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"Du sollst aus Bösem Gutes machen, denn es gibt nichts, woraus man es sonst erschaffen könnte." (R.P. Warren)
(aus "Picknick am Wegesrand" von Arkadi und Boris Strugatzki)
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"You shall make good out of evil, for there is nothing else from which it can be created." (R.P. Warren)
(from "Roadside. Picnic" von Arkadi and Boris Strugatzki)
Excerpt from wanderwomom.wordpress.com/2022/11/01/hong-kongs-art-lane-...:
Transformation by Riitta Kuisma, Finland | Depicts the urban transformation process by incorporating splash paint and train (not in photo) as artistic elements; vivid butterflies (not in photo) and a young dancing girl with flute as musical elements and infiltrating vitality, happiness and positive elements through vibrant colours.
I was fortunate enough to witness the full process of a dragonfly (Possibly a Spiny Baskettail) emerging and transforming from the nymph stage. The full sequence is here if you are interested:
When the light reflects
in oh so many ways
we wander into rain
to cool our brains
and watch afar for
the sounds of
sizzling.
glittering inspiration in the air
keeping my motivation flowing
- an enlightening moment
~mao~
What I loved about this walk was that I didn't know what I was going to find. This golden moment was captured in Oregon during the fall when leaves undergone a transformation of colors. It was a season of pure magic.
We were back to the gannet colony on Oct 10, 26 days later than the previous visit. There had been quite a change in the appearance of the chicks and many of them had already left the nesting rock. I believe this to be the same chick as I photographed on Sept 14th (see next image)
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Northern Gannets
Cape St Mary's NL
The sun is getting high enough in the sky to start burning off the heavy fog that has enveloped the Morton Arboretum on Christmas Eve, 2019. I was struck by the sense of transformation when I made this photo. Night into day. Fog into sunlight. And the last few leaves still hanging on for a bit longer despite winter's arrival with the solstice three days earlier. All life is change.
In healthy togetherness there is a beautiful though risky and vulnerable transformation when the parts of you that are wounded, harmed, neglected, faded, worn and torn start to be seen, validated and cared for. You internally take the shape and meaning of a butterfly and—often alongside the deep sadness and pain—begin to experience metamorphosis and live in a new light, filled with a little more life, courage, hope and grace as your body, spirit and soul begin to break free from a lifelong prison. It certainly isn’t easy, and—as you are able—it is worth taking the steps of the intense work and courage that is required at a pace appropriate for you.
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As I looked through some photos I’ve taken I noticed a few that I categorized and called “together” (it seems perhaps this has become a new, naturally occurring photo project)—they were photos of two dandelions or two leaves together at various stages of growth or decay. This reminded me of moments with a few people who are of incredible support to me, moments when I was not alone (feeling and/or being alone has often been my experience throughout my life and something I’d often been drawn to capture—the feeling of “alone”) and what a gift it is to truly be together in each other’s presence, connected in a healthy, meaningful, mindful, validating, authentic, caring way, to be seen and accepted in a healing way (which I believe also has some similarities to relationship with God) though it can be scary and overwhelming because it’s so unfamiliar to me. I’ve been thinking about this a lot as I look at, share a few of the “together” photos and notice and capture more “together” sightings I encounter. And it has taken me a significant amount of time to even been able to try to put the meaning I see in the photos into words because it is a very deep, foreign experience to me and I didn’t really have the words for it.
The hot and humid air of the past few days has kicked the growth of fungi fruits into a higher gear in southeastern Ontario. Over the years, I discovered that some particular tree limbs and logs, laying on the forest floor along some of the trails I regularly frequent, can always be counted on to produce a variety of photogenic mushrooms. Hence, why Landons Bay is often my go-to site for photo hunting mushrooms. At first, my attention was drawn to many conspicuous fungi fruits of mushrooms that offered attractive forms and colours for macro photography.
The same decaying wood surfaces occasionally hosted patches of brown wood hair, about 1-2 cm in height, belonging to the same Fungi Kingdom as mushrooms but assigned to a different group. The same wood substrates also presented, at first glance, unappealing slimy patches. A closer macro-level examination revealed that the masses, generally 1 to 2 cm in diameter, consisted of crops of delicate egg-like sacks seemingly sitting directly on the substrate and having the consistency of very thin Jello that could be broken up by the slightest touch. Little did I know that the white to yellowish patches of slime were the early development stages of the nearby brown hairs to which most of my lens time was trained upon.
However, upon consulting the literature on Slime Molds, I realized that they and Chocolate Tube Slimes were one and the same and that the Slimes would morph, literally overnight, into Wood-hair organisms. Indeed, upon returning, 21 hours later, to the same decaying wood substrates, I discovered that the Slime Molds had indeed undergone amazing fast transformations into forms that are akin to brown hair strands that are spore-laden tubular structures supported by slender black stems, the whole organism offering no resistance to the slightest of contact such as by rain drops to release countless microscopic airborne spores into small brown clouds that would deposit on the immediately surroundings or driven away further depending on wind strength.
Although this is a widespread phenomenon of nature, this nonetheless was another of my hands-on nature discoveries from hiking the trails of Landons Bay Parks Canada in the Thousand Islands, Ontario, Canada.
Butterflies represent transformation. I have been seeing a lot of butterflies lately and saw this when visiting Mall of America in Minneapolis.
It is said that butterflies are a symbol of ease, change and transformation :-)
This brightly illuminated one I dedicate to my sister Susan www.youtube.com/watch?v=blDuIH1yqzY
Brimstone Butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) on Dandelion blossom in backlighting :-)
Seen in the nature-sanctuary Steinhuder Meer - Niedersachsen - Germany.
Es wird gesagt, dass Schmetterlinge ein Symbol für Leichtigkeit, Wandel und Transformation sind :-)
Diesen hell erleuchteten hier widme ich meiner Schwester Susanne www.youtube.com/watch?v=blDuIH1yqzY
Zitronenfalter (Gonepteryx rhamni) auf Löwenzahnblüte im Gegenlicht :-)
Gesehen im Naturschutzgebiet am Steinhuder Meer - Niedersachsen.
... El telón se levantaba y aparecía una ruina esquelética de un edificio. ... ;-))
The curtain was getting up and a skeletal ruin of a building was appearing. ;-))
Le rideau se levait et une ruine squelettique d'un édifice apparaissait. ;-))
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven"
PCA time!
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Assignment: Transformation
Mission:
According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, the general definition of transformation is "to change in composition or structure; to change the outward form or appearance of; to change in character or condition".
The goal of this assignment is to create a work that embodies the idea of transformation - how you see it, what it means to you as a person and as a photographer. As the examples illustrate below, I believe you can have success showing transformation in a concrete or metaphysical way.
WIT (What it took): See my thoughts below in the first comment.
As you walk up and down the 138 steps of Frank Gehry’s staircase in the Art Gallery of Ontario, new geometric forms reveal themselves with every step. A photobook could be made with just photos of this staircase, but I will stop at these two three...
(After all, our new masters will only allow me 1,000 photos...)
Attraction park Rivoli Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
A former waste incineration plant, converted into an attraction park, designed around recycled attractions. This was one of the chimneys.
I think this park will never open.