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persistence.... the name of the game today. i remind myself to be grateful and to persist, where i might give up.
Taken using a Nikon EM camera in week 307 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
Ilford HP5 Plus film, developed in Rodinal, semi-stand for 60mins at 22 degrees C.
Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory, 1931 New York Museum of Modern Art
Listed in the book of "50 Paintings You Should Know"
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí (1931) is one of the most famous works of modern art, often reproduced and parodied. In a section of this painting, ants gather on a pocket watch lying at the edge of a box, next to a clock that has melted over the side, making it useless for telling time. Despite its small size (24 × 33 cm), the painting is filled with many details. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Not only did it survive, it seems it will thrive. Amazing how a self-seeded plant will grow in the unlikeliest of places while something that we plant and nurture might languish or die.
Art Deco-influenced Architecture in Albury
Jones Street Street
Albury NSW Australia
© Dirk HR Spennemann 2011, All Rights Reserved
This decaying fencepost in the middle of the Alvord Desert Basin is a remnant from a borax mining operation from the 19th century.
Visiting the Alvord in March presented some photographic challenges in the form of huge storms that would blow in every hour or so. The one in the background had just blown past me, giving me a rare and welcome patch of sunlight to work with.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
photographed in Fox Lake, Wisconsin
072211
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.
One of the sad things about spring are the Mallard males pursuit of the females. Often there is more than one and they don't easily give up. These two were persistent with this female to the point they had held her under several times and pulled all the feathers out of the back of her head. I managed to get them away from her and she hid in a drainage pipe where they could not get her. Unfortunately after i left she must have come out again as when i returned an hour later they were at her again and she was unable to fight back and became water logged and drowned. Unfortunately this is common with these ducks and there are far more males than females and even the females with young are not safe from them.
Painted in 1931 by Salvador Dalí “The Persictence of Sheepery” was planed as an angry accusation of the horrible, but in those times often practised, practise of sheep bathing and then leaving them hanging out to dry for days.
Unfortunately, just before he could put it on display and show the world what the poor sheep had to go through in his native country, Salvador Dalí went mad.
Forgetting all about being an ambassador of all things sheep he threw the painting away and made a new version with silly melting clocks and thus losing the heartbreaking message of the painting that could have saved so many sheep from their horrible ordeal.
Dalí, still quite mad, felt a deep resentment towards him whenever he encountered a sheep on his walks and soon after fled the country and settled in the United States where his madness went unnoticed.
“The Persistence of Sheepery” meanwhile disappeared, never to be seen again until it´s recent discovery in an attic by a certain sheep on a cookie search.
These little fellas are starting to take over!!
Thanks again to ghostbones for an awesome texture! www.flickr.com/photos/ghostbones/
This is a cropped version of a picture I took at the Fashion District mall in Philadelphia on July 22, 2022, 2:07 p.m.
From Wikipedia about the Cologne Cathedral:
Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche St. Petrus, English: High Cathedral of St. Peter) is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and is a World Heritage Site.[1] It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day.[2]
Construction of Cologne Cathedral commenced in 1248 and was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work restarted in the 19th century and was completed, to the original plan, in 1880. It is 144.5 metres (474 ft) long, 86.5 m (284 ft) wide and its towers are approximately 157 m (515 ft) tall.[3] The cathedral is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spires and largest façade of any church in the world. The choir has the largest height to width ratio, 3.6:1, of any medieval church.[4]
Cologne's medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe".[1]
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