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I have walked by the U.S. Capitol countless times and taken many pictures. But on my Saturday walk, I saw the Capitol from a new angle that showed the complex architecture and the mulitiple design elements: leaded windows, balusters,balconies,columns,windows, and even a fence and lamppost! You can see a lot of detail in the larger sizes.
Central Hong Kong
f5.6 1/500sec Kodak Professional BW400CN Black and White film
Leica IIIf with Leitz 50mm f2.0 rigid 1960 first generation screw mount
The diagram describe the input-output flows in the production of wood-based products. From raw materials/energy/chemicals/water to waste/emissions/water. In between, the products!
Co-designed with Margherita Paleari
Camera: Olympus Pen-FV
Lens: Olympus G Zuiko Auto-S 1:1,4 f=40mm
Film: Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
As I look into you eyes
I know the reasons why
My life's worth a thousand skies
You're the simplest love I've known
And the purest one I'll own
Know you'll never be alone
My baby you
Are the reason I could fly
And 'cause of you
I don't have to wonder why
Baby you
There's no more just getting by
You're the reason I feel so alive
Though these words I sing are true
They still fail to capture you
As mere words can only do
How do I explain that smile
And how it turns my world around
Keeping my feet on the ground
I will soothe you if you fall
I'll be right there if you call
You're my greatest love of all ~
Song by Marc Anthony~
Enjoy the song, and video if you have a moment by same~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PAxnks0tA
EXPLORE 2-23-09 Thanks Flickr friends~
Extraordinary Extremes: A Visual Exploration of Marvels
Description:
This collection explores the fascinating world of extremes, extraordinary achievements, and breathtaking anomalies. Conceptually inspired by the spirit of record-breaking feats, each composition captures a unique narrative of scale, endurance, or meticulous detail. The series contrasts the monumental—such as a towering figure walking through a bustling London street and a massive, vibrant mosaic spanning a city skyscraper—with the incredibly delicate, highlighted by intricately decorated elongated fingernails and a master craftsman at work.
From the intense, sweat-drenched focus of an athlete and the solitary triumph atop a cloud-piercing summit, to an impossibly small vintage car parked beside a modern giant, these visuals celebrate the sheer diversity of spectacular concepts. Whether it's the quiet grace of underwater exploration, the dazzling kinetic energy of light manipulation, or a palatial architectural model of astounding complexity, this gallery is a tribute to the absolute limits of imagination and form.
These images were generated by Artificial Intelligence.
Your brain is considerably more complex wiring than you may think. The main interconnection between your left and right brain hemispheres has 200 million connections. Thus, each wire pair in this cable would represent on the order of 1 million nerves.
"The corpus callosum is the main transverse tract of fibers that connects the two cerebral hemispheres. It is made of more than 200 million nerve fibers."
Source www.emotion.caltech.edu/agcc/info.html
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A splash of colour here to brighten your day and pique your curiosity! These tiny hexagonal plates always have something interesting offer. While the shape doesn’t offer much complexity, we still have a lot to ponder about. View large!
The colourful edges are created where bubbles for in the ice, allowing for extremely thin layers of ice and air to allow for the phenomenon known as “thin film interference” to be present. As the thickness of the bubble changes, the optical interference will also shift, generating different colours. This is what we see in soap bubbles; because the bubbles are liquid, the colours often flow and shift in curving waves of colour. Inside a snowflake the environment is much more static and stable, creating colours that only change when the growth conditions of the snowflake also change, altering the thickness of bubbles in the ice.
The circles in the center of the snowflake are also interesting, and hard to explain when you think about them growing outward. Snowflakes grow with 60 and 90-degree angles along their crystal facets, not into circles. It makes much more sense when you imagine that the snowflake is growing inward to create these circles.
Imagine the outer edge of the snowflake growing thicker than the inner portion, creating an outer hexagonal rim; this happens in conditions where the humidity level drops off. This thicker outer rim can now grow two ways: outward, extending its hexagonal footprint but also inward, filling in the inner corners of the hexagon and slowly rounding it out. There are some pages of my book Sky Crystals that do a great job illustrating how this happens: skycrystals.ca/pages/circles-in-the-snow.jpg
These tiny hexagonal snowflakes are usually around 1mm or so in diameter. Incredibly tiny and often overlooked when you try to admire a snowflake with the naked eye. When these crystals start to fall, I’m happy; the images can be quite interesting, but the size of the snowflake usually means they fall during lighter snowfalls… and there is less of a mess to clean off my driveway afterwards. :)
Dive into the physics and photography of snowflakes with a copy of Sky Crystals: skycrystals.ca/book/ where the photographic techniques and science of snow will keep you company over the cold winter months ahead.
If you love winter, or simply love the power of nature on any scale, you need to check out “The Snowflake” print as well: skycrystals.ca/poster/ - 2500 hours of work across 5 years into a single image. This project stole at least some portion of my sanity!
"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves."
Teucrium fruticans, aka Bush Germander, has a fascinatingly complex structure, and can grow to almost overwhelming proportions for many gardens, but its myriad small flowers are quite simply lovely and worth finding space for.
All the scaled dragons I've ever folded displayed on my desk.
