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"Où s'achève la réalité et où débute donc l'imaginaire? A cela personne ne le sait réellement, car rien n'est absolu, tout n'est que pure... perception!"

Cit. Muriel M. Photography

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perception by malkoviched

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Doors of Perception by lovebutterflies1

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“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” – Aldous Huxley

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

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Perception - Winnipeg, MB by maddytucker

use your perception by code photography

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Perception by bk bob

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IMG_8826 by Riccarda Boriglione

Shifting Perceptions by Daniel Polidori

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Sometimes there is something more interesting closer to you than the object you are focusing on.

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"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." Aldous Huxley by i_see_everyday

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sculpture shot at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

for Poetography theme - choose your own word - PERCEPTION

Perception by Shubnum Gill

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My first Oil on Canvas 1983

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perception by Bruce Hildesheim

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coffee based film and print developer

Cracked Perception by Cornelia Gillmann

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"Cracked Perception" - 19/31

Are you afraid sometimes, that what you see might not be "reality"? Is there one reality after all? 'Cause we all see/feel/hear/smell the world with our unique senses.

This was a spontaneous experiment, but I like it.

Also I wanted to take a close up of my eye a long time ago, so here it is. What's your interpretation?

perception and reality by wheres_bruce

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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.

Perception by Dona Minúcia

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Ink pen and china ink study on handmade sketchbook

perception is reality by adrienne

Depth-perception Puzzle by designwallah

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Perceptions. by itsmcs

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Perceptions by Bapagri ( Bartomeu)

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perception(s) by Petter Malmgren

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shot taken of a water barrel (aluminium) reflecting the sun setting over Doi Suthep.

perception by Micsa Ovidiu

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Shifting Perceptions by TheSometimePhotographer

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Apologies to all my wonderful contacts for lack of comments and visits on my part, but real life is constantly intruding and posting and running is all I'm able to manage these past few months. I do try to visit your photostreams regularly, but I'm afraid that a "fave" is all I'm managing of late - so sorry!

light and perception by Sarah Puterbaugh

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I just loved how this glass bottled looked when I shot it. Really wanted to take all of the color out so the glass stood out more. I've never been happy with any of my black and white conversions in Photoshop, it's more me than PS for sure. I ended up downloading Silver Efex Pro 2, 15 day free trial to see if I like it. This shot is from that and 3 or 4 adjustment layers in PS.

Happy Slider's Sunday everyone.

better in the light box

Perception by Paolo Coro'

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perception by Eldon Underhill

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Perception by Vincent Tsai

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Perception by just.Luc

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.