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"The understanding of the self is the beginning of the cessation of isolation, and therefore of loneliness." -J. Krishnamurti
"What is important, then, is not to overcome loneliness, but to understand it, and we cannot understand it if we do not face it, if we do not look it directly, if we are continually running away from it. And our whole life is a process of running away from loneliness, is it not? In relationship we use others to cover up loneliness; our pursuit of knowledge, our gathering of experience, everything we do, is distraction, an escape from the emptiness."
From the book 'On Love and Loneliness' by J. Krishnamurti
Mirador del Pando, Prioro, León, Spain.
This image is copyright © Rubén López Ronda. All right reserved. This photo must not be used under ANY circumstances without written consent.
At least three of the four MP units that IANR has leased were pulled out of storage due to a power shortage. It's my understanding that these were put into storage over a year ago, due to very high maint costs, and the fact that IANR had to bring in CAT authorized service work on the prime movers, instead of in house IANR workers. To me, they are butt ugly, but something new. Here they are passing by the Armour sign on the old CGW line to Oelwein, to presumably drop a long string of empty ethanol tank cars off at the ethanol plant just outside of Fairbank, IA
I would imagine that ancient man got a bit perplexed and even terrified by the aurora. It might have meant good tidings. It might have meant the opposite, depending on the culture. It's an awe inspiring sight, whatever era it happens in, though. And in this case, we were fortunate to stumble upon an unexpected display as we arrived to shoot Mount Hood and Trillium Lake here in Oregon. I'm starting to use more layers and masks in these types of shots, in this case curves and contrast masks on the sky and foreground. I'm not sure if there's a big difference in the final outcome compared with processing it as a single image through Lightroom and Photoshop, but I think it's at least a subtle improvement, even if the mask edges are a bit rough.
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June 5, 2022 - South Central Nebraska US
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Southwest of of Overton Nebraska...
This set of images is what I live for... Those epic moments when you finally hunted/found what your looking for. It does take a lot of patience to storm chase. The waiting, the planning, the doing. But the rewards at the end are priceless. My antlers on the wall.
Now for some storm chasers... the Holy Grail of Storm chasing is a Tornado. But not for me. It is events like this that give the full definition of Storm Chasing. It really what storm chasing Eye Candy is all about! It is the "Why" or the understanding of why I do this!
One the edge of this Nebraska Supercell I felt the AWE of Mother Nature!
Surreal!
Epic
Awesome!
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Realms Beyond Understanding
I am drifting into the realms beyond my understanding.
Beyond the shadows of my former self.
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Photo of Turtle Lake captured via Minolta MD Rokkor-X 85mm F/1.7 lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Late September 2020.
Exposure Time: 2 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/22 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6000 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Provia 100F * Filter: Hoya HMC CIR-PL (⌀55mm) * Elevation: 2,484 feet above sea-level
This one's for anyone else who watched Horizon last night.
"Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have threatened to re-write the textbooks. Does it herald a new era of understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong?"
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©2009 Jason Swain, All Rights Reserved
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Listen
Of
Wave
Energy
Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
The moment of observation is the real find ...
Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
The meaning of all this is the process!
Find someone who inspires shooting the camera!
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Often we are visited by thoughts that may reveal something unknown ... Our mind many times tries to solve a problem with known methods ... This is its main mistake! The path of the heart opens the doors that appear in our path. It is a pity that not everyone has the courage to insert the keys that are always with us ...
(Listenwave- 圣彼得堡)
Morning light streams through the trees in the Snake River bottoms near Ririe, Idaho.
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[...] The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line [...]
-- Quote by Marion Milner
Nikon D200, Samyang 8mm, f/3.5 fisheye, 8mm - f/3.5 - 1/30s
Rome, Italy (October, 2019)
Better understanding the lunar lighting environment will help NASA prepare astronauts for the harsh environment Artemis III Moonwalkers will experience on their mission. NASA’s Artemis III mission will build on earlier test flights and add new capabilities with the human landing system and advanced spacesuits to send the first astronauts to explore the lunar South Pole and prepare humanity to go to Mars.
Using high-intensity lighting and low-fidelity mock-ups of a lunar lander, lunar surface, and lunar rocks, NASA engineers are simulating the Moon’s environment at the Flat Floor Facility to study and experience the extreme lighting condition. The facility is located at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
In this image, NASA engineers inside the Flat Floor Facility mimic lander inspection and assessment tasks future Artemis astronauts may do during Artemis III. Lights are positioned at a low angle to replicate the strong shadows that are cast across the lunar South Pole.
