Pentax P30T Takumar 135mm F2.5 Bayonet FP4 DDX 1+4 01/28/2023

As I walk on through troubled times, my spirit gets so downhearted sometimes.

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My most favorite shot flickr.com/photos/atrium09/sets/72157594360499066/detail/

Ruby-throated Hummingbird, immature male

The genesis of modern understanding of Greek mythology is regarded by some scholars as a double reaction at the end of the 18th century against "the traditional attitude of Christian animosity mixed with disdain, which had prevailed for centuries", in which the Christian reinterpretation of myth as a "lie" or fable had been retained.[1] In Germany, by about 1795, there was a growing interest in Homer and Greek mythology. In Göttingen Johann Matthias Gesner began to revive Greek studies and a new humanistic spirit. His successor, Christian Gottlob Heyne, worked with Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and laid the foundations for mythological research both in Germany and elsewhere. Heyne approached the myth as a philologist and shaped the educated Germans' conception of antiquity for nearly half a century, during which ancient Greece exerted an intense influence on intellectual life in Germany.The development of comparative philology in the 19th century, together with ethnological discoveries in the 20th century, established the science of myth. Since the Romantics, all study of myth has been comparative. Wilhelm Mannhardt, Sir James Frazer, and Stith Thompson employed the comparative approach to collect and classify the themes of folklore and mythology.In 1871 Edward Burnett Tylor published his Primitive Culture, in which he applied the comparative method and tried to explain the origin and evolution of religion.] Tylor's procedure of drawing together material culture, ritual and myth of widely separated cultures influenced both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. According to Robert Segal, however, Campbell’s "romantic view of myth is the opposite of a rationalist view, one epitomized by the Victorian anthropologists Edward Tylor and James Frazer".J.F. del Giorgio has added a new turn to the comparative approach, insisting in The Oldest Europeans about present Greek myths being generated by the clash between a Paleolithic European population and the incoming Indo-European tribes.Max Müller applied the new science of comparative mythology to the study of myth, in which he detected the distorted remains of Aryan nature worship. Bronisław Malinowski emphasized the ways myth fulfills common social functions. Claude Lévi-Strauss and other structuralists have compared the formal relations and patterns in myths throughout the world.Evans himself, while studying the Minoan world, drew regularly on Egyptian and Near Eastern evidence for comparison, and the discovery of the Hittite and Ugaritic civilizations has uncovered texts as well as monuments which offer comparative material for ritual and mythology.Sigmund Freud put forward the idea that symbolic communication does not depend on cultural history alone but also on the workings of the psyche. Thus Freud introduced a transhistorical and biological conception of man and a view of myth as an expression of repressed ideas. Dream interpretation is the basis of Freudian myth interpretation and Freud's concept of dreamwork recognizes the importance of contextual relationships for the interpretation of any individual element in a dream. This suggestion would find an important point of rapprochment between the structuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to myth in Freud's thought.Carl Jung extended the transhistorical, psychological approach with his theory of the "collective unconscious" and the archetypes (inherited "archaic" patterns), often encoded in myth, that arise out of it.According to Jung, "myth-forming structural elements must be present in the unconscious psyche".[10] Comparing Jung's methodology with Campbell's theory, Segal concludes that "to interpret a myth Campbell simply identifies the archetypes in it. An interpretation of the Odyssey, for example, would show how Odysseus’s life conforms to a heroic pattern. Jung, by contrast, considers the identification of archetypes merely the first step in the interpretation of a myth".