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*Not the brand or technique is important in photographic art, but the understanding of the things behind the photographed subjects, the emotion, the composition, the joy or the sadness, the life itself that is mysteriously coming unrepeatable as a gift.
(Horia Stanicel)
* I have seen a large part of the most popular or devoted photographers' photographs over time and of course I can say that most of them have speculated on different situations, angles of photography, shadows, different brightness, feelings, human tragedies, all kinds of paradoxical situations that of course make them noticed. I do not want to bring any name into question for the simple reason that each photographic artist has a unique value. However, I regard the photographic art as a simple spectator that is difficult to be convince most of the times. I contemplate the creation of God and every time I photograph I do not forget how grateful we should be for all the beauty that our Creator gave it to us! People who forget this do nothing but hate themselves and the world they live in and photography is nothing but a mirror of this beautiful or crooked world.(Horia Stanicel)
*Nu aparatul foto sau tehnica este importantă în arta fotografică, ci înțelegerea lucrurilor care stau în spatele subiectelor fotografiate,emoția, compoziția, bucuria sau tristețea, viața însăși care vine tainic irepetabil ca un dar.
(Horia Stanicel)
*Am văzut o mare parte a fotografiilor celor mai populari sau consacrați artiști fotografi de-a lungul timpului și desigur pot spune că majoritatea dintre ei au speculat diversele situații,unghiuri de fotografiere, umbre, luminozitati diferite,sentimente,tragedii umane chiar,tot felul de situații paradoxale care desigur să-i facă remarcați.Nu vreau să aduc vreun nume în discuție pentru simplul motiv că fiecare artist fotograf are o valoare unică. Totuși eu privesc arta fotografică ca un simplu spectator greu de convins de cele mai multe ori.Eu contemplu creația lui Dumnezeu și de fiecare dată când fotografiez nu uit cât de recunoscători ar trebui să fim pentru toată frumusețea pe care Creatorul nostru ne-a daruit-o! Oamenii care uită aceasta nu fac decât să se urâțească pe ei înșiși dar și lumea în care trăiesc iar fotografia nu este decât o oglindă a acestei lumi frumoase sau urâțite.
(Horia Stanicel)
this is for the group fabulous fountain friday.
Im sorry ive been absent... its been one thing after another here. and since my Father Inlaws Alzheimer's is getting much worse , im the new taxi:). i wont bore you all, but ive been pretty busy.. ill try to keep up with every one.
thanks for understanding
if there is grace in this world
if there is light on this earth
let us use it
let us see it
starting right now
can we be down with ourselves
respectful and mindful of one, of one another
your significant other
your sister your brother
peace, love, more tolerance
faith hope, trust in the same name of god
peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope trust in the same god in whose
name we die for, take an innocent life for
thats not what he means
and it doesn't matter what book you read
is there relief up ahead
cos judgement and hearing await
a weight on our minds to bear
a shame on our heads to wear
where is salvation in love
now that we have what we want
now that we have our wars
peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope trust in the same god in whose
name we die for, take an innocent life for
thats not what he means
and it doesn't matter what book you read
with a little bit of ease and a little bit of calm
acceptance is the key to all we know
what about a stir of compassion and leaneance
what about some understanding
what about some sympathy
peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope trust in the same god in whose
name we die for, take an innocent life for
thats not what he means
and it doesn't matter what book you read
freedom, kindness, warm deliverance, comfort, mercy
redemption song
redemption song
redemption song
freedom, kindness, warm deliverance, comfort, mercy
redemption song
redemption song
redemption song
peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope trust in the same god in whose
name we die for, take an innocent life for
thats not what he means
and it doesn't matter what book you read
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." Albert Camus.
For me, that means grabbing my camera, my better half, and getting away from the crowds. Haven't quite got to the point where I understand it all, though - including why Flickr introduced color banding in the sky of this image. Couldn't see it in the original.
This little American Pika can be forgiven for not understanding the coming devastating effects of climate change. It has a brain that is about the size of a lima bean which is engaged primarily in day to day survival. Many pikas never see a human being, so they can be forgiven for not understanding that we are directly responsible for the global warming that may very well cause the demise of some of their populations in parts of North America.
No such forgiveness should be granted to a U.S. President who, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, simply chooses to not believe that humans are responsible for climate change.
The National Climate Assessment draws on input from 13 federal agencies, including NASA and the Defense Department, with contributions from 300 scientists. The latest volume spans more than 1,600 pages, and a key recurring theme is that climate change will be devastating...