Credit: NASA
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Meet my F.R.I.E.N.D. Fábio Smith
Fábio has been really understanding of my shortcomings, which has meant a lot to me! We did lots of different and great photos together, but being a music lover myself, I decided to go with this one!!
"Mosca" (a Fly) is a Muscovy Duck (Pato Mudo or mute duck - Cairina moschat), petted like a dog by everybody who passes by Rua da Madalena nowadays most likely known as "Rua do Pato" (Duck's Street) in Faro. He poses at his owner's (a shoemaker) door just like a "Club Bouncer".
Location: Rua da Madalena - Rua do Pato - Faro - Algarve - Portugal - Pt - Europe - EU
Photoshop Camera Raw Filter + Black and White Filter
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Always Learning... Critiques are very welcome.
37404 Shunting the Royal Scotsman at Fort William taken at 17:15 on the 10/08/1988
Scanned from an Original Colour Slide.
Original Photographer Unknown.
I have started to collect a number of original slides (with copyright) 'most' of which probably haven’t been seen before. Some come with image information and some don't. Please feel free to leave a comment if you know locations, dates, numbers etc, it would be much appreciated. I have uploaded these at a low resolution, please don't copy / download without my prior permission.
I only collect slides on the understanding that the full copyright transfers over to me. If you believe there to be a copyright issue please drop me an email.
As we try to learn more and more, we do what with that knowledge?
Sometimes, do you look and immediately know: "I need to exit and see no more"?
"Curiosity killed more than some cat", all must know, rigtht?
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below from www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_camus.html
are a few quotes from Albert Camus, French Philosopher
Date of Birth: November 7, 1913
Date of Death: January 4, 1960
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
EXPLORE # 291 on Saturday, April 26, 2008; # 362 on 04-25-2008; # 379 on 04-24-2008 within 3 hours of posting
Note: for a better understanding of Damian Wayne in the DCSG I suggest you go read Supremedalekdunn’s Batman: Knight of Gotham #48-59 (this issue will be a synthesized version of KoG #59 from Robin’s perspective). Or if you just want to read something amazing, because that entire volume is really something special.
Tim noticed that the Batcave felt colder than usual. Perhaps it was the fact that Bruce Wayne’s child, whom he did not know he had, was occupying the containment cell. Or perhaps, it was the way Bruce said,
“Ra’s will come for the boy.” Alfred had placed Damian Wayne’s Crimson Knight suit inside of a display case, which he, Tim, and Bruce now stared at.
“We can beat him Bruce. We might be outnumbered. We might even be outgunned. But when has that ever stopped us?” Tim was reaching. In truth, the League of Assassins had always terrified him. Sparring with Bruce was a challenge enough, but to fight dozens of his former peers always sounded like a challenge too great for himself. Not to mention fighting the Demon’s Head himself, Ra’s al Ghul.
“It hasn’t.” Alfred replied on Bruce’s behalf, as the latter stared deeply into the eyes of the Crimson Knight suit.
“We’ll do it how we always do Bruce. Together.” Tim’s words seemed to snap Bruce out of his trance, as the Batman replied,
“Together.”
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Bruce left the cave in the resulting minutes, leaving his cowl on a vacant terminal. Tim approached the terminal and slumped against it, sliding to the ground where he sat looking around the enormous cave surrounding him. He looked around the cave he had called home for the past several years before he heard a voice in his ear,
“Tim?” Panicking, Tim realized that he had left his earpiece in.
“Hey Steph.” He responded.
“What’s going on?” Thinking of which way to best sum up the story of Damian, Tim sarcastically answered,
“An insane, drugged-up version of Batman attacked our city and now an ancient order of ninjas are coming to destroy everything.”
“The League of Assassins?” Stephanie asked on the other line.
“How’d you know-?”
“Love conspiracies. Everyone’s got a hobby, right? I mean, I’ve got this new one now, and you’ve had yours for a while…” Stephanie went silent, then asked, “So how bad is it? I mean, there’ve only been rumors…”
“Think one hundred Batmans killing people and burning down buildings.”
“So, not that bad.” Stephanie’s sarcasm prompted a laugh from Tim who said,
“I’m glad you’re back Steph.” While Stephanie simply replied,
“Glad to be back.”
