...
Same day as the previous shot, around 7 pm looking to the opposite direction (facing south). Rising tide.
To Kerstine , an artist and a friend on Flickr. Check her out she's got beautifu shots. We are waiting for you in Portugal, girl!...and :) bring your friends we will have a blast!
October. Fall has started and no rain is predicted for the next couple weeks. Well, that was weeks ago. Today is a gray rainy day and i must confess i was longing for this but I do love, love a colorful day!
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Copyright © 2006 Tatiana Cardeal. All rights reserved.
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water
is life
for everyone
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Pará State, igarapé at Jamaraquá.
Tapajós National Forest
A few days, visiting the Health and Happiness Project
Alguns dias, visitando o Projeto Saúde e Alegria
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Green grass by the pond. On sunday i will go back here, so, wish me luck with the light. I hope it rains during the night.:)
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Harness the power of the sea by building tidal barrages to exploit the movement of the water caused by tidal currents is the next move of researchers and governments. But what are the advantages and impacts on our environment?
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It has been around for a while. It was shot on the same day and location as this www.flickr.com/photos/matilde/97683219/in/set-963426/ and this www.flickr.com/photos/matilde/97662522/in/set-963426/. Today i looked at it again and i liked it.
Featured on nikonstunninggallery.com/ 07.09.06
It's amazing how fast color temperature changes when a new day rises. Warmer colors at the lower end of the color temperature range: Yellow, orange and red merge in a graded scale of color.
i can spend hours looking and shooting wildflowers. Actually i could spend hours looking and shooting anything. I just forget everything else in this world. It's definitely an addiction but it's also called "practice the art of seeing". True, the more images you take with your camera, the better you will become at seeing how your camera sees. Of course, this a great excuse for endless pleasure hours :)))
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March 07 While the sun was still strong to shoot the water, the cliff was illuminated by golden light and wrapped by a vivacious blue sky. It really deserved to be shot! :)
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A tribute to 2 best friends: Teresa and Luís. Thank you for loving the same type of scenarios, peaceful moods and nature as much as i do.
*Shot around 11.30 in the morning on really hot day!*
Portugal accounts for 50% of the world cork harvest. Cork Oaks live about 150-250 years. Here you cannot legally cut down these beauties except for forest management felling of old, or unproductive. It's a protected species and unbelievable beautifull!! See the large versions of this and other works here!
The day i shot this was just an incredible weather day: we had a stormy cloudy sunrise, enjoyed a sunny and warm day and met a big storm and rain at end of the day. All in one! Geez! my camera couldn't take it anymore. ok, that's it for today but i still have a thousand shots from the weekend. :)
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Today, early morning on the sand dunes of Guincho. Have a beautiful weekend, everybody!
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these sounds are peaceful The big size is here! Please choose gallery/scenics.
Due to the recent Flickr changes and the censorship policies some Friends are moving to Ipernity! Although i do not have my photographs there yet, i also opened a single account and hung there a bit. It's a cool place, very similar to flickr. I might even starting publishing there if Ipernity offers me a PRO account, LOL. Check it out www.ipernity.com/home/matildeb
Last sunday, after raining all night and morning, the afternoon was superb. Like somebody would say: After a storm comes bonanza!
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"The Future I want is where everybody is an entrepreneur."
Photo Credit: Speak Your Mind // Lachie McKenzie
Well yeah, Magoito (Mag8) is, by now, a very well known site in my stream! :) Sorry for the lack of creativity :) See this big.
Vasco da Gama was, until december 1999 and before the swedish built Oresund Bridge, the largest bridge in Europe with a length of 17.2 km (10 miles), 10 km of which are over the Tagus river. It was inaugurated on the 4th of April 1998. Located right next to the Nations Park (former site of the Expo 98) it got its name on the same year of the 5th centenary of the arrival of Vasco da Gama to India and it has been designed to withstand an earthquake four times greater than the 1755 earthquake that devastated Lisbon.
Everytime i cross this bridge, i feel like stopping my car and shoot all the possible marvelous shots from up there, believe me there are infinite possibilities waiting and some days the views are just overwhelming beautiful ...:)
Beautiful morning, wonderful light and the hope to see it again tomorrow. rise up
Frozen moments from our software house Annual Meeting Best software house in Lisbon :) and all really cool nerds! Check 'em out.
I know, it's not the best composition but it was not possible in any other way. The place is tricky, very muddy and dangerous. Anyway, I like the sense of silence this image conveys. The only thing we could hear were the flamingos and the frogs.
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It is imperative that we implement a system of ecolonomic homeostasis to fight against the current anthropotechnogenic economic, social and environmental crises. Recent global economic and political instability has revealed the shortcomings of our current capitalist system. It further confirms the necessity for an ultramodern paradigm shift. On account of the deleterious impact of the financialization of the economic ecosystem, we must introduce an oligopolistic system that can be sustainably managed. The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is what is needed to fulfill our sustainable development goals. Environmental awareness must be the center of our ethos as we work to reduce our anthroposphere periphery in pursuit of global co-immunity. Not only must we manipulate living organisms through science and engineering to create commodities, we must also manipulate the Anthropos through cryptoeconomic engineering.
