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ISTANBUL, TURKEY - 24 May 2016: Sorcha O'Callaghan, Head of Humanitarian Policy at the British Red Cross, attends the High-Level Leaders’ Roundtable “Women and Girls: Catalyzing Action to Achieve Gender Equality” held in the World Humanitarian Summit. OCHA / Berk Ozkan
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Etsy's product design principles presented by Cap Watkins (@cap) at HybridConf 2013. Cap discussed the principles of product design and gave some great insight into the inner workings of Etsy's design team
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - 24 MAY 2016: Manuel Bessler, Head of the Swiss government’s Humanitarian Aid Unit attends the Special Session on “Humanitarian Principles” within the World Humanitarian Summit. OCHA / Berk Ozkan
Epic 45SURF t-shirts & hoodies for your EPIC HERO'S ODYSSEY!
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My book on Epic Landscape Photography!
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Photographing the Venus Archetype!
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Greetings mate! As many of you know, I love marrying art, science, and math in my fine art portrait and landscape photography!
The 45surf and gold 45 revolver swimsuits, shirts, logos, designs, and lingerie are designed in accordance with the golden ratio! More about the design and my philosophy of "no retouching" on the beautiful goddesses in my new book:
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"Photographing Women Models: Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype"
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Epic Landscape Photography! New Book!
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And here's more on the golden ratio which appears in many of my landscape and portrait photographs (while shaping the proportions of the golden gun)!
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The dx4/dt=ic above the gun on the lingerie derives from my new physics books devoted to Light, Time, Dimension Theory!
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Beautiful swimsuit bikini model goddess!
Golden Ratio Lingerie Model Goddess LTD Theory Lingerie dx4/dt=ic! The Birth of Venus, Athena, and Artemis! Girls and Guns!
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I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
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The Golden Ratio informs a lot of my art and photographic composition. The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo! Not so long ago, I came up with the Golden Ratio Principle which describes why The Golden Ratio is so beautiful.
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
The Birth of Venus! Beautiful Golden Ratio Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! Helen of Troy! She was tall, thin, fit, and quite pretty!
Read all about how classical art such as The Birth of Venus inspires all my photography!
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"Photographing Women Models: Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype"
The Compass Principles offer aspirational guidelines for what constitute quality in innovation and execution of basic financial services—those that allow people to transact, borrow, save and plan in ways that are beneficial to the consumer and profitable for industry.
This poster uses almost perfect vertical symmetry in its design. The small Mickey Mouse head at the top of the poster marks the dividing point. From there, the word "Twenty" is split, three letters on each side. The number 13 roughly follows the line. This pattern continues all the way down, to the second Mickey head, banners, circles, and all other design elements in the background and foreground.
This poster was part of a 2013 calendar collection from the Disneyland Resort. Photograph by me.
Scanning negatives from 'first principles' ; PHOTAX test negative / the negative was illuminated by simply laying it flat on a light box, then photographed with a Canon G9 power shot digital camera (camera held rigid on a copy stand) The image was uploaded onto an iPad mini and then edited on the iPad using the Snap Seed application : I reversed the image from negative to positive (seen here) by using the 'curves' facility of the Snap Seed app. Considering the primitive nature of the scanning method it's a reasonable result and offers a way to get negative images onto internet media sites (such as Flickr).
MG SV-R at Curborough in 2003
Designed by Peter Stevens of McLaren F1 fame it uses similar race car principles with a finely tuned chassis and carbon fibre body with Integral roll cage, they were constructed in the heartland of the Italian Super Car Industry "Modena" then shipped back to the UK for final completion by MG at their approved Midlands factory suppliers QCR Motors, XK Engineering and KC Ryan.
MG chose the acclaimed, bullet proof, tried and tested Ford SVT 4.6 V8 320bhp and 301lb engine as used in the Mustang to power the MG with a 5 Speed Manual Tremec Gearbox and Dana Limited Slip Differential. Brembo took care of the Braking with Bosch ABS and a switchable Ford traction control is also incorporated. Normal creature comforts feature, including Air Conditioning, Electric Seats, Adjustable Steering Column, Electric Windows and Door Mirrors. MG race heritage inspired fitment of a unique 3 point inertia seat belts which locks at the flick of a switch!
There is Performance aplenty on tap, Indeed the MG Power SV topped 200mph in testing at Nardo and Ex Formula 1 Drive Mark Blundell said " The MG XPower SV is aggressive and raw and at the same time stylish and refined. I have driven many of the worlds top sports cars and this car is in the same league from the unique sound of the exhaust to the precision steering this car has all the qualities I look for in a sports car "
The Directors of MG Sport & Racing said the the MG XPower combines high reserves of power and motor racing features and it is a true race car which has been built for the road. Its the ultimate MG!
Autocar road test stated ..... "The brakes are sensational; 355mm and 310mm cross-drilled and ventilated Brembo discs that give a crisp, immediate response and don't go off, neither on the road nor on the track.
The ride is also remarkably fluid for a car with such a hard-core billing, helped by those 18-inch rims with 40-profile Michelin Pilot Sports. But if you want a car to ride and handle well, double wishbones attached to a stiff, light chassis are about the best way to start. You can feel how rigid the chassis is on the road and feel the suspension being allowed to work the way it should. The ride is supple and quiet without being disconnected, and the steering is quick and accurate in its response without being in any way nervous.
There's plenty of feel, too, helped by the thin-rimmed Momo wheel (not a standard item - production versions getting a better-finished four-spoker), and the net result is that you can guide this broad bruiser down tight roads with far greater pace and confidence than its size suggests. The only aspect of the chassis to be exposed on the road is the damping; a series of undulations taken at sufficient speed will eventually get the back end to move and make you lift. But otherwise, this is a well-judged package for British roads; a proper and ballsy driver's machine, very much in the traditional sense"
Cost £65,750 pus options
These four boys have received the right to portray the four principles of the OA ceremony. They each have intensely studied what each fictional character represents, and by donning the clothing of these characters they symbollicly become that person. As a past ceremonialist myself, I know the dedication and work that goes into performing ceremonies, and I wish to salute these boys' efforts.
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States it became abundantly clear to the Western world that there was a new and pernicious nemesis in town. Radical Islamic suicide bombers had jolted us out of our torpor as we confronted the stark and frightening realization that our cherished democratic values, principles, code of ethics and very lifestyle were in existential danger.
In order to eradicate the visceral feelings of resentment of Muslims that were consuming the psyches of Americans and other westerners, the media, along with those in academic and "politically correct" circles initiated a campaign of "re-education". Extolling the virtues of the religion called Islam, they put forth the notion that Islam is a religion of peace; a religion that places a sacred value on the sanctity of life. We were told that only a few extreme "radical Jihadists" belonging to an obscure organization called al-Qaeda were responsible for tainting and maligning the purity of Islam.
Wafa Sultan, an ex-Muslim dissident who trained as a psychiatrist in Syria, and an American author and critic of Muslim society and Islam, offers a wholly different take on this sophistical premise in her new book "A God Who Hates" as she portrays a searing portrait of Muslim culture. The subtitle of the book describes Sultan as "the courageous woman who inflamed the Muslim world" as she "speaks out against the evils of Islam."
Having grown up in a devoutly Muslim home in Syria, she recalls her very personal stories of the barbarism of Islam and how it impacted on her and her family. Being born female in a Muslim culture that enforces a male hegemony, Sultan recalls the humiliating degradation imposed on her grandmother, mother and sisters who were virtual slaves to their husbands and their fathers. Contempt and loathing for women permeates the Muslim world in which Muslim men brazenly murder their womenfolk for alleged transgressions of Sharia law.
“The Jews have come from the tragedy of the Holocaust and forced the world to respect them, their knowledge, not with their terror; with their work, not with crying and yelling. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.”
Wafa Sultan is not a Jew, but she has experienced the degrading treatment and lack of respect for life that is characteristic of the Muslim society and Islam. Let’s remember to pray for those who speak against the brutal treatment of others. We need even more to pray for the peace and protection of Jerusalem (Psalm122:6).
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The principles mound is headed by the august bodies of the W3C (the the MIT Great Dome) and the Ietf (the greybeards as greek gods). Singled out are the key principles which lead to the success of the Web: Cool URIs Don't Change, Safety, Jon Postel's law "be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept" otherwise known as The Robustness Principle, the IETF mantra "rough consensus and running Code", the separation of content from representation and finally the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle's famous The Network is Stupid paper.
I'm exploring the various design principles in terms of styling. This is my attempt at playing with scale.
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Former Foreign Office Minister James Duddridge at the Annual Plenary Meeting of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative, 17 March 2015, London.
MG SV-R at Curborough in 2003
Designed by Peter Stevens of McLaren F1 fame it uses similar race car principles with a finely tuned chassis and carbon fibre body with Integral roll cage, they were constructed in the heartland of the Italian Super Car Industry "Modena" then shipped back to the UK for final completion by MG at their approved Midlands factory suppliers QCR Motors, XK Engineering and KC Ryan.
MG chose the acclaimed, bullet proof, tried and tested Ford SVT 4.6 V8 320bhp and 301lb engine as used in the Mustang to power the MG with a 5 Speed Manual Tremec Gearbox and Dana Limited Slip Differential. Brembo took care of the Braking with Bosch ABS and a switchable Ford traction control is also incorporated. Normal creature comforts feature, including Air Conditioning, Electric Seats, Adjustable Steering Column, Electric Windows and Door Mirrors. MG race heritage inspired fitment of a unique 3 point inertia seat belts which locks at the flick of a switch!
There is Performance aplenty on tap, Indeed the MG Power SV topped 200mph in testing at Nardo and Ex Formula 1 Drive Mark Blundell said " The MG XPower SV is aggressive and raw and at the same time stylish and refined. I have driven many of the worlds top sports cars and this car is in the same league from the unique sound of the exhaust to the precision steering this car has all the qualities I look for in a sports car "
The Directors of MG Sport & Racing said the the MG XPower combines high reserves of power and motor racing features and it is a true race car which has been built for the road. Its the ultimate MG!
Autocar road test stated ..... "The brakes are sensational; 355mm and 310mm cross-drilled and ventilated Brembo discs that give a crisp, immediate response and don't go off, neither on the road nor on the track.
The ride is also remarkably fluid for a car with such a hard-core billing, helped by those 18-inch rims with 40-profile Michelin Pilot Sports. But if you want a car to ride and handle well, double wishbones attached to a stiff, light chassis are about the best way to start. You can feel how rigid the chassis is on the road and feel the suspension being allowed to work the way it should. The ride is supple and quiet without being disconnected, and the steering is quick and accurate in its response without being in any way nervous.
There's plenty of feel, too, helped by the thin-rimmed Momo wheel (not a standard item - production versions getting a better-finished four-spoker), and the net result is that you can guide this broad bruiser down tight roads with far greater pace and confidence than its size suggests. The only aspect of the chassis to be exposed on the road is the damping; a series of undulations taken at sufficient speed will eventually get the back end to move and make you lift. But otherwise, this is a well-judged package for British roads; a proper and ballsy driver's machine, very much in the traditional sense"
Cost £65,750 pus options
Steel Rails
Their history, properties, strength and manufacture
With notes on the principles of rolling stock and track design
By William H. Sellew
1913
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this was the same textbook I used in my junior high science class... I found one at a yard sale sometime ago and have been using it to make fun little cards!
My Epic Gear Guide for Epic Landscapes & Portraits!
Everyone is always asking me for this! Here ya go! :)
Epic books, prints, & more!
Epic High Resolution Malibu Sunset! Malibu Sea Cave Sunset California Socal Photography! Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography: Light Beams & Dr. Elliot McGucken Epic Fine Art! High Res!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's . . . !
My fine art photography graces my physics books!
Regarding the award-winning physicist Dr. Elliot McGucken at Princeton University, the late John Archibald Wheeler stated, "More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken's I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet."
Dr. E would go on to heal the blind with his NSF-funded, award-winning Ph.D. dissertation which also laid down the foundations of Light Time Dimension Theory. Over the years, LTD Theory added foundational *physical* postulates, principles, and equations en route to becoming numerous books, with this one forming the simple, illustrated introduction.
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
Epic Art & Gear for your Epic Hero's Odyssey:
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The great thing about the beach is that it presents an entirely different universe from season to season, from day to day, from hour to hour, from second to second, with the ever changing wind, tides, clouds, and sun. A split second with tumbling surf and a sinking sun can make a vast different, resulting in entirely different photographs.
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Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic...
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
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Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
High-level Event to launch the Principles for Responsible Banking
Remarks by the Secretary-General
Principles for Responsible banking, CEO’s signing agreement to do responsible banking
Epic Fine Art Malibu Seascape Landscape Photography: Elliot McGucken Fine Art Nature Photography!
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
Couple of posters revealing Dieter Ram's principles with graphics based on his Braun ET 55 calculator.
Golden Principles Of #VastuShastra
Lord #Vishwakarma has developed and given us the Vastu Shastra for the upliftment of the society.
Following are some of the golden principles of Vastu Shastra :
Shape of the #plot should be either rectangular or square.
#Doors facing south are not at all advisable.
House next to #temple or grave-yard should be avoided.
All #doors and #windows facing east and north should be kept open in daytime whereas those facing south and west should be kept closed when not in use.
While sleeping head should be kept in south or west direction.
One should use light #colors for Bedroom walls, bed-sheets, and nightdress.
The seating arrangement in drawing room should be such that person seating faces either north or east only.
South, west or southwest directions are advisable for electronic instruments and apparatus.
Important cupboards should be kept in such a way that the person opening it should face south direction.
Puja room should be kept in northeast.
Kitchen should be kept in southeast or in northwest only. Person should face east or north when cooking.
Everybody should face east or north while eating.
In this photo, there are many ecological principles at play but I will only shed light on a few. First, in this photo there are two primary species I will focus on and they are the Tillandsia usneoide (common name Spanish Moss) and what I believe to be the Quercus virginiania (Southern Live Oak). I found these two species in Downtown Wilmington, on Market street. In this photo, it is important to know that this tree is located in a very humid climate, in which provides an essential ecological niche for both tree and angiosperm (the Spanish moss is commonly misperceived to be a moss, but it is indeed an angiosperm). The Spanish moss is an epiphyte which means it acquires its nutrients and water supply mainly through the air, which is why a humid climate is essential to it's survival. They also acquire many nutrients from their "friends", as the Southern live oak is rich in their rates of foliar mineral leaching. This means that the Southern live oak provides an abundant supply of nutrients that are essential to the Spanish moss. This is why you can always find the Spanish moss living with the Southern live oak. Many people believe that the "moss" harms the trees but I will lay that myth to rest as the Spanish moss does not act as a parasite to the tree. The only way for the Spanish moss to harm the tree is when they become too dense for sunlight to reach the tree's leaves which lowers the trees photosynthetic rates and in turn harms the tree. These two species live harmoniously and are very abundant here in Wilmington due to our humid climate.
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Millbrook, New York
Reference number: 100004333
Innisfree is a public garden of approximately 200 acres, blending Japanese, Chinese, Modern, and ecological design principles in Millbrook, a rural area roughly in the center of Dutchess County, New York. Innisfree’s distinctive sloping, rocky landscape, which forms the literal and visual foundation for the garden, is set within a natural bowl wrapping around the 40-acre Tyrrel Lake. This bowl, with no other signs of human intervention visible beyond the garden, creates a profound sense of intimacy and privacy at Innisfree that is one of its defining characteristics. A product of postwar ideas in American landscape architecture, Innisfree merges the essence of Modernist and Romantic ideas with traditional Chinese and Japanese garden design principles in a form that evolved through subtle, sculptural handling of the site and slow, science-based manipulation of its ecology. The result is a distinctly American stroll garden organized around placemaking techniques used in ancient Chinese villa gardens and described as “cup gardens.”
Innisfree, one of the largest intact modern designed landscapes in America, is the masterwork of Lester Collins (1914-1993), a seminal figure in American twentieth century landscape architecture. Lester Collins, fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, was one of the most sought-after designers and influential educators of his generation. Innisfree’s design reflects the philosophies and practices that guided Collins’s approach throughout his career, integrates innovative, sometimes truly groundbreaking horticultural and environmental engineering practices, and embodies the distinctive characteristics of postwar Modernist landscape architecture.
Innisfree began as the private estate of Walter and Marion Beck, who started initial work on the garden during the early 1930s. Starting in 1938, they continued its development in collaboration with and under the direction of Lester Collins. In 1960, following the deaths of the Becks and pursuant to their wishes, Collins transformed Innisfree from a private estate garden into a substantially larger, more nuanced public garden. He ran the public
garden while continuing to gradually develop and transform the landscape until his death in 1993.
Innisfree demonstrates Collins’s focus on the experience of people in the landscape; his ability to respond adroitly to the particularities of site and program; his approach and aesthetics as a Modernist; his scholarly understanding of landscape history, particularly of Romantic, Chinese, and Japanese gardens; and his innovative use of scientific and engineering principles to develop an environmentally and economically sustainable landscape. Innisfree has long been a mecca for designers from all over the world and it is now attracting similar attention from the global horticultural
community.
The primary features of Innisfree’s design are its principal cup gardens (loosely understood as garden rooms), Tyrrel Lake, and the Lake Path. Collins used the unifying features of the lake and lake path to integrate the many cup gardens into one dynamic experience in the natural landscape. The cup gardens vary in form, scale, and materials. One is an organically shaped meadow bisected by a wildly meandering stream and dotted with sculptural rocks and specimen trees. Another is a bog garden that has been carefully but lightly managed so that a new plant community emerged to play a particular aesthetic role. One more still is an elaborate complex of rock terraces stepping down a slope, each with its own vocabulary of design, materials, and mood.
Throughout the garden, there are themes and motifs that recur in varied forms. There is a dynamic tension between what appears to be natural and what appears to be cultivated. At a macro scale, this is evidenced by the entirety of the garden itself emerging from apparent wooded wilderness. Undulating, almost surreal natural topography is echoed in the rounded forms of clipped trees and constructed berms. Tall, straight pine trunks are mirrored in a 60’ high fountain jet. Naturalistic bogs are discreetly cultivated while areas that look like traditional planted beds are allowed to evolve and change like native plant communities.
While there are some exceptional horticultural specimens at Innisfree, the vast majority of the plants are native or naturalized. Instead of labor-intensive maintenance to strictly adhere to a fixed planting plan, plants are encouraged to find locations where they thrive just as they do in the wild and then gently edited for aesthetics. Sometimes this is achieved simply by allowing plants to self-sow; sometimes by sowing seed or moving plants in from elsewhere on site to increase a successful population; sometimes by limited hybridization to develop strains that are more ideally suited to specific local conditions. As a result, the overall plantings at Innisfree have an unstudied visual character punctuated by a handful of carefully placed, carefully sculpted trees.
There is also a deliberate choreographing of human perceptual experiences throughout Innisfree. Collins paid particular attention to these ideas. Scale ranges from massive to intimate. Spaces are open and bright, or tight and shadowy. Surfaces vary in material, texture, slope, and sound. Water changes form, scale, and sound. Design and planting details are dense or spare.
Another important motif at Innisfree is sculptural landforms. Collins began to clear trees to reveal the undulating glacial landforms. Collins felt that “land shapes, both natural and man-made…separate but also knit together sequences of cup gardens. Just like the sculptural rocks, these land forms are permanent design features in the garden, for they do not grow and their health is not subject to vagaries.” In the 1970s and early 1980s, Collins created dramatic berms in the garden to echo and emphasize the natural landforms.
In the nearly 70 years since Innisfree opened to the public, the garden has delighted and captured the imagination of experts and non-experts alike. Garden lovers, landscape writers and critics have sought to capture the unique aesthetic qualities and unusual design sophistication of Innisfree in various descriptive terms.
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