POTUS, response: "I don't believe it".
Tell it to the pika President T.
when someone can truly look into you and know you and really see what you are and how you think and what you would do. when someone has been looking for so long for the things that they have always had within themselves, but needed the right mirror. the right mirror.
double exposure on the hasselblad.
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Leica-M6 TTL 0.72 Serial Number (2466527) Summicron-C 1:2.0/40mm.
Delta 100asa Developer HC 110 1+31 20º 6 1/2 min.
Nikon Coolscan 5000ED.
Photoshop CS 4
Het Kröller-Müller Museum is een museum voor moderne kunst, gelegen in het Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe te Otterlo in de Nederlandse provincie Gelderland. Het museum en het aangrenzende beeldenpark, samen ca. 25 ha, genieten internationale bekendheid. Jaarlijks komen er ruim 250.000 bezoekers uit binnen- en buitenland.
The Kröller-Müller Museum is a museum for modern art, located in the National Park De Hoge Veluwe in Otterlo in the Dutch province of Gelderland. The museum and the adjacent sculpture park, together around 25 ha, are internationally renowned. Every year more than 250,000 visitors come from home and abroad.
🔴Leica my point of view.
Wetzlar, Deutschland.
Leica-CL 1974 Rangefinder
Leica-M 6 TTL 0.72 1998 Rangefinder
Leica-M6 TTL 0.85 2001 Rangefinde
This is just one of several pavilions in the temple complex. The ghost culture is a blend of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism with an acceptance and understanding of the netherworld. Parts of this large temple complex, built up the side of Mingshan Mountain, date back over 1,900 years. It's ironic that an actual ghost town lies below the temple; most of the town sank beneath the rising waters of the Yangtze after completion of the Three Gorges Dam. There is a modern "relocation city" built across the river for the displaced residents.
I photographed this guy (girl? From my understanding, the difference between the sexes is one, size and two the length of the hair (mane) down the back. I can't see the back and nothing to compare size to, so not sure of the sex. Feel free to chime in if you can tell) from the Lentorre Lodge blind in the late afternoon when they came to have a drink.
Not sure why, but when I look at this picture, I immediately think the movie Animal House when Dean Wormer sits behind his desk, takes off his glasses, looks up at Flounder and says: "Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life son."
A few things about that. I realize many (most?) of you are not from the US and may have never heard of the movie much less seen it. And many of you from the US are just too darn young to be familiar with it. And of course, most importantly, this guy (gal??) is none of those things. Well, maybe he could shed a pound or two.....
But I digress; here is a nice Olive Baboon looking straight at you for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!! :)
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published Feb. 24 reveal a planet alive with quakes, dust devils and strange magnetic pulses.
Brad Zavodsky is the mission manager for InSight as part of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Planetary Missions Program Office. Marshall’s chief scientist, Renee Weber, is a co-investigator on the mission and has been part of InSight since its inception in 2010.
InSight is the first mission dedicated to looking deep beneath the Martian surface. The two largest quakes detected by NASA's InSight appear to have originated in a region of Mars called Cerberus Fossae. Scientists previously spotted signs of tectonic activity here, including landslides. This image was taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Listening to the stories of others and putting yourself in their shoes can go such a long way toward greater understanding and being better equipped for whatever lies before you. It is amazing how different a scenario can look when you have a perspective-shift and begin to view the world through the eyes of another.
This photo is from Sylvan Lake at Custer State Park in South Dakota.
"I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times."
Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character."
~ Haruki Murakami (After Dark)
12/52
This is a photo of Tashina, a girl I meet through my facebook page! I had a good time taking photo's of her. This photo wasnt even planned. I saw her walking around in the location where I wanted to take a conceptual shoot, and I just took a picture. And, when I got home I seriously feel in love with the shot. It's not an expansion ! I hate and love expansion because it takes a lot of time for me because of my laptop is very slow. But, the majority of my expansions has made my photo's look better.
Overall, the photo just worked out well. I think the fog looks good. I kinda came up with that while I was editing the photo. Originally I was going to put in a bird but it didnt work out lol.
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Also, this is another vintage wedding dress I bought from Value Village lol. It was under 40 dollars!!! Than I went to another thrift shop and almost bought another wedding dress lol. I was joking around with my boyfriend telling him that he should take a hint that I want to get married soon. Haha. JK lol
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Music: Sybreed : From Zero to Nothing
Flim: The bear
( Best animal acting ever!)
The sudden cut of loss and realization is painfully sharp.
