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141/365.
I'll probably change the title for this...
So here's another photo for my mythology series (based on the story of Pandoras box) which I shot today whilst out with my cousins Alice and Lottie. Alice (pictured) had offered to model for this series when I asked for volunteers, so here's the result!
I'll probably have a second photo for Pandora up soon as well.
Model: Alice Needham
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WAH are visiting the 1950s today which is really apt. This a picture of my grandparents with my mother and brother, taken in 1953 in Wales on holiday.
I have pulled the very old albums out in order to scan them in for a newly found relative.
My grandfather had 2 brothers. One was stationed in Germany after the war and during that time had a german girlfriend. He returned to England leaving behind his girlfriend, not knowing she was pregnant and she never told him.
The baby, who was born in 1946, only recently found out that the man married to his mother is not his real father – it came out by accident, and his mother then told him the full story.
He eventually tracked one of the family down and then found his way to my mother and our family. And guess who has all the old pictures of relatives he never knew he had?
So he is my mothers cousin and he would have been 7 years old at time this picture was taken; my mum is about 10 in this pic.
this kind of meets the week 33 theme - Pandora's box.
this is the fourth of six photos in a photo and watercolor series inspired by the myth of Pandora's Jar (yes, jar; a large, urn-like jar -- but since the 1400s it's been mistranslated into Latin and then English as a box). Pandora ("pan" = all; "dora" = gift, given) has another name: Anesidora ("anesi" = up from below).* the series was also inspired by looking at this man's work.
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*or so I understand, but i don't read Greek (yet). those who are knowledgeable about this: please correct me!
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Some pretty flowers on the bike trail I shot the other day.
OK, w00t! (I don't get to say "w00t" very often. It's fun!) In only its first 24 hours on flickr, out of over 1,000 pics I've ever posted in the last year or so, this pic:
1. Made it to Explore! Only my fourth to ever do so!
2. Rose to #1 on my Most Interesting and Most Commented lists.
3. Rose to #1 on my Most Favorited list with 12 faves and counting...shattering my previous all-time record, 5 faves for Glass on Glass.
4. Rose to #28 and climbing on my Most Viewed list.
5. Has received more awards and invites to prestigious "award-only" groups than probably all my other pics combined.
WOW, guys, thank you all very much! If I had known that some weeds growing on the bike trail I walk on every weekend would've gotten me this much attention, I would've taken this pic months ago! Now I have to figure out how I got this cool coloring effect with my camera.
Update: 5-29-09, reached the lofty goal of #2 Most Viewed, with 868 vs 864 for So, What Color is You Bank? And I think the color effect was achieved on the D40 with the Tungsten white-balance setting.
And 20 October 2009, it became my second pic ever to hit 2,000 views!
Tied down on the ramp at Olive Branch Airport in Northern Mississippi is N5151A. It is an O-2A Super Skymaster and served in the USAF as 68-6873.
Today I made Demi be Pandora for my mythology project :') I really liked the results, may post another when I've photoshopped them at school.
Partially inspired by SuperPipo although his lighting is a million times better.
Today was brilliant. I had a lovely day, I did my theatre monologue which didn't go terribly (I did make up most of the actions on the spot despite my practising!) and this afternoon I spent playing tag rugby with a brilliant team. We kicked ass. I was covered in mud and streaked with dirt and soaked from the rain and smiling. I didn't get my shower until I'd got home, it was much much better! And now all my limbs are stiff. Gahh.
I'm not sure what the guys must think of me. I run headlong at them while all the other girls stop and panic. I dive at them, tackle them, and I took down my friend Andy by mistake. I must be really scary. But what's the point in playing if you don't get involved? Tbf, I'd never spoken to a couple of the guys in the teams, so err they may not think much to me, ahaa. Oh well :L I'm different.
Flickr! How darest you sharpen thee??
I think I need to experiment with textures on this series.
The cover of Pandora's Box, issue 10. The creative writing magazine of The University of Chester.
This was inspired by the way crystals scatter sunlight into rainbows all over the room. It was made for my dayhome girl who has 2 moms. Thus the rainbows... : )
Created for Marcus Ranum Challenge #67
This is for PC #256
With thanks to…
Trinket Box ~ Ishbel
Model ~ Marcus Ranum
Background ~ Me
~ #205 / 365 ~
She slammed down the lid and turned the key again.. keeping only the spirit of hope inside.
- I was going for Pandora's box here, sort of. The rays of light are picnik's circle splash, induced by the torchlight shining out of the urn. Then, in the process of editing it I learned something that managed to change the buoyant emotion I was feeling and ultimately the entire photo (and description) came out darker because of it. I wish I could change the emotions of those around me and make them happy all the time. Make their dreams come true.
- I reached double figures today.
- Tagged a couple of streams you need to check out.
Pandora's Box by Michiel de Wit & Hein Jan Geerdink architects, Roombeek, Enschede, the Netherlands. Neighbours were horrified by this architecture to the extend they actually moved.
I think it's pretty nice myself.
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On May 13th, 2000, 23 people were killed and 950 people were injured because of the fireworks disaster at Enschede. 1250 people got homeless. Their homes where totally destroyed by the final blast. After the fireworks disaster, confidence in the town needed to be restored. Thus a supervised reconstruction of the area was carried out, called 'Project Reconstruction Roombeek'. Urban supervisor Pi de Bruijn was chosen to lead the project - due to his background in Twente, and extensive experience with other major urban projects. More information.
Zeus gave her curiosity knowing she would unleash the woes of the world but unaware that inside was also hope enough to be used for every generation to come.
This lovely rendition is at the Norton Simon museum in Pasadena, California. This story is in many ways a sexist tale to blames women for mankind's troubles though most of those esp war are made by men.
PS For some great music ask Siri, Alexa, Spotify and Amazon to play music by JOHN WILLIAM HAMMOND, use all 3 names.
Joyful fun and soulful too . Enjoy!
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142/365.
Another from yesterday for my mythology series, to pair with my main Pandora photo from yesterday.
I'm not feeling too great and that's an understatement. I'll try and shoot something tomorrow but I'm at university 10am - 3pm and then work 6pm - 12:30am so I'll have to see if I can actually manage anything.
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dice:
-Salta, Violeta!
says:
-Jump, Violet!
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Zeus gathered all the useful things together in a jar and put a lid on it. He then left the jar in human hands. But man had no self-control and he wanted to know what was in that jar, so he pushed the lid aside, letting those things go back to the abode of the gods. So all the good things flew away, soaring high above the earth, and Elpis/Hope was the only thing left. When the lid was put back on the jar, Hope was kept inside. That is why Hope alone is still found among the people, promising that she will bestow on each of us the good things that have gone away.
Note: Unlike the famous 'Pandora's box' version of this story (which is attested as early as the eighth century B.C.E. by the Greek poet Hesiod), this version notably does not blame all the misfortune of the world on a woman.
Translation by Laura Gibbs for Oxford World's Classics
for Flickriver - Sophie Shapiro
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243/365 Perhaps explore got over its grudge; 3 days in a row.
I was given this box yesterday and thought it would make a cool photo prop. Not sure how well I did on this one.
Strobist: sb-24 high above camera through brolly box at 1/16 triggered via cybersyncs
In the first lesson of photography, we are always told about the difference in terms of dynamic range between human vision and camera sensor (or film in the past).
Human vision has the range of approximately 14 to 15 stops while camera sensor has only 5 to 6 stops. What you see is not what you get in your camera.
Film photographers have been so used to this and we work around this with all kinds of approaches.
In the digital era, we have now High Dynamic Range (HDR) and we can extend the range by combining bracketed exposures into one composition.
This is to break out from the conventional limitation of dynamic range. To me, it is like a Pandora’s Box opened and we, as photographers, seem to loose some sort of abilities in creative vision.
I know I am a damn old-fashioned and conservative photographer and will soon be out-dated or eliminated in the digital photography mainstream.
In this image of Terra Nova Park, my Fuji compact camera could not get everything in its sensor. The scene is out of its capable range and some details in the bright tones are clipped. May be we really need HDR?
Happy Wednesday!
Actress, Silent screen icon.
Denishawn dancer and Ziegfeld Follies performer.
In 1924 Louise, aged 18, stated that she was traveling to Paris to be with her ailing grandmother. At this time she was in the cast of the 1924 edition of "George White's Scandals" on Broadway.
Although her birthday is usually given as November 14, 1906, her passport application gives it as November 15.
Excellent biographical material is widely available, See in particular Marta Monks write-up at www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=1581&page=gr
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for a long time, i've been trying to find a way to include my love of storytelling in my photography. the legendary Brad Wagner has recently inspired me a lot with his photostories, and it was so lovely to meet him in person yesterday.
this is the first photo in a series inspired by the myth of Pandora's Jar (yes, jar; a large, urn-like jar -- but since the 1400s it's been mistranslated into Latin and then English as a box). Pandora ("pan" = all; "dora" = gift, given) has another name: Anesidora ("anesi" = up from below).* the series was also inspired by looking at this man's work (hopefully you'll see why more later...).
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*or so I understand, but i don't read Greek (yet). those who are knowledgeable about this: please correct me!
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EXPLORED 09/06/08 #78
Can you guess what's inside the Pandora's Box?
Nikon D200, 1/100s, f/14, ISO 100, 55mm. Taken in Guaratuba/Paraná/Brazil.
Since I received a lot of emails asking me how I post processed this image, and frankly speaking, I don't know exactly how I did it back then (LOL), so I tried to recreate the effect on this current picture.
First of all, I created this HDR from a single .NEF (RAW) file using Photomatix.
I can't tell exactly what to do there, because my post-processings are always intuitive, and the tone mapping behavior changes from picture to picture.
Then, I opened the toned mapped image on Photoshop and applied a vintage action that Anna Theodora sent me a couple years back. But the action itself does not achieved my goal, so I worked with a different color balance, luminance, dodge and burn tool mainly to supress the super saturated effect achieved by the using of Photomatix, and to reduce the halos and colour aberrations that emerge with the Tone Mapping. Occasionally I play with levels and curves as well, cause Photomatix seems to underexpose the result in some pictures.
11/52 weeks.
I was looking through my files today and saw this little gem and noticed I hadn't actually posted it so here it is!
Somehow all i could think was of the myth about Pandora's Box, hence the title.
Picture has definitely grown on me since I shot it.
Anopheles mosquito,
American Museum of Natural History
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Since 1917, the Museum has displayed this huge model
to educate the public about malaria and yellow fever.
Have you ever had an idea for a photo that didn't turn out anything like what you expected but was just as good or better? That's this photo. I was envisioning maybe leaning over the box to open it, light emanating from it in a sort of beam, maybe some dust flying out...
Yeah, that didn't work. The orange-gelled flash in the box didn't create much of a beam. And leaning over the box cast too much light on me. So, I ducked underneath the desk so it would just be my hands showing, and illuminated the box with another flash on low power at camera right with a pasta-box snoot attached to constrain the beam.
Then I thought, hey, this is kind of boring, maybe I should do the dust idea, what could I use? I thought about glitter or flour but neither seemed like it would stay in the air long enough. So I took a chalkboard eraser, set the ten-second self-timer on the camera, thwacked the eraser hard above the box, ducked under the desk, and waited for the flashes to go off and illuminate the chalk dust hanging in the air. Perfect.
Just for good measure, I took a couple shots with the chalk dust less in focus to have some background-bokeh that I blended in for a little more dimension. And decided in post to black out the bottom of the photo for a disembodied hand look.
I'm really proud of this one, even if it didn't look anything like what I envisioned!
We do not know the future -
like a Pandora's box.
we know there is something
that could be
really something special.
At times we
can not find the words
to fill that in -
it is a little of everything
All the words that we can think of
are words telling us
about what is going on
inside our mind
describing emotions
Explaining feelings
alertness awareness
but yet not just one word
or explanation, reasons
for why and how.
Connection. ...
The one thing we
should not question
is the fact that we are sure
about what is
very special to us
So gentle and
true to ourselves
Feeling, that we
would receive
the same as
we are giving
Lift us up
fill us up
like a helium filled balloon
floating ...
Knowing that kind of care,
will be fair
a fullness,
almost to much to bare.
Afraid of the deep,
hole of emptiness,
it would leave
If it's no more there.
So light weight
that it could drift away
if the string is cut
it would stray
So far away,
till out of reach...
By Marina vd B 7/2013 (revised)
In Greek mythology, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box", releasing all the evils of humanity—although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail, leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again.
2015 10 03 103254 Wirral Port Sunlight 1PM
Another of my favourite Hemerocallis - Pandora's Box. She must be about ready for dividing now, as she's been flowering here for around 5 years!
Day Lillies form dense clumps of grassy foliage, with upright stems of trumpet flowers.
This repeat-blooming selection features small, fragrant creamy-yellow to ivory flowers with a bright lavender-purple eyezone.
Evergreen in mild regions. Plants do not usually require dividing for several years, but are easily split apart in autumn or early spring.
Flowers are edible!
Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte (1898-1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art.
The 'bowler hat' first appeared in Magritte's work in the 1920's. In the 1950's the bowler-hatted man became synonymous and was associated with many of his paintings. Normally centering the torso on a vertical canvas, in this painting (1951) he placed the figure in its natural habitat: a modern European city suggestive of his native Brussels. According to Magritte, the presence of the white rose signified that "wherever man's destiny leads him, he is always protected by an element of beauty."
This original Magritte painting was seen and photographed at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art in an exhibit entitled 'Rene Magritte: The Fifth Season'.