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Vent du Nord
Il y avait un fort vent du nord
Soufflant de face
Dur et glacial
Sur ce grand lac des hauts plateaux, couvert de glace.
Une beauté sauvage, rude et sans fard,
Éclairée par un soleil frileux
Révélant parfois une lueur froide venue des profondeurs du lac
Ou alors, un timide reflet chaud que le vent glacial s’empressait de balayer.
Une beauté faite de contrastes frappants
Opposant le désordre détaillé de la surface gelée proche
À l’horizon éthéré, enveloppé d’un doux brouillard de neige.
Une beauté inhumaine, certes.
Mais une beauté qui force l’âme humaine à sourire
À sourire de plaisir
Ici, face au vent du nord de Poësia
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NORTH WIND
There was a strong north wind
Blowing from the front
Bitter and icy
On this large lake in the highlands, covered with ice.
A wild beauty, rough and unvarnished,
Enlightened by a cold sun
Revealing sometimes a cold gleam from the depths of the lake
Or, a timid, warm reflection that the icy wind swept away.
A beauty made of striking contrasts
Opposing the detailed mess of the frozen surface nearby
On the ethereal horizon, wrapped in a soft mist of snow.
A soulless beauty, certainly!
But a beauty that forces the human soul to smile
To smile of joy
Here, facing the north wind of Poësia
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The majority of the shooting I enjoy is travel photography, I don’t know if this fits into my ADD personality type best or if it’s just the sheer enjoyment of immersing yourself in another culture or environment that you have never experienced but it seems to suit me best.
For first time native English speakers traveling I highly recommend the Netherlands as a great place to dip your toes in the European water, the people are friendly, tolerant of your stupidity, and most speak English (as well as many other languages) but beware the Dutch are famous for honesty and tell it like it is completely unvarnished.
Once again this is Kasteel de Haar a castle so nice I had to show it twice, while Pierre Cuypers gets most of the credit for this creation one should not forget Hendrik Copijn who was the landscape architect that gave the beautiful lady her clothes.
The 20th century saw the castle used as the playground of the rich and famous with stars like Brigitte Bardot, Roger Moore and Coco Chanel gracing its doorstep, in the 21rst century it sees use as a much sought after wedding venue and tourist stop.
I took this with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 28mm 1/5s, f/16 ISO 200 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz Denoise
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.
While visiting the really cool Natural Bridges National Monument and hiking in the canyons there, I stumbled upon this frozen pool of water pocketed in sand and surrounded by sandstone with intermittent tones of some amazing unvarnished orange sandstone that is unusually noticeable, even without direct light. The setting created a vertical line of blue tones sandwiched by horizontal orange tones. This pool was found while I was back in the connecting canyon to the ever popular Owachomo Bridge looking for interesting compositions of that beautiful natural bridge. This pool of frozen water and interesting orange sandstone beckoned the need to photograph. I hope my image portrays the sandstone color that I saw.
Blarney is the varnished truth, baloney is the unvarnished lie.
Blarney is flattery laid on thin enough to like it, baloney is flattery laid on so thick we hate it.
Blarney is flattery laid on with the lips, baloney is flattery laid on with a trowel.
I firmly believe if the world had a little more Blarney and a little less baloney it would be a better place. :-)
The walls at Drayton Hall are bare and the rooms unfurnished. Located about 12 miles from downtown Charleston, the house has no heating or plumbing. Yet visitors to South Carolina’s oldest unrestored antebellum plantation will find it remarkably well preserved.
Devoid of cosmetic restorations that can blur the signs of age, it offers a close-up look at the unvarnished materials and original workmanship of more than 275 years ago. Set on 350 ac
For four decades, Gerhard Haderer has been holding a mirror up to us with his caricatures: He comments on the everyday madness of the bourgeoisie with the same sharpness as he does on world politics. He takes on everyone and everything in an unvarnished and mercilessly realistic way and even if he regrets not being able to draw the powerful into the ground with a pencil, i.e. if he would like to set one or two people straight, he is very successful in exposing the world with its impositions and distortions for his audience.
