Apathetic Procrastination
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KP TT #313 ~ 1 ~ April - 7 April
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When towns get run down and there is no money for urban renewal there is an incredible window to examine the past. Rare photographic opportunities present themselves before the wrecking ball and graffiti artists forever ruin the pristine beauty.
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Europe, Netherlands, Noord Holland, Amsterdam, Central Station, Bus station (cut from B&T)
Shot in the Ijsei bus station next to Amstredam Central Station called IJsei bus station (Arch.: Benthem Crouwel. Constr: VOF De Ruijterkade).
Its length is 360 meters and there are 24 bus stops. It blends in beautifully with the train shed of the old train station. The apparent lightness of the construction was possible due to the use of light glass: Freeformglass ('koudgebogen glas'). Check out Movares-Overkapping IJsei for that and other details about the construction process and background.
This number 64 of Adventures in chaos.
Entropy is the general trend of the universe toward death and disorder.
— James R. Newman
(From Wikipedia)
Entropy is a scientific concept as well as a measurable physical property that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty.
The idea of entropy comes from a principle of thermodynamics dealing with energy. It usually refers to the idea that everything in the universe eventually moves from order to disorder, and entropy is the measurement of that change.
The word entropy finds its roots in the Greek entropia, which means "a turning toward" or "transformation."
The remnant of this 19th century blastfurnace was once part of the largest
steelplant in the world, now slowly being reclaimed by nature. Located in
Granville country park in Shropshire.
Disorder. Patience for the ripples to stop after 25 kgs of bat shit crazy labrador has finally been bribed to sit with a Bonio!.
Binge watching all Jim Alkalili programmes on Amazon Prime made me want to try this type of shot. Science, Boom!
Everything tends to move from order to disorder and this will be the case albeit a man made decision and not a universal law of thermodynamics on Aug 22nd when this view will disappear for good after the final three cooling towers and chimney stacks demolition. Five other towers were brought down in two stages during 2019 so I decided to make my journey to Flamborough coincide with sunset at Ferrybridge figuring it didn't matter what the sunset was like as I knew this LE of the light trails on the sweeping carriageway was the shot I wanted and to a certain extent it doesn't require a decent sky. Turned out to be a great sunset and the cloud to the West played ball and held off until just after.
Took a while to find the correct bridge which appears to be the local boy racers 1/4 mile track. BMW's, Audi's and Focus ST's lined up one after another to 'floor it' and speed past me kicking up clouds of dust. The drivers looked about 14. Maybe that's me just ageing and becoming grumpy or slightly jealous they get to drive nice cars at a young age these days. A far cry from tinkering with my Mark 2 Escort just to get the engine to run. Anyway it seems they floor it to the huge TK Maxx warehouse just to the right and then do a loop on to the A1(M) before working their way back through the lanes and round to the start of the '1/4 mile track' to do it all again.
Pleased to have got my visit to Yorkshire and the NE off to a good if somewhat dusty start.
Europe, The Netherlands, Gelderland, Arnhem, St Eusebius church, Belltower, Lift, View (cut from all sides)
Take a Gothic bell tower (1452), gut it, fill it with a round glass sided elevator surrounded by a concrete and metal staircase (1994).....and It will offer access to a great viewing experience. Things inside the tower did go a little visually entropic, though in a graphically pleasing way ;-)
Shot in the Eusebius church. The church was extensively damaged during the Second World War following Operation Market Garden in 1944 and was renovated/built (1946-1962.
Its monumental and narrative gate is here.
This is number 25 of Churches.
Europe, Netherlands, Noord Holland, Amsterdam, Zuid As, Postmodern entropy (slightly cut from all sides)
Shot somewhere in the ZuidAs quarter. Yes I know, ‘post-modern entropy’ is a pleonasm ;-) And there's ofcourse some neo-modernism goin' on too.
This is number 128 of the Amsterdam and number 317 of the Urban frontiers album.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Central station square, Office Buildings, Catenaries, Passengers, Reflections (slightly cut)
OK, let's examine some entropy again, this time the kind tram catenaries make. Rotterdam Central station is one of the hubs of the RET (the municipal public transit company) tram network and that's apparent here.
Prominently in the frame is the Nationale Nederlanden HQ. a neo-mondernist office building (1999, Abe Bonnema). The post-modernist edifice entering the frame is a hotel designed by an architect whose name shall not be mentioned ;-)
This is number 614 of the Rotterdam architecture album and 71 of Adventures in chaos.
Alternate titles:
“Sign of the Times”,
“My Way or the Highway”,
”Not the Eternal Way”.
Wabi-Sabi infrastructure in Monument Valley. 65mm ffeq.
15 Nov 2022; 01:00 UTC; iPhone 345;69;6
Colored tops of a set of Design Spectracolor pastel pencils.
Bundle size 60 x 70 mm.
Focus stacked (35 images) Shot with a single off-camera strobe (Leica SF70/Leica SF C1 trigger) modified with a MagMod Mag Grid. Flash at 90 degrees, camera right, sightly above and in front of subject.