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End of Volume 2
Petoskey, Michigan. The guy who owns this beauty owns several others from the same era. My understanding is that he restores them himself. It must be difficult to decide which one to drive on any given day.
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To all my American friends celebrating Thanksgiving today and to all my other Flickr friends around the world, I wish you all love and health today and every day. May you always have much to be thankful for.
Do me a favor and express your greetings in text, not in images. Thanks for understanding my peculiar preference.
A special blessing right now is we're getting some rain, but it's accompanied by thunder so as soon as I post this, I'm shutting down and unplugging. Have a beautiful day.
"Ms. Understood"
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seek first to understand, then to be understood...
Stephen Covey
i've found myself contemplating the many aspects and problems of communication lately, both verbal and written. Communication is the main artery in which to connect with another human being, which is in itself, innate...and what we desire and fear the most.
To speak and be spoken to...to hear and be heard. The latter is so much harder to do...
Understanding that all of this is impermanent increases your spiritual potential. You can act with greater energy, enthusiasm, and strength. We think that by acknowledging everything as impermanent, we will diminish our enthusiasm and enter a state of apathy. This is not true. A proper understanding of impermanence ignites the spirit. When the spirit is ignited, you feel uplifted. You have enthusiasm and activity.
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Biggest human mistake : Listen half , understanding quarter , telling double
Few months to go ~
160910..
Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly. NGC 6956 is a barred spiral galaxy, a common type of spiral galaxy with a bar-shaped structure of stars in its center. This galaxy exists 214 million light-years away in the constellation Delphinus.
Scientists used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to image NGC 6956 to study its Cepheid variable stars, which are stars that brighten and dim at regular periods. Since the period of Cepheid variable stars is a function of their brightness, scientists can measure how bright these stars appear from Earth and compare it to their actual brightness to calculate their distance. As a result, these stars are extremely useful in determining the distance of cosmic objects, which is one of the hardest pieces of information to measure for extragalactic objects.
This galaxy also contains a Type Ia supernova, which is the explosion of a white dwarf star that was gradually accreting matter from a companion star. Like Cepheid variable stars, the brightness of these types of supernovae and how fast they dim over time enables scientists to calculate their distance. Scientists can use the measurements gleaned from Cepheid variable stars and Type Ia supernovae to refine our understanding of the rate of expansion of the universe, also known as the Hubble Constant.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jones (University of California – Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-captures-m...
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Model: Marta
One of the things I like working with Models is that I am still learning. I love the look they get on their face when you are explaining what type of shot you are going for. I find myself doing all these weird poses and it is so hard to take myself seriously...lol
But thankfully Marta was a really good sport and was up for anything and was understanding everything I was telling her.
Not much in post, just increase the sharpness, contrast and vibrance. I removed a few tattoos from her arm and legs in photoshop.
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Interestingness 242: 2-3-2009
Let's talk about Mr. Brown Pelican's whinges. Let's talk about them in a very specific and personal way. First off, Mr. Pelican claims to be supportive of my plan to fight him hammer and tong. Don't trust him, though; he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Before you know it, he'll restructure the social, political, and economic relationships that exist throughout our entire society. If that's the case, I recommend that we improve the physical and spiritual quality of life for the population at present and for those yet to come.
Mr. Pelican believes, in his elitist delirium, that he acts in the public interest. I won't dwell on that except to direct your attention to the impulsive manner in which Mr. Pelican has been trying to engage in the trafficking of human beings. You may make the comment, "What does this have to do with pernicious personæ non gratæ?" Well, once you begin to see the light you'll realize that I find it necessary, if I am to meet my reader on something like a common ground of understanding, to point out that he keeps trying to deceive us into thinking that the purpose of life is self-gratification. The purpose of this deception may be to help faddism-prone fugitives evade capture by the authorities. Or maybe the purpose is to replace the search for truth with a situationist relativism based on catty oligarchism. Oh what a tangled web Mr. Pelican weaves when first he practices to deceive.
Leipziger Buchmesse 2015
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SakuK (___) 537673 as Anarchy Stocking from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Ann_in_the_Dark (Sophie) 778037 as Panty Anarchy from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Thank you for any group invites which I will gladly accept. However, if I can't check the content of such groups ("This group is not available to you") I'd rather not add any of my photos. Thanks for your understanding.
Lacul Morii-Bucharest city-Carl Zeiss Flecktogon 35mm F2,4
*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)
"The sadder man holding an accordion"
Project 365 - A one year daily shot
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