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As I get older, my hands sometimes shake uncontrollably. Even using my tripod, I tend to jerk the camera when pressing the shutter. Out of 10 or 15 shots, this was the best I could get of this Orb Weaver having his breakfast.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it... ;)
This place is full of petrified wood and fossilized dinosaur bone fragments.
Job 21:6 “When I think about this, I'm petrified with terror and my body shudders uncontrollably.”
Revelation countdown to nuclear meltdown:
“US working on nuclear bomb that could kill 300,000 in Moscow: report”
I hope you're not bored yet....! Next Alien.
Have a grand week guys.Thanks for comments and faves.
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Reminds me of a Blonde Joke...
This man and his wife (who is Blonde) were watching the morning news when the announcer was handed a piece of paper...
"This just in, an airplane just crashed with 2 Brazilian men on board, more details to follow.."
The man said, "That's too bad. I feel sorry for them."
Then the Blonde breaks into a fit of uncontrollable sobbing, "How terrible to loose so many men in one plane crash...waaahhh!"
The man, looking a bit confused, gathered his wife into his arms and said "Honey it was only 2 Brazilian men in that plane."
The wife, wiping her eyes but continued choking back sobs said, "Didn't you hear the news, 2 Brazilian men! ... How many is a Brazilian?!"
"No, no, no honey, the 2 men were from Brazil, there were only 2 on the plane."
HAHAHA - Hey it's Monday and my wife is a Blonde, so I can tell this kind of joke! (she does not understand them anyway!)
One measure of humane, sustainable, biblical wisdom is not to take oneself so seriously that one becomes grimly self-focused but, instead, so to trust God that one retains a lifelong personal capacity for childlike fun, youthful play, hilarious frivolity, uncontrollable laughter to the point of tears and goofing off with a clear conscience. I believe this. (Ray Ortlund)
This photograph was taken at Pushkar Annual Camel Fair-2016. This place is quite famous for rural Rajasthani culture and camel trade. This pic was captured when the camel was vaccinated and it became uncontrollable. It was a rare sight since camels are domesticated animals, so that made me capture the picture.
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This is a cut down version of the original. The car was not moving when the photo was taken. The tutorial purpose was to see if it could be made to appear to be moving. Motion blur to wheels and plain walls in background. The camera boom was stuck by a pad to the bonnet so it had to digitally disappear. Image in original format too wide for Flickr so it has been cropped. Advertising slogan and frame added.
I take no credit for original image of static car. Provided free to magazine readers for tutorial purposes.
Advertising people don’t like outdoor shots - too many uncontrollable things. They are control freaks so a nice bare garage and a car and Photoshop is what they like.
That time i was 400 meter away from droneand 170 meter high/ The battery was critical low.
at 10% charge, it became almost uncontrollable. If at 20% you can still activate the "return home" mode, then at 10% he just tries to sit on the spot where he is. He quickly lost height and spin, but under it was cathedral and a crowd of people. Holding the button up, I was somehow return him the take-off place, when the charge was only 2%. Everything happened pretty quickly, about 2-3 minutes, but then it seemed like an eternity.
One nasty side effect of the snow and ice recently is that people seem to have an uncontrollable urge to throw things onto the frozen surface of the canal. Not so bad when it is a snowball or stone, rrying to break the ice, but a lot of litter and trash is thrown on, from traffic cones to a lot of booze bottles. Then the ice melts and they either float around or sink to block up the bottom of the canal. I know they say "serve chilled" on the bottles, but this isn't what they meant, I think...
Un irrefrenabile bisogno di comunicare le proprie emozioni innescate dalla visione del bello.
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An uncontrollable need to communicate their emotions triggered by the vision of beauty.
Symbolic representations of what's being stripped away from me. The past six weeks has been a whirlwind of fighting, anger, disappointment, resentment and circular arguments, situations that go round and round...feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and failure...a stubborn inability to just let go because no matter what is going on, I can't escape the intense love for the other, even as dreams shatter and worlds crumble beneath my feet. Crying uncontrollably every chance I get to be by myself, wondering how we could fail so miserably and praying that this is all just a test and we'll come out stronger, closer and more in love...but today...today, I stopped praying, stopped wishing, stopped wanting, started accepting.
But you've seen me bare
You've seen me covered up
Maybe I'm not scared
Of what you're thinking of.
A second developer after lith is usually used to increase the colourfulness. This works well with gycin and catechol combined with the addition of ammonium chloride. However, especially with true warmtone papers such as Forte and Fomatone, it is also possible to achieve a more subtle colouring instead of the very intense reddish or yellowish tone. When choosing the second developer, the superadditivity property of the respective developer substances must be taken into account. Even when stopped and rinsed after the lith developer, small amounts of hydroquinone are still present in the paper, which in combination with other substances (in the case of the necessary overexposure for lith) can lead to rapid blackening. With Meritol as a second developer, the superadditivity of the three developer substances with the hydroquinone of the lith developer does not play a decisive role for the rapidity of the developer. Nevertheless, rinsing should be done between the developers, because with the small amount of the second developer the sulphite content is too low to compensate the higher oxidation potential caused by the entrained hydroquinone. So even at high dilution, this combination is not easy to handle. It is important not to expose too long, but just enough to result in a development time of between 6 and 7 minutes in lith for the critical fomatone paper. A good indication for the onset of blackening, is the co-exposed negative border. As soon as the deep shadows in the image are also blackened, change to a tray of water. Here the mid-tones increase in density a little.
After rinsing twice, develop in Meritol until the highlights show the desired density. This developer should be diluted at least 1+200, even then it still works uncontrollably fast. Adding ammonium chloride lowers the pH value, which results in a slower development speed, but also in a higher colour saturation again.
