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" It's existential monotony framed. It's interesting, how viewing it can make you sure there is something else. But being in it can make you sure that there isn't."
by She Said Unprintable Things
The Time Warp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S91wQbYYX3Q
NO AI USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THIS IMAGE.
By now you well know my take on AI and photography, writing and music. It's like oil and water - they don't belong together! But please don't take my word for it. The great Australian musician, Nick Cave, was so incensed by AI he wrote one of the finest reflections on the subject in defense of the human creative spirit.
When this letter is read by the incomparable Stephen Fry, then it really is something special. Take a few minutes to watch this beautiful reading:
Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF4bLKd4
"Chat GPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanizing the imagination."
"This impulse, this creative dance, that is now being so cynically undermined, must be defended at all costs. And just as we would fight any existential evil, we should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world.
Love Nick."
Contemplation is at once the existential appreciation of our own “nothingness” and of the divine reality, perceived by ineffable spiritual contact within the depths of our own being. Contemplation is the sudden intuitive penetration of what really IS. It is the unexpected leap of the spirit of man into the existential luminosity of Reality Itself, not merely by the metaphysical intuition of being, but by the transcendent fulfilment of an existential communion with Him Who IS.
-Thomas Merton, The New Man
Breathtaking Last Sunset Of September 2020 On Tampa Bay Florida - IMRAN™
This is what tonight's sunset - the last sunset of September 2020 - unfolded looking like. I knew I had to take some photos as I juggled two steaks on the grill, two German Shepherds playing hard drenched from being in the swimming pool, and two cameras to take photos with. What can I tell you... I am a Gemini. Two of everything. LOL.
2020 has been a surreal year for us. For all of us. Globally, as a species under attack from a pandemic. Nationally, America literally facing an existential crisis brought on by a constitutional crisis being foisted upon us by the agents of an enemy state. And even personally, by the many shocking blows I was hit with this year.
But, at the end of it all, the day, the month, the quarter, soon the year, the decade, and one day my earthly time itself, I cannot deny all the unbelievable blessings I shall forever be grateful for. That is why almost everything I am writing this year makes me refer to things with the particular year 2020 mentioned.
I hope that we all survive this year all the horrendous things that threaten us, our health, our democracy, and our nation. I pray that we grow stronger, smarter, happier, more loved, and more successful in the years to come. I dream of the times we can look back at the writings from these moments in time and be grateful to have made it into those dates in the future. I hope you will be with me then too. Amen.
© 2020 IMRAN™
Rovingian Council - A Universe of Free Spiritual Forms by Daniel Arrhakis (2026)
A Universe of Free Spiritual Forms
In the Rovingian cosmology, everything in nature and the Universe is imbued with spirit in a vision of a vibrant cosmos, where matter is not inanimate, but permeated by consciousness and spiritually timelessly connected.
Each Being or Entity possesses a unique spiritual form that has the right to exist, to evolve and is endowed with free will.
Here are some points for reflection on this vibrant cosmology:
1. Matter as Conscious Energy
In this model, the distinction between "organic" and "inorganic" becomes merely a matter of density or frequency. If matter is not inanimate, then an atom, a star, or a mountain are not just objects, but subjects.
Vibration: The idea of a vibrant cosmos suggests that reality is a continuous flow, where "solidity" is merely a perception of our human scale.
Consciousness: Consciousness would not be a byproduct of the brain, but a fundamental property of the very fabric of the universe.
2. Singularity and the Right to Existence
By stating that each entity possesses a "unique spiritual form," you touch on a crucial point of cosmic ethics:
If each entity has the intrinsic right to exist, the negligent exploitation or destruction of nature ceases to be an ecological error and becomes a spiritual violation. This establishes a democracy of forms, where the human being is not at the top of the pyramid, but a participant among equals in terms of existential value.
3. Free Will at All Scales
This is perhaps the most radical concept of this vision. Attributing free will to all spiritual forms suggests that:
Evolution and natural processes are not merely mechanical or random, but the result of small and large choices and interests of each being.
The universe can thus be seen as a creative and open system, in constant co-creation, where everything that exists is interdependent but at the same time possesses existential and creative freedom!
