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This QM was the size of a Comma - but had the diagnostic question mark on its wings below. Black is their summer form - and they have that beautiful lavender trim.
at the wetlands, North Georgia
El proyecto Metropol Parasol es una estructura en forma de pérgola de madera y hormigón ubicada en la céntrica plaza de la Encarnación de la ciudad de Sevilla. Cuenta con unas dimensiones de 150 metros de largo, 70 metros de ancho y una altura aproximada de 26 metros. Su base alberga un mercado tradicional y locales de restauración en la planta baja, una plaza de espectáculos y el museo arqueológico Antiquarium. La estructura se corona con una terraza y un mirador que ofrece una vista panorámica del casco antiguo de la ciudad.
La obra, compuesta principalmente de madera laminada, está formada por una gran retícula en forma de parasol sostenida sobre seis pilares que abarcan tanto la plaza de la Encarnación como la Plaza Mayor de la ciudad. Cada una de sus costillas componen una distribución espacial donde cada nervadura ofrece una curvatura propia, lo cual aporta al conjunto una sensación de movimiento ondulatorio. Aunque su diseño está inspirado en las bóvedas de la Catedral de Sevilla, por su perfil fungiforme, pronto recibió por parte de los ciudadanos el nombre de ‘Las Setas’.
El proyecto fue el ganador del concurso abierto por el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla para llevar a cabo la rehabilitación de la plaza en la que se ubica. Su diseñador fue el arquitecto berlinés Jürgen Mayer. Por su diseño vanguardista y funciones turísticas, se ha convertido en un icono del centro histórico y de la ciudad de Sevilla. En enero de 2013, el espacio Metropol Parasol fue elegido, entre los 335 proyectos candidatos, como uno de cinco proyectos finalistas del Premio de Arquitectura Contemporánea Mies van der Rohe que conceden bianualmente la Unión Europea y la fundación Fundación Mies van der Rohe.
Las obras comenzaron el 26 de junio de 2005. Las múltiples dificultades que surgieron sobre las obras produjeron controversias y retrasos que triplicaron el coste previsto de la obra hasta llegar a los 100 millones de euros. Finalmente, el Metropol Parasol fue inaugurado el 27 de marzo de 2011 y desde entonces se ha consolidado como uno de los principales atractivos turísticos de la ciudad, llegando a alcanzar el millón de visitantes en su primer año.
Watson Lake was formed during the early 1900s by the construction of a dam on Granite Creek. It is a reservoir for the City of Prescott, AZ and is located about 4 miles outside of the city. It is known for its scenic granite dells. The area has camping and picnic facilities, but when we visited on a late September afternoon we only encountered another photographer and a couple of hikers and the lake was remarkably tranquil.
Prescott is located in central AZ and at an elevation of just over a mile so it is both cooler and greener than the Phoenix metropolitan area. The city was the territorial capital of Arizona in 1867 and the downtown area holds on to its history with numerous small shops and restaurants in an area surrounding the Yavapai County Courthouse and park. One of the streets adjacent to the courthouse is known as "Whiskey Row" and apparently was a notorious red light district.
Nikon D800
Nikon 24-70 mm f/2.8 at 70 mm
1/200 sec at f/11 ISO 100
September 27, 2017
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A pleasant harmony of warm, earthy hues, backlit, saturated tones, and leaves with veins, form a symphony in the quiet stillness of the forest.
A car zooms down a dusty country road as seen from Steptoe Butte in Washington's palouse landscape.
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formato A4, schizzo a china, penna e pennelli vari, con acquerello ispirato alla bellissima foto di JANRS71
An image I’ve been pondering over for a while. It was nearly the first photo to post on my return from the Lakes early November but for some reason I didn’t and moved on to other images, now with 4 seascapes in row it was time to move inland.
The sensuous forms of the huge leaves of the Sierra Corn Lilly plant. I never tire of the amazing patterns. Hopefully, before I pass on from old age, I can master enough of Topaz etc. to change the background...........hopefully.
Double click on the image to enlarge for details of the patterns
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Super-Takumar 50mm/f1.4 (8 elements) + Raynox DCR-250 on Pentax K-1. Shot wide open. Color grading in Lightroom
Está formada por el Pazo de Fefiñans, el arco-puente, la atalaya Torre del Homenaje y por la Iglesia de San Benito, es un de los conjuntos arquitectónicos más bellos y admirados de Galicia, data del siglo XVI. Está rodeada de edificios históricos y monumentales.
Antiguamente era conocida como la plaza del mercado, pues era donde se celebraba semanalmente,
Esta plaza se encuentra en Cambados´, Galicia.
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Crimson Rosella
Platycercus elegans
Description: There are several colour forms of the Crimson Rosella. The form it is named for has mostly crimson (red) plumage and bright blue cheeks. The feathers of the back and wing coverts are black broadly edged with red. The flight feathers of the wings have broad blue edges and the tail is blue above and pale blue below and on the outer feathers. Birds from northern Queensland are generally smaller and darker than southern birds. The 'Yellow Rosella' has the crimson areas replaced with light yellow and the tail more greenish. The 'Adelaide Rosella' is intermediate in colour, ranging from yellow with a reddish wash to dark orange. Otherwise, all the forms are similar in pattern. Young Crimson Rosellas have the characteristic blue cheeks, but the remainder of the body plumage is green-olive to yellowish olive (occasionally red in some areas). The young bird gradually attains the adult plumage over a period of 15 months
Similar species: The adult Crimson Rosella is similar to male Australian King-Parrots, but differs by having blue cheeks, shoulders, and tail, a whitish, rather than red, bill and a dark eye. Immature Crimson Rosellas also differ from female and immature King-Parrots by having blue cheeks, a whitish bill and a more yellow-green rather than dark green colouring.
Distribution: There are several populations of the Crimson Rosella. Red (crimson) birds occur in northern Queensland, in southern Queensland to south-eastern South Australia and on Kangaroo Island. Orange birds are restricted to the Flinders Ranges region of South Australia, while yellow ones are found along the Murray, Murrumbidgee and neighbouring rivers (where yellow birds meet red birds they hybridise, producing orange offspring). Red birds have been introduced to Norfolk Island and New Zealand.
Habitat: Throughout its range, the Crimson Rosella is commonly associated with tall eucalypt and wetter forests.
Feeding: Crimson Rosellas are normally encountered in small flocks and are easily attracted to garden seed trays. Once familiar with humans, they will accept hand held food. Natural foods include seeds of eucalypts, grasses and shrubs, as well as insects and some tree blossoms.
Breeding: The Crimson Rosella's nest is a tree hollow, located high in a tree, and lined with wood shavings and dust. The female alone incubates the white eggs, but both sexes care for the young. The chicks remain dependent on their parents for a further 35 days after leaving the nest.
Calls: The Crimson Rosella has a range of calls, the commonest being a two-syllabled "cussik-cussik". It also has a range of harsh screeches and metallic whistles.
Minimum Size: 32cm
Maximum Size: 36cm
Average size: 34cm
Average weight: 129g
Breeding season: September to January
Clutch Size: 4 to 8 (usually 5)
Incubation: 20 days
Nestling Period: 35 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Platycercus-elegans)
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Workers harvest the colorful tulip flowers in this fertile agricultural area of western Washington state.
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I think of the brown tint images here as fighting forms. More detailed descrption to come. Below is a basic meaning of the title series.
Tenkō (転向, literally, changing direction) is a Japanese term referring to the coerced ideological conversions of Japanese socialists and communists who, between 1925 and 1945, were induced to renounce leftist ideologies and enthusiastically embrace the Emperor-centric, capitalist, and imperialist ideology favored by the state. Tenkō was typically performed under duress, most often in police custody, and was a condition for release (although surveillance and harassment would often continue thereafter). But it was also a broader phenomenon, a kind of cultural reorientation in the face of national crisis, that did not always involve direct repression
source: wikipedia
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Mist forming in Little Langdale on the drive in was encouraging, although a stiff breeze on the Wrynose Pass wasn't promising. However, it seemed like the cold valley air was being pushed up Great Langdale from the south, and rising over the Langdale Pikes to give some amazing atmospherics for a couple of hours around dawn. Coupled with haze in the valleys gave a wonderful start to the holiday.
These were formed by splashing water along the edge of the Ottawa River.
Celles-ci ont été formées en éclaboussant l'eau le long du bord de la rivière des Outaouais.
or "The Great Leap" or "Hold the Line !!!" or "Ζζ"or "∞" ________________________________________________
|| Form & Emptiness || ∞ ||
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[...] The phrase "empty" is already a negation of itself, but one can not remain silent. The problem is to inform the silence, without leaving it. For this reason Zen avoids it as much as possible to take refuge in the language, and tries to make us penetrate behind the words that we speak - what is there - dig. Meister Eckhart does unstinting in his sermons.
He selects a few harmless words from the Bible and makes them a "home affairs" show that he experiences in his subconscious mind.
His idea is not in the words themselves, he turns them into instruments of his own intention.
Similarly, works with the Zen master of some things around him, including his own person, any trees, stones, sticks, etc He may then scream, hit or deal kicks. The main thing is it clear what is behind all these actions. In order to show that reality is "empty", he can stand still with hands folded over his chest. If him another question is asked, he might shake the tea plant, or go without a word of it or put the questioner a stick blow.
Sometimes the master of poetic and compares the spirit of the "emptiness" with the moon, it calls the "mind-moon" the moon or the Sun-safety-An old master of the Zen philosophy sings of the moon:
The moon is lonely and complete:
The light engulfs the ten thousand things
nor that the world exists of the things
Light, world, and things are gone,
and what remains - what is it?
The master leaves the question open. Would she answered, the moon would no longer there. Reality splits, and emptiness leads to emptiness.
We should not lose sight of the original moon, the primordial spirit-moon, and the master wants us to reflect on it, because with him we have started.
Emptiness is not empty space, it contains within itself infinite light, and all the diversity of the world, it absorbs it.
The Buddhist philosophy is the philosophy of "emptiness," the philosophy of self-identity. Self-identity is to be distinguished from mere identity.
For a mere identity, there are two objects that are found to be identical to each other, when there self-identity is only one object or subject, a single, and this one finds its identity by coming out of himself.
Self-identity thus includes movement. And we note: self-identity is Spirit, who goes out of itself, to see themselves mirrored in.
Self-identity is the logical substrate of pure knowledge, or of "emptiness".
In the self-identity, there are no contradictions. The Buddhists call it that So-heit. [...]
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[…] Die Aussage „leer“ ist bereits eine Verneinung ihrer selbst. Aber man kann nicht stumm bleiben. Das Problem ist, die Stille mitzuteilen, ohne sie zu verlassen. Aus diesem Grunde vermeidet Zen es soviel wie möglich, Zuflucht zur Sprache zu nehmen, und bemüht sich, uns hinter die Worte dringen zu lassen, damit wir gleichsam – was dort ist – auszugraben. Eckhart tut das unentwegt in seinen Predigten.
Er wählt einige harmlose Worte aus der Bibel und lässt sie ein „Inneres“ aufdecken, das er in seiner unbewussten Bewusstsein erfährt.
Sein Gedanke liegt keineswegs in den Worten selbst. Er macht sie zu Instrumenten seiner eigenen Absicht.
Auf ähnliche Weise bedient sich der Zen-Meister irgendwelcher Dinge um ihn herum, einschließlich der eigenen Person, irgendwelcher Bäume, Steine, Stöcke u.s.w. Er mag dann laut schreien, schlagen oder Fusstritte austeilen. Hauptsache es wird klar, was hinter all diesen Handlungen steckt. Um zu zeigen, dass die Wirklichkeit „Leere“ ist, kann er stillstehen mit gefalteten Händen über der Brust. Wenn ihm eine weitere Frage gestellt wird, mag er die Teepflanze schütteln oder wortlos davon gehen oder dem Frager einen Stockhieb versetzen.
Zuweilen ist der Meister poetischer und vergleicht den Geist der „Leere“ mit dem Mond, nennt ihn den „Geist-Mond“ oder den Mond der So-heit- Ein alter Meister der Zen-Philosophie singt von diesem Mond:
Der Mond ist einsam und vollendet:
Das Licht verschlingt die zehntausend Dinge,
noch dass die Welt der Dinge existiert,
Licht, Welt und Dinge sind dahin,
und das was bleibt – was ist´s?
Der Meister lässt die Frage offen. Würde sie beantwortet, wäre der Mond nicht mehr da. Wirklichkeit spaltet sich auf, und Leere mündet in Leere.
Wir sollten die Sicht auf den ursprünglichen Mond nicht verlieren, den uranfänglichen Geist-Mond, und der Meister möchte, dass wir uns auf ihn besinnen, denn bei ihm haben wir begonnen.
Leere ist nicht leerer Raum, in sich enthält sie unbegrenztes Licht, und alle Vielfalt der Welt nimmt sie in sich auf.
Die buddhistische Philosophie ist die Philosophie der „Leere“, die Philosophie der Selbst-Identität. Selbst-Identität ist zu unterscheiden von bloßer Identität.
Bei bloßer Identität gibt es zwei Objekte, die als miteinander identisch festgestellt werden, Bei der Selbst-Identität gibt es nur ein Objekt oder Subjekt, ein einziges, und dieses eine stellt seine Identität fest, indem es aus sich herausgeht.
Selbst-Identität schließt also Bewegung ein. Und wir stellen fest: Selbst-Identität ist Geist, der aus sich heraus geht, um in sich selbst gespiegelt zu sehen.
Selbst-Identität ist das logische Substrat reiner Erkenntnis oder von „Leere“.
In der Selbst-Identität gibt es keinerlei Widersprüche. Die Buddhisten nennen es So-heit. […]
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Source: D.T. Suzuki, „Der westliche und der östliche Weg“ (The Western and Eastern Weg),
Chapter: „Meister Eckhart und der Buddhismus“ (Meister Eckhart and the Buddhism)
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Introduction (Cover)
This book is a volume of "World Perspectives", which set the task to issue short writings of contemporary thinkers responsible in various areas.
The intention is to show fundamental new directions in the 'modern civilization, to interpret the creative forces that are in the east and west, at work, and the new consciousness to make clear that a deeper understanding of the interaction between man and the universe, can the individual and society and all nations shared values.
The "world outlook" represent the world community of ideas in a universal call, emphasizing the principle of unity of mankind, the continualness in the conversion.
Ullstein Publishing house - 1957
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|| Wikipedia: D. T. Suzuki || Meister Eckhart || Ζζ || Set: Αα - Ωω ||
....forming one large head of gorgeous blue, I love a summer of hydrangeas in my garden.
100 Flowers in 2025 1/100
The red kite calls
Across an empty sky.
No one comes, no one goes.
A thousand ancestors
Breathe through a single breath.
The bell fades into silence.
Form is emptiness.
Emptiness is form.
A child asks for another story.
The kettle boils.
The bills remain unpaid.
I bow and smile.
Suffering, in all it's varied forms, is what exactly?
A compounding of fractured soul, so matter-of-factly,
She said that He Himself said,
That surgery is an art gallery of faith instead
Masterpieces where health invariably decreases
Swan songs of broken hearts where love ceases
To enliven home truth's of carefree surrealism
One empty soul does not make another idealism,
Minimal is the grey day that paves the way for darkness
Looming on the horizon of unseen weathering blackness
A colossus of sky with the upper land
Nature the only card, saviour, and prophet to hand
Fear may only be a feeling, but the feeling is beyond fear itself
As they say, depression is expectant as we each try to find oneself
In the mire of news, be it the betrayal of the health of our citizens
Or just the assassination of natural resources wealth, that bloody well glistens
In the headlights and highlights of our obit we now live in memory alone
"A Song for Departure" plays upon the mind that cannot find adequate words to bemoan
The lack of attention paid to the well-being of Mother Nature, ageism spammed!
We are seeking the revolution for the revolving Earth whose door's are jammed
By the annual quagmire of festive exposure by all means time is spent!
Here by the grace of God, we breathe in life, in a place, in grace Heaven sent
It's tempting to stop reading, as it is to cease listening, turning a blind eye as well, why not?
But dare I say, it's nigh on impossible for very long to do the whole damned lot!
Mother Nature, She is suffering can't you see upon this obdurate land
We tune-in to be deceived, ghost hunters and faithful followers of a new kind of religious brand
Detect only what the illusion alludes to in the lost art of heart and soul
In part, life is already obfuscated with it's own toxins, we're the decade on parole
1988, 1998, 2008, I remember well, the future that is coming too soon
Here before tomorrow ever knows what to do with itself, we must find the answers to be in tune
Petty arguments wage wars within the minds of boys whose toys have been confiscated by ignorance
A belief of faith cannot be true if it sees red at every turn, nor can it bring hope for the children in whom we bestow what kind of continuance?
Benevolence is awaited with a youthful eagerness that has grown old waiting on the wings of fighters
Knives replace fists that substitute backs for tables in the cities full of such blighters
Intervention risks life and death for the removal of compassion brings the hooded underworld
That has now come up to grab society by the ruddy throat twirled
A society indeed, un-policed and unappeased the x-factor of fearless nerves
Can no longer meet with the supply, that which steals warns of what it serves
We're a breed apart though we never used to be and never should be
Walking tall when we should be down on our damned knees begging for forgiveness until we all finally agree
So the trepidant beggars of belief peaceably fly in the face of popular opinion,
For the standards of today will invariably fail the tests of time and ever-changing dominion
If you feel the force of scientific tribulation, will it numb the senses of tomorrow
Can the government's diet, passed fit for us all, sustain us through political sorrow?
If a smile should pass your face someday, cherish it's presence upon the lifestyle that forgot how to use it
Wear yourself well, but for the love of life we must address what does reciprocally befit.
by anglia24
09h55: 02/10/2008
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