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When photographing a big storm cell near Adelaide river, south of Litchfield park, Northern Territory, a smaller storm creeped up behind me. I was able to get some more lightning pics with the railway stop signs making a nice foreground. The sign has been "painted" with a torch. This is my favourite from the night.
See cloudtogroundimages.com/2013/12/26/northern-territory-exi... for a description of my NT trip
If you're looking to transcend your current reality, consider taking the celestial stairmaster--it's great for those chunky calves and thighs.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
Autumn is the time for window ruminations. A time for sitting quietly and observing the earth as it carries out its transition to winter. A nice reminder that change is the natural order for all beings.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
one of my favorites from the photographic and existential journey into the wilderness that is ... coney island.
Free, profound, independent, her style is her own. It's personal, existential. Her only fear is convention. Her only weakness, jewelry. The roman nose adds character, the scar on her forehead adds strength, the curls in her hair add attitude. There is no such thing as imperfection, just originality.
What if Toy Story is true? How would we know if they exist as living entities? Their skill to go undetected by humans is second to none. Might actually help back up my kids claims of "I didn't leave them there!".
For we're here visiting existential - picturing the questions
"Please help!!!!!!!!" the helpless robot seems to be saying. His agony and existential despair generates great empathy in the compassionate viewer of the mural. Further complicating his predicament, the fence prevents any would-be "good samaritan" or well-intentioned person from intervening to assist him. It is an umbearably trajic and hopeless scene............causing us to avert our eyes and move on............continuing our daily routines, and trying desperately to forget............
Diese Woche geht es um das existenzielle Dilemma... nein natürlich nicht - es geht eigentlich um die Darstellung der Oberflächlichkeit unserer Gesellschaft. Es steht für die Distanz, die durch soziale Medien erzeugt wird.
Für diese Aufnahme wurde eine große Octabox mit Wabenaufsatz direkt unter dem Smartphone mit einem Abschatter verwendet. Das Display wurde lediglich durch einen Aufheller/Bouncer aufgehellt.
This week is about the existential dilemma... no of course not - it is actually about the representation of the superficiality of our society. It stands for the distance created by social media.
For this shot we used a large octabox with a honeycomb top directly under the smartphone with a shadow. The display was merely brightened by a brightener/bouncer.
This is a free work especially for the Macro Monday challenge | Dies ist eine freie Arbeit speziell für die Macro Monday Herausforderung.
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Pondering is like having a daydream with structure. It's wondering and wandering in your mind at the same time. Try it, you'll like it.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say? It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflexion, or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come --
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
***I loved it! The play’s minimalistic style, light, shadows and the actors' dialogue were impressive. The music and voices were captivating and added to the overall mood. It perfectly reflected themes of waiting, existential crises, and relationships. The fact that the actors kept hugging suggests that maybe waiting together, forming strong bonds, could be the true meaning of life. That feeling of hugging someone you love or share a connection with is truly special.
Okay… Keanu Reeves…
In my mind, he's always that young guy from 1997 in Devil’s Advocate. I'm biased! I'm biased!!!! 1997!
BUT…
I believe that over the years, people become attractive in different ways through experiences and human qualities. Youth is beautiful, but age is attractive. Youth has a face, but age has a soul.
A single cloud, floating like it’s got somewhere better to be. Mid-sky, mid-divorce, mid-existential crisis.
Minimalist in composition but emotionally messy, exposed just right to make that vapour trail feel like punctuation.
This isn’t serenity. It’s a passive-aggressive note left on the fridge.
Surrealist existential dream scape image depicting an individual perceiving themselves forsaken in the mental hallucinatory wilderness of their existence as the last ebb of life brings about not only physical death but the replacement of divine expectation with the death of belief and faith.
"The End" by the Chinese artist Xiang Jing.
Xiang Jing is a profoundly introspective and innovative Chinese sculptor whose work explores the complexities of human nature, identity and existential truth.
Rather than aligning with a strictly feminist stance, she approaches her art from a
woman's perspective, using the female form as both subject and statement. Her sculptures, though realistic in appearance, carry a deep emotional and psychological weight, challenging conventions of beauty, self-awareness and gendered experience.
Her artistic process is meticulous and deeply personal. Working primarily with fiberglass, Xiang Jing layers hand-painted details onto each piece, ensuring every sculpture possesses an individual presence and emotional depth. Her practice is problem-oriented, engaging with themes such as the relationship between observer and observed, internal desire and the shifting boundaries between realism and abstraction. She is a fiercely independent thinker, constantly pushing the limits of contemporary sculpture while maintaining an introspective approach.
"The End" from Mirror Image series stands out for its ambiguity.
It features girls dressed in white, shielding their eyes with their hands yet tilting forward as if trying to peer through their fingers to catch a glimpse of something interesting. It's composition and treatment of the gaze introduce an open-ended, interpretive quality.
Nature is a refuge where we find the tranquility necessary for the existential balance of human beings.
© Fan.D
At the edge of Somewhereville, beyond a sleepy road muffled by the long fingers of age-old trees and past the broken sundial that always points to midnight, stands The Final Stairway. Residents are warned to climb at their own risk and to avoid having an existential crisis at all cost, especially at the higher levels--after-all this might be your last ascent. And if this isn't a bit of cosmic nonsense, I don't know what is.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
On the road again with Kenzie, my faithful sidekick, following my highway in the wind.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
You knew where this was going.
I'm not gonna lie, this was originally conceived as a retirement post.
I mean, where do I go from here? I've completed the holy collection, and I feel like I've been out of ideas for a while honestly. Just been killing time till the last of these came in.
Honestly I haven't really been feeling the lego thing lately. Don't get me wrong, I love the hobby and the community and all you guys, but I dunno, the appeal isn't the same these days, and I've been kinda trying to figure out like, what's my plan for this collection in the long run. What am I gonna do with this stuff in five, ten years. Just being existential and crap. Plus I've just had a lot going on, so I haven't really found the time, and, in a way, I feel like I've pretty much accomplished everything I could have hoped to do. Well, outside of finishing up my JP figs, and making the perfect Popeye figs, who I do have plans for, but not the parts. I'd also love to do a Squad series someday like Moth Stories, but I haven't got the time or means right now.
This isn't retirement though, just musing. I'll still be around, fear not.
ANYWAYS, you're not hear for my existential crap, you're here to ask if that Gordon is a real Christo. Ha!
All of these figs, save for Man-Bat, Moth, Hatter, Ra's, Hush, Clayface, Batgirl and Gordon, are the 100% official, classic 2006-8 Bat figs. All of em. This is essentially my dream collection, and I'm stoked to finally have them all.
Hush is a LYL Brick custom, Clayface is one of those cheapass knockoffs, Moth is a purist custom, Ra's and Man-Bat are as well, save for the former's hair and latter's wings, Hatter has a painted CMF Balloon clown hat, an Onlinesailin head, and that Western torso with the card suits. Batgirl is old news, and yes, Commissioner Gordon is indeed a Christo, supplied to me by Saga Customs/Bravo Bricks, a gentleman and scholar. I had to wait a good many months, but it was damn well worth it.
Anyways, it's no Sharp Hand Joe, but this would have made a damn fine retirement post I think.
Cheers everybody, I'll see you round the flickersphere
The Danish artist Michael Kvium is known for the figurative visual language he uses to tackle the existential themes of humanity. In the exhibition ‘Circus Europa’, Kvium takes the circus as a metaphor for our time to portray a world of entertainment where even the most serious news is characterized by sensationalism and drama.
The writer finds solace and inspiration on a foggy autumn morning. The fog paints a veil of mystery over the morning inviting the writer's imagination to wander where it will. This writer however, is not finding solace in the heavy rain and wind that is crashing through our area at the moment. It's time to batten down the hatches in the Foothills.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
More ICM / street / double exposure / whatever-you-want-to-call-it stuff. Shot in Vuosaari, Helsinki, Finland.
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Draped in strings and pedal steel moan, it evokes existential late-Sixties/early-Seventies radio balladry like Glen Campbell’s version of Jimmy Webb’s “Wichita Lineman” and Harry Nilsson’s cover of Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’.” The sound dates back to Springsteen’s youth, and he channels it masterfully, with some of his most polished singing.
To wander through a bleak and barren landscape is to experience freedom from purpose--no goals and no pressures from an outcome based existence.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
The sun is a generous lord | It shares its light |
With all things Great or Small.
Straight out of the Camera. A camera is a receptacle of light. A photographer is a gatherer of light. A camera can capture infinite attributes and hues of light. Attributes and hues which can be manipulated but (perhaps) never enhanced by post processing on a computer. Personally I believe that a mild tweaking of exposure or white balance may be necessary at times but extensive processing sucks out the meditative and emotionally charged component of an image leaving behind something which is unreal and lifeless. To PP or not to PP? An existential dilemma which every photographer has to solve for him-her-self.
...with the company of my thoughts and the solace of my dreams. I walk alone into a night of mystery where every raindrop contains the essence of possibility. I walk alone into a night of solitude, where the world belongs to the dreamers and the wanderers.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
One last ICM picture before I return to something more traditional. Combining motion blur and still subjects was a fun challenge, a very different kind of photography experience. I will probably attempt this again at some point or go "full ICM", we'll see. Thank you for the feedback so far!
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90:365
Yesterday was positive so it seemed only right to keep the balance of the universe and make today negative.
light vs dark
heat vs cold
up vs down
ying vs yang
I think these ideas should be expressed as such...
light AND dark
heat AND cold
up AND down
ying AND yang
Been thinking about a lot of stuff lately......I blame my hormones...
I promise to do a fun or pretty shot tomorrow. After all, it's about balance, right?
HCS
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
-Barthes
Sometimes silence doesn’t feel empty—it feels heavy, like it knows too much.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
“There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity. This relation of transcendence as constitutive of man (not in the sense that God is transcendent, but in the sense of self-surpassing) with subjectivity (in such a sense that man is not shut up in himself but forever present in a human universe) - it is this that we call existential humanism. This is humanism, because we remind man that there is no legislator but himself; that he himself, thus abandoned, must decide for himself; also because we show that it is not by turning back upon himself, but always by seeking, beyond himself, an aim which is one of liberation or of some particular realisation, that man can realize himself as truly human."
—JP Sartre
Self Holga lens for DSLR to LR preset
Existential portrayal of the times. A touch of anxiety and depression. Best seen through obfuscation of the figure provided by the Holga lens.
Hi, everybody! It's been a while. I took a creative break from photography for the summer and have only now been slowly getting back into it.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been experimenting with intentional camera movement, something I've always found fascinating but haven't done much myself. The results so far are exciting; especially when combined with still subjects the scene becomes very dreamlike and esoteric. The picture you see here is essentially a double exposure – the person and the surroundings were shot in the same location but with vastly different techniques. It's like street photography taken to a whole new, existential level.
Tell me what you think, or just say hello in the comments, and I'll make sure to catch up on your latest photos!
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"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not.
It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other." -Osho