Shot for Macro Monday - pastel
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Kop van Zuid, J.P. Bakemakade, Binnenhaven, Moss, Bollard, Cables, Boats (uncut)
A bollard in the Binnenhaven. It was a very modern harbour for the time, equipped as it was with steam and hydraulic cranes and coal tips. It was realized by the Rotterdamsche Handelsvereeniging (RHV Lodewijk Pincoffs). At the time, the ports (including the Entrepothaven) were avoided by ships if possible because of the quay dues levied by the RHV (which did not occur in the Dutch ports at the time) and the difficult manoeuvring in and out of the harbour. In 1892, the profitable operation was no longer possible and it was taken over by the municipality of Rotterdam.
Nowadays the harbour is partly filled in and used as a berth for yachts and houseboats - often decommissioned tugs, trawlers and pilot/coast guard vessels.
This is number 311 from the Rotterdam Harbour and industry album.
Entropy is a physical property of one system that relates to its degree of disorder. It is a concept I came across when at university, and I confess I had much trouble grasping it. The second principle of thermodynamics -- which Einstein considered to be the first law of all sciences -- states, in very simple terms, that unless you do something (some work is produced) systems will always get more and more disorganised.
I now see it everywhere....
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Abstract composite. Photos used: sea foam, sunrise, ceiling lights (multiple copies), woodgrain and person on a beach
Disko Bay, Greenland.
Nature tends to move from order to disorder in isolated systems. Entropy is the measure of this disorder.
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Hay Shed under the Milky Way, multiple foreground light painting shots combined with a single sky shot. Sigma lens, processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.
The physical law of entropy means that things (if left untouched) will always move from a higher state of order to a lower one. To illustrate: If you leave your house uncleaned for a year it will be an ungodly mess - what you get is dust and ultimately a complete breakdown of things. If you want a clean house you must work. Work is an input of energy. Energy is what keeps entropy at bay.
So as soon as this once pretty little hut was abandoned it was just a matter of time before it returned to its natural state. There's a lesson in this for all of us.
Entropy is the general trend of the universe toward death and disorder. (Entropía es la tendencia general del universo hacia la muerte y el desorden) James R. Newman
Como entropía se conoce la tendencia natural a la pérdida de orden en un sistema. La palabra, como tal, proviene del griego ἐντροπία (entropía), que literalmente significa ‘vuelta’, aunque hoy en día es empleada en varios sentidos figurados.
El término entropía fue inicialmente acuñado por el físico alemán Rudolf Clausius al observar que, en cualquier proceso irreversible, siempre se iba una pequeña cantidad de energía térmica fuera de la frontera del sistema. A partir de entonces, el término ha sido utilizado en las más variadas disciplinas de conocimiento, como la física, la química, las matemáticas, la astrofísica, la lingüística, la computación o la ecología, para hacer referencia a la medida de desorden a que tiende un sistema.
Así, por ejemplo, en Física, la entropía se refiere al grado de irreversibilidad que, en un sistema termodinámico, es alcanzado después de un proceso que implique la transformación de energía. En Química, por su lado, hace referencia a la entropía observada en la formación de un compuesto químico. En Astrofísica, alude a la entropía observada en los agujeros negros. En teorías de la información, la entropía es el grado de incertidumbre que se tiene en relación con un conjunto de datos. Mientras que, en Informática, hace referencia a la aleatoriedad recogida por un sistema operativo o una aplicación para su uso en criptografía.
www.significados.com/entropia/
La entropía puede interpretarse como una medida de la distribución aleatoria de un sistema. Se dice que un sistema altamente distribuido al azar tiene alta entropía. Un sistema en una condición improbable tendrá una tendencia natural a reorganizarse a una condición más probable (similar a una distribución al azar), reorganización que dará como resultado un aumento de la entropía. La entropía alcanzará un máximo cuando el sistema se acerque al equilibrio, y entonces se alcanzará la configuración de mayor probabilidad.
Una magnitud es una función de estado si, y sólo si, su cambio de valor entre dos estados es independiente del proceso seguido para llegar de un estado a otro. Esa caracterización de función de estado es fundamental a la hora de definir la variación de entropía.
La variación de entropía nos muestra la variación del orden molecular ocurrido en una reacción química. Si el incremento de entropía es positivo, los productos presentan un mayor desorden molecular (mayor entropía) que los reactivos. En cambio, cuando el incremento es negativo, los productos son más ordenados. Hay una relación entre la entropía y la espontaneidad de una reacción química, que viene dada por la energía de Gibbs.
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The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases. Such systems spontaneously evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium, the state with maximum entropy. Non-isolated systems may lose entropy, provided their environment's entropy increases by at least that amount so that the total entropy increases. Entropy is a function of the state of the system, so the change in entropy of a system is determined by its initial and final states. In the idealization that a process is reversible, the entropy does not change, while irreversible processes always increase the total entropy.
Because it is determined by the number of random microstates, entropy is related to the amount of additional information needed to specify the exact physical state of a system, given its macroscopic specification. For this reason, it is often said that entropy is an expression of the disorder, or randomness of a system, or of the lack of information about it. The concept of entropy plays a central role in information theory.
The degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity.
A process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder