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I took this at Borders before they went bankrupt and then went home and ordered it from Amazon for half the price:) its a great book and i learned so much from it. Its all basic knowledge, but very useful to refer to now and again. Also some beautiful photos.
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We have different orientations…
Let's get oriented; put some context in the frame. My feet are on the Adaminaby Beds. They are uniformly boring, Ordovician in age and not my first choice. But I have to stand on something. Yes, I know Adaminaby is in the mountains and we are by the sea. This is part of why this lithology is dull — it's everywhere.
Little blips on the watery horizon are made by the Three Brothers Rocks. Here they resolve according to their name instead of coalesced into one blob as they did behind the yellow thing, with barnacles. See them like this and you know where you are.
I can't go further south on Baragoot Beach. Over the headland behind me is Cuttagee. I'm not wandering aimlessly; I'm anchored in the scenery; there are pointers. Some call them songlines. It's complicated. We think differently about the same thing.
Away on the left horizon is the unmistakable profile of Drom — Mount Dromedary — Gulaga. I had a profane interest in that mountain. Others call it sacred — because we think differently; for want of words.
Reading the terrain is a habit. If we could acknowledge our subordination we'd understand — in most cases and for much of our history — it has guided our feet, controlled our ambitions. For all peoples, it's no different.
When we see the big picture, the deep time, then being on country, that different orientation, is more together then apart, both sacred and profane.
Now it might seem simple to retrace my steps along this beach. Broaden your vision to a time when everyone walked everywhere and the sacred nature of things like Gulaga — country's signposts — put in context, can be understood.
Conscious understanding is not always what we think it is. Some times we just do things only in an unconscious way thinking we did them from our conscious mind. Are we awake or are we sleeping all the time? Is this the dream or is this the life fully awake knowing all we can know? Do I read the words or is it all scribes on the wall? I need to let go of what I think I know and look at what I don't know. Tomorrow is just fantasy to me right now. Yesterday is only the fuzzy recollection of what I slightly recall. Bits and pieces of myself are memories locked in time and conscious desitions I have made. Is this how I use my free will? Why do I like to be in a box? Who made my box but me. When will I explore the dream out side my box of black and white colors. What are the real colors I should see?
Mike
Father and son collaboration
Our photographic art is a kinetic motion study, from the results of interacting with my son A.J and his toys.
He was born severely handicapped much like a quadriplegic. On December 17,1998. Our family’s goal has always been to help A.J. use his mind, even though he has minimal use of his body.
A.J. likes to watch lights and movement. One of the few things he can do for himself is to operate a switch that sets in motion lights and various shiny, colorful streamers and toys that swirl above his bed.
One day I took a picture of A.J. with his toys flying out from the big mobile near his bed like swings on a carnival ride. I liked the way the swirling objects and colors looked in the photo.
I wanted to study the motion more and photograph the whirling objects in an artful way, I wanted my son A.J. to be a part of it. After all, he’s the one who inspires me. When A.J. and I work together on our motion artwork, A.J. starts his streamers and objects twirling, I take the photographs.
Activating a tiny switch might not seem like much to some, but it’s all A.J. can do. He controls the direction the mobile will spin, as well as when it starts and stops. The shutter speeds are long, and sometimes, I move the camera and other times I hold it still.
I begin our creation with a Nikon digital camera. Then I use my computer with Photoshop to alter the images into what I feel might be an artistic way. Working with Photoshop, I find the best parts from several images and combine them into the final composite photograph. I consider the finished work to be fine art. The computer is just the vehicle that helps my expressions grow.
I take the photographs and A.J. adds the magic. It’s something this father and son do together. After I’ve taken a few shots, I show him the photos in the back of the camera. When the images are completed, I show him from a laptop. He just looks. He can’t tell me whether or not he likes the images, but he’s always ready to work with me again.
It offers me my only glance into A.J.’s secret world. We’ve built a large collection of images and I hope the motion and color move you as much as they do me.
A.J. inspires me to work harder to understand my life in the areas of art, photography, people, spirituality, and so much more. He truly sets my mind in motion and helps me find the beauty in everyday things.
Mike
Abstract Art set:
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AJ Patnode - A Journey of Hope (documentary):
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A walk into town to see the East Kent Morris dancers on Easter Saturday the 19th April 2025. and to get a haircut. Yellow filter on camera today.M1010693
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, shows Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, right, images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope prior to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signing ceremony, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The NASA and Department of Education MOU is focused on strengthening the collaboration between the two agencies, including efforts that advance STEM education across the nation. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
Scratched into the horizontal surface of one of the steps leading to Il-Maqluba. Who knows if they still care for each other?