[5] For Jung, myth is no more about gods than about the physical world; it is about the human mind and must be read symbolically. Karl Kerenyi, one of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, gave up his early views of myth, in order to apply Jung's theories of archetypes to Greek myth.The origins of Greek mythology are an open question. In antiquity, historians such as Herodotus theorized that the Greek gods had been stolen directly from the Egyptians. Later on, Christian writers tried to explain Hellenic paganism through degeneration of Biblical religion. According to the Scriptural theory, all mythological legends (including Greek mythology) are derived from the narratives of the Scriptures, though the real facts have been disguised and altered. Thus Deucalion is another name for Noah, Hercules for Samson, Arion for Jonah etc.] According to the Historical Theory all the persons mentioned in mythology were once real human beings, and the legends relating to them are merely the additions of later times. Thus the story of Aeolus is supposed to have risen from the fact that Aeolus was the ruler of some islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea.The Allegorical theory supposes that all the ancient myths were allegorical and symbolical. According to the Physical theory the elements of air, fire, and water were originally the objects of religious adoration, and the principal deities were personifications of the powers of nature.The sciences of archaeology and linguistics have been applied to the origins of Greek mythology with some interesting results. Historical linguistics indicates that particular aspects of the Greek pantheon were inherited from Indo-European society (or perhaps both cultures borrowed from another earlier source), as were the roots of the Greek language. Prominent Sanskritist Max Müller attempted to understand an Indo-European religious form by tracing it back to its Aryan, Vedic, "original" manifestation. In 1891, he claimed that "the most important discovery which has been made during the nineteenth century with respect to the ancient history of mankind [...] was this sample equation: Sanskrit Dyaus-pitar = Greek Zeus = Latin Jupiter = Old Norse Tyr".[16] Philologist Georges Dumezil draws a comparison between the Greek Uranus and the Sanskrit Varuna, although there is no hint that he believes them to be originally connected.In other cases, close parallels in character and function suggest a common heritage, yet lack of linguistic evidence makes it difficult to prove, as in the case of the Greek Moirai and the Norns of Norse mythology.Archaeology and mythography, on the other hand, has revealed that the Greeks were inspired by some of the civilizations of Asia Minor and the Near East. Adonis seems to be the Greek counterpart — more clearly in cult than in myth — of a Near Eastern dying god. His name is related to the Semitic invocation "adon" (Lord) and appears in other cultures as Dumuzi, Tammuz or Attis. Cybele is rooted in Anatolian culture, and much of Aphrodite's iconography springs from the Semitic goddesses Inanna, Ishtar and Astarte. The theogonic myths current in the Near East in the second millennium BC, such as the myth of Anu, Kumarbi, and Teshub, contain significant stories of generational conflict. Meyer Reinhold argues that "such Near Eastern theogonic concepts, involving divine succession through violence and generational conflicts for power, found their way — the route is not certain — into Greek mythology. Our prime source is the great theogonic poem of Hesiod".Parallels between the earliest divine generations (Chaos and its children) and Tiamat in the Enuma Elish are also possible.In addition to Indo-European and Near Eastern origins, some scholars have speculated on the debts of Greek mythology to the still poorly understood pre-Hellenic societies of Greece, such as the Minoans and so-called Pelasgians. This is especially true in the case of chthonic deities and mother goddesses. Historians of religion were fascinated by a number of apparently ancient configurations of myth connencted with Crete: the god as bull — Zeus and Europa; Pasiphaë who yields to the bull and gives birth to the Minotaur; agrarian mysteries with a sacred marriage (Demeter's union with Iasion) etc. Crete, Mycenae, Pylos, Thebes and Orchomenus figure so large in later Greek mythology.For some, the three main generations of gods in Hesiod's Theogony (Uranus, Gaia, etc.; the Titans and then the Olympians) suggest a distant echo of a struggle between social groups, mirroring the three major high cultures of Greek civilization: Minoan, Mycenaean and Hellenic. Martin P. Nilsson, Professor of Classical Archaeology, worked on the structure, origins and relationships of the Indo-European languages, and concluded that all great classical Greek myths were tied to Mycenaen centres and were anchored in prehistoric times.Nevertheless, according to Walter Burkert, the iconography of the Cretan Palace Period has provided almost no confirmation of all these theories; nothing points to a bull, sexual symbols are absent and a single seal impression from Knossos showing a boy beneath a sheep is regarded as a scant evidence for the myth of Zeus' childhood.

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Nikon D300 with Tokina 12-24mm/f4: 12mm - ISO200 - 1/160 - f5.6

P30T SMC Pentax-M Macro 1:4 100mm UltrafineExtreme 400 Xtol 1:1 03/06/2021

"Autocracy, Inc." and "Twilight of Democracy" by Anne Applebaum

The results of the tower of Babel don't exist between children and animals. They perfectly understand each other :).

