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"Every perception of colour is an illusion... we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another."
-Joseph Albers
Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda
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I've always admired the Barbican, along with many of the "utopian" projects from the brutalist period. Unfortunately many people, led by Prince Charles seem to despise these buildings. It's very much a challenge of perception, and how we are often mislead. This is a series of two images which have simply been post processed differently, and shows you how easily the mind can be warped.
“How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”
(Duane Michals)
One of my little side-projects: photographing doors, in a project I call "Doors of Perception" (yes, I am a fan of The Doors).
woo hoo! The month is over!
This piece of art was installed at the front window of the Monte Clark Gallery in Granville Street. It's a collage of Strathcona's "favourite" little orange pinto. Flickr is partly responsible for making a mini-celebrity of this little orange pinto and it is almost serendipitous that it should be made into a work of art by local artist cameraman.
Originally for the guesswherevancouver group.
For the Scavenger Hunt Pool 101 # 37 A Work of Art
Made Explore #79! Thank you very much for your support of this photo!
“Let me tell you something about perceptions: If a public safety officer pulls up right now and sees us talking, he’s going to see a black homeless guy talking to a white guy. He’s not going to think that you wanted to talk to me. He’s going to think that I’m panhandling you or trying to hustle you. My point is, sometimes you’re considered guilty until proven innocent.”
Memphis, Tennessee
Can you realy trust what you see?
Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness
Perception (from the Latin perceptio, percipio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sense organs. For example, vision involves light striking the retina of the eye, smell is mediated by odor molecules, and hearing involves pressure waves. Perception is not the passive receipt of these signals, but is shaped by learning, memory, expectation, and attention.
Perception can be split into two processes. Firstly, processing sensory input, which transforms these low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition). Secondly, processing which is connected with a person's concepts and expectations (knowledge) and selective mechanisms (attention) that influence perception.
Candid shot, Trondheim Norway.
We each carry a wound. And with it comes the pain of shame, regret, guilt, and fear… fear that if others knew, you could never be forgiven. You determine that you can never be known, will never be truly known. Complete honesty never leaves your lips, vulnerability develops a calloused cage, and love can only penetrate so deep before it finds the locked door with no key.
What would it take to let down the pretense and the bluff? What would it take to determine that you’re enough? These wounds that mar and scar could never detract from who you are. They do not define you as weak but strong… as long... as long as you let them heal. Who you are and what you’ve done do not define who you will become. No it is what you choose to do with the blows your dealt. Let healing come and wear silver scars as the battle wounds that they are.
I shot this at a moving background and Like the way my grand-daughter blends into it.
I was not going to post it, but she told me to post it and see what you all think. It is sootc. ?
W5 great for this.
I dunno about you, but my perceptions of the current political climate in the good ol' U.S.A. is not exactly a rosy picture of cooperation and bipartisanship. No. If anything, it seems more like a boxing match of ideals, misguided or mistimed priorities and too many 'beliefs' bopping around for good measure.
I work in a multi-chain manufacturing industry. You know the climate, lean staff; we each wear several hats. In a typical week, I deal with the likes of photographers, reporters, international freight carriers, retail managers and drivers. These are generally jaded, phone-weary people who don't want to hear from you, because hearing from you means more details, more work, and more stress.
I have found that if you go into these conversations like you know the world sucks and they're just as tired of staring at their computer's screen as you are at yours... throw in a little snarkastic comment about the daily BS you deal with... and bingo!... like a blossoming violet, they open up! Suddenly, they're more than happy to talk about the upcoming vote and why President Obama is a 'self-entitled', 'Monarch' of some sort, 'a dictator' who 'doesn't answer to Congress' and just 'DOES stuff without approval all the time'.
'...all the time'... Revisionist History is maddening.
[And yes, more such such commentary from the majority and worse... Throw in some sideways (toe right smack on that 'line') racial commentary from them and you have described my adult banter for the week.]
My first thoughts on the matter? Usually an indictment of the system, especially the Legislative side of things. YOU try to do something QUICKLY or simply with that passel of bozos stepping on each others' big floppy shoes as they filibuster the urgency out of a fire alarm. The world is crumbling in so many ways and they're fiddling about with minor details and non-issues while the world descends into chaos.
Look, you can 'believe' in things all you want… But DOING something about the poor, hungry and disenfranchised... making things better for everyone, requires WORK and changing (read: drag kicking and screaming into ‘Today’) some bygone-era mentalities. It also requires some charity, some kindness and to hell with ‘Can we make money on it?’.
Our government is here to primarily protect its citizenry and to represent (or apparnetly FORCE) our interests in the World. Seems like they're mostly concerned with protecting their campaigns and jobs.
I can’t blame them. High-dollar jobs with benefits second-to-none are hard to come by these days.
Welcome to the club, dorks. This is the situation you helped to create.
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-eH.
EF 85 f/1.8
multiple exposures, both are:
1/250th shutter
f/8
ISO 100
1 snooted flash high and to camera right
Cactus V5 transceivers