By elevating matter to the status of consciousness, this perspective transforms ecology and politics into something sacred.
If each atom and each being possesses a "unique spiritual form" and free will, oppression ceases to be merely a social error and becomes a violation of the fundamental laws of the universe.
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Um Universo de Formas Espirituais Livres
Na cosmologia rovingiana, tudo na natureza e no Universo está imbuído de espírito, numa visão de um cosmos vibrante, onde a matéria não é inanimada, mas sim permeada pela consciência e espiritualmente conectada de forma intemporal.
Cada Ser ou Entidade possui uma forma espiritual única que tem o direito de existir, de evoluir e é dotada de livre-arbítrio.
Eis alguns pontos de reflexão sobre este cosmologia vibrante:
1. A Matéria como Energia Consciente
Neste modelo, a distinção entre "orgânico" e "inorgânico" torna-se apenas uma questão de densidade ou frequência. Se a matéria não é inanimada, então um átomo, uma estrela ou uma montanha não são apenas objetos, mas sujeitos.
Vibração: A ideia de um cosmos vibrante sugere que a realidade é um fluxo contínuo, onde a "solidez" é apenas uma percepção da nossa escala humana.
Consciência: A consciência não seria um subproduto do cérebro, mas uma propriedade fundamental do próprio tecido do universo.
2. A Singularidade e o Direito à Existência
Ao afirmar que cada ente possui uma "forma espiritual única", tocas num ponto crucial da ética cósmica:
Se cada entidade tem o direito intrínseco de existir, a exploração ou a destruição negligente da natureza deixa de ser um erro ecológico para se tornar uma violação espiritual. Estabelece-se assim uma democracia das formas, onde o ser humano não é o topo da pirâmide, mas um participante entre iguais em termos de valor existencial.
3. Livre-Arbítrio em Todas as Escalas
Este é talvez o conceito mais radical desta visão. Atribuir o livre-arbítrio a todas as formas espirituais sugere que:
A evolução e os processos naturais não são apenas mecânicos ou aleatórios, mas o resultado de pequenas e grandes escolhas e interesse de cada ser.
O universo pode ser assim visto como um sistema criativo e aberto, em constante cocriação e em que tudo o que existe é interdependente mas ao mesmo tempo possui liberdade existencial e criadora !
Ao elevar a matéria ao estatuto de consciência, esta perspetiva transforma a ecologia e a política em algo sagrado. Se cada comportamento e cada ser possui uma "forma espiritual única" e livre-arbítrio, a opressão deixa de ser um mero erro social e passa a ser uma violação das leis fundamentais do universo.
..si nos vamos para el cielo o para el infierno | ...if we're going to heaven or hell |
Pues... la decisión de dónde vamos no depende de una respuesta simple. La verdadera pregunta es: ¿Estamos viviendo de una manera que nos permita tener confianza en nuestro destino?
El camino al cielo o al infierno se construye con cada elección. Cultiva la confianza en ti mismo y en tus acciones para encontrar la paz interior.
Ahora bien, la idea del cielo y el infierno es un tema complejo y personal. Tal vez sea más importante vivir con integridad y confianza en que estamos haciendo lo mejor que podemos.Así que en lugar de preocuparnos por un destino final, enfoquémonos en construir una vida llena de significado y confianza. Resulta que la felicidad verdadera se encuentra en el camino, no solo en el destino.
En resumen: la confianza en nosotros mismos y en un poder superior es lo que nos guía. Cultivando esa confianza, podemos encontrar la serenidad que buscamos.
One of the things I've always admired about some of my favourite artists is their absolute commitment to truth.
The raw, open honesty that speaks of existential struggle and ultimately the great power beyond ourselves and in our own human spirit.
After realizing that he is going to spend the next seven years in the swamp, the Charming Prince had an existential crisis.
Entry to Bio-Cup 2020. My Round 1 theme is amphibians.
Thanks to everybody who helped me with this entry!
a fleeting moment through the window. shadows of the present pass by, blurred and faceless, while the statue stands still, timeless and unmoved. a silent witness to all who come and go. between stone and shadow, past and present merge. a quiet reflection on memory and time.
If you stare long enough into the fabric of reality
You will see it slowly unravel
And collapse on itself
Within a singular, meaningless void
“The rocks, the air, everything speaking with audible voice or silent; joyful, wonderful, enchanting, banishing weariness and sense of time. No longing for anything now or hereafter…”
–John Muir (My first summer in the Sierra)
The Wawona tunnel view is the iconic Yosemite overlook, visited by an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 people per day during the height of the tourist season (NPS website). It was therefore somewhat of a mild disbelief to see the dark overlook totally deserted on my way to the valley from the glacier point. It was past midnight and the air was filled with smoky whiff of several ongoing forest fires ignited by recent lightning strikes in the valley. Past the valley, behind the cathedral rocks, the waning gibbous moon sauntered towards the sky full of shy stars, revealing the swirling mist all around. The dreamy mist pampered those iconic granite peaks poignantly. Slowly, faint psalms of nearby waterfalls grew in my ears as the rest fell silent. The silence was everything he said it would be; ‘enchanting, banishing weariness and sense of time’. It also banished inherent urges to fit in with people, places, situations and times. As time meandered along that moonlit amphitheater of mind-numbing silence, the peace felt equally real and ethereal. Existential desires tamed down like a mountain creek in a meadow as his words echoed somewhere nearby in mute silence… ‘no longing for anything now or hereafter…', only wanting to ‘...cuddle down on the forest floor and die like the leaves and flowers, and like them leave no unsightly remains calling for burial’.
Mixed media assemblage
23” x 16.5” x 6.5”
2015
85 Seconds to Midnight references the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic measure of global catastrophe. The title reflects heightened nuclear tension in the modern era. A delicate human hand and telephone contrast with cold mechanical instruments, emphasizing the fragility of life within systems of deterrence. The coiled cord and voltmeter imply a live circuit awaiting a final signal. The work suggests that technological sophistication has not erased existential risk. Instead, humanity remains suspended in a narrow margin between stability and annihilation, dependent on restraint, communication, and decisions made under immense pressure.
This moment will remain nameless and seated
an avid reader of the listening mind
a subtle stroke across all it can find
tickling the fancies of a future pre-heated
let the time linger a while longer
it is patiently waiting for no-one but you defined,
yes, it springs to mind within a season so inclined
jaunting these days making my week stronger
the sound of the Blackbird still in flight
that triggers a memory shot fired across the present
a crystal clear souvenir well-kept before reality's descent
greeting me like a sunbeam that's just come to light
a forward path or a back-road it still ends up in the present time
running concurrently with life's surviving relationship thus conferred
the hitherto has the wherewithal of a foreknowledge referred
armed with weightless thought that sees so much still in it's prime
it's that spellbinding positivity that intoxicates my malaise
the outside spirit looks in at the recuperating Soul
where my heart took flight in fright of losing existential control
hope breaks the cursive atom glimmer that inner medicine wishes to appraise
if only, a channel blocked were not a strike to test our highest authority
if only, a blockade were for the greater good of all concerned
if only, a ration could feed the mind of a life appetisingly spurned
if only, a cure could 'speak up' for the pain of this silent majority
help is a hand in the lending of belief, faith and trust in one another
the pie that charts cultural equality and nourishes the Soul of every faith
whatever we believe in, if it's for the good of another then let it be saith
and bury the infelicitous insomniac wraith for natural optimism to smother
there can be no other way than the one before you now
but the path inseminated produces no finer offspring than love
the love of the life given, liven, forever striven thereof
herewith a homely tome; Spring's residue from nature's forbearing bough.
by anglia24
10h20: 19/05/2008
©2008anglia24
The rendering of your emotional highway has no barriers?
what do your deepest fears cross and encounter?
is there cherishment upon the way that feeds your heart?
picking moments with which the Soul is eaten, in part
is it the deliverer, the healer, the persecutor impart
smoothly surfaced into the light of day passing
a room, destiny, space, in time, rivers flowing
still in mind, awakening the emotive checklist of strife
recording movements and controlling daily schedules
watching every living matter, is this what you call life??
bear in mind what you simply cannot bear to face
with eyes closed, the entitled apparition becomes real
a chest note unspoken, which designs a noted bas-relief
filled with emotional spirit and natural purulency
go beyond the norm, look further afield, inherit more belief
taking your hand, reinvigorating this life shared
second to none and afraid no more, seize the willowed moment!
behold the veranda of opportunity and purest veracity
entering such a thalamus of hidden and untold dreams
here we feel the world in our hands within plentiful capacity
there is no wrong in a oneness of love, a oneness of spirit
where Nature is present, life abounds in surviving heartbeats
theurgic possibilities astride hermetic touches advancing
where breaths become deeper and silently longing
forever becomes the present of predestined-eternity's glancing
we are the insight of ourselves when open to heavenly calling
into our destiny we strive purely, future surrendered today
as the past catches up with the forgiveness of time itself
we're bold enough to go where our resistance never dared step
a shell of time, and only time will tell where we may tread ourself
are we to remain in fate's shadow, or shall we reflect glory -
on our own offering of light and illumination unto our present?
leaving a prosaic society aside, let your spirit touch it's potential
realise and embrace it, share and reach the four corners of your soul
such propensity of jubilant goodness within every heart existential.
by anglia24
13h35: 20/02/2008
©2008anglia24
Recent work from the ongoing Introspective Illumination project. My intent for this project is to explore themes of identity and mortality. I aim to explore how our identity is influenced by the spaces we inhabit and our connection to them. Additionally, I want to engage with existential questions about existence, impermanence, and the passage of time. By closely observing and collaborating with the spaces I inhabit—considering their colors, light, form, and texture—I create starting points for self-exploration, reflection, and deeper understanding.
I want to take the time to humbly thank my partner in my 365. I owe better than 90% of the laughs and ruined keyboards from my 365 project to Kim. My 365 project would be a somber dark place without her.
Kim has been a fixture in my humble 365 project for two years now. When I am drained of ideas, she refuels me. When I am to tired to continue she kicks me. When I am down, she inspires me. She's not a muse. She's a co-conspirator. She's funny, intelligent, beautiful and daring. But most of all, she's my friend. She is the best.
We're Here! : The Three Stooges Existential Balloon Factory
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I almost didn't make it to this round of Food Court (again). I'm a melancholy soul often swept up by the tides of existential dread. To calm my spirit, I make mesh food. This month I've made some Honeybell & Navel Oranges. Not bento, sorry. But they ARE super cute and perfect for the New Year. I don't know about your personal New Years' traditions but in my household, we always have to have round fruits during the turn of the new year. Specifically, plenty of oranges. They signify money (their golden color), and wealth, and prosperity; and I'm all about that, and any excuse to indulge in some juicy honeybells. They make a nice touch to any virtual room needing a little bit of a stylish citrus kick. Orange is also my mom's favorite color. She says it's a happy color and swears by it, painting her entire kitchen a loud bright orange. Love the fruit, not a fan of the walls.
Find the Juicy Honeybells & Navel Oranges at The Food Court Event hosted by Ramadiez Carter of PewPew! starting January 5th, 12 PM SLT.
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Oh, and there's also a 50% OFF SALE of Select Previous Food Releases at The Food Court Event from your favorite bistro boutique. If you like saving money and dig some good eats, pick some up for yourself or a friend on sale for the entire month.
Solitude
While studying photography in Pathshala, I developed new technical and aesthetic skills at an academic level and gained a fresh perspective on seeing the world around me. However, I still felt that something was missing. That missing piece was the ability to articulate aesthetics through language and to experience aesthetics with the basis of life itself.
During this time, I developed a deep desire to understand philosophy. Within a few months, I decided to pursue academic studies in philosophy. There were two main reasons behind this decision: first, to gain knowledge of philosophy, and second, to reshape my photographic view point through a philosophical angle—essentially, to integrate aesthetics with philosophy.
As I delved into this complex subject, I found myself particularly influenced by three philosophical ideologies: the philosophy of Nihilism, Engels and Marx’s materialism, and Gautama Buddha’s theory of Functionalism. These perspectives began shaping my understanding of life, humanity, society, and aesthetics. My way of seeing the world started to transform.
Nihilism and materialist philosophy argue that humans are not a special species. According to Buddha, life itself is full of suffering. Since humans are not inherently special and life has no predetermined purpose, people often experience restlessness. My photographs reflect this idea through landscapes, where excessive negative space in the frame symbolizes despair, purposelessness, and solitude in human life. Most people live under the illusion that they are unique compared to the surroundings. This belief prevents them from feeling truly connected to nature.
Lalon once said, "He and Lalon exist together, yet they are separated by infinite distance." Even though humans exist within nature, they somehow remain detached from it. In my frames, vast negative spaces with tiny human figures symbolize this very detachment. Here, nature is immense, and humans are small—serving as a reminder that humanity is not any superior to nature.
The mist in my photographs enhances the minimalist effect, further detaching people from their surroundings. The presence of human-made structures in the background represents our ongoing struggle to prove our superiority. However, the blurred, barely visible architecture behind the fog reflects the failure of this pursuit. Humanity is trapped in this endless contradiction, deepening its existential despair. Meanwhile, the fog thickens, and the distance between humans and nature continues to grow.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom from the University of Oxford. It argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth. Sufficiently intelligent machines could improve their own capabilities faster than human computer scientists, and the outcome could be an existential catastrophe for humans.
The Nomad Monks - Leaving Comfort by Daniel Arrhakis (2025)
The Nomad Monks - Leaving Comfort
The Nomad Monks follow the example of Franciscan monks, pilgrims and wanderers, following the example of Saint Francis, who walked through Italy and to the Holy Land.
Although different in their spirituality, they aim to leave comfort, explore paths, discover sacred places that were landmarks of human spirituality, many in danger of disappearing, catalog sites, record and analyze mystical forms or symbols, contact and dialogue with local religious authorities, they consult local documents and libraries, discover horizons, learn from other cultures, collect stories and legends, but above all, reach out to those who seek them... and need help.
Each monk has a life path that is their mystical itinerary, their destiny as an individual in their brief passage through each existential cycle.
When they gather in the Rovingian Council (Every Five Years) they share their experiences, exchange knowledge, and their most important records will become part of the Great Rovingian Spiritual Guide - "The Mystical Itinerary of Rites" .
"Here we are, in the middle of our existential reckoning.
Long ago we all traded, regretfully abdicated,
Self-sovereignty
Charge, our command, and means,
Trade it all for bread and circus."
-Maynard-
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” The world is quiet here; and the words of the American existential psychologist Rollo May seem to ring truer than ever. Snowshoeing on the Athabasca Glacier. Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
www.robertdowniephotography.com
Love Life, Love Photography
SHE - Dorotea Saykaly
Choreographer : Dorotea Saykaly
Revolving around identity while tripping on doubt, the solo SHE draws inspiration from the novel The Passion according to G.H. by Clarice Lispector – in which the female protagonist, alone in a room, confusingly and sensually talks through her existential and spiritual crisis.
Through movement, distortion and an interview with a phantom interrogator, the work morphs in and out of different states and proposes looking at a questioning body through a female lens.
Choreography, Written and Performed by Dorotea Saykaly
Music: Riku Mäkinen
Costumes Conception: Carla Romagnoli
Lighting Designer: Erwann Bernard
Outside Eye and Consultant: Eve Garnier
#SHE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdl7aMsNmFg&feature=related
Yo Que Pasa .... Gare Du Nord
Ever wonder which path ?
Perhaps towards the light
He said...
Guy
Minolta X-700 Minolta 50mm 1:3.5 MC Macro Celtic 1:1 Extension Adox HR-50 LegacyPro EcoPro 1:1 05/04/2024
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from September 2020.
On 21st February 2022 the UK Government announced the complete abandonment of public health measures to protect its citizens, especially the most vulnerable, during the continued coronavirus pandemic, the worst pandemic for over 100 years.
Removing free and freely available testing and rules requiring isolation of the infected is nothing less than a policy of discrimination against over 3 million clinically vulnerable and clinically extremely vulnerable citizens of the nation.
Those vulnerable to increased risk of death and debilitating severe long-term disease from Covid-19 will now face an existential crisis when leaving their home.
Shopping will be dangerous, medical appointments will be a deadly place of airborne pathogens and dentistry will be impossibly dangerous. Just a few examples.
The Omicron variant is, through data from many countries, proving to be more damaging to people through blood clots than previous variants. Heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms and strokes are rising in those far past their infectious period. There is clinical evidence of brain damage from Covid-19 and growing evidence of testicular damage. Covid-19 is a disease of endothelial tissue and blood clotting - it always has been. There will be huge long term consequences and any damage from one infection will make an individual more vulnerable to a Covid-19 reinfection.
The vulnerable and extremely vulnerable people in this are not an exclusive group or club. Every single human is just one illness, infection or injury away from becoming clinically vulnerable themselves. It can happen to you - at any time.
Reducing the vulnerable population to an 'acceptable loss' in a public health crisis is nothing short of eugenics. Every death adds to a tally of democide.
A civilised society protects it's most vulnerable.
A selfish society does nothing.
Under these measures we are all vulnerable to Covid-19.
Yes I am angry. I, however, follow the science. The peer reviewed science by the majority of highly esteemed medics and scientists around the world. I listen to anecdotal evidence of the millions of people suffering from post-Covid disease, some for over 2 years without improvement.
The removal of protective health measures (*they were NEVER restrictions) is nothing more than a populist move and not only goes against all scientific fact, it defies basic common sense.
Please stay safe my Flickr friends and thank you if you took the time to read my thoughts on this. Thank you.
We're Here! : Existential - Picturing the questions {and vice versa}
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Eva: Dave, I have some questions about the whole Santa thing.
Dave: Existential, pup culture related, or questioning the physics of sleigh flight at supersonic speeds?
Eva: It has to do with the song. The one where he is coming to town.
Dave: I’ll try my best.
Eva: Well, it says that “He sees you when you're sleeping”. I’m having trouble with that as I can’t see a thing with this hat on my head.
Dave: I have a feeling that the hat fits his head better than yours.
Eva: It also says “You better not pout”. Does it mean that I’m not being good if I’m pouting? Just because I don’t look like I’m enjoying something doesn’t mean that I’m not being exceedingly good by putting up with it.
Dave: Do you have a specific example?
Eva: How about now?
Dave: Don’t worry. You are being very nice. I’m sure that you will be on the nice list and get lots of cookies.
Eva: The last questions are how long his corporate memory is and what is his policy on mitigating circumstances.
Dave: Is that from the song?
Eva: Nope. More of a question about if I wait until December 26th to extract revenge on someone for making me wear this hat and pretend that I enjoy it, will he still remember when he packs the sleigh next year?
Dave: I guess that depends on how heinous the act of revenge is.
Eva: I’ll keep that in mind.
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We're wishing everyone a head start on the Merry Christmas thing. Or at least one of us is being merry about it. Special thanks to my daughter Julia for helping keep Eva "happy" during this photo shoot. And an extra special thanks to Eva for putting up with the whole thing.
Photo By: Cate Infinity
"Pray, what light through yonder existential abyss breaks? For in this mortal coil, we are but players upon life's stage, each striving to find meaning amidst the tempest of existence, where fate's cruel hand guides our every step, and our souls doth wrestle with the eternal question: to be or not to be."
Music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfjHLJqcDDU&list=OLAK5uy_kwYw...
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.
This Japanese red fox approached me in a small resort on Hokkaido during a spontaneous portrait shooting. He was curious enough to get that close, to look at me for a few seconds and then to stroll on, well aware of his beauty and mythological status in Japan.
after Magritte
original title was "look at the wall" as kind of a joke but i remember the existential painting series by magritte called "the human condition". they blew me away! this has a similar idea.
"Die Existenz des Osterhasen lässt sich wissenschaftlich nicht zweifelsfrei widerlegen, sondern wie alle Existenzaussagen nur entkräften." | "The existence of the Easter Bunny cannot be scientifically disproved beyond all doubt; like all existential statements, it can only be cast into doubt." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osterhase
Altwiener Ostermarkt an der Freyung in Wien | Easter market on the Freyung in Vienna