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Dreamers by Cica Ghost
In a surreal world canopied by a magical sky, sixteen figures look upward to dream. This is one of their dreams brought back to the kitchen table.
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What a difference a day makes: It's strange to think that just 24 hours previously, I, along with many, many others affected by Hurricane Irma, were huddled inside, listening to gusts of hurricane-strength wind, wondering if the roof would hold, if a tornado (caused by the hurricane) was coming for us, wondering when the power would go out, or maybe wondering if the storm would wake Lauren. (For the record, it didn't. We put her to bed late, but she slept through Irma.)
I suppose the combination of Hurricane Irma clearing the air (I think that's a thing, after-storm air being more clear) and millions of Floridians without power and therefore, less light, makes this Milky Way photo novel, as it was taken just minutes away from my house. This is as opposed to the 60+ minute drive I normally endure in search of dark skies.
I'd normally spend more time processing this image, but I'm simply too tired, to the point where I'm sleep-editing, literally, falling asleep at my computer screen. So, I'm posting as is.
Details: 30 secs, ISO3200, f2.8 shot using a Canon full-frame sensor, taken at the western end of the Pineda, just to the west of I-95.
[...] The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future [...]
-- Quote by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
Nikon D200, Tokina 12-24 f/4, 12mm - f/8 - 1/15s - HDR 5xp +2/-2EV
Capalbio, Italy (October, 2015)
Imagine if you were unable to touch or kiss your newborn baby. This is an ordeal thousands of families, whose child arrives too soon, too small or too sick, are forced to go through each year. But you can help. By baking and selling cupcakes, you’ll be raising funds to help support families during what can be a very lonely and frightening time, and to provide a brighter future for their babies.
Some facts and figures:
• There is a shortage of 1,150 nurses to care for the 70,000 babies in need of specialist hospital care in England. Less than a third of units have enough nurses to meet minimum standards.
• Neonatal units are working way above recommended occupancy levels meaning there is no safety net for peaks in the number of babies being admitted to units.
• Families of babies admitted to specialist hospital care face a crippling financial strain on top of the normal costs of having a new baby.
• Over half of parents face the prospect of not being able to stay near their baby in hospital due to a shortage of overnight rooms for families.
Cake A Difference is the annual fundraising initiative from Bliss, the special care baby charity. Bliss offers guidance and information at a critical time in families' lives, funds ground-breaking research and campaigns for babies to receive the best possible level of care regardless of when and where they are born. Cake A Difference 2011 takes place from 14-20 February 2011.
Go ahead, bake my day!
On the left is the mother, on the right is the daughter and in the middle is a mixture of the two. An exploration of similarities and differences between blood relatives.
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with Softlighter II camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
We all have subtle differences - shape, colour, size and so on. In time, we begin to pair off with like-minded souls. But nature sometimes sees it fit to leave a single creature, through no fault of its own, alone.
Oh yes George... you've made quite the difference.
Can you see all the happy faces around you... can you imagine all the happy faces you are responsible for in the happy homes across America?
Trials and tribulations... terrorists and threats... they're much easier to handle when you're the guy surrounded by wealth and security. Everyone else has to put up with more regulations, more fear mongering ... and much less freedom.
So just keep on sending America's finest... it's hopes for the future... off to battle more of your holier than thou crusades... and just like in all the many wars before you... and the many to surely follow... this holy war needs more cannon fodder.
What's so different about that?
Yesterday the KIrkcaldy Photographic Society www.kirkcaldyphotographicsociety.co.uk had another great day out to Morton Lochs, Tentsmuir Forest and Kinshaldy Beach. It was sunny and dry and despite the waves in the accompanying dog-walker shot, it was very pleasant. Today after a night of high winds and horizontal rain, fierce waves were lashing over the sea-wall (see other photo). What a difference a day makes indeed.
Not sure when it happened, but many of the Telegraph poles once standing in the frame are now on the ground, stripped of their insulators. Along with this the KENT signs on the grain elevator have disappeared, making the shot a little more bland. Sad to see this spot, along with the rest of the town of McClelland Iowa go downhill.
"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."
Dave Meurer
'The Smiths' formed six years after the start of the British punk rock scene, and perhaps projected into their way-of-being three elements from this cultural dynamic: a sense of make-do or DIY, a sense of commentating from outside of society (unemployment culture included), and a sense of opinion generated from polemical example.
Punk rock is today perhaps famous for its blanket nihilisms: “Anarchy in the UK”, “White riot”, “No future” - all with varied forms of the Vivian Westwood dress-sense. Aside this ultra-vivid self-created stigma, the late 70s musical/cultural movement of UK Punk had created lyrical and musical vignettes that stayed on record players and transferred to C60 chrome mix-tapes: “Easy germ free adolescence” ('X-Ray Spex' 78) plotted a closed 'existential' in the life of an individual; 'Lost in a supermarket' ('The Clash' 79) was another vignette, but this time describing a poetic angle into a modern life that many could relate to, and, as a third example - “Love comes in spurts” ('The Voidoids' 76) - featuring a lyric that uses 'childish' shock word-play and active double-meanings to register and parody existing lyrical convention, whilst describing certain truisms. It can be said that depictions of highly specific sentiments; unusual but collective views on the modern world and the shock use of words and their dynamic meanings became the terrain of the 'post punk', 'DIY' Manchester band - 'The Smiths'.
With the lyrical whit of their singer Morrissey, 'The Smiths' kept a punkist sense of polemical charge (“The Queen is Dead”; “Hang the DJ” and “Meat is Murder”) whilst systematically developing individual and social themes. If musical skills were often missing (or denied) during UK Punk, then the Post Punk years saw an overt return of musical virtuosity (hand in hand with groups higher on idea and form than musical technicity). One nest of guitar skills hovered around the New York City band 'The Voidoids' with Tom Verlain, Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd all important Post Punk guitar stylists (even if US 'Post Punk' arrived before UK Punk - for example 'Pere Ubu' 1975). Around 1980 in Manchester England, a man who could match 'Nick Drake' for reserve produced a low-key, but much listened to record titled “The return of the Durutti Column” (a Spanish civil war reference in the name and title) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pddox1SYHko. 'The Durutti Column's Vini Reilly's meticulous detailing of guitar melody was perhaps matched across the city of Manchester by the extraordinary guitar style of Johnny Marr – the principle co-songwriter to 'The Smiths', whose style became clearly visible as early as 'The Smith's' second single. Marr's sense of shimmering detailing is also clearly apparent in the example of this moving lens test.
Fireworks are of so many colours and effects, and the post punk DIY musical alternatives were varied. Despite their differences, there are a few bands that help to put 'The Smiths' into an early context. 'Vic Godard's Subway Sect' had perhaps started out as a British version of 'The Voidoids' ('Double negative' 1978 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fsYYG_Qf0Q) and had evolved by 1981 into melodic anti pop www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cgzwQBtFaA an approach perhaps akin to the relationship between 'New Wave cinema' and traditional cinema. Again from 1981, the group 'Orange Juice' were inhabiting melody and lyric without the desire to provide 'expected' popularist results: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpNSpzx2wI. 'The Smiths' projected aside many groups, Dandyisms, deconstructions and observations and, with some of the lyrical landscapes of Morrissey, were one of the groups that held on longest to the polemical side of punk rock. With the guitar of Johnny Marr, they were also one of the groups that pushed furthest from initial DIY ethics into artistic, holistic and highly developed forms. By the release of 'The Queen is Dead' in 1986 they had refined their idiosyncrasies to such an extent that they had produced a record that could be compared against the very “classic” albums they were initially reflecting against.
Prolific songwriters, 'The Smiths' took subject to swathes of British youth, and were another input of inspiration for a new generation of musicians. Postcard, Pop Aural and Rough Trade layered under Creation, Domino and Sarah, and new bands evolved without a close proximity to Punk rock. Contemporary journalists (including ones associated with Manchester's Guardian), muse, relay and decree that it is now time to stop listening to the work of Morressey. The Smiths split in 1987, and in the decades since, Morrissey has remained loyal to his polemical approach to social subjects. I certainly never wanted to hang a DJ, but played the song. One of the tracks that we should apparently be boycotting is a recently released duet with Thelma Houston: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cB93OUF_sA
The track “Some girls are bigger than others' comes from the 1986 record and is a construction with the most minimal idea of verse, and thus arrives almost straight into the chorus, with a slightly detached and minimal refrain. The lyric takes a line that can be associated with both male machismo and the observational naivety of a small child: playing the idea straight as the thought of a young male adult faced by the enormity of mankind's diversity. By referring to the ice age, the lyric also points out that these differences come from the depths of the human race and are not a modern celebrity surface.
"From the ice-age to the dole-age, there is but one concern. I have just discovered; some girls are bigger than others... "
For the images in the lens test I replaced the 'girls' of the song with the animate 'bodies' of 'mother earth', as reflected by her waterfalls. The shots involve a variety of lenses and locations either side of the Pyrénées.
AJM 13.03.20
Press play and then 'L' and even f11. Escape and f11 a second time to return.
The images foreground, taken in Point Nepean Quarantine area, depicts the past history of the area, the last standing reminder of the jetty once used [1867] for receiving cattle, yet 4 Kms across our Port Philip bay, the top left zone, the new Queenscliff ferry terminal is now in action.
Content from the late 1800's to 2023 in one image. Guessing the age of the male visitor is for you alone.
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[Sony A7, RIII, FE 35mm F1.4 GM]
Our Lady of Al-Natour monastery
Is standing on the Cape of Al-Natour, was built by the Crusaders on Byzantine ruins. The monastery is surrounded by large fields of the myrtle (Myrtus Ugni), a nearly extinct plant on the Lebanese coast.
In the last few years, the monastery church and rooms have been renovated, and icons of saints are painted on the church walls.
I found on the internet that this is monastery is 900 years old.
photos taken 26/12/2014
President George Washington thought political parties were self-serving tyrants that exacerbated tribal and regional differences for their own benefit at the expense of the country, e.g. North or South, city or rural. In his farewell address, America's first outgoing President asked Americans to step outside the hypnotic spell, which he called the "awe", of political parties and party leaders in order to serve the greater good of the country and its citizen government. "Unawed" would mean carefully deliberated, uninfluenced by party hyperbole and seduction. Washington declared to his fellow countrymen:
"This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
–Declared President George Washington in his Farewell Address to the nation in 1796.
examples on how to tell apart the ranks of geisha. Featuring miyagawacho maiko Toshiteru and Geiko Kikusturu.