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“We fear God by honoring, reverencing, and cherishing Him. His greatness and majesty reduce us to an overpowering sense of awe that is not focused only on His wrath and judgment but also on His transcendent glory , which is like nothing else we can confront in this world. It leaves us all but speechless.”
― David Jeremiah
She sees you, she knows you have a camera, she's ready and she can find you.
If you shoot with film, make sure you have some.
If you use digital, make sure the battery is charged.
She's noticeably atypical and not well calibrated to contend with frustration.
Deep within the wells of her hollow eyes, a slow seethe of transcendent horror stirs and gives her dark pleasure to imagine it unleashed.
So....film, battery and make it flattering.
You should be ok.
Happy Shocktober
The Ingraham Trail Route begins in Yellowknife and extends 70 km to Tibbitt Lake. A beautiful drive, the Ingraham Trail Route winds through Precambrian landscape, with scenic vistas of lakes, forest and ancient rock.
In a recent post, I was gently poking fun at the gulls - so I thought I would post this transcendent moment as a counterbalance. He is flying into the wind, and has just pulled up to make a turn - he is momentarily suspended and seems to b greatly enjoying himself...
flowing under sea-wind blooms the seed
the silent seed, the darkest of the hours,
the one that sparks like million stars
amongst the stones and flowers
the one that keeps into its core
a pistil being transcendent,
a mouth in rhyme with further more
than whispers all intended
Christian charity seeks to realize oneness with the other “in Christ.” Buddhist compassion seeks to heal the brokenness of division and illusion and to find wholeness not in an abstract metaphysical “one” or even a pantheist immanentism but in Nirvana—the void which is Absolute Reality and Absolute Love. In either case the highest illumination of love is an explosion of the power of Love’s evidence in which all the psychological limits of an “experiencing” subject are dissolved, and what remains is the transcendent clarity of love itself, realized in the ego-less subject in a mystery beyond comprehension.
-Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite, pg 86-87
Tavira, Portugal!
Ter fé na vida! Minha mania!
Grata, amorosa! Sem agonia!
Dizem que amante da natureza sou!
Expansiva, transcendente! Sempre!
Verdade! Faço assim meu gol!
Empolgada, vibrante, nunca penitente!
Crente ...
Lá vou eu!... ... ...
(poema de Vania Dramis Pimenta)
I came across this wonderful yellow starburst protea during one of my visits to Maui's Agricultural Research Station. The extensive protea gardens are always impressive. The photo was taken in March 2020, with my trusty Olympus digital camera. Enjoy and stay well.
A Hindu Sadhu (ascetic monk), covered with Rudraksha beads, meditates on the streets of Varanasi, India in search of spiritual enlightenment. Rudraksha beads are considered extremely holy in Hinduism, believed to be tears of Lord Shiva, offering spiritual protection, calmness, and growth by connecting wearers to divine energy.
“This artistic manifestation, with its rigorous denial of chromatic texture or overt symbolism, offers a compelling deconstruction of the human condition within the post-modern zeitgeist. The total absence of visual or sensory components, and refusal to allude to the socio-political struggles of our era, reveals a deep-seated existential angst that permeates all of contemporary culture. By challenging the viewer's preconceived notions and subverting traditional artistic tropes, this work invites a profound introspection into the core of our being, forcing us to confront the inherent contradictions and uncertainties of our existence. Its sublime beauty and minimal conceptual framework makes it a truly transcendent example of contemporary art, pushing the boundaries of artistic expression and offering a new paradigm for the future of creative endeavour.”
Professor Ursula Christensen, University of the Arts, New York
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Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine
St. Augustine (Historic District ), Florida, USA.
3 September 2024.
▶ Exterior shot: here.
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📷 Photographer's note:
While I was (quietly) taking this image, an unseen choir of monks, cloistered behind the altar, chanted their hymns—a moment of transcendent serenity.
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▶ "The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine (Spanish: Catedral basílica de San Agustín) is a historic cathedral in St. Augustine, Florida, and the seat of the Catholic Bishop of St. Augustine. Constructed over five years (1793–1797), it was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark on April 15, 1970. Its congregation, established in 1565, is the oldest Christian congregation in the contiguous United States."
— Wikipedia.
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(english follow) Il existe des lieux où les mots ne sont plus d’aucune utilité. Ces lieux transcendent notre existence et, dans un moment d’éternité, nous nous fondons en eux comme la partie dans le tout. (Patrice-photographiste)
There are places where words are no longer useful. Those places transcend our existence, and in a moment of eternity, we melt into them as the part in the whole. (Patrice-photographiste)
The William Jolly Bridge is a heritage-listed vehicular and pedestrian bridge over the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is a steel frame arch bridge with an unusual concrete veneer and was opened to traffic in 1932.
This Brisbane City Council projection on the William Jolly Bridge was for Black History Month: Maiwar. It was "A Transcendent Vision (of life, death and resurrection)" by Danie Mellor, an Australian artist who was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
Our Daily Challenge - Traces of the past
Third in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is twenty-four inches (61cm) in height and perhaps 400 years old.
'Wild Bonsai' is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet (1.5m) in height and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevases or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.