Ein zweiter Entwickler nach Lith wird in der Regel eingesetzt, um die Farbigkeit zu erhöhen. Dies funktioniert gut mit Gycin und Catechol verbunden mit dem Zusatz von Ammoniumchlorid. Insbesondere bei echten Warmtonpapieren wie Forte und Fomatone, ist es aber auch möglich, statt des sehr intensiven rötlichen oder gelblichen Tons eine dezentere Farbigkeit zu erzielen. Bei der Wahl des zweiten Entwicklers ist die Eigenschaft der Superadditivität der jeweiligen Entwicklersubstanzen zu berücksichtigen. Auch wenn nach dem Lithentwickler gestoppt und abgespült wird, sind noch geringe Mengen Hydrochinon im Papier vorhanden, die im Zusammenwirken mit anderen Substanzen (bei der erforderlichen Überbelichtung für Lith) zu einer rapiden Schwärzung führen können. Bei Meritol als Zweitentwickler spielt die Superadditivität der drei Entwicklersubstanzen mit dem Hydrochinon des Lithentwicklers keine entscheidende Rolle für die Rapidität des Entwicklers. Dennoch sollte zwischen den Entwicklern gespült werden, denn bei der geringen Menge des zweiten Entwicklers ist der Sulfitgehalt zu gering, um das höhere Oxidationspotential durch das eingeschleppte Hydrochinon auszugleichen. Selbst bei hoher Verdünnung ist diese Kombination also nicht einfach zu handhaben. Wichtig ist, nicht übermäßig zu belichten, aber gerade so viel, dass bei dem kritischen Fomatonepapier eine Entwicklungszeit zwischen 6 und 7 Minuten im Lith resultiert. Ein guter Anhaltspunkt für das Einsetzen der Schwärzung, ist der mitbelichtete Negativrand. Sobald auch die tiefen Schatten im Bild geschwärzt sind, wird in eine Schale mit Wasser gewechselt. Hier legen die Mitteltöne noch an Dichte zu.
Nach zweimaliger Spülung wird in Meritol entwickelt bis die Lichter die gewünschte Deckung aufweisen. Dieser Entwickler sollte mindestens 1+200 verdünnt werden, selbst dann wirkt er noch unkontrollierbar schnell. Ein Zusatz von Ammoniumchlorid senkt den pH-Wert, was eine langsamere Entwicklungsgeschwindigkeit, aber auch wieder eine höhere Farbigkeit zur Folge hat.
Lith and Meritol for high-contrast negatives only.
Fomatone 131
Easy Lith FT Special 1+10 6 mins,
Meritol 1+200 (5ml + 5ml NH4Cl 20% to one litre water) 2:30 mins.
Life is like the ocean. It can be uncontrollable, not projectable and incalculable.
Sometimes it’s calm and quite: so peaceful and innocent. And you can slide over the water surface easily – and everything is going with ease and fast-forward – but you still feel relaxed.
And sometimes your swimming against big waves, heavy storms, the water is rough and rigid – you need too much effort to move forward, you have to fight for your life or just feel anxiety for the unknown.
But life is like the ocean, so beautiful, artificial and there is so much to see and learn from it. You just need to be open and alert. And start to witness your environment, streams and beings around you.
And you will see: the more you witness, the more you start to love and see the beauty in it.
In the Wizard's Chambers
Location: Vixen's Creative Studios
Photographer & Model: Michaela Vixen (VampBait69)
Set Design & Creation: Michaela Vixen (VampBait69)
Taken on 7 June 2015 and uploaded 13 November 2024.
A sunnier, warmer day...taken at Swanscombe Peninsula, a piece of land poking into the River Thames between Northfleet and Greenhithe. It remains blighted by the fictitious "London Resort" scam; some moneybags making silly planning applications to build an enormous theme park, but never getting anywhere...money laundering ? One wonders. I can see these suited bloviators drooling uncontrollably as they talk endlessly about the meaningless despoiling of land for PROFIT and specious prestige...
Daisies are far more pleasant and necessary, of course, and there can never be too many of them.
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I'm sure it hasn't gone unnoticed that my stream tends to blip between 'twee and goth', my own dissatisfaction getting the better of me at times. If I'm to post my true side, I wouldn't say 'love' it's more of an uncontrollable desire, then it might be something similar to the above.
The short wave radio ariel on the left gives it away, shot through my windscreen in a moment of empathy for the weather conditions and possibly the telegraph poles leaning in the same direction as the banana trees in the driving rain.
Sadly, I wasn't able to capture the gentleman on the bike in front before diving for cover but I did at least know what I was looking for at the time which is an odd feeling of satisfaction in itself.
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With photography you often fall in love with the moment of creation, the hours that you sometimes spend taking the same image over and over again to make sure you captured the best possible moment that day. Watching the landscape change during golden hour and blue hour and seeing the beauty unfold infront of your lens can be such a rewarding thing that the image almost doesn't matter anymore.
Other times it's the final image that makes you happy. Miserable moments and hours can still lead to a result that makes it all worthwhile.
And when things go really well it's both.
Let me tell you that the hours I spent on Marienbrücke to get this image were by no means enjoyable. I have never been so cold in my life. In fact, twenty minutes before golden hour even started my body was already shaking in an uncontrollable manner. This was about 6 weeks ago and one of my toes is still a little numb.
However, when looking at the result, I'm glad I stayed.
The Wrong Banana's
Don't you hate it when you buy the wrong banana's ..?
HEALTH WARNING - do not, ABSOLUTELY do not click that link unless you want to be singing a silly song for the rest of your life.... trust me, people will shun you, small children will run from you as you uncontrollably sing it's words...
Sometimes a place makes you start smiling uncontrollably when you see it for the first time ever. We were only here for half an hour in a fierce and windy hangover from Storm Ciara, who by this time had moved on to batter other parts of the land before heading further east to trouble our friends in Scandinavia.
Point of Ayr Lighthouse sits on the North Wales coast, not far from the Dee estuary. Further research brought the surprising news that it was built as early 1776, and then even more surprising news that it fell into disuse nearly 140 years ago. I think it looks pretty good for its age, despite a visit with about 20 gallons of masonry paint being a tad overdue perhaps. Now privately owned, it has a reputation for being one of the most haunted buildings in Wales, with reports of a ghostly lighthouse keeper, possibly with a broken heart. If you've got a broken heart, a lighthouse might be a good place to stew in solitude I suppose. Especially one where you can nip out to get the shopping in at low tide.
The fact that this is the second of three images I'll be sharing from a single visit to this location is testimony to how engaging the place is. This one might be my own favourite, with the dunes blowing hazily as a frame to the subject and the high tide rolling in forcefully across the tiny remaining strip of exposed beach. Despite the strong wind, careful selection of a sheltered position and a sturdy tripod made it possible to use an ND filter and slow down the exposure time to catch the movement of both the dunes and the sea. It's a long way from home, but a location I've really fallen for and I'm already thinking about the compositions that might be on offer during low tide and dramatic light.
Oil stick and graphite powder on Stonehenge paper, 16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
website: pamelaspeight.com/
This series consists of twelve oil stick and graphite powder drawings on primed Stonehenge paper. Each image depicts an animal considered "invasive" in the bio-region in which I live. While working on them I felt that the bright oil stick colors were too "pretty" and made the animals look overly cute. I wanted them to have a more shadowy presence to reflect our ambiguous relationship with them, which the layer of graphite powder added. There are numerous introduced species that flourish uncontrollably, to the detriment of indigenous animals and plants, because natural predators or other constraints are few or non-existent. We make every attempt to reduce their numbers, but they have learned to adapt and thrive in the environments we have constructed. Often referring to them as nuisance species or carriers of disease, they seem to exist in the darker, murkier places that inhabit our subconscious. However, the idea that they are entirely "bad" may be misplaced, especially when we overlook our own role in their transport, either intentionally or unintentionally, on our various migrations across the planet. Like us, they are driven to survive.
This young female jaguar lives in a State Park in the northern Pantanal (Mato Grosso, Brazil).
The Pantanal is the world's largest fresh-water wetland, yet it is now burning uncontrollably.
Home to the highest known density of jaguars, strong hold for the endangered giant river otter, holds the largest of just three populations of the worlds largest macaw - the Hyacinth Macaw. Home to giants - the Giant Anteater, the Giant Armadillo, the world's tallest canine (Maned Wolf), South Americas largest land mammal (Brazilian Tapir), the world's largest rodent (Capybara).
Human caused fires to remove forests and stimulate grass growth go out of control and spread. Reduced rains during the wet season have failed to quench the fires. The dry season is back in full force making the whole ecosystem like a matchstick.
Forest are burning. Grasslands are burning. Animals are burning.
Learn.
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The Pantanal Relief Fund is employing people out of work due to loss of tourism from COVID to create fire breaks and help put out fires, buying protective clothing, food baskets, paying for veterinary treatment for rescued wildlife, and more.
Visit their Go Fund Me page to learn more and donate.
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Time Trap/ Built to Spill
Awaken me to the light
spreading thru ice crystals
awaken me
with colorful noise
racket of the Earth spinning
uncontrollably
Polar bear youngsters at Blijdorp Rotterdam Zoo.
One of the fluffy three month old twins, tongue still uncontrollably flicking out occasionally .... cuteness overdose.
If you didn't know this about me before, here it is: I love the cyberpunk style.
I love the crazy hairstyles, the absurd fashion, and the melding of technological and organic body parts. It’s all so visually pleasing.
And so the celebrate the style that I love so much, I made these three figures.
Adam-7K: A relatively normal young man who spends much of his free time exploring the huge variety of nightclubs in his home city.
EE.V.: A musician whose real name she keeps secret, EE.V. is a leader of the Neo-Synth movement.
CrAIg: Stands for Creatively restricted Artificial Intelligence groupmind. One of the first fully autonomous android models, with much controversy surrounding its creation and continued operation.
A couple of notes about Adam-7K:
First, I took his name from a synthwave song that I really like.
Second, his hairstyle is one that I would probably try for if I didn't have uncontrollably curly hair.
Igniting throughout her soul and mind, the fire spread uncontrollably causing her to drop down on one knee, completely out of her control. Screams of pain, loud heartbeat and excruciating accusations all in her own voice full of blame, hatred and distaste.
It was getting harder to lift herself back up. How much she wanted to be able to look at the sky again, follow dreams that were lost behind her and detach herself from being bound by what she shouldn't any longer. Mistakes are redundant and repetitive. Disguised in the form of excuses and self inflicted obligations. For the greater cause? Or just for her own demise? Wilting away countless images until it is left at the foot of being just an 'idea', never a reality.
"Get up!" said a voice. much to her surprise. With barely any strength left, she focused on that voice, the one that seemed to grow louder and louder compared to the rest.
"You came this far, no giving up now.." the voice continued. "This is just the beginning!" it shouted even more in a sheer determined encouragement.
The burning sensation through her self shifted into the air around her that just made her exhale a breath. A sudden drop of water was felt on the back of her neck, followed by more drops as the rain broke whatever the fire was doing inside of her. The smell of fresh soil danced along her senses, the heavy weight slowly lifted from her back.
The shattering of something inside her gave birth to a new horizon, gave reason to move on and it was oddly not that difficult to...spread her wings.
P.S. Kintsugi is going to be closed soon. I'll surely miss this place.
SLURL: Kintsugi; Spirited Beyond
my psychiatric series is growing...
the term dipsomania describes a medical condition involving an uncontrollable craving for alcohol. It was used in the 19th century to describe a variety of alcohol-related problems, most of which are most commonly conceptualized today as alcoholism
this picture was inspired by my contact javier (jimmy297.)
gracias javier, eres fantàstico!!
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Oil stick and graphite powder on Stonehenge paper, 16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
website: pamelaspeight.com/
This series consists of twelve oil stick and graphite powder drawings on primed Stonehenge paper. Each image depicts an animal considered "invasive" in the bio-region in which I live. While working on them I felt that the bright oil stick colors were too "pretty" and made the animals look overly cute. I wanted them to have a more shadowy presence to reflect our ambiguous relationship with them, which the layer of graphite powder added. There are numerous introduced species that flourish uncontrollably, to the detriment of indigenous animals and plants, because natural predators or other constraints are few or non-existent. We make every attempt to reduce their numbers, but they have learned to adapt and thrive in the environments we have constructed. Often referring to them as nuisance species or carriers of disease, they seem to exist in the darker, murkier places that inhabit our subconscious. However, the idea that they are entirely "bad" may be misplaced, especially when we overlook our own role in their transport, either intentionally or unintentionally, on our various migrations across the planet. Like us, they are driven to survive.
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“THE WEATHER OF LOVE
Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hour.
This is how love is,
An uncontrollable beast
In the form of a flower.
The sun does not always shine on it.
Nor does the rain always pour on it
Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
This is how love is,
Perfection is a delusional vision.
So love the person who loves you
Unconditionally,
And abandon the one
Who only loves you
Under favorable
Conditions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Snow elf: - Give me a secret that I can use to subdue the element of fire.
Thousand-faced tree: - But you already have power over water and earth, why do you need power over fire?
Snow elf: - I believe that I can use the element of fire to help the world.
Thousand-faced tree: -
What help can there be from fire, it destroys, burns forests, mutilates living beings.
Snow elf: - But fire can also warm and help in the processing of food, which also saves quite a few lives.
Thousand-faced tree: - You don't need to subdue the element of fire to keep warm against the fire and warm your food with it. It is enough to light it and use only a small part of its power, as people do.
Snow elf: - But you yourself say that the element of fire is uncontrollable, sometimes a small part of the fire under the power of human hands can set fires. If I could control this element, I could order him to retreat.
Thousand-faced tree: - And you think you can do that? To control the element that was created before the existence of the world itself?
Snow elf: - I hope so, because I can already control the elementals of water and earth.
Thousand-faced tree: - The nature of the elements of earth and water is completely different from that of fire. The earth and water themselves want to be controlled, they are very soft and malleable, while fire is a proud element. Even Prometheus couldn't hold him to the end.
Snow elf: - So, won't you give me the secret of fire?
Thousand-faced tree: - Well, I can give you this secret, but for a reason, the queen of spiders lives in a cave not far from here... Shelob is her name, if you remember, she brought quite a few troubles during the battle with Sauron, she dried up many of my fellow Ents... Bring me her head and I'll tell you everything I know about fire.
Snow elf: - Shelob? You must be joking, no one can defeat her, she's like a goddess among spiders...
Thousand-faced tree: -
You've heard my suggestion, if it doesn't suit you, you should forget about controlling the element of fire...
Snow elf: - You're putting me in a sad position, well, okay... Have it your way...
The whispers emanating in chorus from the tree subsided and the eyelids of his many faces closed.
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I'm crazy, I'm crazy, I'm crazy, I'm crazy
Everybody in the world knows I'm a little twisted
Timanfaya es uno de los parajes más impactantes de la Tierra. Cincuenta kilómetros cuadrados de un paisaje quebrado por la furia incontenible de la naturaleza. Las erupciones volcánicas del período 1730-1736 y el corto pero intenso trimestre de 1824 arrasaron una cuarta parte de la superficie de Lanzarote. La inmensidad de su grieta geológica (16 kilómetros) explica la cantidad de lava y el alcance de las coladas, que sepultó pueblos (entre ellos Ximanfaya) y amplió los límites de la isla. El escenario, conocido también como las Montañas del Fuego, constituye una estampa de una belleza sublime. Un cuadro violento y abrupto que atrapa por sus serpenteantes formas y contornos, el crisol de colores de sus volcanes y ese aura mística que sobrevuela el lugar. Un espacio natural de incalculable valor reconocido con la máxima figura de protección medioambiental española, el título de Parque Nacional (1974).
Timanfaya is one of the most stunning landscapes on Earth. Fifty square kilometers of a bankrupt by the uncontrollable fury of nature scenery. Volcanic eruptions in the period 1730-1736 and the short but intense quarter of 1824 devastated a quarter of the area of Lanzarote. The immensity of geological crack (16 kilometers) explains the amount of lava and scope of the cast that buried villages (including Ximanfaya) and expanded the boundaries of the island. The stage, also known as the Fire Mountains, is a picture of a sublime beauty. A violent and abrupt box trapping for its winding shapes and contours, colors pot volcanoes and the mystical aura that hovers over the place. A natural area of incalculable value recognized with the greatest figure of Spanish environmental protection, the title of National Park (1974).
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So often we focus on what harm we have done to others and our need for forgiveness, but today I want to focus on the one who has been harmed. Most of us have been a recipient of some kind of intentional or unintentional harm. Our reaction to such an occurrence maybe bewilderment, hurt and anger. The one instigating the harmful action my feel justified in causing such harm, and my not want to communicate the reason for such harm (whether intentional or not)-leaving the victim in the dark. What are we to do? Jesus always gives us the answer…and not always in HIS words, but in the way HE lived his life.
A few years ago, I was on the freeway heading home. The day was snowy, and I was driving a rental car because the week before my car had been totaled in another accident. On this day, a semi-truck on my left, pulled into my lane from behind …he obviously didn’t see me…the truck slammed into the left rear end of my car…I fished tailed…but gained control. The truck then whipped pass me as though nothing had happened. He eventually stopped, and we talked. He denied that he hit me…where is the proof…where are the witnesses? At the end of the conversation, I could only tell him…that we both know the truth…that he knew he hit me. He then drove away. I was angry…and felt violated. I was a victim.
When someone is harmed, depending on the severity of the action done by someone else, our internal response will be swift and and maybe uncontrollable. We often replay the events over and over in our minds…the what ifs and the whys. We are consumed by the injustice! Unfortunately, each of us are going to experience being a victim several times in our life.
Our first reading from Sirach says it clearly…” Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.” When we have been “hurt” … it is in our nature to entertain thoughts of revenge and persist in holding on to anger . In our broken world we get to witness, when revenge is delivered. We see the effects of it in our families, in our communities, and in our world. Human history is littered with such examples.
Soon, after my accident, I forgave the driver of the truck. I reflected on how, the God of the universe, who emptied himself, walked among his creation…and they rejected him-they spat on him, scourged him, mocked him and crucified him. Jesus’ response “forgive them…they do not know what they are doing.” As a believer in Christ, I had no other choice but to forgive the anonymous truck driver that hit me.
This leads me to bring up a very important point… in our forgiveness, sometimes there will never be restitution nor reconciliation, when we have been injured or harmed. Reconciliation implies that the party that has done the harm is in a position to accept responsibility and is sorry…and the person harmed is in a position to forgive. However, when reconciliation does occur, it is a beautiful and healing experience.
Forgiveness does not require me to forget, however…it is not healthy for one to constantly replay the memory. When a child touches the hot stove for the first time, they remember what mother has said…and in the future avoid touching hot stoves. In forgiving someone, we shelf the anger and hurt. We are set free from the heaviness…and yet we have learned from the experience.
In our Gospel reading we are told by Jesus, that we are to forgive a person that has harmed us time after time. In the Lord's Prayer…we are asking for forgiveness from God for our sins…as we forgive those who sin against us. Our forgiveness from God is deeply linked to our ability to forgive others.
Finally, something that is often overlooked, is forgiving ourselves. We carry all the bad things we have done and rarely focus on all the good we have done. I don’t know why we do this, but the Church does provide us the sacraments of forgiveness. It is important for us to really believe that we have been forgiven and let go of this baggage.
We cannot walk through life without being wounded. The beauty of our faith is that we have a place to offer up our wounded hearts. Let us do so now!
Photo #5 of my hols
On route home from the Scottish Car Show, I was still keen to re visit St Monans to get a shot of the breakwater with the tide higher up. I had intended to be here at high tide but it was gridlock getting the car out of the showstand. Once on the road we nipped upto St Monans relatively fast. It was a comical trip to the zig zag this evening with lots of uncontrollable factors happening infront of the lens. Fisherman, Jet Skis and Lobster boats all nipping in and out of my first few shots. It was surprising how fast the tide seems to go out here as the water level was noticably dropping. Eventually I managed to get a few shots with no distractions. This was taken on a tiny 6" manfrotto tripod, my standard kit lens, Cokin A120 Grad for the sky and my Hi Tech prostop 10. In comparison to my low tide shot of the breakwater from Friday I notice I have composed this shot almost identical. I tried lots of angles and pov but this must please my eye as by coincedence I have went back to almost the same perspective. A most enjoyable shoot and a bonny wee place. I'll be back again im sure :-)
Explore #135 Jul 20 2015
Yesterday morning I drove out to Rannoch Moor against the advice of the weather forecast and I was treated to a few minutes of glorious, if intense, red light on the mountains.
This is a conflicting image for me. Yes, I've played with the contrast of the original RAW file and yes, the colours are somewhat overwhelming, but to me, this is what I witnessed. When I posted this to Twitter last night, I felt apprehensive as there are a few cliques of mostly male photographers who have no problem criticising without invitation.
You could say that when one posts to a social media platform, that opens up the playing field, and I appreciate that, but criticism is a delicate art, especially when it comes to creative endeavours. In a way, it's the artistic equivalent of mansplaining, as if they have a uncontrollable urge to pat me on head and say 'oh dear, you'll do better next time if you follow these rules'.
Saturation has become a dirty word (and rather aptly, both my vibrance and saturation sliders are at -3). More and more there is a pressure to conform to a very narrow definition of what photography is and can be. There is a little point in arguing with such individuals, there objective is less to help me grow as a creative, and more to make themselves feel superior.
As I said, criticism is a fine art that requires thought, trust and respect. Spitting out 140 characters of unconsidered criticisms is much more self-satisfying than taking the time to take me for a drink, or even send an e-mail, talking to me like a human, building up that relationship, for the benefit of both.
