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Justifying Perceptions.

 

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ユニバーサル独立性出現コンテンツ複数の接触性ユニバーサルメディアエッセンス展示.

Steve.D.Hammond.

blue bic pen-layers of perception

I've been tagged by {AndreaRenee} www.flickr.com/photos/30282864@N02/

 

10 Things About Me

 

1. I’m extremely claustrophobic. I could never be an astronaut or cave explorer. I can’t even be strapped into a Disney ride.

 

2. I took ballet for 10 years. I even made it to point. (Toe shoes)

 

3. I toured a couple of islands with a small jazz dance troupe while attending BYU Hawaii.

 

4. My company went from a single employee (me) publishing one tiny niche publication to 40 employees producing 30 art and crafting magazine titles.

 

5. I’m uncomfortable being in the limelight. I’d rather be behind the scenes, as long as people are aware of my accomplishments.

 

6. I wish I had had more than one child. My son would have made a wonderful big brother.

 

7. I love working with teens. I'm currently teaching an art journaling class to at-risk teens.

 

8. I miss living in a small town. I grew up in Rupert, Idaho and miss the “bigness” of small events.

 

9. I absolutely love romantic comedies, but also count scary movies like Alien and Event Horizon among my favorites.

 

10. I’m wondering if my new obsession (and it truly is an obsession) with photography and Flickr will diminish over time so that I can actually get the laundry done and groceries bought. Is there an intervention program for Flickr addiction?

 

Now I have to tag 10 people. I choose:

cae3-Anita

Vogue Butterfly

BeliM

Robbinbj

joyelbe

irresistible bliss

Milla Star

heatherannphotography

Dishy Girls - Oklahoma City Photographer

shillelagh6 {Anam Cara Photography}

 

[ What you're supposed to do is list 10 things that people may or may not know about you, but they have to be true. Tag 10 people, let them know they are tagged, and remember to link back to the person who tagged you. Post a picture on your stream and list your 10 things and 10 tagged people. ]

  

Texture by www.flickr.com/photos/nvcf14/3741755897/in/pool-textures4...

 

Please view large and on black. View On Black

Photography is all about perception of photographer and viewer

"Perception is created and twisted so quickly."-- Louis C. K.

Fresco Wall Painting,

 

Old Quebec City, Canada

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Morton Arboretum in Spring of 1998

 

Shot on Fujichrome Astia 100 Slide Film with a Pentax K1000. Scanned with adjustments made in Photoshop.

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.

   

Yes I posted some similar color shots earlier the year but have been on black and white processing this week so...

Who defines what is beautiful?

 

Magazines constantly trick females into believing that perfection is a possibility. Celebrities role model a life style whereby they instinctively hide their individualisms and become clones of society. The public therefore feels compelled to achieve this definition of ‘beautiful.’ Surely, this means we size up beauty in the same way we would pick a cake at afternoon tea? We automatically judge on aesthetically pleasing form.

 

As young girls fail in their conquest to replicate a plastic Barbie look, they unfortunately become more aware of their flaws. They forget that beauty is the opposite of perfection - it’s about confidence, charisma and confidence. Inner beauty never needs make up. Females need to be reminded that imperfections are what make each individual human and unique. Flaws are perfection.

 

After chatting with Darren Hopkins. and getting inspired on his amazing new take on the orb.Thought i would have a play with Orbs again. Not sure about them yet. think i need to iron out a few issues.

 

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this is for a project, inspired by The Great Gatsby. I convinced my AP language teacher to make the final project after the AP exam a creative project so I could take photos. so now I'm taking photos about self discovery and actualization.

What do you see? The end of days or just the beginning? Fear or enlightenment?

 

2012 has just begun. Who knows what this year will bring? Hopefully the good will outweigh the bad in the coming year, but even if it doesn't, those bad experiences are the ones that build our strength, make us value what we have, and provide us with creative fodder.

 

Maybe I'm getting older and wiser because I'm starting to think that there are no bad experiences; they are just a matter of perception...and action.

 

(Shot on an iPhone 3GS with the Hipstamatic app: Salvador 84, Ina's 1935)

Can you trust what your eyes tell you as shown among these friends? Now as often as in the past.

A Gen4 Toyota pickup from the mid-1980s shows off its own kind of beauty with the natural colors of the surrounding flora.

what to make of it

 

Enjoy !

#5063 - 2021 Day 314: After an extremely stimulating chat this morning with Caroline, and in which I cited this book, I thought I'd find an interesting and alternative way to see the cover. It is called "Perception and Imaging - Photography as a Way of Seeing" by John Suler and Richard D. Zakia.

 

We are apt to see things for how we know them as objects, what they're called and how we use them. And so we photograph 'things' and places. In my courses we aim to take away labels and to see in the raw, as it were, as a child might see, in terms of visual elements. And what I saw when examining the book from different angles was a mix of colours and lines, with white shapes we would understand as words.

 

The image on the cover might still be discernible and the words readable, but an oblique viewpoint gives a new perspective and by no means the only one. What have you looked at obliquely today?

"Can't decide if he was really tall

or if it's just a matter or perception

here! What do Y'all think?"

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"Hope all of you have a wonderful

warm weekend ahead!"

~Mary Lou

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