Quest For Nature's Best
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Uno dei motivi che mi ha indotto ad andare in Cina era riuscire a fotografare i pescatori sul fiume Li ...
Per questo motivo fu grande il disappunto, condiviso da una coppia di compagni di viaggio, nell'apprendere che i due giorni a Guilin non contemplavano questa possibilità....
Armati di santa pazienza e un pò di incoscienza ci siamo organizzati da soli ...
un' auto degna di immediato sequestro per le sue condizioni da quarto, quinto e sesto mondo, strade sgarruppate, autisti con una "profondissima" conoscenza dell'inglese (hai presente "noio vulevam savuar ?" ) non ci hanno fatto perdere voglia ed entusiasmo ...
quel pomeriggio però è stato indimenticabile ...
un'atmosfera unica permeava quel luogo tranquillo e ricco del fascino che solo la natura sa rendere ...
peccato per l'unica piccola nota stonata: il rifiuto dei pescatori di accendere le loro lampare ...
a loro dire (oddio, è questo quello che abbiamo capito) le guardie li avrebbero multati se si fossero accorte della loro presenza sul fiume ...
per questo motivo lo scatto si intitola "Smorz e laitz", in onore del pezzo cantato da Renzo Arbore ...
infatti, dopo il tramonto, anche noi abbiamo esclamato :
" nun se vide,
manco o ...zz " ...
Hautes-Alpes, France
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il profilo triangolare del rilievo aspro e stratificato si staglia in solitaria contro il cielo. Più in basso, una serie di colli arrotondati, in parte boscati, suggerisce che la parte superiore del monte emergeva dai ghiacciai würmiani.
La peculiarità di questo sito consiste nell’assetto geometrico del massiccio stratificato. Di particolare rilievo è l’inclinazione verso Sud della stratificazione che costituisce l’essenza stessa del monte Amariana. Si tratta per la gran parte di strati dolomitici di età norica, appartenenti alla Dolomia Principale. A questi si aggiungono esigui spessori di Calcare di Dachstein e di Calcari Grigi di età giurassica inferiore.
Visto dal Bar Ristorante Da Gioia.-.
Sella Chianzutan - Friuli-Venezia-Giulia
This curved line in the foreground is actually a mushrooms.
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'Vi è un piacere nei boschi inesplorati
e un'estasi nelle spiagge deserte,
vi è una compagnia che nessuno può turbare
presso il mare profondo,
e una musica nel suo ruggito;
non amo meno l'uomo ma di più la natura
dopo questi colloqui dove fuggo
da quel che sono o prima sono stato
per confondermi con l'universo e lì sentire
ciò che mai posso esprimere
né del tutto celare.'
Lord Byron
The mountain range known around here as the Crazies is prominent in this image (All those very, very tiny black dots scattered around the hills in the mid-ground are black angus cattle grazing on prime Montana range land…). The highest point in this range is Crazy Peak at over 11,000 feet — these mountains dominate their surroundings and are plainly visible just north of Interstate 90 as you travel between Billings and Bozeman.
The name Crazy Mountains is said to be a shortened form of the name "Crazy Woman Mountains" given them, in recognition of their original Crow native american name, after a woman who went insane and lived in them after her family was killed in the westward settlement movement.
The Crow people called the mountains Awaxaawapìa Pìa, roughly translated as "Ominous Mountains", or even rougher and less accurately, "Crazy Mountains". They were famous to the Crow people for having metaphysical powers and being unpredictable—a place often used for vision quests...
Beach grass must be tough to survive in a hostile environment with few nutrients! I found this clump on Pacific Beach in Washington State.
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Akihabara is that part of Tokyo probably most famous for attracting anyone interest in both electronics and anime and manga - and video games. And the shops there are quick to pick up on that, like this convenience store (in Tokyo something you come across absolutely everywhere - they are locally known as コンビニ / konbini) with a Dragon quest theme. That means you here can buy your noodles, your onigiri, your coffee in a can (Japanese canned coffee is really good!), your band-aids and your plush monster. The last one is not typical of a konbini. I left the store with a package of band-aids though...
Occorre volare in questo tempo, dove?
Senz'ali, senz'aereo, volare indubbiamente:
ormai i passi passarono senza rimedio,
non elevarono i piedi del viandante.
Occorre volare a ogni istante come
le aquile, le mosche e i giorni,
occorre vincere gli occhi di Saturno
e stabilire lì nuove campane.
Ormai non bastan più scarpe né strade,
ormai non serve la terra agli erranti,
ormai attraversaron la notte le radici,
e tu apparisti in altra stella
determinatamente transitoria,
trasformata alla fine in un papavero.
- PABLO NERUDA -
Probabile, poiché qui siamo a Castiglione Falletto (Castion Falèt in piemontese)
Nei commenti una vista del Castello e delle vigne !
(questa è una mia foto rielaborata con Photofuneditor)
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Analogica, Pentax S2 ( 1959 ), Helios 58 mm F 2.0, Fomapan 200, sviluppo con Rodinal. Ora vado al lavoro, spero di commentare le vostre foto questa sera !
Looking for magic? You'll find it @ Midsummer Enchantment till July 8. Favorite fantasy designers from across the grid gather for this special event.
Info & links on my Dark Blog ~ aznanasaccouterments.blogspot.com/2023/07/062423me04.html
Looking for magic? You'll find it @ Midsummer Enchantment till July 8. Favorite fantasy designers from across the grid gather for this special event.
Info & links on my Dark Blog ~ aznanasaccouterments.blogspot.com/2023/07/062423me04.html
Analogica, Praktica L ( 1969 ), Pentacon 50 mm f 1.8, Fomapan 200 asa, sviluppo con Rodinal. Ora devo andare al lavoro, spero di commentare le vostre foto questa sera
We captured this while on a quest for a hat... Wolf Saga's new hat.
One of my favorite local photogs and partners in crime, Shawn Tron is filming a promo for the release of a new and beautiful 5 panel hat made by London's own DPMS who's partnered with musician Wolf Saga.
Links to the hat will be posted shortly after its release this week.
In transito nei pressi della fermata di S.Antimo-S.Arpino , questo invio Roma Smist-Napoli Centrale con 6 vetture MDVC .
La E655.416 è da poco tornata nei colori originali ed affidata alla DPR Campania per recuperi e invii vari della Regionale.
Questa foto è stata scattata durante la pandemia, in una strada di periferia di Genova Sampierdarena, che era la mia via.
Allora in molte finestre era esposta la bandiera tricolore. Sembrava un momento di unità e di solidarietà in Italia. Ma è stata un'illusione.
Oggi è la festa della Liberazione dal nazifascismo. Una libertà costata molto sangue e basata sui valori della nostra Costituzione, valori antifascisti, che va continúamente riconquistata, perché nulla è per sempre.
Ora il fascismo non esiste più, ma può essere una mentalità, che si manifesta poi in scelte politiche e nella società. Come dice una partigiana ancora vivente, Teresa Vergalli, nei nostri giorni ci sono ancora dei semi di fascismo, che possono diventare alberi.
Semi che sono un fascismo mascherato da populismo, da forze che si proclamano destra alternativa e che non riescono a proclamarsi antifasciste.
La festa di oggi rischia di essere più che mai una festa di divisione tra gli Italiani
April 25th, Anniversary of Italy's Liberation 🇮🇹
In the outskirts of Genoa
Il bimbo mi ha colpito perchè è rimasto per alcuni minuti ad osservare il mare e le onde infrangersi,e sembrava in estasi.
I was second shooter at a wedding recently. The bride's father kept ranting about the covered bridge where the engagement photo was taken. My quest for the week was to find that bridge. Now that I've found it, I think it is a great place for some future photosessions.
Un malconcio e grafitato Archimede transita sul ponte di Sori diretto a Torino; in spinta la E402 101, unica macchina prototipo del secondo gruppo di E402.
Purtroppo il destino di questo treno è incerto in quanto stando alle parole del responsabile del servizio diagnostico di RFI verranno acquistati cinque nuovi treni che andranno a sostituire l'attuale flotta di convogli atti a questo genere di servizio
Dear Bill Major,
As I wrote earlier today: I re-listened, this time to some of the FIM (Frankfurt’s Indeterminables Musiqwesen) CDRs. This out-put of CDRs on the print-on-demand-label recout (here a remained selection) were launched in 1995 through my production of the CD "Endlos / Endless" – a memento "50 years after WWII" for an exhibition in Poland, for which I invited the FIM trio Parallelaktion, plus singer Corinna Mayer.
What I auditioned today was "Hot Deals" by "Imperial Hot" (Christoph Korn – gt, Bertram Ritter – dr, A23H – reeds, tp, and Casio). I do not want to describe the music. I just love the feel of these 15 year old recordings. There is also "Rent Art Quest" by the "Stern4et" (Daniel Franke – as, cl, comp, Micha Daniels – kb, Bertram Ritter – dr, A23H on bari sax, bcl and ts, comp) from some years later – a lovely birthday present those talented younger musicians gave me. It was recorded during a "Jazzferien" session I had set up at a castle in the Spessart mountains in 1999. With Micha Daniels – kb, Bertram Ritter – dr, and A23H – ts there is another beautiful session made in a Frankfurt bunker in 2000, "House of Thee". Together with Christoph Korn I had a duo "Canada dry & 20" recorded in 1992-1994 with drummer Vladimir Tarasov as a guest. Of course there is more from that period I could tell you about. For today I'll finish by mentioning "Cassini", a nine-piece band which I assembled in 1998 with members from my bands "Hale Peat", "Imperial Hoot" and the theater ensemble I put together for my Frankfurt-am-Main production of West Side Story (Harry Petersen- as, cl, Stefan Lottermann – tb, Martin Lejeune – gt, Christoph Korn – gt, Marcel Daemgen – sound system, Peter Antony – kb, Bülent Ates – dr, Günter Bozem – dr, and A23H – ts, bcl, arr). This recording sounds to me like an early version of Otomo Yoshihide’s orchestra ONJO, in which I was a member, as you know, during 2005-2007.
Alfred 23 Harth / Lindsay Cooper / Phil Minton – the three musicians on "Trio Trabant a Roma" – appeared at festivals in Moscow & Volgograd prior to this recording as members of Lindsay’s "Oh Moscow" (we hope to do a new recording in 2010). Especially for Lindsay and me, the impressions from this journey were so deeply strange that even after returning to "the West", we felt like we were still in another mental state – the "State of Volgograd." I formed this trio at the invitation of the Budapest Festival in 1990, so there is that title "et all ways Budapest." It's been twenty years now since The Wall came down. In those days, we were just beginning to see the odd spectacle of cars coming from the East mixing into traffic in Western cities. One East German car was called the "Trabant". I liked that name, since trabant also means a planet orbiting a star, so I called the new trio "Trabant A Roma". Earth was under a new "orbital tent" after the Iron Curtain had come down. It was funny to see those strange cars from the East making long distance journeys through Western Europe – finally "all ways lead to Rome!" The fourth title refers to a festival in Strasbourg where we performed (see CDR Le Cadran Bleu). At that time I also played the Farfisa organ, Casio keyboard, and other miscellaneous stuff, all part of the search to express with the strange by-products of technology emerging at that time. The trio didn't last long (until 1993), same with "Oh Moscow" which played its final concert at the London Jazz festival in 1993 due to Lindsay’s worsening illness (which I didn't know of until 1998, when Sally Potter confirmed the facts concerning Lindsay’s declining health).
It was the brief period of time after the Sovjet Union collapsed in 1991, when all of us were curious about Eastern cultures – the curiosity was mutual among those in the former Soviet bloc. Moscow TV offered to produce a filmed portrait about me in February 1992; this led to my appearance at the "Open Music" festival in St. Petersburg alongside members of the Russian musical avant-garde. The film's title "Balance Action" is taken from the name of a famous saxophone from the early Cold War years. It also refers to the "balance action" that finally led to the breakdown of the Communist regimes. In old Leningrad (freshly rechristened St. Petersburg again) I met Vladimir Tarasov. He told me that before the Wall fell, he and his compatriots were forced to smuggle my records through a narrow, secret tunnel. He also claimed that, in the old CCCP avant-garde circles, I was a celebrity on the order of Michael Jackson (probably a Russian exaggeration). In fact, I did receive one of my very first fan letters from Moscow, in 1970 – somebody who loved the "Just Music" LP (ECM 1002). With Tarasov I formed the Quasar Quartet in 1992 with Simon Nabatov (Russia) and Vitold Rek (Poland); we performed together with Dmitri Prigov. But, just as fast as it arose, this cultural exchange period ended – astonishingly quickly, compared to the decades-long span of the Cold War, which had threatened the entire globe with doom.
Because my group "Just Music" played in Prague in 1970 I knew how serious audiences loved what we brought to our music from the West – they had witnessed the disappointing Prague Spring revolution two years before and heard reflections of those heady times in our music. Since 1971 I had numerous opportunities to reach audiences throughout Eastern Europe – Dresden, Leipzig, East Berlin, Krakow, etc. Last year another listener from Prague told me how important it was for them to hear "Cassiber" in 1984. With that in mind, it is a bit sad that 7K Oaks cancelled its October tour which would have brought us to the Wroclaw festival (where I had played with "Just Music" in 1972 and with "Gestalt et Jive" in 1987).
Now I am patiently waiting at the border of Stalinist North Korea to play my music beyond the split – my heart is already there. Who knows what the ongoing imperialist wars within the holy Sufi countries will bring in context of the metastasis of capitalistic asymmetries and Western weapons mass-production…
Alfred 23 Harth, in September 2009
In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth
When the land was swamp and caves were home
In an age when prize possession was fire
To search for landscapes men would roam...
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Metal artist Ricardo Breceda has amassed over 130 life sized metal sculptures and placed them along several roads in the Anza-Borrego Desert State park…
Special thanks to the plane that produced the jetstream...