I'm no child, I'm a 34 year old woman who runs my own photography business, works as an academic, has travelled the world alone. When I was 17, I was told I'd never succeed as an artist because I was too literal, by a mostly male establishment. It stopped me pursuing the only career path I wanted when I was young. Nearly 20 years on, and the same bullshit elitism is still evident, in the photographic industry. This time, I won't be deterred by insecure egos. This is my vision, this is my art, it is no better or worse than anyone else's, it does not conform to someone else's idea of what photography is or can be. This is my vision of yesterday. Bright, colourful, intense, optimistic, much like me.
You want to discuss art with me? Let's discuss, respectfully, with love and honesty in a safe environment. I've grown so much from those kind of discussions. But I won't wither, or conform. It's never been my style.
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sorry this is another "just in case I don't get anything better" shot from about 1/2 way through the month.
They've been going through a behaviour modification program together, they are fine by themselves, but I needed some help/motivation to do something about their unmanageable behaviour around off-lead dogs (I've been uncontrollably dragged towards off-lead dogs). Biscuit is the instigator of the unpleasant/aggressive advances on unruly dogs, Saxon just comes in to see what's going on & with his size it can be a bit scary. The trainer is very competent & is very pleased with the work we've accomplished after only 3 sessions. I had obviously put in a lot of ground work (they both know how to heel & understand a bridge etc.) so it's been fairly easy going, but it's good to get a professional opinion & gives me the impetus to take control. I also feel I'm not very competent at identifying their intentions, so I'm learning a bit more about how they interact with other dogs, which is always useful, and giving me the confidence to intervene when necessary, and let it be otherwise, yes?
However, it has meant together these guys haven't had any off-lead park play for a while, therefore no photos of them together anywhere interesting.
This has been an extremely stressful, upsetting week but I'm happy to say Scotch is still with me and barring any unforeseen complications, now has a new lease on life.
It's easier to talk about now but without the surgery he had on Friday, this would've likely been the end of the road for Scotch. In fact, as awful as it sounds to say, I was desperately trying to prepare myself for this possibly being his final weekend with me.
He's resting comfortably and healing from surgery to repair his almost fully paralyzed larynx, a condition called Laryngeal Paralysis. I'll spare the technical details but essentially the mechanisms that help allow air in and out when breathing were losing functionality and the result is basically a slow suffocation. If you imagine a drain that's slowly getting clogged until absolutely no water can escape, that's similar to LarPar and Scotch was nearing that that inevitable end.
Something changed over the last week following his birthday and his strained breathing now verged on total distress and despite being so happy, it didn't seem like he could continue like this much longer. 5 minute walks outside would lead to 45 minutes of uncontrollable panting and in turn, the panting was developing into silent strained gasps, with him moving his head and neck around trying to find a position that would allow air in. He literally looked like a fish out of water and it was extremely hard to watch, since all I could do was pet him and try to keep him calm. I called the specialty vet first thing on Thursday morning, relayed my concerns, and asked if he could come in to see if he's still healthy enough for the surgery. They asked if Monday would be OK to come in and that's when it sort of sank in how bad his condition had gotten. I told them I didn't think he could survive until Monday and I'd take an appointment with whomever can do the surgery. That night was very difficult for me and it seemed like his fate would ultimately be decided in the morning when the vet would let me know if he was still a candidate for the surgery or if it was beyond that point. My concerns this summer were about the risks, tremendous cost, and whether at this point he could handle a major surgery again but this became the last resort and I hoped for some type of last minute reprieve.
People always tell you that when it's time to say goodbye to a pet, you just know and for the last few months, I wondered if one day I'd wake up and see something that made me realize and understand this. Each day that his breathing worsened, he still was always extremely happy and trying to run or play even if it was exacerbating his condition. Even this last week when it seemed like he was a few days away from losing all ability to breathe, I saw no sign from him that he was ready to give up and it was heartbreaking to think of having to potentially put down a dog who still desperately wanted to be here.
When we all headed to the vet, the doctor was one of the more calming and reassuring vets I've ever met and I left Scotch there relatively confident I'd get to see him again soon. After the anesthesia kicked in, they did find his airway almost completely closed and shut down and a few hours later, I received the call that the surgery was a success and everything was textbook. Probably the biggest relief I've had in as long as I can remember. My brother and I drove to the hospital this afternoon when he was ready for release and he was so happy to see us. His breathing was already close to normal and he even looks younger. A smiling dog is nice but a dog who spends most of his time awake smiling because he can't catch his breath is not and seeing him without that huge grin was amazing.
He has to stay calm for a few more days (even though he's already trying to run everywhere) and then in a few weeks, he'll get the stitches removed from his neck and can go back to...normal activity. This surgery will not reverse the damage done or other aspects of his older age and he now has some risk of aspiration from food and/or water that can lead to pneumonia but he alive which is the important thing and will presumably be able to do anything a healthy senior dog can other than swim and eat certain foods or treats. We will be able to go on walks for as long as he wants, he'll be able to run off leash, and now can enjoy the mountains a few hours away once the snow starts to fall. To say I'm happy is an understatement and I'm so glad my his time isn't yet up. Who knows, maybe he will start enjoying the car again and can come with me to shoot some sunsets, just like we used to.
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So...on to tonight's photo. This a 4 shot panorama from last sunday at Venice Beach. I spent the majority of the time there shooting straight out to sea, facing West and watching this amazingly moody sky. I think now on every single trip to Venice, I've attempted to take various panoramas of the pier, but rarely at this size. There was virtually no color out at sea other than a few stray purple/pink clouds, the thin ribbon of a sunset that swept across the horizon just below the cloud cover and the dark ominous blue and gray sky that never really changed much. I was fascinated by these conditions and figured I'd continue to photograph that view until it was too dark to effectively shoot in that direction. As usual, the views facing more South towards the pier and East towards the town of Venice and the boardwalk were better lit and there was actually some break in the clouds as well. I went with the 4 overlapping panels because I really wanted to capture the shifts in color and light that start over by the homes along the boardwalk and end out at sea. The sky to the right of the image is the same dark cloud mass present in nearly all my previous posts from this day. This color didn't last too long but fortunately I had enough time to get enough images for the panorama to mostly match up. When his health was fading, my desire to go out and shoot decreased dramatically and I started to skip beautiful sunsets to hang out with Scotch. Now that he's on the mend, I hope to get back into my routine soon.
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach Pier
Venice, California
October 30th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
4 panel panorama
@18mm
ISO 200
f/7.1
1/8th second
**I also wanted to thank everyone who took the time to listen to me rant about Scotch's health on here and offered support while I was trying to deal with and understand it all. As I've mentioned, I always grew up with dogs in the family but I was either too young or too far away to have any sort of knowledge on dealing with the last chapters in their lives so it's been a lot of learning as I go with Scotch. You all were very helpful and reassuring and I truly appreciate it!**
Una cámara intenta fotografiar un grupo de libros mientras rota descontroladamente. - A camera tries to photograph a group of books while rotating uncontrollably.
“THE WEATHER OF LOVE
Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hour.
This is how love is,
An uncontrollable beast
In the form of a flower.
The sun does not always shine on it.
Nor does the rain always pour on it
Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
This is how love is,
Perfection is a delusional vision.
So love the person who loves you
Unconditionally,
And abandon the one
Who only loves you
Under favorable
Conditions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Brusio spiral viaduct (Brusio circular viaduct) is a single-track nine-arched stone spiral railway viaduct on the Bernina railway. It was first opened on 1 July 1908.
A key structure of the World Heritage-listed Bernina railway, it is located near Brusio, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, and was built to limit the railway's gradient at that location within its specified maximum of 7%. It is considered to be one of the architectural highlights of the Rhaetian Railway.
The Brusio spiral viaduct forms part of the Bernina Railway section between Brusio and Campascio. It is just south of Brusio, and approximately 54 kilometres (34 mi) from St. Moritz.
During the construction of the Bernina Railway, its engineers decided that its route and features ought to follow and adapt to the natural landscape to the maximum extent, avoiding unnecessary complexity wherever possible. They also decided to avoid the construction of a rack-and-pinion railway due to a desire for the line to be suitable for both passenger and freight traffic; the adoption of a rack system would have made it impossible to run heavy trains, effectively preventing the line's use by freight trains. It was also desirable for the line to serve valley locations, and thus for the route to vary in height above the valley floor. It was such decisions that drove the construction of the Brusio spiral viaduct.
A spiral viaduct was required immediately south of Brusio to limit the railway's grade to the required maximum of 7%, so that the train would not slip on the way up, or be uncontrollable on the way down. The construction of a viaduct on this site had not been originally planned for; instead, a spiral tunnel was at one point intended to be constructed; however, local geological factors discouraged the boring of such a tunnel. Therefore, the line's engineers decided to construct a 360 degree curve with a 50 to 70 m (160 to 230 ft) radius, rising up from the valley floor, the viaduct forms a part of that curve.
The spiral viaduct is 110 metres (360 ft) long, has a horizontal radius of curvature of 70 metres (230 ft), a longitudinal slope of 7 percent, and is made up of nine spans, each 10 metres (33 ft) in length. The spiral configuration maximises the rate of elevation in comparison to a conventional curve, while also avoiding the inconveniences of a switchback alternative. Wherever reasonable, local materials were sourced for its construction.
On 1 July 1908, the viaduct was opened in conjunction with the opening of the Tirano–Poschiavo section of the Bernina Railway. In 1943, the whole of the Bernina Railway was taken over by the Rhaetian Railway; this company continues to both own and operate services across the spiral viaduct to the present day. The services the spiral viaduct carries facilitate not only local trade purposes but tourism as well. Since 2008, the spiral viaduct, along with the rest of the route, has been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A question to all my followers playing Horizon 4: Are you one of these people who just maxes every single car you own, so you can then drive around spamming head-to-head challenges at cars 3 or 4 classes slower than yours?
If you answered yes, why do you bother? It looks no fun at all and most of the people who do it, can't even drive the awful cars they've built (or auto-built). I dunno about you but I start getting frustrated when my car always understeers on every corner while also being uncontrollable when I get on the throttle. These idiots seem to make all their cars behave that way on purpose. I'm really glad collisions are turned off
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Just poked the camera at the glass window, had to avoid some reflections in the glass, you can see these in the right hand side marked with a little blue sky.. The light there was extensive so I had to shield that area with my hand around the G12 lens hood, I will load that later as a comparison, when I get back onto the PC..
#1 Explore for 6th July! And the first image I had on Explore! Next best one is #47
See here.. bighugelabs.com/scout.php
see Explor stats here..
xplor-stats.com/index.php?id=61804295@N00&mod=history
Another old Booking Station.. flic.kr/p/UvMsys
And threatened by the wild uncontrollable FIRES of Nov 2019!
For broken G12 Canons see this Thread www.flickr.com/groups/1088996@N21/discuss/721576285111577...
See more history here..
www.britannica.com/topic/Flickrcom
Flickr, photo-sharing Web site owned by SmugMug and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Flickr is an ad-supported service, free to the general public, that allows users to upload digital photographs from their own computers and share them online with either private groups or the world at large. In the early 2000s it won a fast-growing contingent of enthusiasts on the strength of its many social-networking features, most significantly the ability for users to discuss photographs online.
