View allAll Photos Tagged hierarchical
This drone shot of the Big Tree in a Mojave Desert playa shows the very tips of the branches, where water begins to flow into larger and larger channels in self-similar fractal patterns. The light-colored tips are very shallow, almost level with the surface, yet very distinct. The biggest channels downstream can be 1-2 feet deep.
This "Big Tree" is 1.5 miles long and forms a striking example of geological art. Its beauty is enhanced by white salts that have percolated up from below, giving it a flocked appearance.
The fact that the shallow channels follow the edges of the salt boundary seems to suggest a connection. Does the percolation lower the elevation of the surface slightly enough to get water flowing? Does the flow only begin underwater when the lake fills up? Does receding water "pull" water into the edges by capillary action? Suggest a hypothesis.
I am excited and humbled to tell you that my photo "Sac" has won the "highly commended" prize in the Digital Camera Photographer of the Year competition. If anyone will be in London from December 9-13, my image will be exhibited at the Mall Galleries. Someone take a picture for me, I can't make it!
Thats my cat Nyah, she is missing a paw, as you can see she is standing on three legs hehe :)
It's taking Cider a bit to adjust to his new brother, Charlie, who arrived on Friday. Cider has been tolerant, but is not showing to much brotherly love at this point. He is, however, making it perfectly clear where Charlie is in the pecking order.
The dome, entirely covered with mosaic showing the
Angelic Hierarchies, Scenes from Genesis, Scenes from the life of Joseph the Patriarch,
Scenes from the life of Christ, Scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist, and the Last Judgement
La cúpula, enteramente recubierta de mosaicos que muestran la
Jerarquías angélicas, Escenas del Génesis, Escenas de la vida de José el Patriarca,
Escenas de la vida de Cristo, Escenas de la vida de San Juan Bautista y el Juicio Final
The oldest religious site in all of Florence
Its origins are unknown although it is believed that it was built over the ruins of a Roman temple dedicated to Mars dating back to the 4th-5th century A.D. It was first described in 897 as a minor basilica. In 1128, it was consacrated as the Baptistery of Florence and as such is the oldest religious monument in Florence. Up until the end of the 19th century, all catholics in Florence were baptized within its doors. Today, young children can still be baptized here on the first Sunday of the month, but as they only have space and time for 4, you have to make the request with ample time.
The Baptistery, dedicated to Florence's patron saint, has an octagonal plan and an octagonal lantern with a cupola. Outside it is clad in geometrically patterned colored marble, white Carrara marble and green Prato marble that is typical of Florentine Romanesque architecture.
El lugar religioso más antiguo de toda Florencia
Se desconoce su origen aunque se cree que fue construida sobre las ruinas de un templo romano dedicado a Marte que data del siglo IV-V d.C. Fue descrita por primera vez en el año 897 como una basílica menor. En 1128, fue consagrado como el baptisterio de Florencia y, como tal, es el monumento religioso más antiguo de Florencia. Hasta finales del siglo XIX, todos los católicos de Florencia eran bautizados dentro de sus puertas. Hoy en día, los niños pequeños todavía pueden ser bautizados aquí el primer domingo de mes, pero como solo tienen espacio y tiempo para 4, hay que hacer la solicitud con tiempo suficiente.
El baptisterio, dedicado al santo patrón de Florencia, tiene planta octogonal y linterna octogonal con cúpula. El exterior está revestido de mármol de colores con dibujos geométricos, mármol blanco de Carrara y mármol verde de Prato, típico de la arquitectura románica florentina.
The Baptistery of San Giovanni is one of the oldest astronomical places in the city of Florence.
Already around the 1000 was placed a marble inlay at the north door which is one of the oldest astronomical Florentine documents.
This is a gnomon which demonstrates the interest for the apparent motion of the sun: through a hole in the dome, solar radiation affecting the signs of the zodiac engraved on marble, thus allowing it to control the path of the sun during the year.
Author of the work may have been the leader and medieval astrologer Strozzo Strozzi. During the thirteenth century, following a remake of the floor, the marble was moved in the eastern part of the Baptistery, so today is no longer possible to assess its accuracy.
"any system of persons or things ranked one above another".
Marina Bay is a place for people from all walks of life to explore, exchange and entertain.
The unique Supergrove trees seems to be bridging the gap between skyscrapers and the natural surroundings. On the top this hierarchy is the Marina bay sands, renowned as one of the most expensive buildings in the world.
The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the painted hunting dog,[2] painted wolf,[3] African hunting dog,[4] Cape hunting dog[5] or African painted dog,[6] is a canid native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is the largest of its family in Africa, and the only extant member of the genus Lycaon, which is distinguished from Canis by dentition highly specialised for a hypercarnivorous diet, and a lack of dewclaws. It was classified as endangered by the IUCN in 2016, as it had disappeared from much of its original range. The 2016 population was estimated at roughly 39 subpopulations containing 6,600 adults, only 1,400 of which were reproductive.[7] The decline of these populations is ongoing, due to habitat fragmentation, human persecution and disease outbreaks.[1]
The African wild dog is a highly social animal, living in packs with separate dominance hierarchies for males and females. Uniquely among social carnivores, the females rather than the males scatter from the natal pack once sexually mature and the young are allowed to feed first on carcasses. The species is a specialised diurnal hunter of antelopes, which it catches by chasing them to exhaustion. Like other canids, it regurgitates food for its young, but this action is also extended to adults, to the point of being the bedrock of African wild dog social life.[8][9][10] It has few natural predators, though lions are a major source of mortality and spotted hyenas are frequent kleptoparasites.
Although not as prominent in African folklore or culture as other African carnivores, it has been respected in several hunter-gatherer societies, particularly those of the predynastic Egyptians and the San people.
I guess the guy on top must be the alpha male of the flock of Scaly-breasted Munia regularly seen near the Meadowbrook Section of the Los Angeles County Arboretum !
The photo is dark and not too good, but I love the action. Sibling rivalry is serious business in the fox world and is very important in establishing hierarchy. These two male kits were going at it for a long time and it was amazing to witness, they rarely if ever injure each other. Now I know why the dance is called the "Fox Trot" and foxes do it best!!
www.thephotoargus.com/amazing-photos-of-foxes-by-mary-lee...
Red Fox kits are always fighting. Although these fights are rarely serious they are important in establishing hierarchy. Both of these fox kits, became badly infected with mange. I was able to medicate and cure them both, and they went on to become beautiful healthy adult male foxes.
As our 1+ year old cats venture out into the neighborhood, like Sufjan here, they must negotiate where they fall in the neighborhood cat hierarchy of dozens of other cats.
When many shark species such as these Galapagos Sharks (Carcharhinus galapagensis) school up, the most dominant animals are up at the top of the school. Here, the large dominant female swims way above the rest of her school.
These sharks congregate off the north shore of Oahu every winter to mate.
Oahu, Hawaii
There is no hierarchy to this series. The order has more to do with when I see something that makes me think of a certain photographer, and getting a picture that might serve as an homage to their work (as opposed to an insult). Thus, the fifth entry in the series is dedicated to my favourite photographer, Fred Herzog (1930-2019).
Fred Herzog must be counted among the great street photographers and pioneers in colour photography as art. You can see his work here: www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/fred-herzog/ and here: pier24.org/artist/fred-herzog/
For decades Fred Herzog walked around Vancouver in his spare time and documented what he saw. Although he was active in the local art community, his work only became widely known when he was in his seventies. He was not photographing to become famous; he was pursuing a hobby and a passion. I think many of us can relate.
The saturated Kodachrome colours in Fred Herzog’s images are certainly part of the reason I love his work, but it is his eye for framing a scene that consistently impresses and simultaneously inspires and intimidates me. He worked quickly and trusted his eye and his instincts. He incorporated colour so beautifully and the lines in his work are so precise that the images look like the framing was laboured over and locked off on a tripod.
Perhaps one can read too much into photographs, but I also gravitate to Herzog’s work because there is a feeling of love for his subject matter, rather than distance or disdain. There is a sense of affection for the people and the things he photographed. Even scenes of what might be called urban decay are framed so we see beauty in the dilapidation. He captured scenes of a city that people were living their lives in. I’ll stop before I start to sound like a curator.
Ted Forbes mentioned Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell as possible inspirations for Herzog and that sounds plausible to me. Ted Forbes was a curator so probably knows what he is talking about.
Here are some thoughts from Fred Herzog himself:
“I enjoy doing it. I took pictures whether I thought I could sell them or not. The pictures were my hobby. I had a job…”
“I’m an eclectic photographer. And that has to do with the breadth of my being, my interests, my intellect, my friends, the things I find worthwhile in life.”
“What you bring to the picture is everything you are, everything you have learned, everything you have intellectualized. You have to have ideas of what the world is like, and looks like, and should be like. That all has to be brought to that picture. So I have the authority of having [premeditated] these things for years, not just at this moment, but what I am I am seeing here today and photographing, that has all my experience and learning in it.”
“This is the wonderful thing about photography, every person is his own style. There is no such thing as style. You don’t acquire style by going to night school. You don’t acquire style by reading a book that’s published by one of the film manufacturers and it’s called ‘all the cheap tricks in one volume’. That’s not how you acquire style. Style is you.”
“Photography does not work well with new things. It works well with used things, it works well with slightly messy things, it works well with original things.”
“I found photography, and then perhaps photography found me, but that came in the last ten years, you know. Until I was seventy-five I was unknown. It’s only now that, all of a sudden, my stuff is the right stuff.”
All quotes are from the Fred Herzog episode of the documentary series Snapshot. You can find it on YouTube.
It has taken me until entry number five to get around to Fred Herzog because I admire his photographs so much, and I find it intimidating to even try to pay homage to him. I ended up going back into my archives and finding an image taken in 2017 while walking in East Vancouver. It is certainly not in Fred Herzog’s league, but it shows a scene that I think may have caught his eye in a place where he might have wandered during his decades of documenting Vancouver. I posted another image of this building at that time (also an homage as its title indicates): www.flickr.com/photos/james_d_images/24498698867/in/photo... I got an email some time later from someone who saw that post and was a fan of Fred Herzog. They told me they had lived in that building and that it had since been torn down. That makes these pictures more appropriate tributes because Fred Herzog recorded so much that is now gone.
I highly recommend the book ‘Fred Herzog: Modern Color.’
If you are in or around Vancouver, there is a ticketed exhibit of Fred Herzog’s Chinatown photographs at the Chinatown Storytelling Centre until December 31, 2025.
As always, thanks for reading these ramblings. Happy photographing, friends. May you always be filled with inspiration.
“I want to have the heart and mind of a queen,” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside me.”
Fire considered her quietly. You want me to look for it inside you.
“I just want to know,” Bitterblue said. “If it’s there, it would be a great comfort for me to know.”
Fire said, I can tell you already that it’s there.
“Really?” Bitterblue whispered.
Queen Bitterblue, Fire said, shall I share with you the feeling of your own strength?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
...defn: 'arranged according to level of importance'. A shoe shiner and his customers in the City of London (new from the archive)
© Handheld Films 2022
“I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.”
― Osho
Model: Alexa Taylor