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Copyright 2010 Rhonda Holcomb
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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This week has been pretty great. I had a lot of extra free time this week to really go hard and get out to shoot. I've literally been out shooting every day/night since Sunday the 24th. The weather gods blessed the PNW with some great cloud formations and sunset colors alike.
This week I told myself I would try a different location every time I went out to shoot. Of course I went all out with weather maps and the TPE for sunset/moon times. But really I just looked at the sky and picked my spot. It just happened to work out every time I went out. I've said it before but the work I've put in seems to be finally paying off.
I'm buying a new computer and have been looking at the Apple with the 5k display. Any recommendations would be awesome!
"Persistence" - Exodus Fleet Mobile Construction Yard
Length: 105 studs
Number of parts: not a clue
This is where most vessels in the Exodus fleet are constructed and repaired. The mobile refinery supplies the construction yard with refined metal from nearby asteroids.
Currently a batch of fighters are loaded up for testing in the main hangar. In the mid ship construction dock a new Attack Frigate is under construction.
This is my SHIPtember SHIP for 2016. My goal was to use that big yellow Duplo part, and use some kind of lighting. The ship's interior is somewhat lit up by a EL-wire and the construction dock is lit by lifelites.
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A solitary drop of water adheres to the top of a blade of purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea subsp caerulea 'Edith Dudszus') despite the best efforts of the breeze.
Image is copyright © Michéla Griffith. All rights reserved. Please contact me if you would like to use this image.
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
Graham, Washington
122913
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As much as I rave about the big views in Bruce Peninsula, there really is so much more to find. I just love the Eastern white cedar that you can find gripping rock and cliff faces throughout the park. In fact, I believe the oldest tree in Ontario is an eastern white cedar within the park. I love the winding and rolling roots and trunks you find all over the barren rock. It's really quite pretty if you can pull your eyes away from the obvious views in the park.
Taken with a Canon 5D IV and a 24-70 f/2.8L ii with a Lee landscape polarizer. Processed in Camera Raw and Photoshop from three images - two focus stacked, one for sky luminance.
Photo of a red-legged grasshopper captured via Minolta MD Macro Rokkor-X 100mm F/4 lens. Outside the creative halls of the 494 ∞ Labs. Late August 2020.
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-320 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5050 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Provia 100F * Adaptor: 1:1 Extension Tube
Persistence of Time
For a few people time never flies. It never changes. Case in point is this brick factory worker.
She stands motionless, as the Salvador Dali painted stack of clouds whisk by her in a hurry, leaving her state unchanged. She has been destined to be a brick worker for her entire lifetime.
Persistence of Time indeed.
I guess you can call this natural re-vegitation. Given enough time the recovering powers in creation will re-claim what we lay aside.
Back alleyway, Hatfield.
( after Phil Simmons's early London Dada work; The Persistence of Witchcraft )
NS 5343 sits in the siding in Manhattan with the BH45. For the past few days I tried going down here after night class to see if there would be anything sitting over here, and each time I had no luck. But with ATCS and a little bit of caffeine, I was able to watch this guy late at night get a lineup across CP Ridge and south on the Wabash, allowing me to drive down the next morning and have it sitting here waiting for me. 6/24/16
Over time, persistence will win. This is another frame similar to a prior shot, but this time in monochrome. Brink of Upper Falls at Yosemite National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2017
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This is a repost so sorry if you have already seen it
I tried a new medium for this paiting- India Ink- while it produces brighter colors, it is a bit of a nightmare to work with as it functions more like a stain and you have to really works in layers, otherwise one ends up with a bunch of splotches that makes the painting unuseable. Anyways, it took a good 12 hours and I am not sure I will have another 12 hours coming up anytime soon to paint witht the medium again
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Soft light on the Eastern portion of the Hudson Highlands captured from Pitching Point on Crow's Nest Mountain.
Conditions didn't look promising as the sky was mostly filled with cloud approaching sunset. For a brief moment, seconds really, the sun peaked through as it touched the horizon and lit the mountains on the eastern shore of the Hudson. Patience and persistence to stay with a composition until the bitter end was the lesson learned on this shoot. Something I seem to often forget, but usually pays off when I resist the urge to move on.
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The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor. It is widely recognized and frequently referred to in popular culture, and sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as "The Melting Clocks", "The Soft Watches" or "The Melting Watches".
The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Adès wrote, "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order". This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity. Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert melting in the sun.
The year prior to painting the Persistence of Memory, Dali developed his "paranoiac-critical method," deliberately inducing psychotic hallucinations to inspire his art. He remarked, "The difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad." This quote highlights Dali's awareness of his mental state. Despite his engagement in activities that could be seen as insane, Dali maintained that he was not actually mad.
It is possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange "monster" (with much texture near its face, and much contrast and tone in the picture) that Dalí used in several contemporary pieces to represent himself – the abstract form becoming something of a self-portrait, reappearing frequently in his work. The creature seems to be based on a figure from the Paradise section of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, which Dalí had studied. It can be read as a "fading" creature, one that often appears in dreams where the dreamer cannot pinpoint the creature's exact form and composition. The creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting that it is also in a dream state. The iconography may refer to a dream that Dalí himself had experienced, and the clocks may symbolize the passing of time as one experiences it in sleep or the persistence of time in the eyes of the dreamer.
The orange watch at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants; Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol of decay. A fly sits on the watch next to the orange watch. The fly appears to be casting a human shadow as the sun hits it. The Persistence of Memory employs "the exactitude of realist painting techniques" to depict imagery more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness.
The craggy rocks to the right represent the tip of Cap de Creus peninsula in north-eastern Catalonia. Many of Dalí's paintings were inspired by the landscapes of his life in Catalonia. The strange and foreboding shadow in the foreground of this painting is a reference to Puig Pení, a mountain in the northeast corner of Catalonia.