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一張可以完全表達一個人對照片內容的最深沈的感受的照片才是張絕佳的照片。
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
～Ansel Adams
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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.
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Russian postcard by 'Goznak', Moscow, series 2, no. A 1725, 1927. The card was issued in an edition of 15.000 copies.
Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen (1881-1972), was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international film stars. Of her 74 films between 1910 and 1932, seventy were made in Germany where she was known simply as 'Die Asta'. Noted for her large dark eyes, mask-like face, and boyish figure, Nielsen most often portrayed strong-willed passionate women trapped by tragic consequences.
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen was born in the Copenhagen suburb of Vesterbro, Denmark, in 1881. She was the daughter of an often unemployed blacksmith and a washerwoman. Nielsen's family moved several times during her childhood while her father sought employment. When she was fourteen years old, her father died. Asta's stage debut came as a child in the chorus of the Kongelige Teater's production of Boito's opera 'Mephistopheles'. At the age of eighteen, Nielsen was accepted into the drama school of the Royal Danish Theatre. During her time there, she studied with the Royal Danish actor Peter Jerndorff. In 1901, twenty years old, she became pregnant and gave birth to her daughter, Jesta. Nielsen never revealed the identity of the father, and chose to raise her child alone with the help of her mother and older sister. In 1902, she graduated from drama school. For the next three years, she worked at the Dagmar Theatre, then toured in Norway and Sweden from 1905 to 1907 with De Otte and the Peter Fjelstrup companies. Returning to Denmark, she was employed at Det Ny Theater (The New Theatre) from 1907 to 1910. Although she worked steadily as a stage actress, her performances remained unremarkable. Danish historian Robert Neiiedam wrote that Nielsen's unique physical attraction, which was of great value on the screen, was limited on stage by her deep and uneven speaking voice.
In 1909, set designer and director Urban Gad encouraged Asta Nielsen to become a film actress and she starred in his Danish silent film Afgrunden/The Abyss (Urban Gad, 1910). Gary Morris observes in Bright Lights Film Journal: "this film established from the beginning key components of her legend: scandalous eroticism and a uniquely minimalist acting style." Asta plays a music teacher lured away from her stolid fiancee (Robert Dinesen) by a sexy but faithless circus cowboy (Poul Reumert). In a startling sequence of sexual intensity, she lassos her boyfriend and does a lewd dance, bumping and grinding against him. Morris: "This vulgar ‘gaucho-dance’ was what most viewers remembered, but critics of the time also applauded Asta's naturalistic acting." The film was a huge success so she was encouraged to continue. The following year Balletdanserinden/The Ballet Dancer (August Blom, 1911) proved to be another success. Nielsen and Gad soon married. A German distributor, Paul Davidson, invited Nielsen to Germany, where he was building a new studio. Eventually, this would become Europe's largest film studio - the Universum Film Union A.-G. (or Ufa). Asta signed a contract for $80,000 a year, then the highest salary for a film actress. In 1911, she moved to Berlin with Urban Gad. In a Russian popularity poll of that year, she was voted world's top female film star, behind French comedian Max Linder and ahead of her Danish compatriot Valdemar Psilander.
In the next six years, Asta Nielsen played every conceivable kind of character in both tragedies and comedies. In Die Suffragette/The Militant Suffragette (Urban Gad, 1913), she is an English female liberationist whose beliefs force her to become violent, placing a bomb in Parliament. In Zapatas Bande/Zapata's Gang (Urban Gad, 1916), she plays a highway robber. In the comedy Das Liebes-ABC/The ABCs of Love (Magnus Stifter, 1916), she pretends to be a man and takes her wimpy boyfriend out on the town in order to "bring out the man in him." Nielsen was so famous that the name Asta became a trademark for cigarettes and perfumes. In the Dutch city The Hague, a cinema was named after her. Her beauty was praised by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire as "the drunkard's vision and the lonely man's dream". One of Asta's most interesting productions was Hamlet (Sven Gade, Heinz Schall, 1921). Gary Morris: "Asta brings a subtle twist to her version not by playing a man, but by playing a woman disguised as a man, adding another level of gender complexity. Hamlet was based less on William Shakespeare than on a popular book of the time that said Hamlet was actually a girl forcibly raised as a boy in order to provide an heir to the Danish throne. At first, the effect is more puzzling than effective, but the actress's strategy becomes evident in sexually charged scenes between Asta/Hamlet and Horatio, who caress and coddle each other in what surely appeared to viewers of the time (as it does to modern audiences) as a gay tryst. Asta brilliantly imparts the gender-unstable nature of the character in these scenes with Horatio and others with Fortinbras, whose encounters with Hamlet are also clearly coded as gay. The actress's effortless creation of these subtle, sympathetic homosexual tableaux gives a tremendous vitality to this production. The fact that the film was truly hers — being the first film she made with her own production company — shows just how daring and modern she was."
Nowadays Asta Nielsen is best known for Die Freudlose Gasse/The Joyless Street (G.W. Pabst, 1925). Asta plays in this film an impoverished woman who resorts to prostitution and murder. In the original prints there were two equal-time female leads: Nielsen and a young actress from Sweden, Greta Garbo. Ruthlessly cut for American release, the film suddenly became a Garbo vehicle. Fortunately, the print has been restored recently and Asta triumphs in it as the increasingly unbalanced Marie. Nielsen continued to be a screen legend in Germany, and appeared in films like Dirnentragödie/Tragedy of the Street (Bruno Rahn, 1927) and in her only sound film Unmögliche Liebe/Crown of Thorns (Erich Waschneck, 1932). After the Nazis came to power she was rumoured to be offered her own studio by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Understanding the implications well, she left Germany for good in 1936, settling in Denmark where she returned to stage acting and became a private figure. In her later years, Asta Nielsen wrote articles on art and politics and a two-volume autobiography, 'Den tiende Muse' (The Silent Muse) in 1946. She also became an acclaimed collage artist. In 1964, Nielsen had to come to terms with the most severe blow of her life: her daughter Jesta committed suicide following the death of her husband. At 86, Asta directed her first film. Luise F. Pusch writes in FemBio: "After a film about her life did not meet with her approval, she set to work on the project herself. The result was a work of art." At 88, Asta Nielsen married her third husband, Christian Theede, an art dealer 18 years her junior and the great love of her life. The two enjoyed their travels together so much that they decided to leave their fortune to a foundation to fund trips for the elderly. In 1972, Asta Nielsen died in Copenhagen after a leg fracture. She was 90.
Sources: Gary Morris (Bright Lights Film Journal), Luise F. Pusch (FemBio), Jim Beaver (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Friends at last.
A series of AI-generated pictures of Little Red Riding Hood and her new friend, the wolf, in different art styles.
To be continued.
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Leipziger Buchmesse 2016 / Leipzig Book Fair 2016
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-Lissy (Lisa) 554191 as Shego from Kim Possible
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Ежегодно 21 марта во всем мире отмечается Всемирный день людей с синдромом Дауна. В 2018 году празднование этого дня пройдет в 13-ый раз начиная с 2006 года. Каждый год празднование проходит под лозунгом, который отражает важные аспекты жизни людей с синдромом Дауна.
Лозунг 2018 года — WhatI Bring To My Community (Чем я могу помочь своему сообществу). Основная цель организаторов — предоставить людям с синдромом Дауна возможность быть вовлеченными в общественно-политическую и культурную жизнь общества, влиять на ситуацию в школе, на работе, в спорте и СМИ.
В декабре 2011 года Генеральная Ассамблея объявила 21 марта Всемирным днем людей с синдромом Дауна (A/RES/66/149). Генеральная Ассамблея постановила что зтот День будет отмечаться 21 марта каждый год начиная с 2012 года и предложила всем государствам-членам, соответствующим организациям системы Организации Объединенных Наций и другим международным организациям, а также гражданскому обществу, включая неправительственные организации и частный сектор, надлежащим образом отмечать Всемирный день людей с синдромом Дауна, с тем чтобы повышать уровень информированности общественности о синдроме Дауна.
Синдром Дауна является одной из форм естественно развивающейся врожденной геномной патологии, распространенной во всех регионах мира и часто ведущей к изменениям моторики, физических характеристик и здоровья.
Жизненно важное значение для роста и развития больных имеет адекватный доступ к медицинскому обслуживанию, программам раннего вмешательства и инклюзивного образования, а также проведение соответствующих исследований.
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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!!
I wish to thank everyone who has viewed my photos. I appreciate viewing yours also. Photos really do make the world come together and assist understanding between cultures. Thanks and Cheers.
“Understanding suffering is very important.
The practice of meditation is designed not to develop pleasure but to understand the truth of suffering; and in order to understand the truth of suffering, one also has to understand the truth of awareness.
