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May Peace, Love, and Understanding saturate your 2021!!
Crassula Campfire (Crassula Capitella) in late afternoon light.
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" is a 1974 song written by English singer/songwriter Nick Lowe. Initially released by Lowe in 1974, the song did not chart. The song was most famously covered by Elvis Costello & the Attractions and released as a B-side to Lowe's 1978 solo single "American Squirm." The cover saw great popularity and was later included on the American version of Costello's 1979 album Armed Forces. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(What%27s_So_Funny_%27Bout)_Peace,_Love,_and_Understanding
Sony a6400. Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens. 135mm, F5.6, 1/250 sec, ISO 200. Thanks for viewing.
Remember the inner demanding voice of your childhood that urged you to approach the ice cream truck whenever it rolled around? This little boy did not hesitate when he saw it. He parked his bike with determination.
Skillman Park. (That has a real alternate name, I believe.) Sunnyside, New York
This week in 1972, the Apollo 17 crew returned to Earth following a successful 12-day mission. Apollo 17 marked the final crewed lunar landing mission. Here, Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan approaches the parked Lunar Roving Vehicle. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center designed, developed and managed the production of the Lunar Roving Vehicle that astronauts used to explore the Moon. Today, Marshall is developing NASA's Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever built, capable of sending astronauts to the Moon, Mars and deeper into space than ever before. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
"How could rocks and sand and silence make us afraid and yet be so wonderful?”
- Edna Brush Perkins, The White Heart of Mojave, 1922
Finally visited Death Valley over the holidays, and, as always when visiting a new-to-me National Park, I left a little piece of my soul, there. Death Valley is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I thought I was prepared. I thought it would be similar to other long awaited first visits to other national parks where the experience feels familiar and welcoming, as if you are stepping into a book that you’ve read for a very long time. Death Valley did not do this to me. No book can prepare you for Death Valley. The only way to become acquainted with the inconceivable vastness of the valley and sand and salt that’s only defined by towering walls of stony mountains is to be immersed in it. Death Valley is a challenge. It is a challenge to understand and experience and exist in. To be here is to be immersed in a forbidding environment and accept that this miraculous landscape is not for the faint of heart. I’ll be back, Death Valley. We have more work to do.
This is nine photos, stitched together, in Lightroom.
The sun shines through the leaves and branches of a Chinese Banyan tree at the Punch Bowl Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The camera saw the branches as black silhouettes and the sky as white. The wide dynamic range of the raw file enabled lightening of the shadows and darkening the highlights in LR to visualize blue in the sky and detail in the bark of the tree.
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There is no doubt that once you know the story behind a photo that there is a better understanding of its contents. The big challenge to photographers is to be able to tell the story with only the image. The other thing is that it is not really necessary to feel the same emotion the photographer has, but rather that a response is made that triggers off a connection to something in the viewers life or reveals information that is new to him. --
Philip Wayner
Point Ferman
San Pedro, California
lack of understanding breeds hatred of other people... we should try to tune-in... my travel diary, with musical innuendos by Björk and Mily A. Balakirev.
In his element, this is Banquo. He is the primary reason for my understanding of Scott's grief.
Banquo was, well, put simply: impressive. Look at that gaze! He's scanning the hill, both form and function built into that mighty physique. A gentle giant, he could stand on this back legs, forepaws on my shoulders, and look me in the eye. One night as I came out of the dark, unannounced, his challenge curdled my blood — deeper, more resolute, more final than any I'd heard before, or since. It was nothing manic, it wasn't a threat. It was a promise.
He took that presence into the show ring where he was awarded again and again for his perfection. His career was short. He was a two speed dog! His fearless approach to life meant inevitably he was injured in ways that left him without his true gait. The show ring rewards conformational perfection; tested in trotting manoeuvres. And so, with his Champion Award banked early, he retired, still head of the pack, still at home on the hill, at home in driven sleet, fully engaged in his favourite fantasy of stags and hounds, keen as always — forever.
my niece and one of her funny moves.
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nikon sb 28 fired through umbrella at camera right
canon 430 ez from back
Politehnica-Bucharest city
*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)
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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
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.
Per non Dimenticare. Mai.
Not to forget. Never.
Giorno della Memoria
" Se comprendere è impossibile, conoscere è necessario "
Primo Levi
Memorial Day
"If understanding is impossible, knowing is necessary"
Primo Levi
8 metres high and 15 metres long, the artwork rotates and with its 13 red neon letters it forms a clear message: Understanding.
The initial plan was to present the work last summer at the cancelled Roskilde Festival no. 50. Now, it lights up the darkness in Copenhagen as an artistic gesture to the public spirit we all show at the moment.
The piece is created by the world-famous and award-winning British artist Martin Creed, and it has previously been raised in Brooklyn, New York, with Manhattan's skyline as a backdrop.
Old Schools, University of Cambridge. Taken yesterday during the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the University and Shromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.
More on Sikhism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism .
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Made between 1998 and 2005, the Prototype series earned Jungen international recognition and acclaim for his ability to reimagine everyday goods. To make each of these works, the artist dismantled several pairs of Nike Air Jordans - highly coveted sneakers since their introduction in 1984 - paying careful attention to their design and colour scheme. He then imaginatively sewed the pieces together to create sculptures that reference Northwest Coast masks - a wry response to the way Indigenous motifs have been commercialized through civic designs in Vancouver. In total, this series has twenty-three sculptures, a nod to the shoe's namesake, basketball great Michael Jordan, whose jersey number was "23" for most of his career.
Not the greatest sunrise but I’ll take what I get while it lasts. For reasons that surpass my understanding, once the black walnut starts leafing out, this silhouette — which is a staple for me in the winter -- doesn’t work.
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
24mm
F8@1/20th
ISO 400
GND filter
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©Don Brown 2026
California Dreaming
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I have been very fortunate to photograph Burrowing Owls in several states, which have included California on that list. Understanding the habitat of these owls has allowed me to be more successful in locating them and shooting them. Here I was striving for something different. When I saw the owl perched and watching the ground intently, I knew he was on the hunt. The sun was rising quickly so I only had so much time to change my position and settle in waiting on the kill. I had dreamed of this shot, figuring the backlit owl would add additional drama. And just like that, it all happened, he pounced, grabbed his prey and flew off to deliver to his mate nearby.
Did you know that Burrowing Owls prefer burrows dug by prairie dogs, ground squirrels, badgers, marmots, skunks, armadillos, kangaroo rats, and tortoises. But in Florida and the Caribbean, they usually excavate their own burrows.
Love of Gaia our Mother Earth
Created with Midjourney
PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters
Further PP work in Luminar Neo filters. Hybrid creation.
Layered hands forming a heart shape around the Earth, concept of world love and care
--chaos 50
--ar 3:4
--raw
--stylize 500
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...cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. -- Albert Einstein
seen at Flower Power
The Philadelphia Flower Show 2019
Artwork by British artist Martin Creed at his exhibition SAY CHEESE! in Museum Voorlinden Wassenaar, Holland.
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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.
Series: Heavenly Skies
Arrived in Killarney very early (literally in the morning) to a business meeting, so had some time to kill, the weather was nice but cold (minus)5c. This is the very first light of the mornings sun, colouring the sky in "vanilla". I took the shots (6 total) handheld, I had no tripod at the time. The view of The Lough Leane and in the background The Mangerton, Torc, Shehy and Purple Mountains in the Killarney National Park
This is a reduction (3000 pixels) wide, contact me for the full size uncompressed image.
Location: Muckross Abbey - Muckross Village - Lough Leane - Killarney National Park - Munster - Co Kerry - Ireland - IE - Europe - EU
Equipment: Nikon D3100+300Lens
Photoshop Camera Raw Filter + Photo Merge + Panoramic
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Always Learning... Critiques are very welcome.
"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
"I heard so much about the Roaring Twenties, I had to come to the city."
A series of AI-generated pictures of Little Red Riding Hood in different art styles.
To be continued.
Pictures made with Midjourney.
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