Het resultaat van de toren van Babel bestaat niet tussen kinderen en dieren. Ze begrijpen elkaar perfect :).

A comfortable study bedroom in the Ruth Deech building, in a modern block at St Anne's College, completed in 2005, while I am teaching on the Understanding Historic Buildings course organised by Historic England. Lit by by a very narrow window on the left, now equipped with a roller blind which prevents it being opened , and a door onto a balcony barely large enough to stand on.

Instead, planning ahead let Friendship Fred

know where you stand in your business wonderland

Find associates of all kinds

Understanding Ulysses’ are nice

Caring Carl's never take it too far

Kevin Kindness melts cold ice fast.

But, I may think twice if I put Friendship and the front of the line

In the end, you will not look like an ass.

inspiration goes to: Saturaday Night Live skit and Master Pshopper Jon-e's Wiggles

~ Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (Album)

Milano, 5 ottobre 2025

And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw on Monday!!

Yes I'm back again.

However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.

I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.

I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.

So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!

"Work No. 2630 UNDERSTANDING" by Martin Creed. In the summer 2020 the sign should have been part of the 50 years Roskilde Festival jubilee. The festival was cancelled (and again in 2021 btw). You know, pandemic...

But instead the rotating sign spent some time in Copenhagen Harbour on Ofelia Plads.

Understanding Sunday: Pentacon 29mm / 2.8 MC Auto (M42)

PENTACON auto MC 29mm f/2.8

Pentacon 29/2.8 comes in a straight line from the Meyer Optik Görlitz Orestegon 29mm f/2.8. Produced in the years 1970/1991. During this period changed several times. Initially, a copy of the version of Meyer Orestegon 29mm f/2.8, then the electric version, and in the end version of the MC - There are also non-electric versions of the MC. It is a wide-angle lens with a very good f/2.8. Version of what I test is one of the last what was produced. Great multilayer coatings MC. The quality of workmanship as good as the old lenses Meyer. The lens has only 6 aperture blades. In a digital camera to take pictures with this lens requires a lot of attention already. Pictures are not sharp - just above f/11 we can talk longer with acceptable results. All the magic of color lenses Meyer here almost disappeared. You have to make an effort for it to have a picture in itself is a beautiful thing.

Focal length [mm]: 29

Maximum aperture: 22

Minimum Aperture: 2.8

Fixing: M42x1

Minimum distance [m]: 0.25

Filter Diameter [mm]: M55x0.75

Number of diaphragm blades: 6

Diameter [mm]: 64

Length [mm]: 53

Weight [g]: 210

Ref: m42lens.blogspot.com/2014/04/pentacon-auto-mc-29mm-f28.html

This HYBYCOZO sculpture is titled Axis Mundi. It is in the Lewis Desert Portal and anchors the keystone of the Desert Discovery Trail.

Axis Mundi 2024.

Stainless Steel, Powder Coat Pigment, LED

Axis Mundi draws inspiration from the crystalline structure of fluorite, which contains shapes similar to honeycomb. This artwork is made up of hexagons and squares that efficiently fill space without gaps. These patterns are remarkably elegant and balanced in their division of three-dimensional space.

dbg.org/events/light-bloom/2024-10-12/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFelgzzzQqg

LIGHT BLOOM by HYBYCOZO is a limited-time exhibit where nature and light converge. This mesmerizing display invites you to explore the Garden transformed by stunning geometric light installations that illuminate the beauty of the desert landscape in a new way. As the sun sets, LIGHT BLOOM comes to life, casting intricate shadows and vibrant hues across the Garden. Wander the trails and let the enchanting installations transport you to a magical realm where the natural world meets the abstract.

www.hybycozo.com/artists

HYBYCOZO is the collaborative studio of artists Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk. Based in Los Angeles, their work consists of larger than life geometric sculptures, often with pattern and texture that draw on inspirations from mathematics, science, and natural phenomena. Typically illuminated, the work celebrates the inherent beauty of form and pattern and represents their ongoing journey in exploring the myriad dimensions of geometry. HYBYCOZO is short for the Hyperspace Bypass Construction Zone, a nod to their favorite novel (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and was the title of their first installation in 2014. They continue to create under this name. In the novel earth was being destroyed to make way for a bypass. It lead Serge and Yelena to ask what it means to make art at a time where the earth’s hospitable time in the universe may be limited.

dbg.org/meet-the-artists-behind-light-bloom/

Q: Walk us through your creative process?