Even at 70, there is no need to fear old age, as the 70 or so drawings selected by the caricaturist himself in the Schlossmuseum show. In a specially created, Haderer-specific setting: The OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH is using the upcoming renovation in the Schlossmuseum for an interim spatial use. The colourful Haderer cosmos is to be accommodated with walls personally designed by the artist and a squeaky red plastic floor.
Disclaimer: Never tried the stuff myself, nor did I ever do a "line" of coke.
But these lyrics from a song by the Moody Blues indicate what I might have missed:
"He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
He'll plant your feet back on the ground.
He'll fly so high, he'll swoop so low.
Timothy Leary."
You already know this beautiful beech tree that has been transformed by frost into a work of art.
But this time we want to focus entirely on it. Without distraction from grass in the foreground or the surrounding area.
Because in my opinion it is an absolute feast for the eyes with this network of branches covered in ice and snow.
And therefore it is a particularly beautiful Christmas tree and definitely belongs in this series. And all this without lighting and colorful tree decorations.
Because true natural (and unvarnished) beauty doesn't need anything like that.
Diese wunderschöne vom Frost zu einem Kunstwerk verwandelte Buche kennt Ihr ja schon.
Doch dieses Mal wollen wir uns ganz auf sie konzentrieren. Ohne Ablenkung durch Gräser im Vordergrund oder die weitere Umgebung.
Denn meiner Meinung nach ist sie, mit diesem Geflecht aus mit Eis und Schnee überzogenen Ästen eine absolute Augenweide.
Und somit ist sie ein ganz besonders schöner Weihnachtbaum und gehört unbedingt in diese Reihe. Und das ganz ohne Beleuchtung und bunten Baumdekoration.
Denn wahre natürliche (und ungeschminkte) Schönheit braucht so etwas nicht.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
I was just seeing how close I could get this lens to focus and got this shot - decided to keep it and make it this week's entry! Good job, as it's a ridiculously busy week...
Whenever I'm out in nature and taking photographs I am inspired by the photographs of Eliot Porter (1901-1990). His work is so beautiful, unvarnished and pure. He always let nature speak for itself. To play around with processing to make an image more "spectacular" seems like sacrilege. Let these beautiful gulls "speak" to your soul. It's truly healing.
Eliot Porter - A Gift (Video)
www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/53708738178/in/album-72...
Some people want to come to Italy to experience the Disney version of the country to see the big three and flee I can understand this but its not how I want to experience this country or any other for that matter. I like the rough edges of things off the beaten track I want to experience the unvarnished Italy stroll through villages that are really open air museums filled with people happily living their lives in the midst of it all. Stilo personifies this sentiment of genuineness at the same time preserving its historical treasures all the while taking in stride the influx of tourism during the season with acceptance, opening their city and arms to anyone that cares to venture into them.
I took this on Sept 18th 2023 with my D850 and Nikon 28-300mm f3.5-5.6 at 42mm, 1/250s, f5.6 ISO 5000 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia ,Topaz, and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism and still a work in progress
I would give up everything
Before I'd separate myself from you
After so much suffering
I finally found unvarnished truth
I was all by myself for the longest time
So cold inside
And the hurt from the heartache would not subside
I felt like dying
Until you saved my life
Thank God I found you
I was lost without you
My every wish and every dream
Somehow became reality
When you brought the sunlight
Completed my whole life
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
'Cause baby I'm so thankful I found you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KVxjQUCyn0
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Photographer & Model - Charlotte Faye ♥
Venue Credits - ~ SenZ ~
Bikini - Salt & Pepper - Arielle (Coral)
Hair - Exile - Hayley Hair (at Soiree June 2019)
Earrings - Kibitz - Nermia Hoops (Gold)
Bracelets - TABOU - Ellie (Gold)
Necklaces - *AvaWay* - Carrie Necklace (Gold)
Anklet - Swan - Adna (Gold)
Brickworks, Toronto, Canada.
Forest scenes are always a struggle. I envy the masters who can isolate the branch gestures and avoid the chaos to revel hidden personalities of trees. But there is also something alluring in the disorder and sheer explosion of life trying to make better place for itself over the competition.
There is no better place to experience it than shores of the boggy lakes. Plants, reeds and trees just grow over each other in a cacophony of life. It is a bit confused and messy, but it has the quality of an unvarnished truth: this is the way things are.
My usual schtick is to create a character and costume and try to bring something or someone to life. Most are conglomerations of my own experience. So when We're Here decided to do Un-Self Portraits, I decided to do me. Call me a rebel.
This is me. After an eleven hour ass grinding workday of saving lives, diagnosing cancer, and missing lunch. Kim would have been here, but she had dance rehearsal. So I went outside and set my camera up on a tripod and shot. Uncropped, unvarnished. One shot. No costume. No lights. No Kim. So unlike me. An Un-Self Portrait.
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For a long time this tape was lost in my apartment. But the fate wanted that it does not remain lost. 1988 a few teenagers formed a band (among others me) and went out to make noise. After a while they felt strong enough to play some of their own songs. Live, raw and unvarnished, the whole thing was presented one evening in February, as an opening act to a local, quite well-known band. The tape is the recording of this unique concert. We couldn't do anything, I think we even invented a new style of music, Fun Noise Core Without Talent Punk. What memories come up there.
Garlic, founded in 1988...
Horseshoe Canyon to the Great Gallery; Canyonlands National Park, Utah; November 2017
The desert varnish in this stretch of canyon impressed me. I did end up cropping out the very bottom of my original shot to remove some burro droppings from the frame—a reminder that what I show isn't always the unvarnished truth.
What do you think of when you hear Detroit brought up in conversation? I suspect for most folks visions teetering on the third world come to mind. Of late a great deal of focus has been placed on our city. Much of what is written and shown is done to support one agenda or another. Thomas Morton in a blog post (http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n8/htdocs/something-something-something-detroit) calls this fascination "ruin porn". His central theme is the media has an agenda to paint a very bleak picture of the city and journalist from around the world are scurrying about town and manipulating images to support this theme. He makes a powerful case. The sad truth is much of this reporting, while extreme, has a solid foundation. The situation in Detroit is nothing new and has been going on for 50 years. We happen to be at a tipping point where the abandonment of the city is particularly striking.
Morton is correct in scolding the journalist, though I don't think his argument applies to artists. Detroit offers people the opportunity to see many things. The journalist has an ethical obligation to report the facts, unvarnished. The artist is presenting a view, how they see the world. When I look at my home town I see many things- sadness, grit, strength. I see a city aging and- much like myself- not always gracefully. I see hope and despair. Mostly I see memories, almost all fond, of a life that is vanishing right before our eyes and there is nothing we can do about it. Not a thing. It is the vanishing world that makes my heart ache. Yes I can capture one shot that captures the despair and tilt my camera the other way and see Oz. These days I fear Oz is more the illusion.
R.I.P. Henry N. Cobb (1926 - 2020)
Modernist architect Henry N. Cobb, a founding partner of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, known to friends as Harry, died March 2, 2020, one month before he would have turned 94.
Born in Boston in 1926, Cobb was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, before graduating from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1949. He co-founded an architecture firm in New York in 1955 with I.M. Pei and Eason H. Leonard. The firm’s name changed from I.M. Pei & Associates to Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners in 1989. (I.M. Pei died last year at age 102, while James Ingo Freed died in 2005 at age 75.)
“Harry Cobb, throughout his 70-year career, built with tenacious care and elegance the landmarks of our cities,” structural engineer Guy Nordenson—a close friend of Cobb’s—tells RECORD. “For so many of us he also stood as the fulcrum of our culture of architecture. His legacy is everywhere.”
Cobb and his colleagues shaped cities and skylines across the globe with such projects as Place Ville Marie (1962) in Montreal, ARCO Tower in Dallas (1983), the Charles Shipman Payson Building (1983) at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, Moakley U.S. Courthouse & Harborpark (1998) in Boston, Torre Espacio (2008) in Madrid, Palazzo Lombardia (2013) in Milan, and 7 Bryant Park (2016) in New York.
New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman noted on Twitter how the architect of the John Hancock Tower (1976) in Boston was “still producing works of subtlety like the African American Museum in Charleston at the end of his life,” calling him a “truly humane and generous soul” as well as a “poet of form.”
Between 1980 and 1985, Cobb served as chair of the architecture department at the GSD, where he taught Sophia Gruzdys, a professor at USC and vice president of the AIA Continental Europe. “Harry’s belief in me as a young student forged my career in architecture at the GSD and later, in our design team in his office,” Gruzdys tells RECORD. “Harry also confided that while architecture school prepares you for the first ten years of your career, it is the following twenty that will sustain you. You need to embrace a broader intellectual search, speak an unvarnished truth, and remain open to new ideas.”
This morning, the firm posted a statement to its website, signed by partners Michael D. Flynn, Ian Bader, Yvonne Szeto, Michael W. Bischoff, José Bruguera, in which they noted “his many accolades attest to the accessibility of his ideas, the depth of his humility, and the sincerity of his friendship.”
[Obituary by Miriam Sitz is the Senior News & Web editor for Architectural Record]
200 West Street NYC - 2004 - Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners
unvarnished truth
wahrhaftig keine gute Zeit sowohl hier als auch anderswo, dabei geht's uns doch Gold, nur leider kommt der Brand immer näher. Da nützt es auch nicht, die Fenster zu schliessen, die Vorhänge zuzuziehen, es brennt überall, wohin denn jetzt?
I noticed that one of the wooden beads was not varnished only after I bought this bracelet. I still like it and wear it.
Slightly unvarnished and bohemian, Södermalm is Stockholm’s southern island. Here you’ll find the coolest secondhand shops, art galleries, bars and espresso labs. The hills at the island’s northern edge provide stunning views across Gamla Stan and the rest of the central city. A couple of museum heavyweights round out the to-do list, before taking in some of the city's most diverse nightlife.
I created this collage from a series of photographs I took of the original construction of an early colonial log cabin that was built in 1807. And It is the oldest remaining structure in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania. It functioned as a bakery, a tavern, a school and a home.
To my surprise the raw, unvarnished material of unfinished wood and waddle and daub is reminiscent of the black and white paintings of two later American Abstract Expressionist artists , Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko and the American sculptor, Louise Nevelson.
Spencer portrayed the unvarnished reality of male-female relationships in this painting,which chronicles the travails of early married life.Here,the unseen young wife is not in full command of her kitchen,having sent her husband out to procure the groceries-a task for which he is evidently not qualified.Using her husband as a model,Spencer depicted the man stumbling down the street and attempting to hold on to the items in his overflowing basket,attracting gazes from at least one onlooker and suffering a public humiliation.Spencer depicted in human terms a real social anxiety of the time:that of setting up a household and running it efficiently.
I know how difficult it is to carry groceries in your hand,holding a long umbrella at the same time.It drives me crazy all the time.
...of town, only it's immediately downtown, around the corner from the antique tractor I uploaded a few days ago. Nicely growing and historic town has many odd corners with unvarnished surprises.
wet plate collodion (ammonium lithium) on transparent glass. unvarnished (that's why black aren't deep). took with MPP and darlot petzval (w.o.)
Slightly unvarnished and bohemian, Södermalm is Stockholm’s southern island. Here you’ll find the coolest secondhand shops, art galleries, bars and espresso labs. The hills at the island’s northern edge provide stunning views across Gamla Stan and the rest of the central city. A couple of museum heavyweights round out the to-do list, before taking in some of the city's most diverse nightlife.
Slightly unvarnished and bohemian, Södermalm is Stockholm’s southern island. Here you’ll find the coolest secondhand shops, art galleries, bars and espresso labs. The hills at the island’s northern edge provide stunning views across Gamla Stan and the rest of the central city. A couple of museum heavyweights round out the to-do list, before taking in some of the city's most diverse nightlife.
