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One of the main objectives from my trip to Japan was to capture the row of vermilion
torii gates that straddle the paths at Fushimi Inari Shrine. Since early Japan, Inari was seen as the patron of business, traditionally worshipped by merchants and manufacturers. Each of the torii at Fushimi Inari Taisha is donated by a Japanese business. First and foremost, though, Inari is the god of rice.
Due to the extreme popularity of the site, the only way to avoid the masses and “pull off” the shot was to get there early in the morning, as soon as the shrine opened to the public.
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A sand storm sweeps across layered dunes.
Here I decided to offer a somewhat more subjective view of a sand dunes scene, photographed late in the day during a period of high winds and a sand storm. If you see this as a calm scene... imaging gale winds blowing across from left to right, carrying large volumes of airborne sand, and the distant views obscured by these clouds filling the atmosphere. It was a wild scene, and I was only able to photograph it for a short period of time.
The question of what is "real" in photographs has long intrigued me. There are few cases in which I believe the goal of a photograph might be to present an objectively accurate rendering of the subject. In fact, I believe that it is actually impossible for a photograph to do that — I like to say that, "All photographs lie." Some who feel differently about this, and who hold that photographs should be "real," point to classic photography when suggesting this. However, if any mode of photography is amenable to creative license, it is black and white photography! The ability to produce an expressively subject image in black and white may be unsurpassed. And here I "went there," with a photograph that aspires not to reproduce objective reality but one that hopes to evoke subjective truth.
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The objective was simple: to capture the most famous nativity scene in the world in all its magnificence. But emotion often surpasses art and guides us elsewhere.
While I was looking for the perfect perspective, my attention was captured not by the miniatures, but by their gazes. Two figures imposed themselves on the scene: a father and his son, completely captivated by the magic of those lights which, like a miniature sunrise and sunset, made the nativity scene pulse with life.
In that instant, I realized that the most beautiful story was not that of the nativity, but that of this child, with wide eyes, who was discovering the wonder of the world. My photograph thus became a choice, a tribute to that genuine and universal emotion. I took it to immortalize not a work of art, but the enchantment of a soul, a memory of a precious moment worth more than a thousand figurines.
An exposure nightmare, this one.
I'd decided that the preservation of most of the snow detail was paramount; but you can clearly see the drawbacks elsewhere.
I'm pretty sure there's all sorts of ways of dealing with huge variances in light, these days; unfortunately, I'm downright enept at getting my head round Photoshop & the like, & I've sparingly used the dodging feature on Elements without 'pushing' it so far as to produce a rash of noise.
I'm naturally wary of excessive darkness when there's clearly sunlight involved, so I'm not sure whether this is just a downright mess or not. It needs a fresh pair of eyes on it for an objective assessment, I think. Permission to speak freely!
That morning my objective was to photograph animals in the mountains around Solalex in Switzerland. I heard some noises in the forest but after more than two hours of stalking still no animal on the horizon. So I took the opportunity to be in the middle of this wonderful nature to take some pictures. This picture is the first of a series of three pictures.
Ce matin là mon objectif était de photographier des animaux dans la montagne autour de Solalex en Suisse. J'ai bien entendu quelques bruits dans la forêt mais après plus de deux heures d'affût toujours aucun animal à l'horizon. J'ai donc profité de me trouver au milieu de cette nature merveilleuse pour faire quelques photos. Cette photo est la première d'une série de trois photos.
Machine and objective: Canon EOS 450D, Sigma 18-200mm DC OS.
Locale: England, London, Camdem Town
Model: Mr. Invisible
Photographer: F.MartínezLedesma
Velocidad: 1/125s
ISO: 100
Apertura: f7,1
Focal: 51mm.
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La raza humana se encuentra en la mejor situación cuando posee el más alto grado de libertad.
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The human race is in the best position when it has the highest degree of freedom.
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...Libertad, Libertad de pensamientos, Libertad de expresión, Libertad de ideología, Libertad de sexo, se libre y que nada ni nadie te lo impida...
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…Nunca me han interesado ni el poder ni la fortuna lo que admiro son las flores que crecen en la basura…
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KAMCHATKA. RUSSIA-EYGUNYCHVAN ENSEMBLE
La Kamchatka,situata nell'estremo oriente russo,è una penisola formata da una vallata centrale e da ampi massicci composti da oltre 160 vulcani (29 ancora attivi)e lunga 1250 km.
Il gruppo è stato creato nel marzo del 2004 a Palana nella regione del Koriak,conosciuta per la bellezza del suo paesaggio che si riflette anche nelle danze di questo popolo,grazie alla volontà ed all'impegno della direttrice Svetlana Beliaeva e sotto la direzione artistica del coreografo Sergey Kutynkavav.
L'obiettivo principale è quello di conservare,sviluppare e diffondere la cultura del proprio Paese attraverso la formazione musicale dei giovani componenti del gruppo.
Questi artisti vivono a nove ore di aereo da Mosca e a dieci ore di slitta da Petropavlovsk.
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KAMCHATKA. RUSSIA - EYGUNYCHVAN ENSEMBLE
Kamchatka, located in the Russian Far East, is a peninsula formed by a central valley and large massifs composed of over 160 volcanoes (29 still active) and 1250 km long.
The group was created in March 2004 in Palana in the Koriak region, known for the beauty of its landscape which is also reflected in the dances of this people, thanks to the will and commitment of the director Svetlana Beliaeva and under the artistic direction of the choreographer Sergey Kutynkavav.
The main objective is to preserve, develop and spread the culture of one's country through the musical training of the young members of the group.
These artists live nine hours by plane from Moscow and ten hours by sled from Petropavlovsk.
CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 70-300 f./4-5,6 IS USM
Emil Maetzel and Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen fulfilled their dream with and in the Künstlerhaus Maetzel: out of the world of ideas of the Lebensreform and in the field of tension between modernity and traditional details, they designed architecture and nature. Fellow artists from the "Hamburg Secession" celebrated and painted here. During the Nazi era, the site became a refuge for those who were now ostracised. Currently, the Gesamtkunstwerk is being awakened from its slumber to become a progressive, creative place of remembrance and future.
Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Maetzel-Johannsen
Emil Maetzel: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Maetzel
Monika Maetzel: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_Maetzel
New Objectivity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Objectivity
Hamburgische Sezession: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburgische_Sezession
Künstlerhaus Maetzel: kuenstlerhaus-maetzel.de/
Fifty-five years ago today, Charles Schulz's cartoon special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown aired for the first time on television. While Charlie Brown and his friends were out trick-or-treating, Snoopy made his screen debut as the World War I flying ace, whose sole objective was to find the Red Baron and shoot him down. Snoopy’s airborne duel with Von Richthofen left his dog house riddled with bullet holes, but the brave beagle lived to fight another day.
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On Thursday 4th October 2018, the first train of the day on the Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn "Molli", the 06:40 Kühlungsborn West to Bad Doberan, hauled by 2-8-2 tank 99 2322-8, is in conflict with an early-morning supermarket delivery truck on the Molli Strasse street running section in Bad Doberan town.
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Light microscope stage, glass slide and cover slip, under the 100x objective lens.
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The cracks in this company are beginning to show, I could feel everyone’s nerves in the initial assault on the sep ship but once we hit the planet it became bad. Most of the company had fired their first shots aboard the cruiser and so charging up uneven terrain towards a base wasn’t what anyone had in mind. My Sergeant and Lt did their best to keep anyone in line, but at this point I’m amazed these clones passed their training on Kamino. But despite their nerves we carried on. One of my troopers had studied this planet in a prior rotation while hunting the pirates and had noted a secret pathway up the mountain we were on. For once these desk-jockies experience was actually worthwhile. Seeing the rest of the legion press on like it was Geonosis, getting ripped apart by their guns. I took initiative and led a squad of my men on a flanking maneuver towards this secret path. At the end of it I found a small little bunker in the rocks guarded by a handful of B1s who weren’t expecting us. If it wasn’t obvious the seps had a skeleton crew on this planet before it was now. We crept up and Moore fired the first shots , and within seconds we had this bunker under our control and found it leading into the whole network of caves, which my leadership has assured me is our way into the compound. I called for the rest of my company and we began storming through, into the sep base.
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In 2011 Parques de Sintra purchased both the building (used to be a summer house of the Sasseti family) and the adjoining property with the objective of preserving them.
The property was recently restored and the main attractions are the fabulous gardens and walking tracks that lead all the way from Sintra up to the the Moorish Castle.
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Key information
Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What they eat:
Seeds and scraps.
Measurements:
Length:14-15cm
Wingspan:21-25.5cm
Weight:24-38g
Population:
UK breeding:5,300,000 pairs
Where and when to see them
House sparrows can be found from the centre of cities to the farmland of the countryside, they feed and breed near to people. It is a species vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.
Breeding
House sparrows usually nest in loose colonies and since they don't defend a proper territory, nests can be as little as 20-30 cm apart.
How house sparrows nest
Nests are often placed in holes and crevices within buildings and they will readily use nestboxes. Free-standing nests are also frequently built, in creepers against walls and in thick hedges or conifers.
Pairs often remain faithful to their nest site and to each other for life, although a lost mate of either sex is normally replaced within days. A hole is filled with dry grass or straw with a nesting chamber lined with feathers, hairs, string and paper. Feathers may be plucked from a live pigeon!
The main nesting season is from April to August, although nesting has been recorded in all months. Most birds lay two or three clutches, but in a good year fourth attempts are not uncommon.
About house sparrow chicks
The female lays two to five eggs at daily intervals and often starts to incubate part way through egg-laying. Both sexes incubate, and the chicks hatch after 11-14 days. The parents share nesting duties equally. Chicks are brooded for 6-8 days, but can control their own body temperature only when 10 or 11 days old.
The youngsters are fed on a variety of invertebrates, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers. Seeds and vegetable matter are also given, particularly during periods when invertebrates are scarce (e.g. cold weather) and become more important after the chicks leave the nest.
The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching. They are unable to feed themselves for about a week after leaving the nest and are cared for by their parents for around a fortnight. Post-fledging care is frequently left to the male as the hen prepares for the next brood. She can begin laying her next clutch of eggs within days of the previous brood leaving the nest.
Newly independent young often gather in large flocks, anywhere there is an abundance of seed, invertebrates and other suitable foods. These may be areas of wasteland or around garden feeding sites. Later, rural flocks may move on to grainfields to feed on the ripening grain, often joined by adult birds, once they have finished nesting. Flocks tend to break up through the autumn and birds return to their nesting colony sites.
Population trends
The house sparrow is common through most of its world range, and can tolerate a wide variety of climates.
The recent decline of house sparrows
UK house sparrow populations have fluctuated greatly over the centuries, with a gradual decline during the last 100 years.
Causes for the rapid recent declines, particularly in urban and suburban environments, remain largely undetermined, although research is underway that aims to establish the cause(s), and develop conservation solutions.
Declines in rural house sparrow populations are thought to be linked to changes in agricultural practices, particularly the loss of winter stubbles and improved hygiene measures around grain stores.
House sparrow numbers were not monitored adequately before the mid-1970s. Since then, numbers in rural England have nearly halved while numbers in towns and cities have declined by 60 per cent. Because of these large population declines, the house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.
Relations with humans and other animals
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. However, control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
Their relationship with humans
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. For many they are the most familiar of wild animals, bringing life to city centres and other man-made places, bereft of wildlife.
The house sparrows partiality to grain crops and the damage and destruction this caused resulted in attempts to control their numbers. From the mid-18th century most parishes had sparrow clubs with the sole objective to destroy as many sparrows as possible. Bounties were paid for sparrows until the late 19th century, when it was accepted that the control measures did not work. Similar failures were recorded in a number of other European countries.
Ironically, as people in Europe were paid to kill sparrows as pests, others deliberately introduced them to places as far apart as Australia and New York. Initially they were welcomed, although later appreciation turned to serious concern for the impact on crops. By then sparrows had become well established and control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
How sparrows behave with other animals
Sparrows are aggressive tend to dominate feeders in gardens and prevent other birds from getting to the food. They harass other birds and steal their food and take over their nests, particularly house martins. The eviction and interference often results in a reduction in breeding success and can cause desertion of even large martin colonies.
Sparrows frequently tear to pieces the nests of martins and swallows and eject any eggs or chicks therein. The owners are unable to stop them.
Sparrows are very resilient and for their size have remarkably few serious predators. Main predators are domestic cats, owls (especially tawny) and sparrowhawks, but none are capable of affecting the size of the sparrow population, with the possible exception of localised effects by cats.
We are all children of the same world, in all our colors and cultures, mindsets and ideas, our dreams and our ways to live our lives. After all, let it be our common objective to act in a human way, to respect each other and to listen to our mind as well as to our heart.
This was taken from the South Bank the opposite bank of the Thames to the one posted earlier. It was a dull day but that didn’t matter at night when the lights of a City transform it. My main objective was the view from the Thames Foreshore at low tide which gives such a different viewpoint. This view is from the foreshore just west of the Millennium Bridge looking towards St Paul’s on the left and the City of London on the right. The Millennium Bridge is London’s newest bridge and is a footbridge. It is also known as the Wobbly Bridge because when it first opened it wobbled alarmingly because of the number of people walking across. It had to be closed for a while for adjustments to be made.
This was my first visit to this part of the foreshore at night. All navigable rivers in the UK belong to the Crown and were transferred to various public bodies over the years. For many centuries Londoners have gained public access to the foreshore with a number of access points all along the river with stairs some of better quality than others. There are public access stairs just east of the Millennium Bridge on both the north and south banks. Access is allowed but not digging without a permit. The stairs on the south side were quite good with a gentle gradient and even a ramp. The only problem was that either the last step had worn away or the beach had lowered since the steps were built. I got down and back OK though
I had checked the tides in advance as the foreshore can only be safely accessed for 2 hours either side of low tide. This was at 7.00pm and petty much at low tide. I used a lot of care both getting down the stairs and picking my way over the rocky ground with a lot of bricks. This part was solid ground though other parts of the foreshore have more mud and would need wellies.
The picture was taken on a tripod and with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 zoom at 17mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. The exposures were 2 seconds, 8 seconds and 30 seconds. The picture was enhanced with HDR processing using tone balancer setting in Photomatix for a natural look; Topaz clarity was used for more detail. In Photoshop some adjustments were made to hue saturation to bring up saturation overall in the reflections only using a layer mask. Various brightness adjustment layers were used with masks to get various areas just right including more light on the underside of the bridge. St Paul’s Cathedral was a little out of line so I used Transform warp to straighten out just the top left of the picture. Heal and clone tools were used to remove some cranes
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The 'Four Triangles Railtour' finally arrives at one of it's main objectives, becoming the first passenger train into the new North Terminal at Felixstowe. Thanks for the need to swap 37 419 for defective 37 606 on arrival at Norwich the tour was still running exactly an hour late at this stage (or Railtour Standard Time as it is popularly known) which did at least have the benefit of coinciding with a spot of sun!
The tour had to wait for a Felixstowe Docks & Harbour Company pilotman before proceding into the terminal.
South East Continent, 2000 miles East, from nuclear explosion that took place in 2183, destroying a cloning and breeding lab. Current year: 2551
The base, or mining facility was chaos. My company rushed forwards eager to fight, motivated by our progress, quickly it felt as if I was losing control. One of my clones tried to wrestle a trandoshan when he ran out of shots, forgetting in the process he’d never left the cruiser or received any sort of combative training after Kamino. If it weren’t for our LT being nearby he’d be dead. They seemed to be getting more desperate, mining devices were used as weapons and more and more droids continued to flood the area. I’d seen a lot of B1s in my time but most of my troopers had never seen more than a handful before today. I think I heard reports of commando droids, god willing we won’t meet any of them. Either way we approached one of many doors in the facility, intel states it leads to the main control center. Suddenly I heard a crash, followed by the screams of one of my men. I looked to see a hulking piece of machinery, with steam and smoke screaming out of it as it lumbered on. It raised its other army and began firing a heavy blaster at my men cutting down a whole squad within seconds and decimating my company. Behind the monster stood a wave of b2s and b1s ready to push us back. I pulled out my sidearm and took cover with my PSG blasting what I could when I spotted a bag of charges from my fallen demo specialist, I had one option it seems. My leadership had been outfitted with jetbacks so we grabbed the charges and launched up pelting the monster with bolts before laying heat with the charges. It seemed to do the trick, and its charred corpse got spread out all over the area. Now it’s time to take this place, room by room, hall by hall.
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Christian Schad (Miesbach 1894 - 1982 Stuttgart)
Currently in the exhibition “Splendor and misery. New Objectivity in Germany" ("Glanz und Elend. Neue Sachlichkeit in Deutschland") in the Leopold Museum in Vienna
www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/142/splendor-and-misery
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Objective Memory by Artist/Sculptor :
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840)
Der Mönch am Meer | Monk by the Sea (1808-1810)
Alte Nationalgalerie - Berlin
With Monk by the Sea (1808-1810) and The Abbey in the Oakwood (1809-1810) by Caspar David Friedrich, the Nationalgalerie in Berlin is the custodian of perhaps the most famous pair of paintings from the period of German Romanticism. Since Heinrich von Kleist’s first essay, the paintings have inspired many different interpretations, and to this day are one of the central attractions on the Museumsinsel.
Technical aspects and the condition of the paintings
Caspar David Friedrich uses a very fine, primed canvas for both paintings with several layers of ground. The paint was applied in one to two very thin layers. Because of this, the paintings were immediately exceptionally prone to damage, affecting the paintwork as well as mechanical damage and the results of ageing. The condition of the paintings had already deteriorated considerably by 1900. From 1906, they were subjected to intensive restoration work of varying quality. The loss of the original substance of the paintings was considerable. Large, discoloured patches of retouching, overpainting and extremely discoloured layers of varnish detracted from the appearance of the paintings as well as further damage caused by transport and lining.
Conservation and restoration project
In 2013 it finally became possible to realise our long-term goal of restoring and conserving both works through the generous support of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung. The paintings underwent comprehensive analyses and examinations. The technical research on Caspar David Friedrich’s painting techniques in particular delivered fascinating and important information on the materials he used and how they have changed, providing a basis for rethinking the colour compositions. The signatures on both works also led to new and astonishing findings. A detailed conservation and restoration plan was devised from the findings of these analyses. The objectives of these measures were to secure what remains of the original substance, to make the closest possible estimation of the paintings’ original state and to subsequently reconstruct the legibility of the artworks. Upon the completion of this work in January 2016, the restored works were put on display along with the technical and conservational findings as part of the exhibition The Monk Has Returned (22.1. – 24.07.2016) in the Caspar David Friedrich Hall of the Alte Nationalgalerie. In January 2017, a catalogue was published with the same title.
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