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William Eggleston Mystery of the Ordinary In the twilight, the shadows of the plants grow mysteriously along the wall of the house. In front of this shadow theater stands a metallic-lilac Cadillac, on whose lustrous paint the last rays of the sun dance. The brick-lined flowerbed, the shrubs planted in it, and the straw-woven blinds in the window front with their rusty colors complement this image composition, which at the same time radiates an eerie calm.
In a career spanning over five decades, William Eggleston has come to be recognized for almost single-handedly elevating color photography to the status of fine art. Along with Stephen Shore and Evelyn Hofer, Eggleston was one of the first photographers to recognize the distinctive power of color and its unique capacity to create pictures that continuously challenge the everyday. A blue bouquet on the door of a house, a colorfully tiled building façade, a ceiling painted glossy blood red: the intensity of the color alone, and Eggleston’s abiding sensitivity to it, was a formal and analytical provocation. Source: www.co-berlin.org/de/programm/ausstellungen/william-eggle...
In 2018, on our way to the Big Bend National Park from San Antonio, we drove through a small Texan town, which felt like a well-wrapped memento from another era that had somehow survived more centuries than it was designed for. Brick-buff buildings along the main street gave the town a rugged western look, which fitted in well with all the big trucks and SUVs on the road, a typical Texan arrogance about having nothing but the biggest. I recall slowing down to absorb the curious town a little more. People were unhurried and the place had a tidy charm. The town's name was prominently displayed on multiple banners and buildings, including the city hall and the municipal courthouse… “City of Uvalde”. ‘What a pretty name!’, I thought then.
There is nothing pretty about that name today. Uvalde is now a town of inept and cowardly cops, a profanity-spewing mayor, a bestial teenage gunman, and 78 stygian minutes of hell where 19 innocent children lost their right to live (which is not exactly a constitutional right but is granted to everyone nonetheless, at least in developed countries). But don’t guilt Uvalde, Texas. This scenario could have played out –and for hell’s sake, will again play out– in any American city or town, including the one you or I live in. There are mentally unstable people in most streets of every town, and in the USA –to rest of the world’s utter horror and pity– so are assault rifles. These rifles, if you didn’t know, spew high velocity bullets which pierce a human body so violently that they instantaneously shatter and mince up to six inches of tissue around their path. Guess how many such assault rifles are out there today? About 20 million. I will let you do the math of figuring out the odds of one of those assault rifles making its way into the classroom (or the mall, playground, park, cinema, or church) where your kid/grandkid(s) go(es) every day. Even with rudimentary math skills, one will know that the odds are not in favor of our little ones.
Now the question is, what are we doing about it? May I answer that question bluntly? We are doing N-O-T-H-I-N-G about it. Nothing! We march on the streets of Washington D.C. for every big and small reason, including our bodies and our wars, but no crowd has marched with similar urgency demanding our kids’ right to safety. Against gun violence, no one has crossed a Selma bridge yet. Not one parent has stood up on the mighty stairs of the Lincoln memorial and stirred the nation with a speech that may have begun with words like, “I have a dream…’. We have done nothing worth a mention. We are angry, but are squarely happy to put the blame on our politicians. While the politicians deserve every bit of the blame they get, but the important point is, they know how toothless we the public are. We let them gerrymander us. We let them provoke us in any way they see fit. And worst of all, they have somehow managed to make all of us care for our second amendment rights more than our beautiful kids. The shame is not on them. We –you and I– carry the shame! Columbine, Sandy Hook, and many hollow promises later, we have now shamelessly failed those Uvalde kids. Again. And we will fail more kids in days to come. We are a bunch of milksops. To stir our flaccid souls, perhaps we need live video streams of our kids slowly succumbing to bullet wounds. I worry, even such George Floydian provocation may not be enough to counter our apathy towards causing a change.
Where is your heart? Where are your tears? Where the hell is your anger? I do not give a damn about your political color if you do not care about our kids. Yes, we cannot rid every town of madmen in a hurry, nor should we take guns back from responsible owners, but there is room and means to completely disconnect madmen from assault rifles. Now, before one of those 20 million assault rifles –just one– makes it into the hands of a maniac in your town near your child’s school, will you PLEASE take a steely stance as a parent/grandparent so that none of our kids have to whisper and plead a 911 dispatcher from their school ever again? I don’t have to tell you what to do. Other than calling up your lawmakers and donating to organizations of youth mental health, you could also decide to go march in DC. If you so do, please drop me a line. I will come with you.
PS: The photo… if you are still reading and are interested… was shot on a morning when the sea-fog rolled in into the shy rays of a new sun at dawn creating this colorful brume.
"ce que les hommes parle sur les femmes".
"lo que dicen los hombres de las mujeres".
"what men speak about women"
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This abandoned quarry in Sunshine North is the site of plenty of nefarious activities. Detritus here is ongoing and ever changing. People I guess are too lazy or too cheap to use the council provided services when needed.
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The Tarantula Hawk is a spider wasp that preys on tarantulas. They are some of the largest parasitoid wasps, using their sting to paralyze their prey before dragging it into a brood nest as living food; a single egg is laid on the prey, hatching to a larva, which then eats the still-living host.
Luckily they are relatively docile and rarely sting without provocation, but the sting—particularly is among the most painful of all insects, though the intense pain only lasts about five minutes !
I saw this colorful, large wasp near Tule Pond - initailly flying but then "walking" rapidly at the edge of the pond. Somewhat surprised to see at the Los Angeles County Arboretum - thought they preferred dry, hotter environments.
You don't think of anything bad and watch the new season of Mandalorian on Disney and suddenly the boy drops a coin right between my legs - of course he had to look very carefully with all the plush. I hope he doesn't use the coin slot!♥
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In a time of rapid online stimulation, being cute is not only attractive but also a powerful tool for manipulation, comfort, or provocation.
In een tijd vol snelle online prikkels is Cute zijn niet alleen aantrekkelijk, maar ook een krachtig middel om te manipuleren, troosten of uitdagen
I’m not sure that we understand the significance of this error: the human being, reduced to his biological and sociological antecedents, becomes a puppet, a marionette in the hands of “superhuman forces.” And thus there is no more “I.” The “I” is like a stone that is swept away by the current of these forces. The “I” as a personal, autonomous reality, with a capacity for freedom, able to act as a subject in history and circumstances, is no more, because everything is unloaded on antecedents of every type: psychological, social, or biological. Polito calls it the “opiate of de-responsibilization.” Without the “I,” without freedom—because everything is determined by these factors—what responsibility is possible in the face of reality’s provocations?
--Disarming Beauty ESSAYS ON FAITH, TRUTH, AND FREEDOM, JULIÁN CARRÓN Foreword by Javier Prades
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From the series "Twisted horizon."
These beautifully masked tiny birds are gregarious granivores. As the flock feeds on seedheads lower to the ground, a few birds stay high on the stems of taller grasses, seemingly as lookouts ready to sound the alarm at any perceived danger. They scatter quickly at the slightest provocation. Field marks for this native of Africa include the distinctive red eye mask. The common waxbill is one of the smallest birds in Hawaii.
Yes ,I agree that one can find beauty even in the ugliest things but this doesn't mean that we need to focus only on them. Many "fellow photographers and artists" prefer to show only this ugly kind of beauty and they call it a style . Some others are using "artistic" ways to kill innocence and joy just because they have been taught that making everything to appear meaningless and dirty is "cool." Art is not only to provoke. Propaganda art has very often served the dark side. Provocation always serves a purpose and spreading negativity with the excuse of making art seems very suspicious. I am not able to judge the photographic skills of a person but I can tell if a photo causes me heavy feelings and if it helps evil to be spread. We need to be very carefull with what we post and what we fav, always taking in consideration the impact that they may have on a fresh untouched soul...
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An abandoned corner shell that once housed a Blockbuster Video, then a rotation of short‑lived tenants. The colours are newer than the memories, but the geometry still carries the shape of Friday night rentals and return‑slot rituals.
Now it sits empty again, a relic of formats gone, and uses tried on and discarded. A small study in reuse, decline, and the quiet after a franchise disappears.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore; and why.
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Sunday afternoon at the Kunstmuseum. “It’s a madhouse,” sighs the lady at the ticket check. Compared to the cheerful crowd she has to check in, her grey-blue uniform looks tired. Young and old have dressed up fashionably for the exhibition about Dior.
Uniforms should express authority, but how neutral do they have to be? “High time to put a good, preferably younger fashion designer in charge,” says an inner voice. A museum that - after many shows of famous designers - has developed into an epicenter of haute couture should surely have more courage. How else do you express the bond with ‘fashion’? A word that unites such a myriad of meanings – from cut to shape, from mannerism to creation – that everyone can identify with it.
LEFT OR RIGHT
In any case, at the top of the central stairs, a choice has to be made. Right to the ‘New Look’ by Dior – left to the ‘Night Animals’ by Spilliaert and Braeckman. We go left because that's why we came. In the dim silence that falls on us like a downy blanket, we focus our eyes on the introductory text. And on the image of a man descending a staircase in the semi-darkness. To be precise, we only see half a man. His face is barely visible, and his clothing reveals nothing special. Could that be a harbinger of what awaits us? Certainly.
Stairs are powerful metaphors. Up, down: life has its peaks and valleys. Platinum-blonde Hollywood stars made a great show of descending a staircase. A practice that Marcel Duchamp slyly commented on with 'Nu descendant un escalier'. In this sensational painting from 1912, a character strides down like an avalanche of cubist fragments. Naked? Down the stairs? The audience was stunned, moved by laughter and anger.
Admittedly, there was movement in the image. Or rather, that was suggested very nicely. Or was it a pile of firewood that came crashing down? The cartoons in the newspaper did not mince their words. The term ‘anti-art’ was used. Isn’t Braeckman’s intensification of the unfathomable also just a provocation? Yes, there is something in that… some photos are so black that you can only guess what you see.
(part of my review in Den Haag Centraal, October 31, 2024)
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Patience is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. It is also used to refer to the character trait of being steadfast.
Our last dog was a sooner. That’s as in sooner one dog as another, a full-blooded mutt. She was brindle in color with much the shape of a pitbull. Yet, there was something else in her genetic makeup that was made evident in her sweet character, shepherding instincts. She would get quite worrisome if we were not all gathered. Joyce and I don’t look much like sheep. Nobody does. Jesus compares us all to sheep, however. Obviously, adorable Spice dog took that to heart.
Sheep are known to follow the herd, sometimes off cliffs. They are prone to make bad decisions, bolt at the slightest provocation, and roam willy-nilly. We’re not like that are we? One of my favorite events at the local Scottish Highland Games are the sheepdog demonstrations. Watching these border collies working the sheep is always a treat. Just look at his intensity as he follows the whistled commands of his owner. In short order, he rounded up the sheep into their pen… home.
Christian comedian Ken Davis says that he doesn’t want to be a sheep. Raised on a farm, he knew sheep are stupid. Descriptively, he’d rather be a German shepherd, though he can’t find that anywhere in the Bible. That’s descriptive of Jesus, not us, as He draws us from the cliffs of life to a home with Him. That’s a Good Shepherd. I’m thinking my next dog should be an Australian shepherd, a smart dog that I can can enjoy training with. Should be fun.
