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all against the watchtower
reminds me of "all along the watchtower°:
" Jimi Hendrix, probably one of the greatest guitarists of all time, in 1968 covered "All along the watchtower," a song originally written and performed a few months earlier by Bob Dylan. Even though Hendrix 's admiration for Dylan 's work was well known , his choice to cover a song belonging to a completely different music genre is emblematic.°zit n. www.ipl.org/essay/All-Along-The-Watchtower-Analysis
1. sunrise, 2. sunrise 2, 3. wildlife photographer, 4. dunes 2, 5. dunes, 6. american holly, 7. pitch pine, 8. beach heather, 9. red fox
“There is in the sacred heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.”—Pope Leo XIII
“Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This is the real message of love.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
“God is the indivisible oneness devoid of all boundaries or separation.”—Amma
“All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.”—Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”—Vincent van Gogh
“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”—Malcolm Muggeridge
“God enters by a private door into each individual.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”—John Muir
“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
Continuing with the Bharani photologue..(.time is short and finite so the posts are more frequent now)
A hamlet band escorts the Oracle / deity dressed up in fiery finery of molten gold and sliken red. This is the progression of the group into the temple complex where offerings will be made and the dance of ecstatic devotion will start with a nip and a tuck from the head to offer the supreme sacrifice of your own blood.( Edit - Inserted here.. The Oracles give token sacrifice of their own blood which comes out when they cut themselves on the head with those sabres/machetes in their hand, )
One temple iin India which is a shocker.You do not have to take off your shoes inside the temple complex.
DSC_7722 sq crop from a VLSF file
Iam trying to find some good shots I have taken for this weeks Sun Shots Category "Glass" and Iam going to sed this one I took of some of my river glass finds in my carnival glass bowl. What do you all think for a choice? I always try and send something unique and with imagination for each weeks category.
First official photo session of the year, and it's up on The Photographic Journal right now!
I went in with very little in the way of a plan, it had been far too long since I'd done a session with someone new, TPJ is always a good reason to go out and take pictures, so I reached out to Alex, who I'd seen on a friend's IG. As always, I saw potential in the photos, areas I could explore that perhaps others had not.
See the whole series on The Photographic Journal
Jerwood Library, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. This is detail from the red building you see in the previous photo!
1. wall gap, 2. backyard wall, 3. Keyser's Mill barnyard wall, 4. wall above snake bend, 5. sun flare behind wall, 6. side view, 7. top view, 8. black and white, 9. Fern Avenue
The front cover I designed for a comparative Essay I wrote on the 1959 French new Wave film "A Bout De Souffle" by Jean Luc Godard, and the 1983 American remake "Breathless" by Jim McBride.
For my first photo essay (does anyone have a better name for a small collection of related photos?), here are some shapes and shadows that caught my eye around the house today. I figured I would get things started with these and move on to more "serious" photo essays as the year progresses.
All photos were made using my Fujifilm X-Pro3 with the Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm f/1.2 lens and are SOOC (straight out of camera) using a custom film simulation based on Acros that I call "EPD-X 400".
Who to believe? Whom to believe? What to believe?
Whatever it should be, what it is is this…
Today I went out on a shopping mission. My favorite shoe store had a sale on. I was also looking for a dress for a special occasion. So I got myself ready and headed out.
The last couple of times I have been feeling, well, the best way to describe it is vulnerable. I have not worried at all about going out and doing things in a very long time. I am still not worried but like I mentioned there has been a real vulnerable sense the last couple of times out.
On Wednesday when I was out and after visiting with my friend Teri, I decided to stop in at a couple of stores. In the consignment shop I was the only one in there and the Manager struck up a conversation with me and it was a very good conversation. The gist of the conversation was that she just wanted to know without offending me, what I preferred to be called and I shall quote, “because you obviously identify as a woman.” I was kinda floored by that. We had a real honest chat and I hope I was able to help her understand things a bit more. She also wanted it to be clear that I was welcome to shop there anytime and to let my friends know that they are welcome too.
But I was still feeling some sort of vulnerability. Maybe that isn’t the right way to describe it.
OK. Have you ever questioned the truth? Is the truth what you see in the mirror? Is the truth what you see through the camera? Is the truth what you see in your mind? That is what I am struggling with my recent times out. I have done my makeup and gotten ready and headed out only to have a sense go off inside of me that says…”go home you fool.” But then someone will compliment me and I will be caught off guard. Or I get in the change room to try on something and I look at myself in the mirror and see a fraud. But then I take a photo and look back at it and it is decent enough.
A lot of that happened today. I was feeling alright as I headed off to the shoe store. Then as I was shopping and trying on shoes I was feeling odd. It wasn’t like anyone was looking at me or saying something to me, it was just an odd feeling. Loved the shoes I picked up though. From there I headed to another store, I was thinking the clerk there would be honest with me, as she is always honest with me and how I look but she wasn’t in. Sigh. Well stick with the plan and go see about a special dress. Off I go and I find a couple of winners but as I am changing in and out of the dresses and snapping a couple of photos it felt off still. And looking at the photos later, I honestly shuddered at how awful I looked. All that shopping had left me hungry so I stopped at a restaurant that I had been to plenty of times before. I wasn’t in any particular frame of mind other than hungry but that was where I was looking at the photos on my phone and I just got kinda sad I guess. I thought about going home but I felt I should push a bit harder at all of this and so I decided to head up to my favorite indoor photo spot and take some photos. For the most part it was an uneventful shoot. I haven’t looked at the shots yet but I hope some turned out OK.
My phone went off and a friend of mine invited me to join him and his wife for a late night dessert so I did join them. We had a nice visit. It is most interesting being able to converse with them about our regular friendship parts all the while I am in “Kim” mode. As we were leaving my friends wife did mention that she liked my new wig.
So…who do you believe. Whom do you believe. What do you believe.
I guess there will be another day. Another time. Another adventure.
If you read this far, thank you for indulging my thoughts tonight.
Love
Kim
HYMNS TO THE NIGHT
Over coming days I will present some suburban night photographs in the form of a photographic poetic essay. As night fell the darkness took on a special quality, enhanced by the artificial lights that make up our urban environments. To tie them all together I have returned to the long poetic essay by the German Romantic philosopher, Novalis: Hymns to the Night.
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, writing under the name of Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. All these traits are brought together in his Hymns to the Night, one of the most complex, moving and mystical reflections on death and eternity. Born in 1772 he was destined for a career in the law, but having befriended the poets Schiller, Schlegel, Goethe and Schelling (the pantheon of German Romanticism), his thoughts turned inward. This direction was further cemented when his fiancée, Sophie von Kühn, died suddenly of tuberculosis in 1797. Sophie’s death led him into the deep waters of Hymns to the Night (published in 1800).
Hymns to the Night concerns the deep intertwining between life and death, light and darkness, sleep and dreams, in which the night is a maternal figure who awakens within us a hunger for that which lies beyond our experience in this life – a new dawn if you like. For the ancients each end of the day and passage into the night brought with it a possibility that this was indeed the end of all things. Would the sun come up again? Who could be sure? And so sleep became the portal to the underworld. An interesting psychological analysis of dreams is made along these lines by the late James Hillman (1926-2011) in his great book, The Dream and the Underworld (1979).
Life itself was to be short for Novalis. He also contracted tuberculosis and was nursed on his deathbed by his second fiancée, Julie von Charpentier, dying at just 28. Novalis described his own philosophy as “Magical Idealism”. It was a concept shaped in some part by alchemical ideals in reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment and disenchantment of the world that was beginning to sweep intellectual Europe. Creativity, language and imagination were the paths to truth as the inner nature disclosed itself to those who were prepared to listen.
There is a wonderful novel that has been written about Novalis by Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000), The Blue Flower (1995). Fittingly it was Fitzgerald’s final work of fiction.
This series of suburban night photographs were all taken with my Nikon D850 using a Black Diffusion Pro Mist ¼ filter.
This is part of a series of images that will be used for my final year dissertation. The subject is conceptual art and photography which includes a written essay as well as a visual final piece.
The images help to portray the types of feelings of anger, confusion and frustration etc. that the subject of conceptual art arouses amongst not only myself, but many others. The essay itself features as part of my photographs, like the essay is the piece of art and use photography to document the idea, just like the conceptualists.
In this image the essay (the conceptual piece of art) is being wripped violently from a wall.
Materials: Plywood with 'brick like' paper wallpapered to it. Then stuck my essay on the wall...
Equipment: Digital. Camera set on timer.
Essay
I was going to write a long essay on wrestling with ones feelings as we journey towards understanding this aspect of our self. But I think I will let the photo do the talking.
The R/V Atlantis is one of three research vessels built to roughly the same specifications. One of its unique claims to fame is that it typically hosts the DSV (Deep SubmergenceVehicle) Alvin.
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The North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) is a five year investigation to resolve key processes controlling ocean system function, their influences on atmospheric aerosols and clouds and their implications for climate.
Michael Starobin joined the NAAMES field campaign on behalf of Earth Expeditions and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Office of Communications. He presented stories about the important, multi-disciplinary research being conducted by the NAAMES team, with an eye towards future missions on the NASA drawing board. This is a NAAMES photo essay put together by Starobin, a collection of 49 photographs and captions.
Photo and Caption Credit: Michael Starobin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Well...better get back to my essays :P Maybe I'll be able to think of an interesting photo idea when they're all finished.
This was a project for one of my classes. I wanted to create a narrative (film like) story using six stills.
The NAAMES flight crew prepares for departure from the airfield in St Johns Canada. Flights typically run about 10 hours from take off to landing.
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The North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) is a five year investigation to resolve key processes controlling ocean system function, their influences on atmospheric aerosols and clouds and their implications for climate.
Michael Starobin joined the NAAMES field campaign on behalf of Earth Expeditions and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Office of Communications. He presented stories about the important, multi-disciplinary research being conducted by the NAAMES team, with an eye towards future missions on the NASA drawing board. This is a NAAMES photo essay put together by Starobin, a collection of 49 photographs and captions.
Photo and Caption Credit: Michael Starobin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also known as the Nike of Samothrace, is a marble Hellenistic sculpture. It depicts Nike, the Greek goddess of victory and was created reportedly in second century BC. Since 1884 it has been emphatically displayed at the Louvre. The sculpture is one of the best-known in the world.
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