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"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use." ~Emily Post
Just playing with light and balance ...back later today with challenge which is the work Lucky
Explore# 182 - August 16, 2009
I was waiting for dinner to be served when I figured it would be a nice time to shoot a fork LOL!
This photo was taken at an Arizona State University basketball game at Wells Fargo Arena. Whether ASU's student section is cheering for football, baseball, or basketball, we always make sure to have our 'forks' up. This photo shows the type of culture involved in being part of Arizona State University.
Adam Moreno photographer
This tiny bird (only 9cm) is best seen in February when the Coral Tree is blooming and best on sunny days.
Nikon D70+Nikon 300mm F2.8 VR AF-S
I search all the local thrift stores and local markets for silverplate. I take it home, polish it up and give it a new life as these handy-dandy fork easels. They're perfect for recipes, notes, photos,... and more. 100% recycled and so much fun!
Several weeks ago, three of my contacts posted pictures they had taken of forks. I wanted to get in on this innovative experiment, so I went outside and shot my version of a fork, but then let the film sit for a while before getting it developed. Well, better late than never. So, here's my contribution to the fork club.
Along with the rest of humanity, I witnessed with shock, then horror, and then deep sadness as the citizens of Japan had to and continues to endure one of the most significant examples of the Mother Nature ever displayed. Her power was at a magnitude that almost defied belief as the world watched or worse yet had to actually experience first-hand how she treated mankind and its creations like they were simply toys in a sandbox.
As my eyes and mind were glued to the TV and Internet in a vain attempt to grasp the magnitude of the loss and disruption of humanity in Japan, my overwhelming feeling was clear. It was a profound sense of SADNESS for all those in Japan who suffered and continues to suffer as a direct result of Mother Nature's wrath. There was no anger - how could anyone be angry at Mother Nature? It was an act of God that simply must be accepted.
BUT in the days immediately after the devastation, a new, growing, and potentially more devastating subsequent disaster began to unfold. Unlike the first two disasters brought on by Mother Natures, this disaster was one created by Man. This was a disaster that was setup years and even decades prior to Mother Nature pulling the trigger on this disaster. This was the nuclear disaster that unfolded at the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi plant. All of us around the world know this hard to pronounce name now as it joins "3 Mile Island" and "Chernobyl".
Also, unlike the twin disasters brought on by Mother Nature's which instilled SADNESS, this nuclear disaster brought up deep levels of ANGER that grew almost each hour that I listened / watched how the Japanese Government and moreso TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) seemed to spend more time each day trying to cover-up, hide, and deceive Japanese citizens and even the world than they did in doing everything in their power to prevent a nuclear crisis. Each day as world experts stood helplessly on the sidelines - knowing full well how bad the situation likely was - TEPCO and the Japanese Government continued to fumble to first save their investment and then to eventually get this nuclear monster wrestled down why speaking with FORK TONGUES each day on they were on top of it. Yet each day their story got worse and worse.
As we all now know (for the most part), it was a cover-up that failed. Not only failed, but because of their historic culture of cover-ups and incompetence on managing a Nuclear operations in Japan, TEPCO and the Japanese Government put their own fellow citizens and even the world in greater danger by not being transparent with the world until it was too late and/or to obvious to hide from the public.
It should also be noted that these Nuclear FORK TONGUES did not start wagging after the disaster this year. Their deceptions to the public has been going on for decades. From when the plants were designed and built in a location that already placed these plants in a potentially dangerous situation that anyone with common sense would say was a stupid location for Nuclear plant - the most active earthquake zone in the world and right along the ocean shoreline nearly at sea-level (not at a higher elevation). Even at that, their "failsafe" protections were far from failsafe (as has now been clearly proven) - backup power supplies right at the same elevation and location as the plant?? And for convenience - their spent rods pools in the same location as the main reactor. But... "Fork Tongues" assured the Japanese public that these plants were safe in the location and condition they were in. Why? Likely to save money - this from a company that I heard had generated about $18US Billion in profit last year? That would have bought a lot of upgraded and retrofitted plants to ensure the safety of the world. Now we all pay!
So.... this artwork is a symbol of my deep anger at those authorities of TEPCO, the Japanese Government, and even all those others around the world that are authorities of the Nuclear industry who dismiss the monumental dangers they are responsible to contain - all in the name of PROFITS.
This work is a 3D mixed media art illustrates the Japanese National symbol resting like a pearl in the Oyster of this bed of lies, deceit, and snake-like fork tongues. The sick greenish/brown colored textures of these fork tongues wrap around Japan's symbol and as a result of the lies... the sickness begins to infest the bottom of this symbol. This 3D designed model (using Sculptris to shape, texture, color) was then photographed and placed over a couple backdrop textures from the amazing PAREEERICA as well as one of my private personal textures.
CREDITS & PERMISSION:
FORK TONGUE 3D Art - a design I created using the Sculptris 3D tool (shaped and textured and painted)
PAREEERICA texture - Green Grunge Cement: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/4953809120/
PAREEERICA texture - FireWalker: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3861893046/
Toysoldier Thor
Strobist info :
1 Muliblitz Minilite 200 with a 17 x 55" soft box and 1 white acrylic plastic in behind above.
1 foil card board reflect in front under the camera.
Triggered by Cactus V5.
An attempt using my macro tubes
Nikon D3100, 3 macro rings, 50mm f/1.8 lens, ISO 400, Meike MK910 Flash (direct) Manual Mode
Forkette leaning agaisnt a mirror looking sultry.
haha this is my 2nd fork photo to make explore! forkette would like to thank her fans for admiring her beauty.
made explore
For the fork groups FORK VANITY theme.
Canon 400D, 18-55mm lens
Roaring Fork is a beautiful stream in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee
This photo featured in Outdoor Photographer Magazine's 2009 Landscape Calendar - June shot.