When true awareness takes place, suffering does not exist. Through awareness, suffering is somewhat changed in its perspective.
It is not necessarily that you do not suffer, but the haunting quality that fundamentally you are in trouble is removed.
It is like removing a splinter.
It might
hurt, and you might still feel pain, but the basic cause of that pain, the ego, has been removed.”
“Removing the splinter of ego” from Chapter Three, "The Power of Flickering Thoughts," in “the truth of suffering and the path of liberation”, based on talks at the Vajradhatu Seminaries conducted by Chogyam Trungpa.
This young man was removing a splinter from his foot as he was sitting along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
He reminded me a Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic department which is in Le Louvre museum in Paris.
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"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living." - Helen Keller
#smalltowninertia Shared a few hours with David this morning. I’d purchased and taken with me a memo recording device, designed for use by people enduring blindness, a device, I hoped, that might aid in lessening the immense strain and stress of having to memorise one hundred percent of every element of David’s day to day life, now, when a thought, a need, an item or chore was thought of, David could record it, save it and replay it, at will. Another step towards greater independence.
Introducing new equipment to David takes time, patience and empathy. It’s a scary, frustrating endeavour, learning, memorising and understanding anything that you can’t see. Especially electronic devices. It’s a necessarily slow process of explaining, informing, describing and cannot be rushed.
After many attempts and learning, tracing the buttons, making a visual map within his mind, David began to understand the memo recorder and was able to use it to record his voice. The first ten messages recorded, face etched with concentration, self doubt and tension, he whispered ‘Help’ into the recorder, played it back, heard his voice, then erased.
Carefully, as we progressed, I suggested he try a longer list of items, as though making a shopping list, which he did and then learned to scroll through the recordings, erasing them, re-recording, playing them, listening, learning, gaining confidence every time.
Then, without prompting, David launched into a song, then another and another. Playing them back, a broad smile awoke upon David’s face “I don’t mean to sound big headed but I sound better than I expected, don’t I?”, “Yes!” I encouraged, truthfully, as David has a beautiful singing voice.
Together in his kitchen, cold, dark but now both singing along to the recordings he had made, we smiled, laughed, together.
As I write this, now, I am amazed at David’s memory, singing songs he’d heard as a child, from cinema and radio, recalling every lyric and phrase, melody and timing, never missing a beat nor forsaking a word. I am equally aware of the great privilege it was and is, to hear David sing.
Music, it has transpired, is a key to happiness for David, a momentary escape and joy, non reliant upon sight, transporting him out of the blackness, into the light of song, of singing and of being alive.
Today, was a good day.
* Also, a chance to try some more out of date Kodak BW400CN, developed at the local Boots. Looking forwards, in January, to finally start developing TriX and Tmax, myself.
#film #Kodak #leicaM6 #BW400CN
Journey to a place, take it in and feel the amazing gratitude, for the creator has made it all...for just for you...right here right now !
Dare to dream
A series of AI-generated pictures of Mio I. in different art styles.
To be continued.
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I rarely spent time with my Dad while I was growing up. I lived with my Grandparents for most of my life. I met my Mom a handful of times. It has been more than 20 years since I've seen her last. I still talk to my Dad and we try to forge a relationship. When I was younger, when I did see him, he would take me to interesting places like this one. I understand, Dad. I'm just thankful for the time we did spend together.
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.' Proverbs 10:6
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"Understanding the symptoms of diabetes is a valuable Christmas gift."
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For everyone to share since a lot of this has been just glanced at without further thought, controversy and discussion.
Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the ultimate question - what was there before the Big Bang?
sybylfly.blog.ca/2013/05/10/understanding-black-holes-159...
We have the Winter Solstice coming up soon so I am going to try to explain what it is all about. We all know there is 24 hours in a day so what is this Shortest Day all about.
The reason we have any seasons is because the earth has a 23.5 degree tilt. In the summer months the sun shines directly on our USA country, in the Winter we get the weak angular rays. This country averages well over 100 degrees difference.
In July Death Valley can be well over 100 degrees. In winter much of the North is hovering around zero.
What makes all the difference is the latitude where you live. On the longest day in June, Seattle gets about 13 hours of sunlight, while Miami gets around 11. Norway is called the land of the Midnight sun. In Summer the sun goes below the horizon for only about 40 minutes, then it is up again. In Barrow, Alaska, the sun goes down on November 18th and it comes up again 67 days later on January 23rd.
I hope this has helped to explain some of the mysteries associated with the Solstice.