The service began as a peripheral feature in an online electronic game being developed by the Canadian software company Ludicorp. Company founders (and spouses) Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake ultimately abandoned the game and debuted Flickr by itself in 2004. Its key early innovation was the use of “free tagging,” a feature that enabled users to associate metadata tags—searchable keywords—of their own devising with any photographs they viewed, thus creating a large network of associations and allowing users around the world to discover each other’s work. By developing an unregulated but expansive “folksonomy,” Flickr spared itself the prohibitive cost of centrally creating links and groupings.
In March 2005 Flickr was purchased by the Internet giant Yahoo! and relocated to California. Under the Yahoo! banner, Flickr became a dominant photo-sharing service, increasing its roster of registered users from 250,000 to more than 2,000,000 in less than a year. The site continued rolling out new features, including copyright management, an interactive map of photographed locations, and customizable print products. In June 2008 Butterfield and Fake left Yahoo!, and Flickr continued to expand. In July 2008 Getty Images, one of the world’s largest photographic agencies, announced a plan to begin inviting selected Flickr members to participate in one of its commercial photo groups. Flickr was supplanted as the dominant photo-sharing service by social media companies such as Facebook and Instagram, and it also faced competition from other services that offered inexpensive online data storage. In 2017 the American telecommunications company Verizon Communications acquired Yahoo! and reorganized it into a subsidiary, Oath, and the next year SmugMug acquired Flickr from Oath.
Going postal is an American English slang phrase referring to becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment.
May 14, 2016. ©Copyright 2016 Karlton Huber Photography - all rights reserved.
The power and energy of the ocean is amazing and beautiful all in the same breath.
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Aurora in the Neighbourhood
So as with every time aurora comes around, we get a lot of posting and rumbling on social media about how fake the resulting photographs are and how over edited they seem. Of course...you will find plenty of oversaturated images just like you will find with any genre of photography and part of that comes down to personal taste.
However.
If you are not seeing the colours with the storms we have had recently in Scotland (ps you need to be out when it is most active - activity constantly wanes and rises)...you either have really poor eyesight (admittedly, an uncontrollable factor in the aurora seeing equation)....and probably (the larger part of the equation), poorly night adapted eyes. Or perhaps one or the other. It takes the average 'set' forty five minutes in darkness with no lights other than starlight hitting the back of our retinas before the cells that interpret colour become most active. You might have heard about these photoreceptors in our retinas; known as rods and cones. In low light, it is the rod cells that generally give us the bulk of our vision, they immediately work hardest to let us see in the dark - but they are very poor at detecting and relaying colour information to the brain. Ever noticed how when you awake from sleep at night, that you basically see in black and white (and also a very noisy image)? This is why. Give it time, the cones become active but they are slow to awaken as they work more in higher light levels. Again, the rough time for the average eye balls is around forty five minutes in darkness. Their sensitivity goes instantly when light from artificial sources enters the eye again - for example, phones, torches, streetlights, etc.
If you have dark adapted eyes, you will see colour even with more gentle aurora activity...I promise you. I dislike posts such as I have seen the last few days for a few reasons because it implies the camera lies and our eyes are the only real test. It also implies that I am some how trying to decieve the viewership here; which of course is never my intention. Can these people posting this now see gamma rays too? Because if you take your eyes as the ultimate test they detect less than 0.05% of the electromagnetic spectrum. The camera is, instantly a great deal better at seeing than your eyes - but please give your eyes a fighting chance and don't dismiss our ability to see such things. If you understand this; you won't be disappointed at all. Let's not waste time discussing over edited pictures. We know that exists and always will, but let us not decry that you will be disappointed when aurora hunting because you saw someone post some over edited pictures.
This image, taken in the local neighbourhood shows the very 'visible to eye' Aurora on Sunday night in Scotland which was incredible. So strange to see the mystical Northern Lights over the local neighbour hood like I reside in a much more northernly latitude than I do. The previously shared picture is a better location of course, but this is stronger green colour, without the red pillars above it, previously shown. As you can see I continued to shoot some deep sky images (more coming soon if it all works out) whilst using another camera to capture the lights before leaving for the night.
I hope this has been informative! Lastly, since the moon is becoming ever larger, the chances drop of seeing or making a good picture. Though, cloud always has the final say in what we can see.
Thanks for reading,
Steve
The Rotorua Morning Post, 1931, said of Camerons Laughing Gas Pool, "a hot pool, the gases emited from which banished the deepest gloom in peal after peal of uncontrollable laughter." Hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide gases emited from the surface apparently produced a similar reaction to the dentist's laughing gas, nitrous oxide.
They also caused fainting which made bathing inthe pool quite dangerous.,..........
Rotorua Lake
There's a fierce light in all of us. Burning within. We have to feed it for it to grow and spread its golden illumination. The day I picked up the camera to create pictures a flame was ignited. Sweet and sad moments I've lived and experienced woven into each picture and I suppose that's how an artist stays true to themselves.
I suppose you can guess what my favourite movie was as child wink emoticon Most of this picture was captured in camera! I remember shooting furiously as it happened, checking the back of my camera and shrieking with joy when I saw the frame! If you're a photographer, I know you know the feeling!
Big thanks go to Solstice Retouch for helping me tighten up this picture.
And of course mega thanks to my lovely team -
Model is Jessica Dru
Dress by Creature of Habit
Headpiece by Miss G Designs
Assistants - Vanessa (Creature of Habit) and my dear Pratik (Solstice Retouch)
Retouching - Bella Kotak & Solstice Retouch
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