This new cryptospheric ecotechnic cybernetic system will revolve around a cyber-physical environmental intelligence. This transhuman technosphere of 15 minute city ecoregions will adopt a sustainable economic welfare system that will revolve around harvesting the body’s energy. You will be a collective of communities, a multitude of capital. We will combine biomimetics and thermoeconomics to economically rebalance the core-periphery dynamic. Xenocommodification: all money creation must have biophysical embedding—666. This thermalisation of thermoeconomics will be globally self-replicated.
In short: take the Mark of the Beast and become transhuman—embrace the techno-Beast system, because techno-animism is the way of the future!
These nerds want an economic system that revolves around the environment—a Social Credit Score System that will be linked to your Carbon Footprint and to the United Nations 17 goals of Sustainable Development. The ultimate goal is to tie this eco-economic system together with transhumanism—the merging of man and microchip…data capitalism (data totalitarianism).
Warning: “Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise like a trap, because it will come on everyone who lives on the face of the earth. So be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:34-36)
The sea was very rough today, and dangerous, with the tide coming up very fast. I just realized that we will have full moon, again, 4 days. Frost Moon, as they call it, is the first full moon after Harvest Moon which happened in October (see photo). Frost Moon, appears brighter than other full moons and it occurs at the point when the moon is closest to the earth due to the elliptical orbit. We could feel her strength in the sea waters, today. This is a 102' exposure way after the sun was gone. While the composition is a result of the impossibility of going any further on the terrain, the blues are great. You must agree.
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It's a lagoon called Lagoa de Mira. It is a beautiful place, the bad part of it's story is that politicians have started to create these artificial islands in the middle of it, that do make nice photographs but are totally stupid and are not necessary since this place is just gorgeous all by itself. Somehow we need to stop creative politicians!
"Santiago is the very old Cuban fisherman whose been unable to catch a fish for eighty four days. Santiago has an apprentice called Manolin. Manolin adores the old man but his parents tell him he must stop fishing with Santiago because he is not catching any fish or making any money."
Ernest Hemingway, "The old man and the sea" 1952.
These words remind me of problems traditional fishermen are currently struggling with caused by overfishing done by huge and sophisticated vessels that sweep away the bottom of the sea, polution, bycatch (the killing of many species while fishing others), fishnet sizes, lost fishnets responsible for the killings of hundreds, may be thousands, of mammals and other related problems. We have to learn to preserve what we have while we still have time. Visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium ( I love the MBAYAQ) and learn what you can do to help Save the Oceans!
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Changing Images of Man is a 1974 report (revised in 1982) by the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). This report can be summed up like this:
You have two options: your future can either be 1984 or the Brave New World.
“We have met the enemy and he is us!” We must reform the way we conceptualize the nature of mankind. Indeed, the mind (and body) is a human biocomputer, with programs and coding that can be analyzed, hacked, and altered. Our concepts of free will, freedom, and consciousness must be cast off for man to attain a peaceful, rational, and humane society in the future.
Changing images of man has a double meaning: man’s image has changed throughout history, and man’s image can be changed (manipulated). If we apply this idea to the present, what would be man’s image? Today, man’s image is one of transition. Since we are in the digital age, man’s image would reflect the digital world. Man looks into his screen, and his screen reflects back his digital world. Man’s image is being tokenized into the digital world. His image is becoming digitalized. His image is going to transition into transhumanism (merging man with the digital world). So man’s future image will be one of transhumanism. He will be a techno-slave. Indeed, the image of man is currently being manipulated toward the goals of the elite.
This report warns that our society is heading towards friendly fascism. This form of fascism “will come under the slogans of democracy.” It will be a “techno-urban fascism,” a “friendly sort of totalitarianism.” This is what this friendly fascism will look like: they will use military surveillance technologies to aid the police; they will use behavior-changing drugs and indoctrination in schools; they will attempt to manage the news; they will use personality screening and maintain files on pre-delinquent children, via coordination with school administrations and local, state, and federal authorities; they will use interconnected computer systems to collect peoples personal data like: employment records, criminal records, tax status, credit, insurance, and information about education.
What is their solution to this friendly fascism? They want, instead, to introduce a friendly fascism that has a shiny spiritual veneer. They want man to “evolve” to a higher consciousness, a super consciousness, which lies at the boundary between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. This evolution of consciousness will be a personal, spiritual, social, and cultural evolution. They want people to tap into this consciousness through their dream states. They want them to evolve into a hivemind, where they can telepathically communicate with one another. This could possibly be achieved through mystical experiences, psychic phenomena, esoteric ideas, occult practices, hypnotism, self-hypnotism, meditation, yoga, psychotherapy, psychology, psychochemical drugs, electrocranial stimulation, and cybernetics. “I think that cybernetics is the biggest bite out of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge that mankind has taken in the last 2000 years.”