Acceptance and understanding is elusive; the suffering deeper still.
Late Sunday afternoon I went to Seymour Mountain. On each anniversary of my accident, I try to visit and go for a walk. After just missing sunset at the parking lot I took my headlamp and camera gear for a hike to Dog Mountain. Not much snow but plenty of quiet time to revisit my fall, 7 years ago now.
January 17, 2007
Simon and I went for a snowshoe hike around the east side of Seymour and went up Runner Peak. During the traverse back, about 1/2 hour from the ski runs, I fell. A long way. 600 feet below I ended up at Theta Lake. My backpack & coat ripped from my body, never to be found again. One boot and snowshoe gone. Broken shoulder, missing teeth and a neck fracture. Blood. Disorientated and cold. Though truth be told, I was very lucky to be in such good condition.
Nearly impossible to hike down but Simon makes it halfway regardless. Relieved to hear me alive, he manages to call for help. Somehow within 40 minutes and moments before dark sets in, a helicopter comes in and drops off 2 men. I clearly remember their headlamps coming towards me. I'm pretty sure I was mumbling and yelling, wondering why the helicopter had gone away. One of them told me to shut up. I had just met Tim Jones.
It took about an hour to reach the viewpoint at the end of the trail. Most of the fog below had disappeared so I sat down and decided to wait for a bit. Maybe the colder night air would bring the low cloud cover back. Besides, just sitting there gave me a chance to look up at the stars and check things out in my head.
January 18, 2007
Tim & Gord had wrapped me up within a heated blanket. They kept me alive. I think Tim's outer layer was a garbage bag with arm holes cut in it. How they had kept warm overnight I have no idea. I didn't know it at the time but Tim has been involved in over 1,500 rescues during his time with NSR since 1987. I couldn't have been in better hands.
SAR personnel had mobilized and were sent in to assist. The first group of 5 made it in before the worsening weather and terrible snow conditions forced everyone else to turn back for their own safety. Thank you Jeff, Bruce, Doug, John & Rollie. We were badly in need of help. The snow continued to fall. At one point a loud rumble headed down towards us, stopping within throwing distance. Unable to see what had happened I asked what was that. Tim replied, "Mother Nature". That avalanche forced the group to move base camp. They dug a snow cave and put me inside. I spent the next 14 hours within the hole. There was no getting home today. They all suffered worse than me I'm sure.
After realizing that only a few lingering clouds would make their way back over the city, I took this photo and packed up. No one else was out here. I headed back just before 7pm. When I passed First Lake I was surprised to hear what sounded like people above. Seemed unusual to me. Later along the trail I bumped into 3 paramedics who were on their way to help with a cardiac arrest near Dinky Peak. I gave them a hand carrying some of their heavy gear. I thought about asking if Tim was up here, as I hadn't seen him in a while, but it seemed inappropriate as they were on an emergency call so it never came up. [Tim Jones is an advanced life-support paramedic and paramedic-in-charge for the B.C. Ambulance Service in North Vancouver] On the way, they were told via radio, that another group were bringing the subject down the mountain. So we returned to the parking lot, where I left them and all the other many rescue personnel.
January 19, 2007
There was talk of a insane 10+ hour rope rescue to lift me out of this bowl if the deep clouds continued to prevent an air rescue. But finally a small opening appeared in the afternoon, and a helicopter popped in. They basically tossed me in while it hovered just above the frozen lake. Inside the helicopter and on the way to the hospital, I was laying down on the legs of Curtis Jones, Tim's son.
I simply would not have survived had his father not risked his life to rescue me. Words cannot not express the gratitude my family continues to feel towards him. I don't recall ever hearing Tim or any of the others complaining, even though none of them could have been comfortable. These volunteers are heroes in my books.
After giving a Mexican hitchhiker a ride down the mountain I received a shocking text telling me who had died on Seymour that night. The facts all tumbled into place. Tears began to fall. And the local outdoor community was devastated. Tim Jones had passed away from a heart attack.
Tim had an amazing spirit and strength. Determined and passionate. He was a larger-than-life leader of North Shore Rescue. I know he will be missed deeply by his team, friends & co-workers.
My deepest condolences to his family. I can't imagine the grief you must be feeling right now.
"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."
- John Lennon
An F-22 Raptor from the Hawaii Air National Guard’s 199th Fighter Squadron returns to a training mission after refueling March 27, 2012, over the Pacific Ocean near the Hawaiian Islands. During the training, U.S. Air Force Academy cadets received a familiarization flight to get a better understanding of the Air Force's global reach capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Holzworth)
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More from the archives. I had misfiled a lot of photos from 2012 and finally found them a couple of months ago. Just sorting through them now. I had forgotten about the Savannah photos. Another backyard photo...