In STRAY, a trio of canine outcasts roam the streets of Istanbul. Through their eyes and ears, we are shown an intimate portrait of the life of a city and its people.
Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society that allow us an unvarnished portrait of human life — and their own canine culture.
Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on solitary adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds refuge with the security guards who care for her. The disparate lives of Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians who share the streets with them.
Whether they lead us into bustling streets or decrepit ruins, the gaze of these strays act as windows into the overlooked corners of society: women in loveless marriages, protesters without arms, refugees without sanctuary. The film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.
About the book "Common Yet Uncommon" by Sudha Murty with Milee Ashwarya at Bangalore Lit Festival 2023 in Hotel Lalit Ashok
" Written in Sudha Murty's inimitable style, Common Yet Uncommon is a heartwarming picture of everyday life and the foibles and quirks of ordinary people. In the fourteen tales that make up the collection, Sudha Murty delves into memories of childhood, life in her hometown and the people she's crossed paths with. These and the other characters who populate the pages of this book do not possess wealth or fame. They are unpolished and outspoken, transparent and magnanimous.
Their stories are tales of unvarnished humans, with faults and big hearts."
Testing out a lens for 11x14 wet plate macro. Plate shot on Chamonix 11x14 with Schneider 150mm F/5.6 Super-Symmar XL at f/8 for 3 min.
Plate is fresh and unvarnished.
View from Maria Magdalena church.
Slightly unvarnished and bohemian, Södermalm is Stockholm’s southern island. Here you’ll find the coolest secondhand shops, art galleries, bars and espresso labs. The hills at the island’s northern edge provide stunning views across Gamla Stan and the rest of the central city. A couple of museum heavyweights round out the to-do list, before taking in some of the city's most diverse nightlife.
It's no secret that many of my Flickr photos have been edited.
I've not flawless skin, nor perfect symmetry, nor proportions and color.
So I figured it useful to reset expectations by sharing an unvarnished snapshot portrait.
Taken by living art-form Cristy Garcia. In my bathroom, she thought the light was good and the background interesting. Agree?
If you care to look closely, wrinkles, tons of makeup, big pores, uneven texture, foudation gaps, bad blending, and loose hair out of place, are all obvious.
If you look even more closely you will find.......Wait! Don't do that!
"Unvarnished" has a bunch of useful synonyms when used in this context, including: "straightforward · plain · simple · stark · naked · bald · truthful · realistic · true to life · candid · honest · frank · forthright · plain-spoken · direct · blunt · brutal · harsh · straight from the shoulder · explicit · unequivocal · unambiguous · exaggerated · unadorned · undisguised · unveiled · unqualified."
All seem to apply here.
Chances are you viewers and I will never meet in person. But if we did - this photo shows more accurately what you'd see.
Uncharacteristically - I am smiling in this photo. That is the best photo editing possible. Agree?
Let's all enjoy unvarnished moments - they seem increasingly rare.
Nora
While exploring a canyon in Zion National Park I stopped in my tracks when I encountered this formation along the canyon wall. The shape resembling a figure stands unvarnished facing upstream. It tells the story of taking the force of countless flash floods that have prevented the deep, deep varnish of the surrounding rock from taking hold. This figure has resisted the currents and floods for thousands of years, and while erosion carves the face deeper with each flood, it also makes it stand out.
During my brief and so far only exploration of a narrow canyon in Zion National Park, I came across this formation in the canyon wall and was immediately taken by it. Tilted striations in the sandstone abruptly transition to straight horizontal. Deep black varnish gives suddenly away to unvarnished red sandstone. I didn’t realize it at the time I captured the image, but the unvarnished face, pointed upstream, almost looks like a human figure with arms at the sides. Almost like a mummified figure standing vertical. As I often do in such places, I try to imagine the forces of flash floods. I imagine the scouring force of debris and sediment stripping the varnish away on the upstream edge here, while the other parts of the canyon wall go relatively unscathed, likely for centuries given the extent of the patina.