'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.
A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is something over 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan.
* in Explore
......"Suddenly, in a surge of vivace, the ground released me. I was the prayer -flung like a shooting star into the resonating
hymn of the universe as it curved toward the event horizon! Far galaxies whirled like dervishes as the Second Movement began. The planets danced allegretto and spun round the sun in a great whoosh of angel wings."
a short story I wrote around Beethoven's 7th
and an animation I composed for it. Sadly it won't loop but was fun to try to create.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHxmAsINDk
story here:
cybeleshine.blog/2014/11/16/one-four-challenge-week-3/
the original picture was taken on a moor near Glencoe, Scotland.
Mosaics beneath a man-made Empyrean from the Golden Age of Byzantine Art.
The mosaics of the Nea Moni (New Monastery) date back to the 11th century.They are among the finest examples of "Macedonian Renaissance" Art and one of the three remaining collections of the mid-Byzantine period,left in Greece.*Click on image to enlarge
The golden background occupies a large portion of the surface and as the light reflects on it,it enhances the transcendency of the depictions to a supreme,spiritual world.
The Monastery,in the island of Chios,is listed in the monuments protected by UNESCO’s World Heritage.
The Greatest of God's secrets is God Himself ...
Looking at Easter from a diffenent angle & wishing you a Happy Easter & a Joyous Spring Season
*Posted for the Greek Orthodox Easter 8 April 2018
*Easter Love to all of you ♥
Sometimes it's the air, sometimes it's the smell.
Sometimes it's the sound of water, sometimes it's the stillness.
It's tapping into the transcendent, and teaching your heart to see it,
and making your eyes and hands express transcendent paintings. "
- Gil Dellinger -
This was fun and what a nice result. The reality is that it's my kitchen grater and two lights behind it - a red and a blue. The result is an interesting vista of the little holes, with reflections from the lights swirling through the holes from behind.
The most noticeable differences between white-tailed and mule deer are ear size, tail color, and antler configuration. In many cases, body size is also a key difference. The mule deer's tail is black-tipped, whereas the white-tailed deer's is not. Mule deer antlers are bifurcated; they "fork" as they grow, rather than branching from a single main beam, as is the case with white-taileds.
(adj.) *Streaming
1. (of liquids) moving freely
2. moving smoothly and continuously.
The Streaming Brook, Piedmont, Quebec, Canada.
Pixquote:
"Sometimes it's the air, sometimes it's the smell. Sometimes it's the sound of water, sometimes it's the stillness. It's tapping into the transcendent, and teaching your heart to see it, and making your eyes and hands express it that creates unique photographs."
-Adaptation of a Gil Dellinger's quote on painting.
PixNote:
Did I increase saturation?...yes!. Did I use the curve?...yes!. Did I dodge and burn...yes!.
Did I add or substract data?...No!.
Did I use modern tools to adjust original to look like "what I felt" when I clicked? ...Yes
Do I want to justify myself? ...No!
Do I like it?...yes!
Did I have to add this note?...no! (or maybe!)
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I just created a new goup called XploreMyPix, which is where you can post pictures that you really really feel should be (or should have been) on Explore FrontPage, but did not!
...you are all invited to join!..............it is public, easy and ........................free:-)!
Más allá de su valor histórico y artístico concreto, la Iglesia Catedral tiene un valor y un significado teológico como referente para la vida pastoral de toda la diócesis, para los sacerdotes y para los fieles laicos. Además, las catedrales han sido lugar de forja de nuestra cultura occidental y europea; en ellas estuvo el embrión de las actuales universidades, anticiparon labores asistenciales y fueron talleres de arte. Hoy las catedrales son testigos de esa cultura y mensaje de transcendencia y de valores para las personas de hoy.
La Santa Iglesia Catedral, Consagrada a la Virgen María en su Asunción a los cielos, comienza a construirse en el año 1227, bajo el mandato del Arzobispo D. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, sobre los cimientos de la Catedral visigoda del S. VI, que fue utilizada como mezquita.
La construcción es de estilo gótico con una clara influencia francesa. Mide 120 m de largo por 60 m de ancho. Está compuesta por 5 naves, sostenida por 88 columnas y 72 bóvedas. Las naves laterales se prolongan por detrás de la Capilla Mayor rodeando el presbiterio y creando una girola con un doble pasillo semicircular. Su primer arquitecto es el maestro Martín, de origen francés, a quien se deben las trazas de la planta y los comienzos de la obra en la cabecera del templo.
Hasta el siglo XIV no se pudieron cerrar las naves laterales, y es en este mismo siglo cuando se construye, en época del Arzobispo D. Pedro Tenorio y en el costado norte, el claustro bajo con sus dependencias, siendo la más notable la Capilla de San Blas que le servirá de enterramiento.
En el siglo XV, se levanta la capilla de San Pedro junto a la entrada del claustro, y posteriormente se construye, en la cabecera, la Capilla de Santiago, panteón familiar de la familia Luna. Al finalizar este siglo, en 1493, siendo Arzobispo don Pedro González de Mendoza, consejero del Isabel la Católica, se cierra la última bóveda dándose por concluida esta magna construcción.
