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0515 local time (5:15 a.m.) Friday, June 15, 2012.
SOOC.
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Love the night sky? Me too. See more in my set, "Star Light Star Bright:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157627647575013/
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Another entry in my Face Dark series where I examine the many faces of evil that can be derived from the same old doll found in my mom's closet.
Chuang Tzu's Dream written by Jendi Reiter
All this morning I dreamed I was awake
and then awoke to find I'd been sleeping,
time and again. The world we know
is a butterfly's dream
yet Nature squanders millions of golden wings
in a single tempest.
And in another dark dream,
I was searching for a book of deeds
in an official hall
near demolition --- such a place
as taunts me with a familiarity
just beyond reach, like the knowledge
of how to awaken when I know I'm dreaming ---
but only moths spiraled upwards
from each cast-off chest.
I could not read them, and yet I knew
their tissue-paper wings
bore all that could be written
away into the opaque air.
Ah, in the vacuum of space
the earth is suspended
like an audience's disbelief.
To any eyes out there it might appear
to rest on nothing, to descend from nothing
but a dark infinity
curved like the rare arc of a well-lived life.
Yet, like an insomniac's eyes,
this curve cannot stay closed:
the boundaries of space perhaps forever
fly faster and faster apart
from its unknown center.
A cloud of butterfly planets
flung forth by Nature
into perishing ice, flame or forest.
We struggle in a dream uncompleted
and wake, we imagine,
only because some greater mind
(at least for now) sustains the world's illusion.
Zebra of Solitude
There is a Zebra hollow and vast,
maneuvering across the sky-
The Zebra of solitude with stems of dawn
and stripes of fire,
The beast of horse or man,
walking through the vestitbule of life-
I'm erroneous, you are erroneous,
we are all erroneous,
we are all erroneous
Not to see beauty in the motion of the stars,
not to breathe the air of dark infinity,
not to hear the words not spoken,
Maybe there is a Zebra in my heart
hidden from your view, my love,
I open my mouth to let it out-
Out, out, sweet horse! Sweet flower of
Youth!
Life is not truth, we feed ourselves with
dreams,
we live only shadows fo what may be.
/Alexander Shaumyan/
PI. Single picture.
TD. EOS 5D Mark III, EF 100-400 mm, handheld
at f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 400, fl/140 mm,
edited in Photoshop CC.
As a companion photo to the one on my blog. :) I took this one, however. In the Glass Museum's infinity pool.
This is a significant piece for several reasons. It appears technically insignificant but is in reality one of the more complex pieces I have ever done, there are no simple shapes in this piece. Unlike my other pieces this is not a mash up of cubes and spheres but a sculpted flower which is actually 3D (it appears 2D because of the rendering style). Artistically however, it's another matter. On the top half of the picture there is an elegant flower, singular and perfect. But it's perceived reflection is brutally twisted and disconnected, is there more to this than meets the eye? Then again I've been known to call this piece drizzle because it appears that the very soul of the flower is flowing from the stem and simply drizzling away into a very dark infinity, is the upright beauty in the top half but a husk? After all the head is very declined and points to the ground, the leaves appear shriveled and wilted, maybe it's a sad image, maybe it's a variation of "beauty is only skin deep." I let the viewer decide, in any case it's no mere flower.
With this photo I set the camera to manual and experimented with different settings in the low light condition (I was working in) to get a close up, sharp picture. I chose a shutter speed of 300 sec. F 3.2 ISO 80 with Center Weighted Average to focus on the shell and bring out the light colors. I've seen photos like this before in magazines where there is a light image against a dark background. I started out experimenting with a medium dark blue sheet behind the shell to try and simulate a feeling of the ocean, but wanted a more striking shot, with a warm feeling to it. Wood came to mind, so I experimented with different wood surfaces to use as a background. I ended up using my dark cherrywood dresser surface which kept the scene simple by not introducing more colors beyond the warm browns and white of the shell. I think I did a pretty good job. I like the way the wood is lighter in the front portion of the shell and gets darker towards the back creating an even sharper appearance. Also, I get a feeling of going from close up into darkness...infinity. Not quite sure about the cropping, I tried many different ways of cropping this photo to use the ROT, but it didn't really seem like a subject I could apply that rule to.