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A photo of my own tactile artwork is the background pic. Face made in AI and pd png birds. Processed in old gen apps.
For:
April 2023 Contest: Reflections
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And:
New! Challenge 223.0 ~ Red Yellow Blue ~ The Award Tree ~
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………With a pleasing ‘click’ when the right key is found! I went for tones & textures with Macro Mondays themed shot ‘Keyhole’ - a subject I thought would be easy but ended up rejecting many of the keyholes I found. Have a great week & ‘stay safe’. Alan:-) HMM……
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A bunch of shiny tactile indicators lining the pedestrian area around the circular driveway at the front of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.
HMM.. the theme for today, 11/5, is "intended contact"-- so this is a stylus- my preferred tool of use with my ipad mini - demonstrating "touching".
btb, the fact that the colors are flickr colors is purely coincidental ~grin~... and yes, janet, i did go with the blue one today :)
A close-up of tactile paving seen next to a zebra crossing in Kingston.
More than 140 years after Louis Braille invented the Braille reading system, Seiichi Miyake came up with a different system based on touch that allows visually impaired people to navigate public spaces. Today, tactile paving is used by major cities and transportation services around the world.
Pavement with round bumps was meant to signal nearby danger, such as a street crossing or the edge of a train platform, while a stretch of pavement with straight bars was meant to guide them to safe areas. The tactile design allowed pedestrians to detect the features with canes, guide dogs, or their feet.
A large array of bright yellow tactile indicators on the deck of a split level cafe at the Flinders University recreation area in Tonsley Park.
...of triangles.
This a picture of the surface of a Seagate external USB drive. They have this marvellous embossed surface that glints at all angles and feels nice to touch.
It looks grainy but the case itself is textured and sparkly this way. The trick was to get the light right...
So how many triangles can you see? I'm probably being cruel... you'll be gone all night if you try to count them I think :)
Each square of four triangles is 7mm across so we are just about two inches in total (0.0277778 fathoms). Yey!
Also for my monochrome series... [3/100]
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays!
[Daylight toplight; tripod; delayed shutter release.
Developed and processed in Affinity Photo to get a balance of black and white.
Inpainting to get rid of dust and marks.
Converted to B&W in Silver Efex Pro 2 with high contrast smooth preset and then some tweaking. Light blue selenium toning.
A bit of sharpening with Unsharp Mask, a little more tweaking of the histogram.
Uncropped.
Dark vignette.]
Macro Mondays theme: Buckle
When I read the Macro Mondays theme for this week I knew I would concentrate on the bucklesI inherited as part of my mother's button collection. These are mostly mother of pearl or early plastics. The selection process was tactile and soothing on several levels. I've photographed a few groups to share separately.
The finalists were three buckles that presented as owls. All three were within the size restrictions, but I decided to go with the smallest. It is the oldest and crafted from some kind of shell. The surface is very worn, but there is something about it that pleases me.
HMM
………Pressing ‘open’ doesn’t quite have the same pleasurable experience! Taken for Macro Mondays theme shot ‘Paper’ - Envelopes, the letter and the stamp are all made of paper and with little care will last for centuries, this one is from May 21st 1907 and the paper knife is a similar age too. Alan:-)……
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It is strange how just holding a smooth wooden ball, may have dramatic effect on us, bringing a calmness, stress, relief, refocus.... It's not magic but there is a mystery about the Peace that it brings.....
~Jessamyn West
This plant is in my front garden - it has really soft furry leaves which is why I bought it - it's so tactile. These berries (? not sure if they are berries - if I knew what it was called I'd look it up) are an unexpected bonus!
Happy Perfect Purple Saturday!
Thanks to Ghostbones for the texture.
Bärbel füttert die Stoffpuppe Lena, bevor sie ins Nachthemd umgezogen wird und ins Bett geht. Luis sieht sich das Tastbilderbuch auch einmal mit den Händen an und schließt dafür die Augen ... !!!
(Das sind die letzten beiden Tastbilderbücher, die ich vor vielen Jahren für Blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder nähte. "Meine Puppe Lena" heißt das eine, "Wo ist die Maus?" das andere. Luis und Bärbel haben keine Schlafaugen, und ich konnte nicht widerstehen, noch einmal ein Bild mit geschlossenen Augen zu machen !! 😊)
Bärbel feeds the rag doll Lena before she is changed into her nightgown and goes to bed. Luis looks at the tactile storybook once with his hands and closes his eyes for it ... !!!
(These are the last two tactile storybooks that I sewed for blind and visually impaired children many years ago. One is called "My doll Lena", the other is called "Where's the mouse?". Luis and Bärbel have no sleeping eyes and I couldn't resist taking snapping another picture with closed eyes !! 😊)
I'm sure many other cities have it too, but Hong Kong is quite impressive... parks, subway, shopping malls, schools, trains, many many streets are equipped with tactile paving for blind or visually impaired persons... this one in Shatin is just a tiny sample of a huge network of these "truncated domes" as they are called... I think.....
Sights, tactile experiences, smells—all are experienced inside the mind alone. None are “out there” except by us having named them. Everything we see, hear and touch is the direct interaction of energy and mind. Anything that we do not observe directly exists only as a haze of probability. “Nothing exists until it is observed.” ~ John Wheeler
Shingle Street is always a good sight, but is it there when I'm not there to witness it?
Vor vielen Jahren entwarf und nähte ich Tastbilderbücher für Blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder. In diesem Buch ist die erste Hälfte des Alphabets in Blindenschrift mit Perlen tastbar und in Normalschrift in Kontrastfarben für jene mit Sehrest sichtbar.
Many years ago I designed and sewed tactile picture books for blind and visually impaired children. In this book, the first half of the alphabet is tangible with pearls in Braille and visible in contrasting colours for those with remaining sight.