En el siglo XVI se construye el retablo, parte alta del coro y rejas. En la primera mitad del siglo, se cierran todas las vidrieras y se realizan diversas modificaciones de planta como son la sala capitular y capilla Mozárabe con Cisneros, y la capilla de los Reyes Nuevos con Fonseca.
La Catedral es la Iglesia Madre de la diócesis por estar en ella la cátedra o sede del Obispo, lugar desde el que preside la Eucaristía y las demás celebraciones litúrgicas y ejerce su magisterio. Por tanto, la Catedral es como un signo visible de la iglesia particular, porción de la Iglesia de Jesucristo una, santa, católica y apostólica.
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My picture here just 'happened' and I love it. As soon as I saw it in the camera, I knew this was it.
For me, it brought to mind the saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". In other words, what I think is beautiful, you may not. In essence, there's a literal meaning - that the perception of beauty is subjective - what one person finds beautiful another may not.
In researching the word I learned that it was Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton) who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of 'The Duchess', who first wrote the actual line in 1878 "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Even before that, however, 16th century author William Shakespeare said "Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues". Then Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote: "Beauty, like supreme dominion, is but supported by opinion." David Hume in his Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, wrote "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
To make things even more interesting, it seems the saying was known as far back as the 3rd century BC in Greece. Whoever thought that researching just one word could bring up so much interesting information?
Every mind is of trillion deviations
from that world that remain the same
today and ever before
The sun rose, the birds called,
You and me rushed out to ' this' world
Just one day, 'our' world began
The sun set, the birds came homeward
You and me will slip out of this world,
Just one day, our world died
'Self ' in the lap of nature's bounty,
out in the world of happiness and joy
today and ever before .
- Anuj Nair
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standing on the ice at sunrise, Lake Michigan, Upper Peninsula, Michigan - December 19 2024
-notes-
If you ever get a chance to stand on an iced over body of water, do it. It's otherworldly. The sounds of a monumental force beneath your feet ebbing and flowing, making the rocks crack and ice groan, echoing across the surface, is a little bit transcendental.
It was a rewarding close to a long hot Alberta Summer day with an enchanting sunset on a calm lake near Calgary.
You know those moments that just feel transcendent? This was one of them, with the deer, the slight fog, the dusk...
The first snow whispers to the mountains that winter is here. Sometimes the seasons transition gently...sometimes the seasons collide in a fury...but the transcendent beauty of the Tetons is always constant. ❄️
*Thank you so much for your interest in my work. I greatly appreciate it.
ONCE again Philippe thank you for the texture.
A vida é um psicodelismo, nos é que nao percebemos que levamos tudo muito a serio e de repente, a idade chega e nao aproveitamos o tempo em que a saude superava o dinheiro e a gente podia tomar sorvete, comer de tudo e ficar acordado ate tarde.
Ai ficamos serios e o realismo toma conta da gente e quando tentamos acordar de nossos sonhos ja é tarde, a morte nos esperando de braços abertos, com muito choros e depois lembranças, mas ate que com a chegada da internet, a gente pode pedir alguém para pagar anualmente uma tarifa e o povo que fica pode assim lembrar da gente, das besteiras e das coisas loucas que deixamos a mente transcendenter para o papel, coisas dos nossos sentimentos, caóticos, biopiticos (ou miopiticos) que eu queria dizer, ou quem sabe, capaz de despertar nos sábios uma coceira mental.
É isso ai, falei falei e nao falei nada.
Boa noite.
NYC, 12/21/2017
This is the previously posted image of the light refracted through a globule of river ice, rotated and symmetrically copied twice to reveal this visually intense image. The complex symmetrical geometry could be seen as a conceptual vision of the divine consciousness manifest in the structure of the universe and the transcendent dimensions of reality.
www.instagram.com/lightcrafter.artistry
Lying here, beneath the stars, I think: no matter who you are, where you are on Earth, we look up to the same night sky. Our eyes are drawn upward in wonder of the vast, luminous meadows of space that our spherical mote of dust, beloved planet Earth, lazily drifts through. Though we inhabit different areas of this planet, we are united in our primal, transcendent connection to the stars above. Looking up to the stars, feeling lost in the vastness above me, I feel a euphoric chill run up my body, my mind humming with an elevated awareness of myself and my place in the cosmos, and I like to think of someone else, somewhere, doing the exact same thing at that moment; far away, yet united in our shared human experience.
All images © 2017 Daniel Kessel.
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From a recent morning full of glorious conditions at Padley Gorge in the Peak District. This place as a magical feel at all times, but it was positively transcendent on this particular day.
Twenty-third in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is fifty-six inches (1.4m) in height and perhaps 1500 years old.
'Wild Bonsai' is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet in height (1.5m) and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevases or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.
'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.
A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is something over 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan.
Kyoto, Japan. Diptych.
My heart is always with the Mavericks. In German they are called "Einzelgänger" - someone who walks without company.
A beautiful and mesmerizing voice sounds beyond the abstract veiled curtain of branches and tully fog. What a transcendent moment as I stand to witness the morning and magic.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! May the New Year reveal new visions, purpose and meaning to your photo life!