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For the singularity of understanding, each comprehends the others as itself in a flow of spacetime. We are as one with the things around - each is no thing but its understanding with the others - each a symbol of the others.
Artwork by British artist Martin Creed at his exhibition SAY CHEESE! in Museum Voorlinden Wassenaar, Holland.
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Here is Vincent's Cypress tree through my 18mm Nikkor lens shortly after sunrise. Like all superwide angle lenses with large hemispherical front elements, optical aberrations result when strong directional light reaches the front element unshaded. The most intense source of direct light that I have access to is just behind the branch on the right, and it is causing the orange and yellow blobs you see. This is called ghosting, fitting for a tree inhabited by a Dutch painter thats been dead since 1890! Reminds me of a quote: "To understand blue you must first understand yellow and orange". I am beginning to understand!
(Explore #11)
When I started taking photographs in earnest, to further my understanding I bought and digested a lot of books and magazines on the subject. I admit thinking of myself now as largely self-taught, although I suppose that's not strictly true given a lot of my knowledge has been filtered down through that of others, albeit in their absence. One of the earliest pieces of advice I can remember reading (alongside the beginner's stumbling block about a small aperture having a large F-number - someone didn't want me in this club), was to take time to explore the subject before deciding on a composition. I've stuck to this diligently to this day, and believe it's one of the fundamental disciplines that marks out a skilled photographer.
Often though, a landscape has multiple possibilities each of which have the potential to offer a great result. This may depend on conditions at the time, or even the photographer's relationship with and appreciation for the subject - not too mention the characteristics of the lens he chooses to shoot with. I'd seen this simple building (actually an old coastguard's lookout post) shot once or twice from close up and directly in front, and on arriving could understand why. To my eye, there were actually two key point's of view of the building once at the summit - the one I'd already seen and another from the right hand-side slightly below the plateau, taking into account a little section of diagonal fence that drops down nicely to form a pleasing angle with the intersecting sea. I must have spent well over an hour crouched down in the long grass at this second vantage point, waiting for the light to come good and pick out the white-washed surfaces amidst brooding cloud. Two other photographers came and went while I was there (both shot from the front), along with the usual dog walkers - one of whom told me a little about the history of the place. Eventually deciding I'd got the shot, I packed up and started to head back down the steady incline, intent on heading elsewhere. It was then that I turned around. I nearly always do this when walking away from a subject, it's almost like saying goodbye to somewhere I've forged a brief connection with and may never visit again. Suddenly I realised this was perhaps 'my' composition, the one that separated it from those I'd already seen and perhaps incorporated best a sense of the place for me. Moving just a few paces further down the track I set up and took just the one shot before the light faded, rendering the building a dull gray. As is typical for me, I shot vertically, and despite originally intending to include more of the sky in my envisaged square crop this is the frame that I feel works best. Luckily I made a reasonable attempt at hyperfocus taking into account the foreground low in the frame, which allowed me to crop as here without losing too much.
Is this the 'best' composition? No, there's no such thing - it's just the one that worked best for me this time round. I still have the unedited RAW's from the other two spots I mentioned, and always have the option of processing those should I so choose. Even with this one, there are subtle changes I could have made had I so wished - for instance the little hut could have been placed directly on intersecting thirds (perhaps a little obvious, but I like forming squares within squares so went with near-intersecting quarters here), or I could have shot really low and thrown out the focus of the stony path altogether. The point is there are compositional choices with most subjects, and it really is worth taking the time to consider just what they may be...
On a separate note, my gratitude goes to Andrew Gibson for interviewing me again for his current excellent series on long exposure photographers.
www.andrewsgibson.com/blog/2012/12/long-exposure-photogra...
We must be a pretty tight-knit community as I've recognised all but one of those so far interviewed - each of which have made for fascinating reading - so if unacquainted I'd encourage you to check out the links to some of the others too. There are some very talented people offering insight!
Don't eat duck for Christmas... I won't be online very much for the next week or so (as usual, it seems). So, thanks all my flickr friends for your patience and understanding. I wish I was able to spend more time looking and commenting on all your fantastic photos.
Wish you all a Merry Christmas or a Happy Holiday Season and a Happy and Healthy New Year. May you all take award winning caliber photos and keep sharing!