FIA World Endurance Championship
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Primate DNA is only five percent different from ours. Like us, they feel jealousy, envy, love, shame, grief, depression... They are very social beings, they are sensitive and each one has a different personality, according to the experts, as happens in humans. They develop tools for specific purposes, which involves reasoning, anticipating the future and acting with the tool. They adopt orphans, which demonstrates social bonds, empathy and altruism. They have self-awareness, cooperative problem-solving and learning by example and experience, so they have symbolic capacity and a culture of their own, which they pass on from one generation to the next. Chimpanzees even surpass humans in certain memory tasks. An ape at the age of two is able to do small sums and use tools, while a two year old does not even know how to do sums or reason the why of the tool. They give pets to their children and they even learn words in sign language, being able to establish a conversation with their caregiver. They are able to teach their offspring sign language so that they can communicate with their caregivers. And so on. And they share a very important trait with humans, a trait not found in any other animal... laughter.
This image is dedicated to Bobby. Bobby was a chimpanzee used for decades as a laboratory animal at the Coulston Foundation in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He was born in captivity and at a very young age participated in biomedical experiments. By the age of 19, he had been anaesthetised more than 250 times and biopsied as many times. His life was spent in solitude inside a tiny metal cage. His body was bruised and scarred. In a deeply depressed state, he was incessantly self-harming, a clear sign that he intended to end his life. In 2002 he was transferred to Save the Chimps, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana, USA. Dedicated to Jeannie. Jeannie was in the service of science for nine years. At the age of six, she began her career in the pharmaceutical laboratories of Merck, Sharpe and Dohme. Shortly afterwards she was donated to the Buckshire Corporation and ended up at LEMSIP, Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in New York at the age of 22. During that time she participated in several invasive experimental protocols including repeated vaginal douching, multiple cervical, liver and lymph node biopsies. She was infected with HIV and hepatitis C, and participated in rhinovirus vaccination protocols. She was anaesthetised more than 200 times. She died at the age of 31 at the Fauna Foundation, Canada's only primate sanctuary. Dedicated to Newt. Newt was born in 1979 at LEMSIP. At the age of four months he was sold to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. Newt was HIV-positive and was widely exposed to hepatitis B virus. Before he was four years old, he began intermittently self-harming. In 2003 he had his canines removed. Newt's clinical reports indicated that he had bites and lacerations on his hands, fingers, thighs, arms, legs, wrists and scrotum. A psychiatric report determined that Newt was in a profound state of insanity and derangement. He was attempting to commit suicide and end his life. This image is dedicated to all primates who have suffered psychological and physical torture, deprivation of liberty, abominable experiments and death in scientific laboratories, pharmaceutical, automobile, cosmetic, aeronautical, aerospace multinationals... and dedicated especially to Bobby, Jeannie and Newt.
The chimpanzee Mama, hours before she died and the reunion with her caretaker.
Silvio Rodríguez - Al final de este viaje / Al final de este viaje (1978)
We are the prehistory that will have the future. We are the remote annals of man. These years are the past of the sky. These years are a certain agility with which the sun draws you into the future. They are the truth or the end, they are god. We are left, those who can smile in the midst of death, in full light.
Supergrass - Tales of Endurance, Pt. 4, 5 & 6 / Road to Rouen (2005)
Making sense of what I've heard and what is on my mind.
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PS: When I look into the eyes of an ape, all I see in them is sadness and eyes that ask me, why, why? And I can only lower my gaze to the ground, while I shed some tears and feel a deep shame... shame of being human... a "Homo stupidus".
Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus / Selected Ambient Works II (1994)
I wanted to title this picture "Yellow Dory", but changed it to "Endurance" for a good reason. This guy was rowing under the Golden Gate Bridge, into the bay, against the outgoing tide, in the fog. It had to have taken him at least 5 minutes just to row under the bridge itself. Shot from Fort Point.
The Lighthouse formation in Palo Duro Canyon State Park looks like a good image for the word endurance. This formation has withstood the elements for numerous centuries and towers above the canyon.
Male Bison (Bison bison) endures the heavy snow in West Yellowstone. Supremely adapted to deal with these conditions, Bison have survived here for thousands of years. They are the largest terrestrial animals in North America.
This shot was taken off the east coast of Tasmania outside a town called Bicheno. The blue colours are as you see them here. The crashing of the ocean on the small rocky outcrop is constant. Almost hypnotising when watching, as the trees and shore rocks could attest to if they could talk in the human language.
The rocks are shaped by powerful Southern Ocean waves acting on the hard volcanic rocks (dolerite or granite) creating these iconic rugged seascapes, and isolated rock features. Myself, I found the crashing every few secs/mins fascinating and stayed for quite a while until deciding to see a blowhole up the way.
Hope you enjoy and all the best!
Camera: Samsung S23 Ultra 5g.
