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Day 5 of the reveals for the G+ Photo Scavenger Hunt. Category: Perception. For this I thought what is more perceptive than the 10th Doctor? The model is a co-worker of mine that does one of the best 10th Doctor's I've seen. The tardis in the background is one of his miniature collectibles that I took a nice close shot of. @tenthdoctormatt
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A lone heron standing guard over the sunset. Mobile Bay, Fairhope, Alabama.
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.“
- Friedrich Koenig
Another one from when I met up with Laura two weeks ago. :)
Never take a photograph of something. Make a picture of it! Therefore, you need to see and work with techniques of abstraction. If you are able to see, you can produce images of the reality. Not just photos.
September 2024 | Wurmberg
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite”
(William Blake)
An unique window in Brandhorst Museum - Munich.
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"Si les fenêtres de la perception étaient nettoyées, chaque chose apparaîtrait à l'homme, - ainsi qu'elle l'est - infinie."
william Blake
Strobist info: SB900 into Softbox behind the Model's head, California Sunbounce Micro Mini Reflector (Zebra) below her face. Triggered with CLS.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake
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Canon 5DmkII + Canon 17-40mm f/4.0L USM + Cokin P.121M
ISO50, 1/10-1/40-1/2sec, f/14 @ 17mm - Tripod
Again, taken a while ago on a magically foggy morning south of Ipswich.
About the Rorschach Test
The Rorschach test (also known as the Rorschach inkblot test or simply the Inkblot test) is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex scientifically derived algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect an underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The test takes its name from that of its creator, Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach.
One last tessellation made with the "flagstone+background" technique I developed! Designed last January, but folded only recently (Jul-Sep 2016), this one would probably be the last work I make using this technique... Perhaps it is now time to switch to something new, isn't it? In the meantime, I am working on explaining in drawings the technique used, by means of examples and all the works done so far. I wish to be able to release this results soon!
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design: Alessandro Beber, 8 Jan. 2016
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cairo, june 20. at the mosque of ibn tulun, one of the few mosques that non-muslims can visit. currently rated by flickr as my most interesting shot.
Ive been out of Ireland now for almost 11 years. My home town, Dublin has changed and changed again and is entering into a modern maturity. It's quite a fascinating place, more so then I ever remember it before.
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Challenge me.
The 4th installment of the Perceptions series. This is a "manually edited" photograph that uses paint and a 3 dimensional element to create the desired effect. The images are meant to challenge what is initially perceived.
While working on this image I began to feel a little rebelious and decided to take it in a very different direction from where it started. In the original photo my model had volumous teased out hair with flowers in it. By removing the feature that tend to define so many woman she adopts a sort of warrior look. The result is far different from where I started but in the end I think it is stronger.
"While everyone else cultivates a nonconceptual state of meditation - a pristine state in which everything fades away-I hold this to be calm abiding (that is, the abiding quality of awareness), which will not help you understand the key point here. I must emphasize the need to identify bare, unobstructed awareness in all its nakedness under any circumstances,
a tenet that is unique to the great perfection approach. The implication of freedom in immediate perception is discerned by identifying awareness in the "interval" between sense objects manifesting outwardly and consciousness-aware yet empty-arising inwardly."
―Longchen Rabjam
Chapter 10 from A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission
Isn't she a beauty? No, not the photo, this red-backed spider, Latrodectus hasselti. The photo is rubbish. What? Did you expect something better when I was lying on my back and peering up into a control box filled with valves, pipes, filters, wires, solenoids and three messy red-backed spiders. Think yourself lucky that I did this well!
We are all born lucky. The odds against our conception, birth, and survival to adulthood are astronomical. But we did, so let's get on with it.
How many times have I heard: "But you live so far away…couldn't you come here"? Yes, but it's just as far for me, and if you're whining like that, what motivation are you offering? Then there's the "Oh, no you have so many 'poisonous' things out to kill me". The latter might have a grain of truth. Could it be your whining that's motivating that emotion? I don't condone such thoughts, by the way, and we can explore that, if you like.
We have sharks: great white, tiger, bull. All can give you a nasty nip. Consider this: they are cosmopolitan species, not unique to this Great South Land. Could it be the habit of popping into the sparkling warm waters on golden sandy beaches that puts bite-sized temptation in their fishy way more frequently that if the water is murky, brown and frigid? No one will force you to come here and enjoy yourself. That's up to you.
Besides, horses, bees, domestic dogs and lightning kill more people than sharks. It's got something to do with their disinclination to come ashore for a snack. There are no extant predators that fill that role. No wolves, tigers, lions or bears. Okay, there are drop bears. You might get a concussion, a compression fracture of your vertebrae, or a nasty fright. I haven't seen one for a while. You should be safe.
Snakes? Arguably the most dangerous snake in the World is the eastern brown snake. Sea snakes are pretty bad too. But because you've decided to avoid the water, well, stop worrying about them. I've been struck at multiple times by brown snakes. Not once has any of them connected. I wouldn't be writing this if they had; possibly. One bit Bessie outside my door. With a bit of help, she lived. Dangerous? I guess. But you don't see one every day, just occasionally, and usually as they are slithering about on some mission involving a rodent they can swallow. Never has one hunted me for food, or attempted to swallow me. Don't think you can escape by going into the water. They are good swimmers too. Instead, stand still and wait till they go away.
Crocodiles, blue ringed octopus and stingers? See shark, above. Yes you might be stalked by a saltwater crocodile on land, if you are that clumsy that you repeat habitual behaviours, day after day, in the same place, and the salty is hungry. They can wait for you to do something dumb. The slow metabolism that enables that patience also means you just need to go somewhere cooler to avoid them. Oh, and yes, as you are already avoiding water: somewhere cold.
Mass casualty events? There aren't any active volcanoes anywhere you'd know. Ever heard of, err Heard Island? No, I guessed that. If you rank those that have happened, the massacre of our continent's original human inhabitants tops the list; multiple times. Ship wrecks are up there, and hostile foreign aggression, once; other times, not so much. The toll against POW escapees was bigger. Some floods have been deadly, and there's one nasty earthquake that hit a built-up area. That was ugly, and a bridge collapsed when a commuter train hit a bridge stanchion. A family member attended in an official capacity. That left many scars.
Our biggest civilian incident was a deranged individual with a semi-automatic weapon in 1996. Those weapons are banned now. And recently, there was another incident. In between? Nothing on the scale that wears the label mass casualty. Why? You might have to visit to understand that, and take note of the policy and practice which limits the likelihood of these things.
Here's some numbers about mass casualties. You watch the news. You've already seen stuff around the world. Here, we've had two events in 29 years. Every loss was someone, a person of equal value. They worked, paid taxes, studied, had aspirations, were part of the economy and society. We mourn them all. Just in 2025, this tragic year, there has been one event too many in a country of around 27 million lives. One per capita: 1/27,000,000. In a socially comparable country, there has been a mass casualty frequency of 1/875,000 people. Where would you feel safer? Thirty one times safer?
Back with the wildlife, we also have the nastiest venomous spider in the World. This isn't it. The Sydney Funnel-web is endemic to the sandstone country of the Sydney Basin. That's a big area! Yet almost as many people have seen a drop bear as has encountered one of these spiders. They can kill you, as sure as a drop bear can. I'd rather take my chances with the spider. The last verified death by envenomation by a red-backed spider was in 1956. They are so timid, they'll roll up and play dead if you poke them. I poked this one, and the other female here in this control box too. The male ran off somewhere; such is their bravado. I picked both of those girls up and took them away where I could not harm them, and let them go. My greatest discomfort was negotiating the return to vertical after lying supine to get this picture!
Perception and reality can be divergent.