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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
What was once an instant of action, a single discharge, has become a long-term inhabitant of the landscape. The shell’s corrosion mirrors the slow erosion of the stone, yet its synthetic casing endures, outlasting the gesture that produced it.
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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This Sparrowhawk's persistence paid off after seeing it turn up everyday searching the shrubs and sitting on the fence waiting. It dropped down and began scrambling through the shrubs' branches scattering Sparrows in its pursuit and eventually came out with one in its claw before taking off to the bottom of the garden so as not to be disturbed.
Back alleyway, Hatfield.
( after Phil Simmons's early London Dada work; The Persistence of Witchcraft )
ALIENATED by Adwehe, the December 2024 exhibition @ Nitroglobus main hall.
Adwehe returns to the gallery with an introspective collection that explores feelings of estrangement in the face of a rapidly shifting world. Drawing inspiration from the global socio-political landscape, Adwehe’s work reflects on themes such as the upheaval in Western political movements, the persistence of global conflicts, and the dramatic evolution of societal norms. Her art serves as a poignant response to these sweeping changes, offering a personal view into the alienation and disconnection many of us feel in these turbulent times.
Visitors can expect a vibrant and heartfelt presentation that not only showcases Adwehe's multi talent but also sparks meaningful reflection on the state of the world today.
See you @ the gallery
dido
Sincere thanks to David Silence, who as always created the professional poster, based on an image of Adwehe.
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Opening party: Monday 2 December, 12 PM SLT
Music by DJ Kastor
LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunshine%20Homestead/38/22...
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Description of the artist:
In this exhibition, I attempt to touch on some of the darker sides of what technology has brought us in recent decades. Even with all the benefits it brings, social media and AI continue to cast an ever-growing darker shadow over society and the world, leading to division, destabilization, exploitation, and alienation.
The title of the exhibition also reflects my own feelings of alienation from the creation of more images, in the context of the unimaginable amounts of images produced every day. I embarked on a journey using only SL and the EEP sky options in the viewer to slowly delve into these feelings of alienation, drifting through the stories of our time.
Nuance and greyscale are not popular these days, its all black and white, a one second attention span, no thinking needed, all subtlety and depth erased.
I just want to be reborn, again and again, in beautiful vibrant colors.
Grayscales... translated into vibrant color.
Adwehe
I guess you can call this natural re-vegitation. Given enough time the recovering powers in creation will re-claim what we lay aside.
A stone spire with a lone evergreen at sunset. I love Colorado's Escalante Canyon at the golden hours.
Dalí is one of my favorite artists of all time and also a big inspiration for me. In my lost account I posted a tribute to "The Elephants" which I pretend to remake later on, but also I always wanted to create something along the lines of "The Persistence of Memory", which should be his most iconic artwork.
Persistence of Memory cannot be replicated because it's a masterpiece, but I tried to arrange some of the core ideas in here. The melting clocks, the idea of a dreaming subject or figure, the overall concept of "fading away" and even if I didn't use ants or flies, the color scheme tries to recreate the feeling of decay.
With the low snowpack last year, this small tarn was all that was left on Artist Point in late June. In most years, this would have been still covered in feet deep snow.
Southern Lady's Slippers (Cypripedium kentuckiense) from northeast Texas.
Last spring, I set out to relocate these rare orchids at a historic location in northeast Texas (see here for details of that trip). This year I returned and could not immediately relocate the site. The point my GPS brought me to looked so different than I remembered, and the site was still relatively fresh on my mind. I looked for identifying site characteristics but struggled to find any, instead seeing four very large, downed trees laying across the creek. I was dismayed, until I approached the locale from a different angle, and there, nestled among the massive, entangled branches of downed white oak were three perfect slippers. They had survived whatever storm had wrought their surroundings and felled the ancients around them. I crawled through the tangled crown of the fallen oak capture this scene, which shows their precarious existence on the steep bank of some tiny unnamed stream hidden deep in the woods.
I'm intrigued how the persistence of water carves, polishes and shapes rocks. Water finds its way over time...
(NDL7430)
From Wikipedia:
Helianthus petiolaris is a North American plant species in the sunflower family, commonly known as the prairie sunflower or lesser sunflower. Naturalist and botanist Thomas Nuttall was the first to describe the prairie sunflower in 1821. The word petiolaris in Latin means, “having a petiole”. The species originated in Western United States, but has since expanded east. The prairie sunflower is sometimes considered a weed.
Prairie sunflowers are commonly found growing in sandy areas. They can also be found in heavy clay soil and in dry prairies. They are unable to grow in shady areas; they need to be in direct sunlight. Prairie sunflowers require dry to moist soil. This species of sunflower is an annual flower, blooming between June and September.
...unless it doesn't. Einstein had a different take on it, which is perhaps more apropos.
There were eleven more of these, but I am merciful...
I've been thinking a lot about persistence, and patience. They are related, but not the same; nor necessary, one for the other.
Have a wonderful Sunday, friends...
Persistence paid off as I walked around and around trying to find the right composition for this sunset. It's facing east as the sun lit up the clouds and I got a decent reflection in this little pool.
To watch how I captured this shot watch my vlog: youtu.be/rLX-LEWy39o
This sunrise image was taken at Rekawa Beach on the south coast of Sri Lanka. I’m extremely pleased how the image turned out but as with many landscape shots, it only really tells half the story here. I only got this shot at the second attempt after failing miserably the previous day, which is pretty annoying seeing as a 5am start was needed. Also the drift wood did pretty much exactly what you would expect it to do in the waves….drift. This made capturing the right image and composition of the wood with the ticking clock of sunrise a pretty stressful and surprisingly difficult ask. In the end persistence paid off thankfully. Part of the reason why I have started to do ‘behind the scene’ vlogs was to show the other side of the story that the image itself fails to tell.
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I had spent a good deal of time looking for field patterns when I just about stopped looking. It was time to make my way back to the crossroads where I had started and make the long trek home. When I arrived at the crossroads, it was necessary to pull over and put my equipment away.
When I stepped out of the car, this is the image that lay in front of me and the very shot I had been looking. The sun had set and subtle colors stood on the horizon. The organized and straight lines in the field lay in perfect contrast to the sweeping blue cloud above them. And the color on the horizon separated the two.
Sometimes it is patience that pays off in photography, sometimes it is just plane luck. But now and then I find persistence in both life and photography pays off in dividends. I have been searching for this shot for many months to deliver on a challenge from a flickr friend named Frank Gadarowski. To "find a Prairie field that just seems to go on forever", like this one.
Quintessential Pt Lobos. Panoramic Sunset like you've never seen it.
I keep returning to my roots. After 40 years it gets better and better. 3 panel panorama. One of those perfect days in May!
The flow of life is nothing if not persistent.
Zenit with Helios 44M-6 58mm f/2 on Portra 400
December, 2021
Not just a great valley, but a shrine to human foresight, the strength of granite, the power of glaciers, the persistence of life, and the tranquility of the High Sierra.
First protected in 1864, Yosemite National Park is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more.
" Rise up "
" And we will rise up
We'll rise like the day
We'll rise up
We'll rise unafraid
We'll rise up
And we'll do it a thousand times again "
Andra Day ( music linked below )
When we, even dressed all in red, out rise the eye in I !
Andra Day - "Rise Up" (Live in KUTX Studio 1A)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlOfgLL_qi8...
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..at the tennis courts.
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