Left to right:
Zoanoid dragon, 24" square designed by me
Scaled Wyvern, 19" square designed by Chad Killeen
Ryu Zin 2.1 and 3.5, 19 and 38" squares designed by Satoshi Kamiya
Image designed. for viewing with ChromaDepth 3D glasses. Greater depth levels than either of the two images to each side of it in my Photostream
I'm fascinated by emergent patterns created by water's effect on the landscape. Much like fractals, a simple action gives birth to complexity and the process reproduces itself at so many scales.
This close-up shot of tiny rivulets on a beach, generated by the outgoing tide, bear many similarities to images of vast riverbed planes as viewed all the way from the International Space Station.
The Empire Trilogy
Heather Bennett
November 14th – December 23rd
Opening Reception
Friday November 14th 2008 7-9pm
Luxe Gallery
53 Stanton St.
New York, NY
Luxegallery.net
For immediate release, New York, NY
Luxe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of The Empire Trilogy featuring artist Heather Bennett's latest body of work. Bennett who is known for her cinematic large-scale photographs has taken her aesthetic to time based media.
With a nod to Warhol's, 1964 opus, "Empire", this trilogy of videos resists any typical temporal, action-based narrative, and yet simultaneously suggests it. Each piece centers around a lone woman, all of whom almost slyly encompass a panoply of reflecting fictions. The amalgamated 'characters' take substance from childhood fairytales, contemporary fashion, female genre roles and a healthy dose of nostalgia and somehow coalesce into a peaceful, almost quieting image. The enmeshing of an anti-narrative and obvious reference to the bold fiction of children's fairytales complicate the calm hold of these images with humor; slithering alloys placing ironies. While we can see no real action over the duration of these works, at the intersection of cliché, there is a poignancy, a piquancy. Slight movements are not deliberations but more akin to a misty dream, an action of the unconscious; slow, flowing, even meandering and pointless but undeniably pertinent as iconic and soulful. These are portraits of control, of mastery. Almost in subterfuge, there is a complexity, a riot, a life replete with pressure, valuation, desire, memory, association, limitation and possibility, bubbling under the surface of a lullaby. Original soundtracks of tonal washes and subtle, circular, harmonies paint clues to the welled chaos of our valiant mistresses. Impregnated with emotion, these imperial sometimes haunting tracks illuminate and obfuscate their tenants, giving rise to their essential contradiction. We see traps of assumption escaped with grace. The prisons laying in wait within contemporary society, especially in a female body, are refracted through distorted prisms of past and present associations which affect our reality sometimes with serendipity, as well as, inappropriateness.
"Holly Holy" is a collision of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and a bit of Eve, bathed in red velvet and monastically reading Faulkner. "Locks and Hocks" conflates Goldilocks and a restrained 50's housewife, entombed in a sun-drenched, yellow kitchen listlessly stirring a pot of beans and hammocks. And "Babe" collapses male and female with a school girl, Paul Bunyan combo of metamorphosed blue plaid where our heroine dully wields a two-sides axe, knocking dirt from her boots, while swathed in one of the most sexualized articles of clothing in recent history. The resulting unions blend our knowns, alarm us with their misplaced intimacies and create an inextricably raveled whole which humbly asks us to believe in something we are not quite sure we understand.
Music by Joe Raglani
Image: Heather Bennett, Locks & Hocks, 2008, production still
An abstract photography experiment using Photoshop, manipulating the original portrait photograph into something more intriguing - a primary focus on shape and colour.
complexity of human relations in respect to their environment! a visible spectacle for those who experience!
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I am absolutely delighted to let you know that my new album, 'ECOSYSTEMS' has just been published: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
It has been presented at the Club of Rome 50th Anniversary meeting, the United Nations COP24 conference on climate change, a large exhibition held at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University and the Environment Europe Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics and now at the United Nations World Urban Forum 2020. There are only 450 copies left so you will have to be quick: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
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The photographs in my set, "Weed Flower Micros," may appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers – they are not!
These are micro (macro) photos of tiny little flowers which bloom on ordinary weeds found in my lawn.
How tiny? The largest weed flower in the set is only, when measured across its widest part from petal tip to petal tip, 3/4" in diameter (19mm)!
Some of these miniscule flowers are so small that the entire blossom you are looking at is 1/4" in diameter (6mm)…or smaller! Again, that’s measuring from petal tip to petal tip across the widest part of the bloom!
The smallest part of a weed flower that I have managed to successfully shoot and achieve good detail in is a photo I made of a bud that measured LESS than 1/32" in diameter (0.7mm) across its widest part!
For size references I have included a photo of certain flowers and buds next to the head of an ordinary paper match, which dwarfs the blooms and buds.
It’s delightful to discover the beauty, complexity, and variety in something so small that it’s easily ignored, taken for granted, dismissed as a pest, or just downright difficult to see with the naked eye.
And it’s an even greater delight to realize that this incredible beauty has been growing wild in my lawn, year after year, right under my un-seeing eyes as I’ve repeatedly mown them down with my lawn mower, never realizing the unseen beauty that I was trampling under my feet.
I hope you enjoy viewing these as much as I do. I have a lot of fun making them for us to look at!
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See more of these incredible, tiny jewels in my NEW SET, "Weed Flower Micros – II:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157627844487270/
And peruse 400 photos in my original set, "Weed Flower Micros:"