Beautiful rugged coastal line of the Tramuntana mountains in Mallorca... Has been a long time I did a long exposure shot :)
The theme at “We’re Here!” today is Tree-mendous Tuesday.
I was thinking all day about where to go on a busy weeknight to get an extra nice tree. Just as I arrived home this evening it came to me. This old beauty appears to be sitting in a nice park, bit it is actually in a mostly untended strip of common area between the back fences of a suburban development and an overgrown creek. That lovely green grass is wild and will soon be tall and turning brown. But the tree endures.
moonah (Melaleuca lanceolata) in a stormy sunrise, pretty point formation, hiltaba, a nature foundation sa conservation property
gawler ranges, south australia
Glaciated ancient monoliths at entrance to Baffin Island's Auyuittuq National Park. ANP's outstanding granite peaks are the remnent plutonic 'teeth' atop a large eroded ~1.85 billion years old granite batholith.
Rock formations in Monument Valley AZ, on ancestral Navajo land. Geotag is only approximate, and maybe this is even in Utah.
The rocks are fine-grained sediments capped by conglomerates, deposited in the Triassic Era, about 240 million years ago. The pillars were carved by much younger rivers, maybe 10 million years ago or less. The patterns in the “desert varnish” are likely still evolving during infrequent rains, and the clouds are made fresh at every moment.
Happy Mono Monday!
High Noon CDT, 2 Oct 2023
"The manner in which one endures what must be enured is more important than the thing that must be endured"
D. Acheson
I was gone for a while, having very busy time at work...
I'm back now, and I hope I'm back for good :-)
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One storm passed, another one coming. This barn still stands though with little purpose now. For most of us, a successful life consists of learning how to endure the storms.
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A cool tree by the ocean. I shot this image a very long time ago and wanted to reshoot it while visiting the WA coast. To my horror and dismay, someone chopped it off!
"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
Buddha
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I went to the beach today to watch the sunset but the clouds was blocking the view >__<...It's been a while since I went to the beach to just relax. I took a couple of shots here and there but I like this one for some reason. It has the tilt shift (Did I spell that right?) feeling but sadly my attempt to capture the paddlers with the sunset along didn't happened.
Anyways, I hope someday I could paddle with these guys. It's fun and it's a good work out but you need a lot of stamina.
BTW...feel free to download this photo =)...
I wanted to shoot this unique scene after the grueling (but fun) hike to the Wave. Weather was promising with monsoon storm forecasted so I decided to car-camp the night before right below rock. Wind was blowing sand all night & even rained a little. After some restless sleep I got up to the top & searched for a good tree.... & found one. It amazes me that in this desolate dry land a healthy cottonwood tree can thrive in this natural 'pot' by just feeding on pooling water from occasional storms. And the rock formation is other-worldly....
Was hoping for a better sunrise burn but I am quite content with what I got from just 1 morning visit :) Hope u like it too.
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2020 has been a year that few people will cherish. We have collectively gone from one catastrophy to another, and the theme of the year seems to be "endurance". We must endure this time, weather this storm, and resolve to grow and be better because of it. In Matthew 24, Jesus spoke of the calamties that would come upon the world in the time of the end, and then said this, "But he who endures to the end shall be saved." So endure, friends, endure. I used the Samyang AF 14mm F2.8 for Canon RF mounted on the new Canon EOS R5. I also utilized a 10 stop ND filter from Haida to get the long exposure and then used Exposure X6 to give the image the toning "look" that you see. Here's my coverage of the various "bits" that I used here:
Canon EOS R5 Review: bit.ly/EOSR5review
Samyang RF 14mm F2.8 bit.ly/SamRF14Review
Haida Rear Filter Kit Review: bit.ly/HaidaSamyang14
Exposure X6 Software Review: bit.ly/ExpX6DLA
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Edit: Yes, replaced the original picture. Now you can see the chicken boy!
In the realm of the evil Queen Tara a baby has been born... a baby who is heir to the throne and destined to one day bring vengeance on her for her tyranny... destined, that is, if he can survive the hunt!
When I first saw the Where's Waldo category for Brickscalibur I was stumped, but somewhere along the line I said to myself, I want to hide a baby. Around the same time I had the idea that it would be someone escaping from a ruler and have the V shaped background--and the two concepts merged perfectly.
Whew! This was a fun build, but a slow going one. I built for 15+ hours almost without a break yesterday, and then did the same today! It was like building 20 super detailed vignettes. Yes, I should have started earlier.
I tried to load up with a lot of different scenes and included 4 minifigures from 3 other Brickscalibur entries! Unfortunately two of them didn't make this picture, but see if you can spot the peasant from the Guarded Inn and the little boy from Courage!
I know this picture could be better in natural light, so I'll be doing that sometime next week (and trying to get a wider angle), and also taking some detail shots as there is so much stuff going on here!
Did it! See close-ups on Insta.
(Second place Where's Waldo Brickscalibur 2022-23)
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