A: The focus of our creative process is to explore the intricate interplay between geometry, light, space and to inspire contemplation, wonder and a sense of place among our audiences. Geometry and pattern-making serve as the backbone of our creative expression. It is the framework through which we navigate the complexities of form, proportion and spatial relationships. Patterns, both simple and complex, have a profound impact on our perception and understanding of the world. They possess the ability to evoke a sense of order, balance and aesthetic pleasure. Pattern making and geometry offer us a means of storytelling and communication. These patterns serve as conduits for deeper exploration, provoking introspection and contemplation to uncover the underlying symbols embedded within the human psyche.

Q: What inspired the concept of LIGHT BLOOM?

A: Just as many cactus and desert plants have evolved to produce night-blooming flowers, adapting to their environment and thriving in darkness, our sculptures come alive after sunset, blossoming with light and transforming the night into a glowing landscape of art and geometry.

Desert Botanical Garden has an incredible collection of plants and cacti arranged in a beautiful park setting.

dbg.org/

"Think the desert is all dirt and tumbleweeds? Think again. Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cactus, trees and flowers from all around the world spread across 55 acres in Phoenix, Arizona."

Desert Botanical Garden

DBG HYBYCOZO Light Bloom

When young we feel almost indestructible believing we can conquer the world. With Age come knowledge, humility and understanding that we cannot wrap the world around our arms. We are just a small part of something incredible, not the center of it.

Macro Monday project – 06/20/11

"Humility"

And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw last week!!

Yes I'm back again.

However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.

I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.

I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.

So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!

Apparently not understanding the term camouflage. Skiff, AB.

I'm a bit of a mixed-up girl aren't I neither one thing or the other. I suppose I shouldn't really be so pleased with my enigma as I became Jojo in the first place because my life as Christopher wasn't straightforward either maybe people sensed something wasn't quite right. The difference though this time is instead of it stopping me from growing now I have much more choice and control and I feel now I've done it I don't have to hold back if I don't want to. Being what I am is radical enough for most people as it is and I now have a great deal of freedom as whatever I get up to is probably no worse than many imagine I do already. Yes I know I keep writing about my life as though I am riddled with dilemma and uncertainty but that isn't true it's just that I can't just write nothing under my pictures. I guess communicating makes me feel good and helps me to think but to be honest I go about my everyday life and people I meet just treats me like any other ordinary person so in a way because they can see what I am not means they are more understanding about what I am. So as they say it's always better to tell the truth.

The Water Gardens in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. This is the "Quiet Pool" and the sound of the water quietly running down the walls of this place totally blocked the sounds of the city above completely out!

Light Painting SOOC with crop or minor levels adjustments. Single Exposure.

Leaf fall used to make me smile inside, but not anymore. I feel a sadness when I see the leaves falling like snow.

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Hello are you a submissive?, I'm DOMINA VICTORIA RAGE by name, I’m looking for a good, honest, truthful, obedient and understanding submissive sissy/slave to train and collar for a long term in the Bdsm lifestyle again. EMAIL; VICTORIARAGE.1@YAHOO.COM TEXT 253-316-8842, KIK; MISTRESSVICTO5 TELEGRAM; DOMINAVICTORIARAGE

With all thy getting, get understanding. Stained glass in the Great Mausoleum in Glendale, California.

Thunderpussy - Welcome To The Disco

Right-click link. Select "Open in New Window"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXYqnf9kGCM

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Boy Harsher - Pain - live @ Blah Blah Blah Blah, Torino, 04/12/2017

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CAKTE-V8wA

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Boy Harsher // Route du Rock 2019 // Careful // Fate + LA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9FbOsAOHwo

image taken and processed by the subconscious mind.

no cloning, every head is real and broken! not including mine.

According to the ancient legends of the North Coast, there was once a time when the World was entirely devoid of Colour. During the day the Sun was all but invisible against the white of the sky, while the land and the sea were revealed only in subtle tones of grey. During the night, no stars pierced the shadow-black veil and only the faded phases of the Moon brought any relief from the unfathomable dark.

Those same legends also tell of how one night the Women of the North Coast saw, in a collective dream, how the phenomenon of ‘Colour’ might change the World; how the next morning they told the Men of the North Coast of their dream and their plans to end the dominion of the black, and the white, and the grey. The women said they had set their hearts at the Sun, where they thought that the ‘Colour’ must surely reside, and that they were intent on breaking through the Great Barrier at the edge of the World and tearing the sky asunder, to let the Sun’s imagination run wild.

‘The Light,’ they said, ‘the Colour, must be set free.’

The Men of the North Coast looked at each other and slowly nodded, acknowledging amongst themselves a longing for something they did not know. No words exchanged, but understanding exactly what was required of them, they set-to immediately, planning and then constructing a sturdy boat that would carry their wives to the Great Barrier and The Heavens beyond. A boat with a sharp prow, that may pierce that forbidding barricade and thence vanquish the sky! A boat that would bring their loved ones safely back home to the fire. The Men of the North Coast set their hearts squarely at their wives and imbued the boat with every ounce of strength they could conceive, tarring the hull with their courage. And as they worked, the Men became the boat...

Soon enough, the vessel was laid upon the water and all was quiet as the Women of the North Coast climbed aboard. The birds of the air came down to rest on the land and the sea. The creatures of the deep paused and looked on in wonder, as the very sea itself settled and willed the Womenfolk onwards. Even the wind held it’s breath in anticipation as they set forth, with the whole World focused on the gentle sounds of the oars as they dipped in and out of the calm.

Presently, the Women of the North Coast approached the Great Barrier...

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Usual caveats etc.

Nikon D700. Lens: AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED. Aperture f/25 at 1/1250 shutter. Manual Focus DX Mode Crop.

Setup shot is here

As I walk on through this wicked world,

Searching for light in the darkness of insanity,

I ask myself, Is all hope lost?

Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside,

There's one thing I wanna know,

What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssd3U_zicAI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuYPCP2RSXA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhol3zIoynE

Oh yeah.

The weekend is here.

It's Friday again.

It's time to share a little Friday-Love!

I hope you're feelin' the love all through you.

This is the fifty second edition of Friday-Love!

It's been a year since we started celebrating the Friday-Love on Flickr!

Because the Friday-Love feels so good.

Getcherself ready for a great weekend.

Make some good plans.

Do something fun.

Don't forget to feed your soul.

Live a little.

Love a lot.

It's gonna be a great weekend!

Friday-Love!

Oh Happiness

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Chavonda Jacobs-Young, undersecretary of Agriculture for research, education and economics, gives remarks at an event where NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack signed a memorandum of understanding between the two agencies, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at the USDA’s Jamie L. Whitten Building in Washington. The agreement strengthens the collaboration between the two agencies, including efforts to improve agricultural and Earth science research, technology, and agricultural management, as well as the application of science data and models to agricultural decision making. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack, left, and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, pose for a photograph after having signed a memorandum of understanding, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at the USDA’s Jamie L. Whitten Building in Washington. The agreement strengthens the collaboration between the two agencies, including efforts to improve agricultural and Earth science research, technology, and agricultural management, as well as the application of science data and models to agricultural decision making. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

hope freedom love

and understanding!

and

2nd periode

best wishes!

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"This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we cant, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:

Yes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America"

President Barack Obama

November, 4. 2008.

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Barack Obama wird dabei seine rechte Hand auf jene Bibel legen, die bereits

Abraham Lincoln

bei seiner Amtseinführung im Jahr 1861 verwendet hatte und den verfassungsmäßig vorgeschriebenen Eid ablegen: