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I'm very fortunate to have this tree at my place of work, especially at this time of year. I don't like the cold, nor the short days, but this tree reminds me to keep looking for the positives in every season of life.
we have a few acer trees in the garden and every year I feel compelled to capture their beauty in a photograph, especially early spring and autumn :)
My Acer Palmatum 'Senkaki' has commenced operations for spring and summer, competing against the purple and crimson colours of the surrounding Acers here in my mini Japanese Maple land, at Cherrybrook, in northern Sydney.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon f 2.8. L 100mm macro lens.
Ever since you've been my ace of hearts
Hit me like a freight train in the dark
Come on baby take me far away
I wanna get so lost in the great escape
"Such a hand is said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered. No contemporaneous source records this hand's exact cards, but Frank Wilstach's 1926 book Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers led to the popular modern conception of the "dead man's hand" as containing pairs of black aces and black eights. In Hickok's case these would have been combined with an unknown hole card."
Leaves after the first frosty night in the autumn.
A not fully developed leaf, hence it has not the typical shape.
My variegated Acer Palmatum 'Shirazz'.
It is also known as 'Gwen's Rose Delight'.
The Shirazz is an unusual variegated form of Japanese Maple. The leaves are coloured pink/cream, maroon and dark green, but in Autumn it is a bright purple colour!!
On the balcony here at Cherrybrook, in northern Sydney.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon f 2.8 L 100mm macro lens.
Acers are one of my favourite trees. They have so much interest from the shape of the leaves to the wonderful changes colours through the seasons. I captured these ones during Spring as they were on the turn to their Summer colour
I had a few backlit images ready to choose from for Smile on Saturday, including this shot of our acer in the garden.
When I checked the challenge, I found that the subject had to be white!
So here is one of my non-entries for Smile on Saturday this week - maybe you are smiling!
A beautiful acer tree and a delightful blue sky.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :)
Aberglasney - Sir Gaerfyrddin/ Carmarthenshire
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"Pe bai modd inni weld y cyfan, byddai pawb yn cael eu radicaleiddio ar unwaith yn erbyn yr ymerodraeth. .... Ond does dim modd inni weld y cyfan. Mae hi'n amhosibl inni ddirnad yr holl ddioddefaint sydd ledled y byd a'r holl ffyrdd y caiff y dioddefaint hwnnw ei achosi i bobl ddiniwed. ... Yr arf mwyaf grymus sydd gan ein rheolwyr yw ein hanallu fel bodau dynol i ganfod pob dim ar yr un pryd. Pe gallai pawb ganfod holl ganlyniadau'r penderfyniadau a wneir gan bobl bwerus a gwir deimlo'r hyn sy'n digwydd fel rhan o'u profiad personol, byddai'r rhan fwyaf o'r ddynoliaeth yn codi i ddymchwel y drefn bresennol. Ni byddai odid neb yn fodlon ei hamddiffyn. ... Yr unig beth sy'n cadw pennau'r oligarchiaid a rheolwyr yr ymerodraeth ynghlwm wrth eu cyrff yw cyfyngiadau canfyddiad dynol. ... A dyna pam, wrth gwrs, y maent yn gweithio mor galed i gynnal y cyfyngiadau a gafodd eu gosod ar ganfyddiad dynol. Pwrpas yr holl bropaganda, sensoriaeth ar y rhyngrwyd, triciau deallusrwydd artiffisial, trin algorithmau, a chyfrinachedd y llywodraeth yw ein cadw rhag gweld gormod. Dyma dechnegau'r ymerodraeth gyfalafol, oherwydd fe duedda'r gwirionedd i radicaleiddio'r meddwl." - Caitlin Johnstone
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"If we could see it all, it would radicalize everyone against the empire instantaneously.
But we cannot see it all. We simply can’t take in all the suffering that is happening in all the ways it is being inflicted upon innocent people all around the world.
The most powerful weapon our rulers have is the fact that homo sapiens are incapable of perceiving everything all at once. If everybody could perceive all the consequences of the decisions being made by powerful people on a deep experiential level, most of humanity would rise up to overthrow the established order, and there’d be hardly anyone willing to defend it.
The only thing keeping the heads of the oligarchs and empire managers attached to their necks is the limitations of human perception.
Which of course is why they work so hard to maintain the present limitations of human perception. All the propaganda, internet censorship, AI shenanigans, algorithm manipulation and government secrecy we see from the capitalist empire is there to keep us from seeing too much, because unadulterated truth tends to have a radicalizing effect on the mind." - Caitlin Johnstone - open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/if-we-could-see-...
An Acer leaf, soaked with soda after being hydrolized by vinegar, directly printed on an exposed photo paper (by Paterson, 18X24cm, 30 years old, expired).