Watch Ken Davis' Super Sheep here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z12bZFkpHk&t=426s
The UK's favourite bird - with its bright red breast it is familiar throughout the year and especially at Christmas! Males and females look identical, and young birds have no red breast and are spotted with golden brown. Robins sing nearly all year round and despite their cute appearance, they are aggressively territorial and are quick to drive away intruders. They will sing at night next to street lights. The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night.[17] Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary.[26] Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit.[27] They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.[
Male robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behaviour. They will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. There are instances of robins attacking themselves: having seen their own reflection. [30] Such attacks sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult robin deaths in some areas.[31] Robins may choose a wide variety of sites for building a nest. In fact, anything which can offer some shelter, like a depression or hole may be considered. As well as the usual crevices, or sheltered banks, other objects include pieces of machinery, barbecues, bicycle handlebars, bristles on upturned brooms, discarded kettles, watering cans, flower pots and even hats. The nest is composed of moss, leaves and grass, with fine grass, hair and feathers for lining. Two or three clutches of five or six eggs are laid throughout the breeding season, which commences in March in Britain and Ireland. The eggs are a cream, buff or white speckled or blotched with reddish-brown colour, often more heavily so at the larger end.[35] When juvenile birds fly from the nests they are mottled brown in colour all over. After two to three months out of the nest, the juvenile bird grows some orange feathers under its chin and over a similar period this patch gradually extends to complete the adult appearance.
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There are nights when I slip into something that doesn’t just embrace my curves—it commands the room. The JUMO Crystal Dress Outfit is that moment, that slow heartbeat before every gaze turns toward me beneath the shifting lights of a velvet-lined nightclub. The silhouette is sculpted to perfection: a serpentine hourglass cut that glides along the body, with deep side-swept contours and daring negative space revealing just enough skin to whisper dangerously close to desire. Its fabric—an iridescent mosaic alive with metallic threads—seems to shimmer between sapphire, rose, and onyx, responding to every movement like liquid light.
The PBR-enhanced HUD is a treasure chest of brilliance—each texture option refracts under the dance-floor glow, giving me 14 color choices that transform the mood from decadent midnight to glittering champagne dawn. Whether in the deep crimson of passion or the glacial sheen of moonlit silver, it’s as if each selection carries its own rhythm, its own pulse.
️ Inspired by the gilded glamour of 1970s Paris nightlife and the structured sensuality of Thierry Mugler’s early couture, the Crystal Dress celebrates the body as sculpture—part art, part provocation.
And beneath that dazzling hem, my legs are wrapped in the timeless seduction of VV Paris’s Liz Taylor Stockings—a delicate veil of sheer stretch lace from Calais, soft as whispered secrets. These stockings trace the leg with a vintage sensuality reminiscent of Hollywood’s silver-screen sirens. Available in twelve sumptuous hues, from porcelain ivory to deep rosewood, they shimmer like silk beneath the nightclub’s glow, evoking that ineffable "je ne sais quoi" of old-world Paris romance.
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In this look I become more than a woman—I become a story written in glass and lace, a reflection of beauty’s eternal rebellion.
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💎 “Fashion is the art of turning light, fabric, and form into emotion—and in that glow, we discover ourselves anew.”
Every artist has the sense of provocation.
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With its bra’s center gore clasped heart, open midsection, exposed panties, ruffled mini skirt bottoms, and statement garter belts - this Linda Foodiboo Design’s Anouk Outfit oozes with sexual intrigue, provocation and desire.
Linda has put a great deal of thought into this outfit which is apparent by its stunning design, exquisite textures, and attention to detail.
Fashion is a form of expression, having confidence in your clothes and feeling comfortable in them. It is a balance between wearing clothes that fit you well, and that you enjoy.
Given your particular mood, it takes time to create your own personal style, the vibe you want to express, and what feels good. I checked all the boxes wearing this absolutely sensuous and beautiful two-piece Anouk outfit.
This LF Design Anouk Outfit fits:
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-Kupra + Kups
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Tarantula hawk wasps are nectarivorous [nectar-feeders]. Males can't sting at all. Females rarely sting without provocation but the sting is extremely painful. - San Felipe, Baja - Mexico
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I slip into Ginette and immediately feel its spell binding my body and soul. This lingerie is not merely worn — it is lived, breathed, and savored. Its silhouette drapes over my curves with liquid ease, the micro-cut clinging where I ache to be held and fluttering away where mystery longs to remain. The neckline dips in a luscious plunge, daring eyes to wander deeper, while the hem teases the upper thighs, brushing against my flesh in the most decadent invitation.
The surface shimmers under light with its high PBR brilliance, each tiny perforation in the mesh a sensual constellation across my skin, framing the swell of my breasts and tracing the line of my hips like a whispered caress. When I arch back, Ginette glistens as if spun from wet silk — soft, glossy, impossibly seductive.
From a historical gaze, Ginette is the modern heir to the boudoir chemise of the Belle Époque, when women shed rigid corsetry to embrace freedom, satin, and allure. Yet here, it evolves into a futuristic piece — designed with precision mesh, responsive textures, and body-specific fits — proof that lingerie remains the eternal language of desire.
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I adore how the colors flirt between timeless black, romantic blush, and luminous white — each shade sculpting my presence into a new fantasy.
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Ginette is not just lingerie — it is a delicious act of surrender and a daring provocation. When I wear it, I am poetry in lace and light, a fantasy incarnate, and an unspoken promise that my body is the art, and Ginette is its frame.
oh, the joys of being young ... especially if you're a bear cub. Sure they have their tense moments when mom is defending them or perhaps they're getting a stern discipline by mom for not obeying, but for the most part, they're all about learning ... and of course, playing. When I watch them, they always seem to be having such fun and enjoying their sibling.
Pardon the harsher light on this pair of coastal brown bear cubs, but for me I can tolerate it because this behavior moment is so adorable. Of course, what you can't see in this image is mom further down the game trail unaware that her cubs are gleefully play fighting behind her. She normally likes to keep them quite close to her, as young cubs do have boars to worry about. Reminds me of when we were kids always provoking (or perhaps being on the recipient side of the provocation) with our own siblings ... you always waited until the parents weren't looking, right? LOL
Well, happy hump day everyone. It's almost summer already. All I can ask is how did that happen?
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Gawn by small @ FaMESHed
The Gawn Dress by small exists at the edge of art and desire, where fashion history and modern provocation entwine. Its styling is unapologetically body-conscious, draping like liquid flame yet revealing with the audacity of lingerie. The cut is precise and architectural — sheer panels frame the body as though carved from shadow and light, while the high, merciless slit elongates the leg with an elegance both dangerous and divine.
Historically, Gawn borrows from the 1920s flapper revolution, when hems rose in defiance and women claimed their freedom in movement and flesh. It recalls the Dior New Look of the late 1940s, cinching and shaping with sculptural precision, then strips that propriety away with transparency more akin to the 1990s slip-dress revival, when satin clung to supermodels like a second skin. Gawn distills all of these legacies — the rebellion, the elegance, the eroticism — into one modern silhouette that feels both timeless and transgressive.
The BLINN & Soft PBR shimmer ensures every step is painted in light, as though my body were being spotlighted by desire itself. Each shift of fabric is a tease, a breath away from baring everything. In this dress, I am not waiting — I am anticipating, trembling on the edge of being undone, as if Gawn were cut not to be worn, but to be peeled away in fevered urgency.
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The rear of buildings hold more interest for me than the front, often.
The best still lives are often simply "found".
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The things you see while driving to work.
Fleeting & Ephemeral.
Gone 8 hours later.
Thankfully, my iPhone at hand.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore; and why.
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antonio iacobelli's provocations have reached an intolerable level, i'm preparing myself for war.
my jelly bears army is marching towards bari. i'm going to attack him with caries.
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explored #62
Strange wall formations take hold but seem frozen in time.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore.
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Blog | Tumblr | Website | pixelfed.au | Instagram | Photography links | my Ko-fi shop | Off Ya Trolley! | s2z digital garden | vero | Dpreview albums | my work archived on trove at the National Library of Australia. | reddit
A long forgotten shop, who did indeed move closer to Sunshine Station.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore; and why.
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Blog | Tumblr | Website | pixelfed.au | Instagram | Photography links | my Ko-fi shop | Off Ya Trolley! | s2z digital garden | vero | 180º @ 17:00 | Dpreview albums | reddit | red bubble | newgrain
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In 1998, I undertook a long and personal journey, from Melbourne to Whyalla. I flew to Adelaide and onto Whyalla, hired a hire car and spent about a week driving around. I made my home for the week in the caravan park at Whyalla. I spent most of each day driving and photographing. I blogged about it on my blog in 2023
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore.
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Geolocation is approximate, very.
In 1998, I undertook a long and personal journey, from Melbourne to Whyalla. I flew to Adelaide and onto Whyalla, hired a hire car and spent about a week driving around. I made my home for the week in the caravan park at Whyalla. I spent most of each day driving and photographing. I blogged about it on my blog in 2023
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore.
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Blog | Tumblr | Website | pixelfed.au | Instagram | Photography links | my Ko-fi shop | Off Ya Trolley! | s2z digital garden | vero | Dpreview albums | my work archived on trove at the National Library of Australia. | reddit
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Late Winter Flocks. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
Huge numbers of sandhill cranes and several varieties of migratory geese in late winter.
Yes, another “sky full of birds” photograph! You may think I am sharing a lot of these… but not anywhere near all of them. And that, of course, brings up one of the great “secrets” of photographing birds: for every good image that “works” there are dozens of others that never see the light of day. Landscapes don’t move (much), so they are more predictable. But most of the time birds are in motion — at least when they are doing interesting things — and it is impossible to control or predict everything that will happen. You can improve your odds over time… but there is still an element of chance.
These fields were full of late season birds — mostly various kinds of geese, but also lots of sandhill cranes and even a few egrets here and there. At this time of year — just before the long migration back to the north — they seem to become extremely active. At the least provocation huge numbers of birds will suddenly and noisily take to the air and circle before finally returning to the field for a while… and then repeating the process a bit later.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
“These are the few ways we can practice humility:
To speak as little as possible of one's self.
To mind one's own business.
Not to want to manage other people's affairs.
To avoid curiosity.
To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.
To pass over the mistakes of others.
To accept insults and injuries.
To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.
To be kind and gentle even under provocation.
Never to stand on one's dignity.
To choose always the hardest.”
― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living
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A bare tree stands alone in an open field, its branches stretched wide under a slow, heavy sky. At its base, a scatter of discarded fabric and debris sits in the grass, unmoving, as if the ground has collected what the air no longer wants. Overhead, aircraft occasionally trace their paths toward the Tullamarine, carving invisible lines through the cloud cover. A landscape caught between human passage and human neglect.
Another picture made during the Covid Pandemic, in the brief times we were allowed outdoors.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore; and why.
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Blog | Tumblr | Website | pixelfed.au | Instagram | Photography links | my Ko-fi shop | Off Ya Trolley! | s2z digital garden | vero | 180º @ 17:00 | Dpreview albums | reddit | red bubble | newgrain
You can also follow my work on Instagram ;D
www.instagram.com/yasha_jakovsky/
One song gave me a little inspiration for my title
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJK386dFxs0
Wit = produced by a combination of intelligence traits such ashigh verbal intelligence, high contextual perception, contextual creativity, humor, irony, sarcasm, charm, arrogance, provocation etc.
Adam and Eva eat apple because snake told them they will become more wise. Btw I was inside this Pit cave but nothing happened lol.
P.s. Location of the photo is bay Mag on island Rab, this is my favorite location on island Rab ;o), it have nice beach and interesting stones and caves. Motorbikers also visit this place to ride.
Back to Charlcote Park to see the Fallow Deer ()Dama dama). The rut has not yet begun but the bucks are getting more edgy tending to run after groups of hinds with little provocation.
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher. About 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 inches) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and a whitish belly. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north.
The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night. Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary. Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit. They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.
Male robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behavior. They will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. Such attacks sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult robin deaths in some areas.
Because of high mortality in the first year of life, a robin has an average life expectancy of 1.1 years; however, once past its first year it can expect to live longer and one robin has been recorded as reaching 19 years of age. A spell of very low temperatures in winter may also result in significant mortality.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin