Ice Cruising to the Disko Bay .Οne of the finest experiences north of the Arctic Circle is midnight sun sailing through waters spotted with ice. The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon in which the sun does not set for a matter of days or even months

Rarely am I so confused about the situation when I was taking a picture.

One day I ran into the Łódź Photo Festival. There was a looped film projection in one of the side rooms. Two young people watched it. The scene looked compositionally ok (although it was very dark) so I photographed it. My frustration in the subject of the description comes from the transmission of the material, for me it reminded me of an endoscope inserted into a tube. Maybe I don't know much about art or maybe I'm just not in the target group of recipients of this film material (even for sure).

Lady Sparkle on my chest making eye contact!

Coils and knots

Shape and control

Human intervention

In dreams, I see shapes and colors like these and I hear music as the shapes and colors change. It seems perfect to imagine those feelings and sensations with fractals.

Monarch Butterfly on Zinnia

AB FAV for today…

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I had been 'playing' with this concept for a while in my head. I called it (instead of the Silence of the Lambs) the Silence of the Bird. When I had the final result, it came to me immediately: VISUAL SILENCE.

I don't often 'dive' into the digital 'magical' darkroom that photoshop can be, but for certain projects it is a great creative tool!

Here, in the case of visual silence, what is being absorbed is not sound but gaze.

If silence is the absence of noise, then this visual silence is defined as the gradual absence, the vanishing, of what surrounds it, where we burrow from the visible surface to the invisible core. Our focus on the image involves a diminution of the optic field:

in this sense, visual silence is like a poem, its power arising from its sheer vulnerability. The image cannot be penetrated even by the most powerful of gazes because it is already open, in full view... and yet the transparency of the image, one that does not attempt to hide anything, is still capable of mystery.

Visual silence arrests us because it is the interface between two realms of partial knowledge: between he who does not know he is being watched and those who do not know what they are watching.

Some images leave us speechless, we watch them in silent awe.

Ultimately the camera is merely an extension of the human eye, it only sees and cannot wholly know what it is seeing.

May PEACE be with you and thanx for everything, M, (*_*)

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New Mexico One Livery WN3679 on the River Visual for RWY 19 DCA

Visual Magick’s Igneous mods for the Kobold are beautiful beyond words! I’m wearing Lava, and its definitely HOT! I had a lot of fun playing with particle fire to take the last 2 photos. :)

Mod: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Igneous-Lava/8159119

Fresno, Ca.

Here is my first attempt at architecture. I admire people who can just take those photos that are perfectly aligned or even know how to edit them so they are straight.

Well I dont know either but I do know that to see all these shapes in one place at a time aligned with the light and shadow is utter magic.

Here is a special thank you to my friend who brought me there. And saw me freaking out at this sight (:

not sure what to say about this image......simply messing around yesterday with old photos and this is one of the things that happened.

Well I’m sure it’s pretty obvious where this started from, not.

It’s another great photographic idea that flopped on implementation and subsequently to be repurposed for Sliders Sunday. Originally it was a picture of water boiling in the bottom of a pan, taken on a whim while on holiday.

Great idea. Pity about the steam clouding the image, lol.

The Topaz Glow filter, for me, is a bit like a banned substance I guess (and I have to guess ;) )...I have withdrawal problems if I don’t get a regular dose of it...

Glow needs two things to work well at this abstract end of its possible uses: some sort of linear structure to seed its collagen building algorithms and some interesting colour. The boiling water (so the idea went) was all interesting circles for the structure, but the question was how to add colour, zap, zing, pizazz and general psychedelia?

So I created a layer formed from two overlaid conical rainbow gradients and blended that with the bubbles using Soft Light. I then used a Mirror distortion filter with 6 mirrors to get the sixfold symmetry (I’ll link to the original bubbles and this interim stage - where you can just still make the bubbles out - in the first comment).

Then the real fun started. Into Topaz Glow starting with one of the Neon presets, and then sliding the sliders to taste…

Back into Affinity Photo for mangling with the hue, saturation, contrast, colour curves (LAB) and a bit of Clarity filter. And there you have it, well apart from a black frame and a blue internal shadow :)

Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image (legally) :) Happy Sliders Sunday!!

Visual is the new Gacha collection for Kustom9 - March

13 Items, 3 rares and 10 Commons.

Fresh and Mediterranean set.

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100% Original Mesh

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Perfomance with Oregon Painting Society on December 12th, 2008 at Rotture

watch the video!

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Visual is a dance troupe that consists of (not exclusively)

Morgan Alexandra Ritter

Dana Dart-McLean

Kersti Jan Werdal

Brenna Murphy

Barbara Kinzle

Lynn Dunham

Asia Wong

Molly Pringle

some of my long time flickr friends may "get"

this more readily , knowing that most often i

can be found in a garden , either whenever

the seasonal maintenance & climate allows

OR

-- those regions of my mind may propel --

ps: HFF and happy positive resolutions 😃

Created with 3D products from Digital Artist Zone.

"Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.” Stewart Lewis

I don't know what Marbled Hot Springs Rd. would be without the American Bitterns! While we were there the reeds hadn't had a chance to grow very tall so the Bitterns were pretty easy to spot. Raising their heads up generally in position with the vertical reeds I'm sure they are imagening they are hidden from sight...I didn't realize until this picture what an incredible 'visual perspective' they have of everything around them in this position!

Photomanipulation created for Challenges Community Group Visual Poems from 21 of April to 31 of May of 2018

1951 HITS ARCHIVE: I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat - Mel Blanc

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I am a little, tiny, bird. My name is Tweety Pie

I live inside my bird cage, a-hanging way up high

I like to swing upon my perch and sing my little song

But there's a tat that's after me and won't let me alone

I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me

I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!

I am that great big bad old cat, Sylvester is my name

I only have one aim in life and that is very plain

I want to catch that little bird and eat him right away

But just as I get close to him, this is what he'll say

I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me

You bet he taw a puddy tat, that puddy tat is me!

That puddy tat is very bad, he sneaks up from behind

I don't think I would like it if I knew what's on his mind

I have a strong suspicion that his plans for me aren't good

I am inclined to think that he would eat me if he could

I'd like to eat that sweetie pie when he leaves his cage

But I can never catch him, It throws me in a rage

You bet I'd eat that little bird if I could just get near

But every time that I approach, this is all I hear

I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me

I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!

And when I sing that little song, my mistress knows he's back

She grabs her broom and brings it down upon Sylvester's back

So listen you bad puddy tat, let's both be friends and see

My mistress will not chase you if you sing this song with me

Come on now, like a good cat

Oh, all right. Sufferin' Succotash!

I taut I taw a puddy tat a creepin' up on me

I did! I taw a puddy tat as plain as he could be!

Written by: Billy Alan May Livingston Sung by: Danny Kaye

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️

Jitterbug

Copa Airlines B738 for RWY 25, MROC / SJO.

Photographer - Visual Distress MM#510136

Model - Myself - Red Rhapsody MM#375616

Hair/MU/Wardrobe - Myself

Location - Primal Stare Studios

Wat Arun

158 Thanon Wang Doem

Wat Arun, Bangkok Yai

Bangkok 10600, Tailandia

Parque das Nações (Lisbon).

This was part of a larger sign, but I liked the impact of this word.

Time for the archives.

The poet. 1989.

Chameleons are absolutely fascinating animals. They are able to watch in two different directions at the same time.

Each of these, in its own way is like a visual haiku to me.

mannequin eye and building reflection

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I took this photograph couple of days ago while we were heading to library with Aura. In my mind this picture compares very closely to Day 19. Not only is it taken almost from the same spot, but the light is a bit similar and again the whole picture is based on a very well known visual motif of silhouette figure. I hope the guy is at least someone else this time! When I took that earlier picture, I wrote about feeling mixed about it because pictures which are too much based on known visual motifs become clichés easily. Looking it now, I feel I need to lighten my stance and focus it a bit.

I don't want to be against visual motifs. If you look at the history of photography, it quickly becomes clear that it isn't reasonable stance to take. As a matter of fact, many classic photographs can be considered, if not only to be based on visual motifs, but also something which have created them in the first place. Like someone who commented my earlier picture said, there are only a finite number of different visual motifs, maybe just a few hundred. And being 'language of photography' they can be put to use in different ways, which means that the motifs don't control photography as much as one would think. So, yes I'm lightening my stance here, but here comes the focus part. I think that if photography is solely based on repeating these visual motifs, it is reduced, I think, to be repeated for didactic purposes. To me, some genres of photography are close to this, but I can understand there are different approaches to this. In my mind I would like to think that good photography also needs a context, a story or some other 'interpretative dimension' to make them something more than just 'pictures of the world'. I know it's a challenging claim to make, but it is also very much something that I need to learn myself too.

Year of the Alpha – 365 Days of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com

Visual Flight Rules

Pages worked on in the last few days.

S Exposure | B&W Fine Art

My better half Jerri is the Big Cheese of Orchids here... This was taken in her Orchid House. Thanks for the Visit and have a Large Tuesday.

digital art

Bishopsgate, City Of London

Visual echoes

Santorini

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

-- Carl Gustav Jung

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