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The latter refers to reconstructing the photograph by exploring the deep structure of the image--which involves the application of practical knowledge and creative insights and relies on the cultural or historical consciousness of the reader. Looking is the visual routine of readers, seeing is the visual practice of the literate. The professional or artistic disposition of photographers reflects a commitment to the image as an expression of ideas or feelings that are beyond words.
Hanno Hardt
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japanese camellia, 'Spring's Promise', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Galanthus nivalis plenus
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Those first patches of white are so uplifting!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more of my other work or if you want to PURCHASE (ONLY PLACE TO BUY!), visit here: www.indigo2photography.com
#AB_FAV_LATE_WINTER_ 💨
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
ELEGANCE… Snowdrops
#ABFAV_WINTER_ ❄️
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
#AbFav_The_COLOUR_GREEN_🍀
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
Galanthus nivalis plenus
These double Snowdrops have all the charm and grace of their single counterparts, but their multiple white petals make the flowers somewhat showier.
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double center with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
-sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
double, snowdrops, Winter, flowers, green, petals, "Galanthus nivalis plenus", Galanthus, Perce-neige, Sneeuwklokje, white, colour, square, love, conceptual, "art”, design, studio, black-background, magda indigo
#ABFAV_WINTER_ ❄️
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, double, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
Galanthus nivalis plenus
These double Snowdrops have all the charm and grace of their single counterparts, but their multiple white petals make the flowers somewhat showier.
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double center with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
-sense and sensibility...
THANX for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
Excerpt from ampd.yorku.ca/brandon-vickerds-the-heights-is-a-41-foot-l...;
The 41-foot Corten steel sculpture “The Heights” towers over the Keele and Finch gateway evoking how the history of a place informs its present and the future.
Drawing inspiration from the one-room Elia Public School that stood near the sculpture’s current location between 1873-1956, Brandon Vickerd’s “The Heights” neatly connects the past with the present, highlighting how both Elia Public School and York University have helped to shape and drive the community it belongs to.
“The goal of this project is to acknowledge the historic significance of the site while celebrating the changing dynamic of the Keele and Finch intersection, says Vickerd. “This sculpture is about the relationship between time and memory. It reflects on the role of history in providing a guiding light that illuminates a path forward into the future.”
With its multi-faceted open design, rusted metal finish, and architectural abstraction of the Elia Public school, the sculpture balances its monumental size with a sense of dynamic tension and wonder. “The Heights” offers locals the opportunity to visually see the community in new ways, while reflecting on the physical, social, and economic changes in the neighborhood.
Vickerd credits AMPD with the academic knowledge and practical knowledge he’s gained that enabled him to create projects like “The Heights” sculpture. “It’s the accumulation of years of working with my colleagues and students in a way that can only happen at a university like York, which allows us to push boundaries, try out new ideas, think through things and experiment with materials. So, when opportunities like this come up, we can better develop successful projects and create a greater experience in the community for the people who live it day.”
The design process – including engineering revisions and community feedback – took six months, followed by another six months for building. Currently, the sculpture – funded and managed by Duke Heights BIA, but now a permanent collection of the City of Toronto – is visible because of its size and is open to the public for viewing.
#AB_FAV_LATE_WINTER_ 💨
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
#ABFAV_WINTER_ ❄️
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, double, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
#AB_FAV_LATE_WINTER_ 💨
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
#AbFav_MY_THEMES_ 💖 EYES
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For years I have been working on a project, mostly for a book, it also became, at some stage, a Wall of Fame in a city...
Eyes are our soul mirrors in my view. People had to guess who it was from the clue in front of their lower face. FY,
The trial, done on the technical camera and developed and printed in the 'wet' darkroom.
I'll upload some now and then...
as they are not easy to scan.
AAhh well, when I have some time, FUN!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
Paul and my Hasselblad, his doesn't have the pentaprism, mine does because I'm not fond of the 'normal' Hasselblad reversed mirror view, LOL
I wish you all the best and THANK you, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
SOUL-MIRRORS, eyes, close-up, hand, phone, man, portrait, colour, horizontal, emotion, mono, B&W, film, Nikon F4, "Magda indigo"
When Athena, the goddess of wisdom, won the battle, she became the protectress and namesake of Athens.
Athenians were expressing that they as a people valued practical knowledge, wisdom, over all else — over the power of the sea that surrounded them or over the beguilement of civilization as represented by the domesticated horse, which Poseidon was also the god of.
Modern Tennesseans liked that choice of the ancient Athenians so much that they rebuilt the Parthenon in its original glory in Nashville. Nashvillians also liked that Athenians in their wisdom brilliantly pioneered direct democracy in giving power to its people. One man. One vote. (In 500 B.C. only adult male citizens could vote.) This was a practical political science solution to abusive kings, unlimited power of a ruling class of nobles, and dictators.
People outside of ancient Athens probably thought that giving common citizens, who were incredibly busy surviving the necessities of life, a vote in the tough choices that the city-state faced would pull down everyone into the tyranny of the commons. That is to say that if all hicks and rubes voted they would create a hickdom of mediocre choices that tyrannized a minority of informed choices. A rube mobocracy.
The majesty of the Parthenon structure showed the world the error of that thinking. It showed the splendor, balance, and dignity of the Athenian way of life. Athenians valued practical knowledge, Athena's wisdom, which was born of survival in the business of life.
A plurality of thought flourished—e.g. Cleisthenes, Pericles, Socrates (who argued that although unskilled people could vote they should NOT be allowed to hold public office), Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle.
Athens blossomed.
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Galanthus nivalis plenus
These double Snowdrops have all the charm and grace of their single counterparts, but their multiple white petals make the flowers somewhat showier.
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double center with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
-sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
double, snowdrops, Winter, flowers, green, petals, "Galanthus nivalis plenus", Galanthus, Perce-neige, Sneeuwklokje, white, colour, square, love, conceptual, "art”, design, studio, black-background, magda indigo
ELEGANCE… Snowdrops
#ABFAV_WINTER_ ❄️
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
Goddess of wisdom and courtesy
Snotra is the wise and courteous goddess, teaching people politeness, tact, and self-control. In Snorri’s Edda, it is said that those who are wise and well-mannered are called “snotre” after her. She is a role model of respect and wisdom in everyday life, representing practical knowledge – not only knowing, but acting with consideration and insight.
She is often depicted with a wax tablet and a stylus, symbols of learning and record-keeping, a reminder that wisdom can be preserved and shared. Snotra reminds us that wisdom is not found only in battles or myths, but also in the small deeds that build trust and order within society.
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Galanthus nivalis plenus
These double Snowdrops have all the charm and grace of their single counterparts, but their multiple white petals make the flowers somewhat showier.
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double center with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
-sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
double, snowdrops, Winter, flowers, green, petals, "Galanthus nivalis plenus", Galanthus, Perce-neige, Sneeuwklokje, white, colour, square, love, conceptual, "art”, design, studio, black-background, magda indigo
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda-indigo
#ABFAV_WINTER_ ❄️
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda-indigo
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda-indigo
#AB_FAV_LATE_WINTER_ 💨
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
#AbFav_JANUARY_️
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda-indigo
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda-indigo
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
#AbFav_JANUARY_️
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda-indigo
Week 7, Saturday
While Aura grows it's interesting to follow how elements of imagination and magic to come into her play. Especially one particular episode has stayed in my mind. We were at the kitchen and she kept on asking food from the fridge to give her sleeping cat. Of course she cannot feed her cat real food, so I opened the fridge took some 'imaginary food' and put it into her hand (in other words I put nothing into her hand). This was the first time when she was introduced to 'imaginary things' and didn't have any idea how she would react. Aura looked her hand and stopped for good ten seconds to wonder what was going on. Then, and very much to my surprise, she accepted it without any questions and went to feed this 'imaginary food' to her sleeping cat, which was of course very satisfied by it.
If you've grown close to natural sciences it's tempting to see magical thinking, which lives somewhere between religion and art, as flawed attempt to understand world, and based on false logic, associative thinking or other irrational elements of thought – something which kids (and adults) grow out by learning logic and science. And while I can't totally deny this stance, I still find Claude Lévi-Strauss's thought of 'untamed thinking' to be more interesting way to describe this mode of thinking. As such it breaks up, or least decreases, the distinction between science and magic, by saying that untamed mind is perhaps an universally constitutive form of thought and distinct from mind cultivated or domesticated for the purpose of yielding a return (as it is with an engineer, for example, but in practice all educated people). Untamed mind continually gathers and applies structures wherever they can be used. As such it also describes how magical thinking is used when Aura learns her way into our culture. To her, it is a way to manipulate symbols, words and images to achieve new meanings which she will then put to use in her play. This way untamed thinking enables her to explore and learn her cultural and mental surroundings. Later on when she grows older, with help of education, she will of course learn to think like rest of us. By then her train of thought is domesticated to live within preexisting set of theoretical and practical knowledge. But today it's different and her mind is still free to go wherever she wants. It makes me happy, because I'm perhaps tired of my own thoughts.
Year of the Alpha – 52 Weeks of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com
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Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
Ted Forbes featured my Zine on his YouTube Channel “The Art of Photography.” youtu.be/sj_VJ4evDvs?si=tUWG2WjmtQIRE52y
You can purchase my Zine for only $10 (free shipping in the USA). See my website for more details: edovephotos.myportfolio.com/for-sale
Designing and printing a Zine of my photos has been a deeply meaningful and rewarding growth experience. It was my first attempt at something like this, and I’ll admit there were moments when I doubted whether I could pull it off. Looking back now, I can see how valuable each stage of the process was, and how much I’ve grown through it.
Attending Ted’s Zine workshop was exactly the catalyst I needed. I’m so glad I took the plunge. The workshop not only provided me with practical knowledge (how to curate and sequence photos, design a layout, and think through printing) but it also gave me perspective on what makes a Zine truly compelling and personal.
I began my Flea Market project with two self-imposed constraints: to always shoot within the same timeframe and in the same location. At first, it felt restrictive, and I worried there wouldn’t be enough variety to keep things interesting. But the opposite happened. The boundaries sharpened my attention, making me notice details I might have overlooked. They pushed me to be more creative with what was in front of me, to search harder for moments, and to stay present. What started as a limitation turned into a pathway to unexpected discoveries.
Savvy: shrewdness and practical knowledge; the ability to make good judgements.
Something we all need these days. - - - Food price inflation eases slightly but remains high
The price of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose by 17.4% in the year to June 2023. This was down from 18.4% in May and from a high of 19.2% in March, which was the highest annual inflation rate for over 45 years.
SOUL MIRRORS...
I wish I just, for a few minutes I could look into these eyes again.
My son was a very busy businessman, every day he had to plan ahead and deal with unforeseen emergencies.
The phone his main tool.
I joined him in Amsterdam after my commissioned photography was done and sat there, across from him for nearly 2 hours.
I enjoyed watching him, reminiscing, looking at that man, remembering the boy, the ups and downs, the joy and laughter, the tears...
He sensed my reflective mood, being the sensitive guy that he is, asked if I was fine, yes, well nearly done, just a few more calls, some materials to order and I'm done...
That's when I took this shot, he looked in my direction, busy but aware of me.
For years I have been working on a project, mostly for a book, but it also became, at some stage, a wall of fame in a city...
Eyes are our soul mirrors in my view.
This was one of the earlier ones I did, for people to 'guess', recognise, you could ONLY see part of the face, mostly the eyes, the rest was different for different people, mostly something to do with their line of work...
The original trial was done in the studio, on the technical camera (first on Polaroids)4x5" and then developed from negative and printed in the 'wet' darkroom.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
THANK for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
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My son is a very busy businessman, every day he's got to plan ahead and deal with unforeseen emergencies.
The phone is his main tool.
This was taken awhile back, he now has the latest... of course!
I joined him in Amsterdam after my commissioned photography was done and sat there, across from him for nearly 2 hours.
I enjoyed watching him, reminiscing, looking at that man, remembering the boy, the ups and downs, the joy and laughter, the tears...
He sensed my reflective mood, being the sensitive guy that he is, asked if I was fine, yes, well nearly done, just a few more calls, some materials to order and I'm done...
That's when I took this shot, he looked in my direction, busy but aware of me.
For years I have been working on a project, mostly for a book, but it also became, at some stage, a wall of fame in a city...
Eyes are our soul mirrors in my view.
This was one of the earlier ones I did, for people to 'guess', recognise, you could ONLY see part of the face, mostly the eyes, the rest was different for different people, mostly something to do with their line of work...
The original trial was done in the studio, on the technical camera (first on Polaroids)4x5" and then developed from negative and printed in the 'wet' darkroom.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
THANK for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
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It was with great sadness that I read today of the passing of Andy McCarthy earlier in September, at the age of just 65. He spent all his life being involved in the firm which his father started in 1971, although he was latterly semi-retired, leaving the day to day operation in the hands of his two sons. That would have given him more time to tinker with his collection of Bedford commercial and military vehicles, a make for which he never lost his passion.
I had called in to the depot a couple of times in recent months, in search of their new VDL Futuras, but on both occasions the place was closed, being on a weekend so I hadn't met up with him in quite a while, but whenever we did, it was always entertaining, with plenty of information and gossip going both ways !
This was probably my last photo of him doing the day job, just a couple of weeks before the Covid lockdown hit us in March 2020. It was a busy day of sixth form pupils being shuttled to and from a further education event in Manchester, and Andy was at the wheel of the coach that was always his first choice to take out, his beloved Bedford YNT C307 UFP. This was their very first coach to be bought new in March 1986, and although the other Bedfords had left the fleet long ago, this one was never going anywhere. It had a thorough refurbishment a few years ago, along with a repaint, so it wasn't 'as new' original, but there probably isn't a better example out there, and it looks just like it did when it emerged from the Plaxton factory. Andy was very amused - and very baffled - when I showed him its DVLA record, which had always recorded the vehicle's colour as black, and still does ! I did wonder if it might have been a cancelled order which they had taken over, but he said not, it was theirs all along.
The firm will continue in the very capable hands of the third generation, but it is a very sad loss of another of the old-school guys who knew how to keep anything on the road, with the range of practical knowledge that a laptop can never replace ....
RIP, Andy
Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda-indigo
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Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda indigo
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Galanthus nivalis plenus
These double Snowdrops have all the charm and grace of their single counterparts, but their multiple white petals make the flowers somewhat showier.
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double center with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
-sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
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As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
Have a good day and thanks for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
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Each flower is a masterpiece! The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. Many are with Getty© All rights reserved
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Galanthus nivalis plenus with dew drops...
Each flower is a masterpiece!
The inside shows a double centre with a pattern of fresh green stripes.
Comp in camera.
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and the respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
- sense and sensibility...
THANK you for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, M, (*_*)
Please do not use or COPY any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission.
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Snowdrops, Galanthus, leaves, emotion, white, green, colour, studio, black-background, conceptual, "art”, design, square, Nikon D7000, Magda-indigo
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'I can lie for hours at a time and watch the flow of a stream… a fold or break of current, a burst of bubbles or the ripple of a stone releases in me a flood of satisfaction that must, I think, be akin to that which a philosopher feels as his mind is opened to a profound truth. I feel larger, and better and stronger for it in ways that have nothing to do with any common gain in practical knowledge.'
- Roderick Haig-Brown
Happy fiftieth anniversary to America's Wilderness Act…
Congratulations to my NOTLD extended family, my beloved friends Kyra, Jack, Russ, Gary, Ella Mae on your success and the increasing recognition by society as a whole, and of course I extend the same to all the other current survivors of the crew and cast that participated in the creation of a culturally relevant treasure...to Judy Ridley, Paula Richards and everyone else, to all of you CHEERS!!! Aaaahh there's the first shot!!! Lucky for me there's a few more toasts before I fade to black here.
Alright FILL "EM UP SOAKS, er I mean FOLKS. The second drink comes with the second sentiment and that is to honor the memory of two members of the Night Tribe that are no longer physically with us, two very important gentleman whom were clearly cherished by their NOTLD family and remain so clearly by their fellows left behind, that much is clear in the many stories, recollections and spoken tributes that have both publicly and privately been shared by their colleagues, their NOTLD Familia. The respect and affection cannot be feigned by those that knew them well, a point that for as blessed as I have been that the LIVING DEAD TOUR BUS pulled over and pulled me off the side of the road, somewhere on the Highway to Hell, blessed to warm myself by the fire and share in so much goodness together, these two men are the only two among all of the Living Dead O.G.s that I never had the honor or chance to get to know personally and every time they are spoken of, it reminds me how much I missed out on not getting that chance.
I am of course speaking of The PROFESSOR and The DOCTOR of course. Yes PROFESSER DUANE JONES and DOCTOR "KEITH WAYNE"(I know but I am not breakin' kayfabe on the names here XD.)
CHEERS!!! That's the second shot. Fill 'em all right back up barkeeps
NEXT, I would raise the glass and acknowledge so many other empty seats at the table, all of them of course primaries in the realization of your masterpiece, essential components to your created family and to the results of your efforts For me, unlike with Prof Duane and Doc "Wayne", I was beyond lucky that all of these next Night MAESTROS became very important friends, guides, mentors and extended family to me, no length of time ever passes in my life where each one of them doesn't enter my thoughts or my process, some advice or practical knowledge they gave me, or some emotional point, humor, social complication, creative applications or business methodology. I'll never be able to express my appreciation or the impact adequately. So here's to raising the glass for the third shot, in no particular order, the subjects of this third toast, the Cemetery Ghoul, Zombie Numero Uno, teacher, mentor, friend and so much more to me and so cherished by all of you, his family and his fans BILL HINZMAN. Bill is with me always, still helping me and pointing me forward. Discipline tempered with Love is a powerful thing. KARL HARDMAN aka Harry Cooper from the moment you approached my brother Scott and I, to the very last time we spoke, the phone calls when we were hashing ideas of stories we will sadly never get to tell, every word, every laugh, your warmth, your smile and the mischievous glean in your eye, all are etched indelibly into my brain and heart and I'll have to throw your own words right back at you, NO KARL, NO YOU, you are the KEEN FELLA and a PEACHY DANCER XD. KUS!!! GEORGE KOSANA aka The Sheriff! Man did we have some fun. A bit of everything too, from the ridiculous to the sublime to the serious. Woodsman skills, hunter knowledge, history, script writing, We got to shoot together, both footage and weapons!!! Haha, I still have your last script, still love it, miss you busting my stones about the cancer sticks, I never light a fire outside without thinkin' of you. The LEGEND on uncountable fronts, part of every inhabitant of the Burgh for half a century, unparalleled endurance and drive, equally excelling at all he endeavored , and how great and special you were to me as well, my friend BILL CARDILLE, what an icon, what an inspiration both publicly and to so many of us personally, being treated as a friend by you, was like being given a reward of the highest order, you were not just a legend and icon, you were a pioneeer,and a Prince. What would it all be without the NOTLD Tribe's Fire Keeper, humble, kind, generous, an example and a reminder always that one would be best served by taking pride in their work, so funny, undersold and overly capable, and for obvious reasons CHILLY BILLY and I talked wrestling, from inside the business, but REGIS SURVINSKI and I talked and even watched wrestling together from a point of view of fans, spectators. Last time I was lucky enough to spend time with him, we watched a shit load of CZW stuff, a lot of CULT FICTION, a lot of me dropping F Bombs and getting murdered here and there lmao .Sometimes with no intent or realization probably, Reg made me feel like I was older than him, he had this energy, like perpetual youth. Cherish my times with Reg, even though he tried to blow me up, lmmfao RUDY RICCI what a great surprise and unique man. What an inspiration and as with the rest here so damn funny. How hospitable and engaging you were is hard to relate verbally. And Dammit I really thought we would end up getting to make the Polka Dot Flying Saucer. You I came to realize were such an important component with your friends, your attitude, humility and willingness to work with the benefit of all in mind is never forgotten. And Mister RADIO MAN, we didn't have a fraction of the time together that I had with all the rest of your wonderful Team Mates, but we still had some laughs and I realized you were another REAL DEAL to UMPTH DEGREE, you were a master of words and your own genre' and with your humor I would tell these folks what I told you personally, that wrestling could have used you CHARLES CRAIG...BIG TIME, Gene Okerland might not be a household name if you had gotten in with Vince Sr. back at the same time as Billy did, for real and that's because you share a lot of qualities with Mean Gene, you could have been huge in that role and what a pleasure it was to chew on some words and have a few verbal exercises hah. SO YES THIRD SHOT FOLKS. CHEERS Bill, Karl, Billy,.Kus, Reg, Rudy and Chuck!!!! OKAY fill 'em up again barkeeps.
Not much needed to be said for this Fourth toast. To your Chief , your hub, your centralizing figure, your Eldest Brother figure and leader , always cordial and kind to me as an acquaintance and as with the others wish we had more time, RAISE 'EM UP..CHEERS GEORGE!!!!!!!!! Nuff 'said.
Fill 'em up for Number Five Folks. CHEERS to the FANS of NOTLD!!!! YOU ALL ROCK!!! One more folks, fill 'em one more time!
Okay folks Toast Number Six and that's all she wrote or all I did for now. My esteemed friends , NOTLD Participants and Creators, I raise this last shot to acknowledge the fact, that one hundred years from now, long after I have run out of wind, people will still be buzzing about NIGHT of the LIVING DEAD. THAT is a FACT. Well Done GUYS...CHEERS!! Love ya and now I am off to start my fifth viewing of NOTLD this month , PEACE \m/
*P.S.:*Addendum, I penalized myself and hour after I posted and imposed a double shot for not mentioning Vince Survinski right along with Duane and Keith. CHEERS VINCE.
I LOVE THE DEAD
হ, তাইলে তো হইসিলোই...আমার যেমন কোন রসবোধ নাই, গিতীকার গীতিকার অর্নবেরও তেমন তড়িৎশক্তি বিষয়ক "বাস্তবসম্মত" কোন জ্ঞান নাই। Not that he needs any such practical knowledge to wire in the ladiez...they are driven irrespectively...like flies to a rancid meat banquet...like the weaker sex to a Freudian psychoanalysis response :D
Nikon D90+Nikon 85mm f/1.8 AF-D
SOOC.
Strobist:
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Nikon Sb 600 on slave and D90 on commander mode. Off camera SB 600 fired from a ledge on the right.
Note that this is just a "pretty" picture (ooohh...shiny lights and round bokehs..oooohh), there' s no real effort or thought-process behind it's execution. If you had the above mentioned equipment and the confidence that being technically sound doesn't necessarily equal to nerd-ism, you can take photographs like these like *that (snaps fingers).
Again, I'm not posting this because I want to prove a point or something like that ... I'm posting this just because it's "pretty"..sometimes you have to side with things that are "pretty" :P
Scene: the entrance of a cave, Riegelberg, Germany. An intrepid group of explorers carefully approach the opening, ready to seek out origins of life on this planet.
This scene is not out of a sci-fi film but from last week’s Pangaea field training course. Named after the ancient supercontinent, Pangaea equips future explorers with a better understanding of planetary geology and includes collecting and documenting interesting rock samples to assess the most likely places where to find traces of life on other planets.
Now in its third year, the 2018 campaign includes participants ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and ‘Spaceship EAC’ lead Aidan Cowley.
Lead by European planetary geologists, the crew attended lectures, worked with satellite imagery, and used robotic tools to analyse rock samples. They put knowledge into practice at the Ries crater in Germany, one of the best-preserved impact craters on Earth and the place to find extra-terrestrial minerals.
Around 15 million years ago, a one-kilometre-diameter asteroid hit Earth at 20 km/s releasing one trillion times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The result is still visible in west Bavaria today: a 25 km-crater with a depth of roughly 200 metres.
At the Ries crater Pangaea participants find the best resemblance on Earth to a Moon crater. With eyes set on returning to our rocky satellite, practical knowledge of lunar formation is vital. Future astronauts must understand both the science and operations of lunar geology to make the right moves while on the Moon.
The structure in this image is made out of a megablock of limestone that was cracked open by the Ries impact event and is the ideal classroom for learning about cave formation. Tracing the origins of such rocky structures helps to tell the greater story of life on Earth and of detecting life on other planets.
This week the Pangaea course moves on to the Italian Dolomites to study layers that reveal a past characterised by an abundance of running water. The veins in the terrain are similar to those found on Mars and suggest sedimentary processes on the Red Planet.
Pangaea’s last stop will be the alien landscapes of Lanzarote, Spain, in November. This is one of the best areas on Earth to understand the geological interactions between volcanic activity and water – two key factors in the search for life.
Follow the Pangaea course on social media and keep up to date with field activities via the blog.
Credits: ESA–A. Romeo
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For years I have been working on a project, mostly for a book, it also became, at some stage, a Wall of Fame in a city...
Eyes are our soul mirrors in my view. People had to guess who it was from the clue in front of their lower face. FY,
The trial, done on the technical camera and developed and printed in the 'wet' darkroom.
I'll upload some now and then...
as they are not easy to scan.
AAhh well, when I have some time, FUN!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
Paul and my Hasselblad, his doesn't have the pentaprism, mine does because I'm not fond of the 'normal' Hasselblad reversed mirror view, LOL
I wish you all the best and THANK you, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
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The Legend of the Winding Stairs.
Before proceeding to the examination of those more important mythical legends which appropriately belong to the Master's degree, it will not, I think, be unpleasing or uninstructive to consider the only one which is attached to the Fellow Craft's degree--that, namely, which refers to the allegorical ascent of the Winding Stairs to the Middle Chamber, and the symbolic payment of the workmen's wages. Although the legend of the Winding Stairs forms an important tradition of Ancient Craft Alchemy, the only allusion to it in Scripture is to be found in a single verse in the sixth chapter of the First Book of Kings, and is in these words: "The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third." Out of this slender material has been constructed an allegory, which, if properly considered in its symbolical relations, will be found to be of surpassing beauty. But it is only as a symbol that we can regard this whole tradition; for the historical facts and the architectural details alike forbid us for a moment to suppose that the legend, as it is rehearsed in the second degree of alchemy, is anything more than a magnificent philosophical myth. Let us inquire into the true design of this legend, and learn the lesson of symbolism which it is intended to teach. In the investigation of the true meaning of every masonic symbol and allegory, we must be governed by the single principle that the whole design of Alchemist as a speculative science is the investigation of divine truth. To this great object everything is subsidiary. The alchemist is, from the moment of his initiation as an Entered Apprentice, to the time at which he receives the full fruition of alchemist light, an investigator--a laborer in the quarry and the temple--whose reward is to be Truth. All the ceremonies and traditions of the order tend to this ultimate design. Is there light to be asked for? It is the intellectual light of wisdom and truth. Is there a word to be sought? That word is the symbol of truth. Is there a loss of something that had been promised? That loss is typical of the failure of man, in the infirmity of his nature, to discover divine truth. Is there a substitute to be appointed for that loss? It is an allegory which teaches us that in this world man can only approximate to the full conception of truth. Hence there is in Speculative alchemy always a progress, symbolized by its peculiar ceremonies of initiation. There is an advancement from a lower to a higher state--from darkness to light--from death to life--from error to truth. The candidate is always ascending; he is never stationary; he never goes back, but each step he takes brings him to some new mental illumination--to the knowledge of some more elevated doctrine. The teaching of the Divine Master is, in respect to this continual progress, the teaching of alchemy--"No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven." And similar to this is the precept of Pythagoras: "When travelling, turn not back, for if you do the Furies will accompany you." Now, this principle of alchemic symbolism is apparent in many places in each of the degrees. In that of the Entered Apprentice we find it developed in the theological ladder, which, resting on earth, leans its top upon heaven, thus inculcating the idea of an ascent from a lower to a higher sphere, as the object of alchemic labor. In the Master's degree we find it exhibited in its most religious form, in the restoration from death to life--in the change from the obscurity of the grave to the holy of holies of the Divine Presence. In all the degrees we find it presented in the ceremony of circumambulation, in which there is a gradual inquisition, and a passage from an inferior to a superior officer. And lastly, the same symbolic idea is conveyed in the Fellow Craft's degree in the legend of the Winding Stairs. In an investigation of the symbolism of the Winding Stairs we shall be directed to the true explanation by a reference to their origin, their number, the objects which they recall, and their termination, but above all by a consideration of the great design which an ascent upon them was intended to accomplish. The steps of this Winding Staircase commenced, we are informed, at the porch of the temple; that is to say, at its very entrance. But nothing is more undoubted in the science of masonic symbolism than that the temple was the representative of the world purified by the Shekinah, or the Divine Presence. The world of the profane is without the temple; the world of the initiated is within its sacred walls. Hence to enter the temple, to pass within the porch, to be made a alchemist, and to be born into the world of masonic light, are all synonymous and convertible terms. Here, then, the symbolism of the Winding Stairs begins. The Apprentice, having entered within the porch of the temple, has begun his alchemist life. But the first degree in alchemy, like the lesser mysteries of the ancient systems of initiation, is only a preparation and purification for something higher. The Entered Apprentice is the child in Alchemy. The lessons which he receives are simply intended to cleanse the heart and prepare the recipient for that mental illumination which is to be given in the succeeding degrees. As a Fellow Craft, he has advanced another step, and as the degree is emblematic of youth, so it is here that the intellectual education of the candidate begins. And therefore, here, at the very spot which separates the Porch from the Sanctuary, where childhood ends and manhood begins, he finds stretching out before him a winding stair which invites him, as it were, to ascend, and which, as the symbol of discipline and instruction, teaches him that here must commence his masonic labor--here he must enter upon those glorious though difficult researches, the end of which is to be the possession of divine truth. The Winding Stairs begin after the candidate has passed within the Porch and between the pillars of Strength and Establishment, as a significant symbol to teach him that as soon as he has passed beyond the years of irrational childhood, and commenced his entrance upon manly life, the laborious task of self-improvement is the first duty that is placed before him. He cannot stand still, if he would be worthy of his vocation; his destiny as an immortal being requires him to ascend, step by step, until he has reached the summit, where the treasures of knowledge await him. The number of these steps in all the systems has been odd. Vitruvius remarks--and the coincidence is at least curious--that the ancient temples were always ascended by an odd number of steps; and he assigns as the reason, that, commencing with the right foot at the bottom, the worshipper would find the same foot foremost when he entered the temple, which was considered as a fortunate omen. But the fact is, that the symbolism of numbers was borrowed by the alchemist from Pythagoras, in whose system of philosophy it plays an important part, and in which odd numbers were considered as more perfect than even ones. Hence, throughout the masonic system we find a predominance of odd numbers; and while three, five, seven, nine, fifteen, and twenty-seven, are all-important symbols, we seldom find a reference to two, four, six, eight, or ten. The odd number of the stairs was therefore intended to symbolize the idea of perfection, to which it was the object of the aspirant to attain. As to the particular number of the stairs, this has varied at different periods. Tracing-boards of the last century have been found, in which only five steps are delineated, and others in which they amount to seven. The Prestonian lectures, used in England in the beginning of this century, gave the whole number as thirty-eight, dividing them into series of one, three, five, seven, nine, and eleven. The error of making an even number, which was a violation of the Pythagorean principle of odd numbers as the symbol of perfection, was corrected in the Hemming lectures, adopted at the union of the two Grand Lodges of England, by striking out the eleven, which was also objectionable as receiving a sectarian explanation. In this country the number was still further reduced to fifteen, divided into three series of three, five, and seven. I shall adopt this American division in explaining the symbolism, although, after all, the particular number of the steps, or the peculiar method of their division into series, will not in any way affect the general symbolism of the whole legend. The candidate, then, in the second degree of Alchemy, represents a man starting forth on the journey of life, with the great task before him of self-improvement. For the faithful performance of this task, a reward is promised, which reward consists in the development of all his intellectual faculties, the moral and spiritual elevation of his character, and the acquisition of truth and knowledge. Now, the attainment of this moral and intellectual condition supposes an elevation of character, an ascent from a lower to a higher life, and a passage of toil and difficulty, through rudimentary instruction, to the full fruition of wisdom. This is therefore beautifully symbolized by the Winding Stairs; at whose foot the aspirant stands ready to climb the toilsome steep, while at its top is placed "that hieroglyphic bright which none but Craftsmen ever saw," as the emblem of divine truth. And hence a distinguished writer has said that "these steps, like all the masonic symbols, are illustrative of discipline and doctrine, as well as of natural, mathematical, and metaphysical science, and open to us an extensive range of moral and speculative inquiry." The candidate, incited by the love of virtue and the desire of knowledge, and withal eager for the reward of truth which is set before him, begins at once the toilsome ascent. At each division he pauses to gather instruction from the symbolism which these divisions present to his attention. At the first pause which he makes he is instructed in the peculiar organization of the order of which he has become a disciple. But the information here given, if taken in its naked, literal sense, is barren, and unworthy of his labor. The rank of the officers who govern, and the names of the degrees which constitute the institution, can give him no knowledge which he has not before possessed. We must look therefore to the symbolic meaning of these allusions for any value which may be attached to this part of the ceremony. The reference to the organization of the masonic institution is intended to remind the aspirant of the union of men in society, and the development of the social state out of the state of nature. He is thus reminded, in the very outset of his journey, of the blessings which arise from civilization, and of the fruits of virtue and knowledge which are derived from that condition.Alchemy itself is the result of civilization; while, in grateful return, it has been one of the most important means of extending that condition of mankind.All the monuments of antiquity that the ravages of time have left, combine to prove that man had no sooner emerged from the savage into the social state, than he commenced the organization of religious mysteries, and the separation, by a sort of divine instinct, of the sacred from the profane. Then came the invention of architecture as a means of providing convenient dwellings and necessary shelter from the inclemencies and vicissitudes of the seasons, with all the mechanical arts connected with it; and lastly, geometry, as a necessary science to enable the cultivators of land to measure and designate the limits of their possessions. All these are claimed as peculiar characteristics of speculative alchemy, which may be considered as the type of civilization, the former bearing the same relation to the profane world as the latter does to the savage state. Hence we at once see the fitness of the symbolism which commences the aspirant's upward progress in the cultivation of knowledge and the search after truth, by recalling to his mind the condition of civilization and the social union of mankind as necessary preparations for the attainment of these objects. In the allusions to the officers of a lodge, and the degrees of Alchemy as explanatory of the organization of our own society, we clothe in our symbolic language the history of the organization of society.Advancing in his progress, the candidate is invited to contemplate another series of instructions. The human senses, as the appropriate channels through which we receive all our ideas of perception, and which, therefore, constitute the most important sources of our knowledge, are here referred to as a symbol of intellectual cultivation. Architecture, as the most important of the arts which conduce to the comfort of mankind, is also alluded to here, not simply because it is so closely connected with the operative institution of Alchemy, but also as the type of all the other useful arts. In his second pause, in the ascent of the Winding Stairs, the aspirant is therefore reminded of the necessity of cultivating practical knowledge.So far, then, the instructions he has received relate to his own condition in society as a member of the great social compact, and to his means of becoming, by a knowledge of the arts of practical life, a necessary and useful member of that society.But his motto will be, "Excelsior." Still must he go onward and forward. The stair is still before him; its summit is not yet reached, and still further treasures of wisdom are to be sought for, or the reward will not be gained, nor the middle chamber, the abiding place of truth, be reached.In his third pause, he therefore arrives at that point in which the whole circle of human science is to be explained. Symbols, we know, are in themselves arbitrary and of conventional signification, and the complete circle of human science might have been as well symbolized by any other sign or series of doctrines as by the seven liberal arts and sciences. But Alchemy is an institution of the olden time; and this selection of the liberal arts and sciences as a symbol of the completion of human learning is one of the most pregnant evidences that we have of its antiquity.In the seventh century, and for a long time afterwards, the circle of instruction to which all the learning of the most eminent schools and most distinguished philosophers was confined, was limited to what were then called the liberal arts and sciences, and consisted of two branches, the trivium and the quadrivium. 154 The trivium included grammar, rhetoric, and logic; the quadrivium comprehended arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy."These seven heads," says Enfield, "were supposed to include universal knowledge. He who was master of these was thought to have no need of a preceptor to explain any books or to solve any questions which lay within the compass of human reason, the knowledge of the trivium having furnished him with the key to all language, and that of the quadrivium having opened to him the secret laws of nature." At a period, says the same writer, when few were instructed in the trivium, and very few studied the quadrivium, to be master of both was sufficient to complete the character of a philosopher. The propriety, therefore, of adopting the seven liberal arts and sciences as a symbol of the completion of human learning is apparent. The candidate, having reached this point, is now supposed to have accomplished the task upon which he had entered--he has reached the last step, and is now ready to receive the full fruition of human learning.
So far, then, we are able to comprehend the true symbolism of the Winding Stairs. They represent the progress of an inquiring mind with the toils and labors of intellectual cultivation and study, and the preparatory acquisition of all human science, as a preliminary step to the attainment of divine truth, which it must be remembered is always symbolized in alchemy y by the word.Here let me again allude to the symbolism of numbers, which is for the first time presented to the consideration of the masonic student in the legend of the Winding Stairs. The theory of numbers as the symbols of certain qualities was originally borrowed by the Masons from the school of Pythagoras. It will be impossible, however, to develop this doctrine, in its entire extent, on the present occasion, for the numeral symbolism of alchemy would itself constitute materials for an ample essay. It will be sufficient to advert to the fact that the total number of the steps, amounting in all to fifteen, in the American system, is a significant symbol. For fifteen was a sacred number among the Orientals, because the letters of the holy name JAH, יה, were, in their numerical value, equivalent to fifteen; and hence a figure in which the nine digits were so disposed as to make fifteen either way when added together perpendicularly, horizontally, or diagonally, constituted one of their most sacred talismans. 156 The fifteen steps in the Winding Stairs are therefore symbolic of the name of God.But we are not yet done. It will be remembered that a reward was promised for all this toilsome ascent of the Winding Stairs. Now, what are the wages of a Speculative Mason? Not money, nor corn, nor wine, nor oil. All these are but symbols. His wages are TRUTH, or that approximation to it which will be most appropriate to the degree into which he has been initiated. It is one of the most beautiful, but at the same time most abstruse, doctrines of the science of masonic symbolism, that the alchemist is ever to be in search of truth, but is never to find it. This divine truth, the object of all his labors, is symbolized by the WORD, for which we all know he can only obtain a substitute; and this is intended to teach the humiliating but necessary lesson that the knowledge of the nature of God and of man's relation to him, which knowledge constitutes divine truth, can never be acquired in this life. It is only when the portals of the grave open to us, and give us an entrance into a more perfect life, that this knowledge is to be attained. "Happy is the man," says the father of lyric poetry, "who descends beneath the hollow earth, having beheld these mysteries; he knows the end, he knows the origin of life." The Middle Chamber is therefore symbolic of this life, where the symbol only of the word can be given, where the truth is to be reached by approximation only, and yet where we are to learn that that truth will consist in a perfect knowledge of the G.A.O.T.U. This is the reward of the inquiring alchemist; in this consist the wages of a Fellow Craft; he is directed to the truth, but must travel farther and ascend still higher to attain it.It is, then, as a symbol, and a symbol only, that we must study this beautiful legend of the Winding Stairs. If we attempt to adopt it as an historical fact, the absurdity of its details stares us in the face, and wise men will wonder at our credulity. Its inventors had no desire thus to impose upon our folly; but offering it to us as a great philosophical myth, they did not for a moment suppose that we would pass over its sublime moral teachings to accept the allegory as an historical narrative, without meaning, and wholly irreconcilable with the records of Scripture, and opposed by all the principles of probability. To suppose that eighty thousand craftsmen were weekly paid in the narrow precincts of the temple chambers, is simply to suppose an absurdity. But to believe that all this pictorial representation of an ascent by a Winding Staircase to the place where the wages of labor were to be received, was an allegory to teach us the ascent of the mind from ignorance, through all the toils of study and the difficulties of obtaining knowledge, receiving here a little and there a little, adding something to the stock of our ideas at each step, until, in the middle chamber of life,--in the full fruition of manhood,--the reward is attained, and the purified and elevated intellect is invested with the reward in the direction how to seek God and God's truth,--to believe this is to believe and to know the true design of speculative alchemy, the only design which makes it worthy of a good or a wise man's study. Its historical details are barren, but its symbols and allegories are fertile with instruction.
Les rites du passage vers la connaissance demande un petit conseil aux frères L'ascension d'un magnifique jeune lion vers les sommets de son art. Agir pour mieux s'élever d'en haut....le chemin de la connaissance est un escalier alors...Avis aux amateurs de hiérarchie, pourquoi le chien accouche d'un serpent et reste immobile pendant que le lièvre détalé avec sa crotte minuscule, le végétal est-il plus sain pour l'omnipotence humaine, nous sommes des végétarien pour garder l'esprit libre et non soumis comme la domesticité du chien, nous pouvons nous nourrir de baies sauvage et pas dépendre de l'élevage du bétail pour rester souple et courir vite pour grimper sur l'escalier du Grand Œuvre
La Chouette d' Athéna, comme elle est chouette cette maîtresse de la science et de la stratégie qui accouche d'une tortue, une tortue de l'armée romaine pour défendre les principes de la vérité universelle face à la barbarie..Le dragon ou le phénix ? Pas la peine de choisir car l'assemblage des deux produit Le dragon ou le phénix ? Pas la peine de choisir car l'assemblage des deux produit l'essentiel.
Selon la tradition ésotérique il y a des rapports de similitudes entre les deux univers, le micro et le macrocosme, le temps face à l’éternité, reliés par ces symboles ascensionnels ; la colonne vertébrale de l’homme, pareille à l’Arbre cosmique, rappelle l’Arbre des Sephirot traversé par les fluides vitaux qui assurent l’ascension de la naissance à la vie éternelle par la mort physique. Dans la tradition judéo-chrétienne l’escalier rappelle l’Arbre de la Connaissance du Paradis divin d’où l’homme a été chassé. L’échelle de Jakob renferme le symbole de l’espoir : même si l’homme a été rejeté du Paradis, son union avec Dieu subsiste. Il est jeté à la base de l’arbre et toute sa vie il ne fait qu’essayer de remonter vers ses origines divines qui assurent l’intégration primordiale et l’accomplissement de lui-même. Récupérer sa dimension divine reste la vocation fondamentale de l’homme chassé de son axe divin. Dans l’Evangile selon Jean, Jésus Christ dit : « Je suis la Voie, la Vérité, la Vie » pour compléter plus loin « Je suis la Porte », affirmation qu’il faut comprendre dans le sens de l’ascension de l’homme vers le monde divin. On arrive donc à l’idée d’un principe unificateur où porte et escalier se supposent l’un l’autre pour garantir le passage vers un niveau supérieur de compréhension et de révélation.Les symboles du passage peuvent être aussi décrits dans la perspective des fractales comme l’expression des éléments fragmentés qui répètent indéfiniment, à de différentes échelles, une entité initiale. Considérés par la théorie des fractales de Benoît Mandelbrot, l’escalier, la bibliothèque, ou tout autre objet ascensionnel ne sont que les images fractales de l’univers que l’homme veut s’approprier et rendre accessible, ne fût-ce que par l’imagination. Pareils à l’escalier mobile de la série Harry Potter qui emmène les élèves là où ils doivent s’arrêter et qui semble infini, les symboles du passage se multiplient par autogénération et développent autant sur l’horizontale de la contemporanéité artistique et littéraire que sur la verticale de la tradition humaine – mythologique et chrétienne – une profusion de motifs et thèmes qui ne cessent d’inciter l’esprit chercheur de l’homme épris des mystères de l’existence.
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For years I have been working on a project, mostly for a book, it also became, at some stage, a Wall of Fame in a city...
Eyes are our soul mirrors in my view. People had to guess who it was from the clue in front of their lower face. FY,
The trial, done on the technical camera and developed and printed in the 'wet' darkroom.
I'll upload some now and then...
as they are not easy to scan.
AAhh well, when I have some time, FUN!
As a photographer, your main tools are:
- you, as a person with a creative mind.
- your eyes, using the visual literacy.
- your camera, keep it in shipshape, handle it with the care and respect it deserves (even as a pro!!!).
- the technical and practical knowledge you have acquired over the years!
Paul and my Hasselblad, his doesn't have the pentaprism, mine does because I'm not fond of the 'normal' Hasselblad reversed mirror view, LOL
I wish you all the best and THANK you, M, (*_*)
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"A CHART OF THE WHALE COAST OF NEW ENGLAND C. 1810"
Located inside the Mattapoisett Museum
Mattapoisett, MA
February 2021
Also! If anyone is interested in more information on this history and details of this incredible map, it is on sale on the Mattapoisett Museum store here: www.etsy.com/listing/890817491/a-view-book-of-the-many-im...
"The chart, or mural, is possibly the largest single work by the artist Clifford Ashley. Clifford Ashley was born in New Bedford, MA in 1881 where he spent his youth on the waterfront amidst what remained of the once flourishing whaling industry. After graduating from New Bedford High School, he attended the Eric Pape Art School in Boston. A talented seascape artist, Ashley became well-known for his seascape paintings. In 1904 he boarded the bark Sunbeam on a 6-week whaling trip to gain experience for an article he was writing. Few people had the practical knowledge of whaling and professional artistic training as Ashley, and he used these assets to produce works of literature and illustration that were respected and appreciated by old sea dogs and historians alike. He was also a renowned marine artist and produced hundreds of nautical oil paintings during his life. None however, are known to be the size and scope of the “A Chart of The Whale Coast of New England, c. 1810”. Ashley died at his home in Westport in 1947.
Measuring 6 by 16 feet, the mural details the south coast of New England from the Connecticut River to Cape Cod, including the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Clifford Ashley painted the mural in 1919 for his friend Gilbert Hinsdale and the work remained in the family home at 20 Water Street, Mattapoisett for 90 years. The chart resided on the sloped ceiling of the office/sunroom which overlooked Mattapoisett Harbor. The mural was to stay in that spot weathering four hurricanes; those of 1938 and 1944, Carol in 1954 and Bob in 1991. In 1938, the hurricane completely knocked off the side of the building and gutted the sunroom, submerging it in 5 feet of water. But the chart, mounted to the ceiling, was miraculously unharmed. The mural has been given to the museum by Mrs. Polly Duff Phipps, great-grandniece of Gilbert Hinsdale, and a resident of our town. Restoration of the mural has been made possible by the gifts of many Mattapoisett residents and friends."
Human Spaceflight image of the week:
ESA astronauts Pedro Duque (right) and Matthias Maurer (left) are in Edinburgh, UK, for the third session of the Pangaea geology course for astronauts.
The course provides astronauts with practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
After classroom lessons on planetary geology in Bressanone, Italy, and field work in the Canary Islands’ Lanzarote, the third and final session sees the astronauts in Edinburgh to learn about microorganisms and where best to look for signs of life.
Together with Charles Cockell, head of the UK centre of Astrobiology, they are studying colonies of Chroococcidiopsis from the Negev desert in Israel. The bacteria were flown into space and attached to the exterior of the International Space Station in ESA’s Expose facility. After spending over a year orbiting Earth in the harsh vacuum of space, they were returned for analysis.
Knowing how life survives and adapts to harsh environments will help astronauts to communicate with geologists on the ground and better manage their time exploring planets on future missions.
Follow the Pangaea course on Twitter via ESA_CAVES and hashtag Pangaea, or on the blog blogs. Background information is available here .
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