This evolved man will see the inequality of the poorer nations. He will willingly give up his comfortable lifestyle. He will lower his living standards. He will share his wealth with the rest of the world. Men will collectively work together to accomplish equality (communism). And if they refuse to give up their wealth, they will be forced to give it up. This evolution is Gnostic in nature; it reminds me of Karl Marx, with his idea of man evolving into the socialist man/communist man. Out of this evolution will come a new system, a “new socialism,” which will be influenced by Freemasonry. “In ‘true Freemasonry’ there is one lodge, the universe-and one brotherhood, everything that exists. Each person has the ‘privilege of labor,’ of joining with the ‘Great Architect’ in building more noble structures and thus serving in the divine plan.”
The architects of this scheme must convince the masses that the earth has limited resources, which they term the “new scarcity.” They must convince the people that the earth is being overpopulated (today, climate change is the big scare they are pushing). With these supposed problems, man must be convinced that he needs to collectively band together. The architects of this scam must bring in a new economic and ecological system (known today as stakeholder capitalism and the green economy). To introduce this alternative way of life, they will introduce “behavior controls that would deprive the individual of freedoms” (which is known today as a social credit score system).
“Thanks to this initiative (the Green Economy Initiative) and the work of other agencies, ‘green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication’ was placed on the 2012 Rio+20 agenda and was acknowledged as a tool for achieving sustainable development.” – United Nations
“A crisis is often the catalyst for the redrawing of one’s preferred map.” A “crisis-oriented transformation” is likely to transform a culture rapidly. We saw some of this during COVID, which greatly affected our society and economy. People accepted a soft form of authoritarianism and the loss of freedoms. During COVID, they pushed vaccine passports. This mimicked Digital IDs. The unvaccinated could not go to certain places, because they didn’t have vaccine passports. The Canadian truckers had their bank accounts frozen. Those with alternative views were censored. These things mimicked a social credit score system with rewards and punishments. Society failed to think critically, thus proving that it was ready for the next step of the plan. Therefore, politicians touted the start of the Great Reset—a plan to build back better. So now we are in a transition period, a transition into a new economic order. As a result, we are being steered towards a major economic crisis. This “crisis-oriented transformation” will bring us into their new system. This system will use digital biometric IDs, CBDCs, and social credit scores.
The elites see multinational corporations as the “most effective mechanisms for husbanding the earth’s resources and optimizing their use for human benefit.” Giving multinational corporations the earth’s resources will supposedly lead to an “equitable sharing of the earth’s resources.” They will pressure corporations to help with the social engineering of society. The methods they will use to get corporations on board resemble those of a corporate social credit score system like ESGs. They will prod corporations, particularly multinational corporations, to shift their goals to line up with those of the (hijacked) public institutions. Indeed, the public institutions will be tools of indoctrination (today, these institutions promote things like DEI). They plan to use “corporations, foundations, political agencies, and voluntary associations” to help with the implementation of their plans. Today, this is called public–private partnerships. They will use networks at the local, regional, national, and world levels. This way, it will be quicker and easier for them to implement their new world order goals. They expect rapid social change, economic decline, and social disruption as they implement their new technocratic socialist order.
“We would thus hope not for a handful, but for a thousand heroes, ten thousand heroes-who will create a future image of what humankind can be.” They need an army of social(ist) justice warriors to bring about change. “The needed transformation cannot occur without both personal and institutional change.” This correlates with the left’s “long march through the institutions.”
They also want to experiment with a variety of family structures. They want to turn the family into “an extended unit,” which will provide “a larger source of meaning and significance.” So basically, the collective (government, schools, neighbors, and society) will raise your children in this new collectivist utopia. This extended family will be a “source of education,” and “a unit for work.” They want to “foster a period of experimentation and tolerance for diverse alternatives, both in life styles and in social institutions.” They also want to use “new experimental curricula.” Today, we have new experimental curricula such as critical race theory and queer theory.
They want the world’s population to embrace this new order. Their end goal is the Brave New World. In reality, those who refuse this new order will live out 1984, and those who accept it will live out the Brave New World. Though, as they admit, no transition will go smoothly. Everyone is going to feel some pain, and in a worst-case scenario, a lot of pain.
The Bible warns us about the Antichrist. Those who refuse the Mark of the Beast won’t be able to buy or sell, and they will be tracked down by the authorities. These people will experience the hell of 1984. But those who take the Mark of the Beast will evolve into transhumans, and they will experience the bliss of the Brave New World. They will be on a high, stimulated by soma frequencies. Thus, they will blissfully worship the Beast. They will evolve to a super consciousness; they will become one with the Beast.
God created man with a soul and free will. Those who accept the Mark of the Beast will lose their free will, because technology will control their allegiance and love for the Beast. Their free will is gonna be controlled by the Beast system. Never again will they have the free will to repent and turn to Jesus Christ. They will give up their free will; they will forfeit their own souls.
Revelation 14:9-11 “A third angel followed the first two, declaring in a loud voice: ‘If anyone worships the Beast and his Image, and takes the Mark on his forehead or his hand, that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb. And the smoke from their torture will go up forever and ever, and those who worship the Beast and his Image will have no rest day or night, along with anyone who receives the Mark of his name.’”
Mark 8:36 “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?”