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Another image to celebrate the anniversary of my "TumbleWorld" project, a technique and view that exploits or revels in an accidental distortion of the iPhone's panoramic camera function.
There are 103 images in my "TumbleWorld" album. 103 images that I've posted to Flickr, with an awful lot more on file, waiting to be finished or tossed in the trash.
There's a lot of improvisation to the pano-sabotage technique, relying a lot on camera angles and movements of the hand. Even if one tries to repeat a shot, it's never quite the same. You can get close but exact replication is well nigh impossible.
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"TumbleWorld", my pet name or personal branding of the technique and aesthetic, started out with architecture as its subject. Large complicated objects seemed to work very well in pano-sabotage, so I went at it with full gusto. To commemorate this anniversary, which really resulted in my reaching what could be called my "Mature Style", I've gone back to architecture.
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The title comes from an old John Wyndham short story of the same name. In it the protagonist begins to question if reality is just a construct of the mind. As he goes along, he becomes increasingly convinced that this is so. At the end he decides NOT to believe what he sees ...... with interesting results. Here I suggest the same kind of questioning, but not of reality itself, but our way of viewing it.
Living in the fastest growing city on the planet, with 60, 70 and 80+ storey condo towers filling in the landscape and devouring neighbourhoods like an architectural cancer and having deeply examined the work of 2-time Noble Prize nominee, Ervin Laszlo, who states clearly that the myth of unlimited, endless growth is a self-deluding dream that will reach its limits soon and collapse, I offer this image.
******* Number 3, in the series of 4 images ( Cycle One ) celebrating this anniversary. THE SERIES IS DEDICATED TO PAUL EWING, THE WIZARD OF AZ for being on this journey with me, every step of the way. *********
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Music Link: "Theme For Great Cities" - Simple Minds, originally from their album "Sons and Fascination", produced by Steve Hillage. A great piece of 80's New Romantic instrumental music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBSotxpthXQ
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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." - Werner Heisenberg
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Looks like it's going to be another fairly rainy weekend. I think Mother Nature has this mixed up, if it could rain Monday-Friday and be beautiful on the weekend, I think a lot more people would be happy with her.
But she's fickle and there's no point arguing with her, so grab an umbrella and don't let a little rain get you down... right?
Hope everyone is having a good day!
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein
"This mess of emotions got his body questioning
Is this feeling alright?
He studying my freckles like the constellations
And he's looking for signs
I know that you're not used to this
Boy will you let me teach you
Your mind is asking for my love
And you just need to hear it
Try not to wander off too much
Don't let your fears control you
Keep you attentive with authentic kisses filled with Amor.
I'll show you
How it's supposed to feel
When we meet
At Orion's Belt
I'll show you
How it's supposed to feel." - Sabrina Claudio ♫
As I walked up to the reception desk the receptionist smiled a welcoming smile and said, “Welcome back Sir”.
I didn’t remember staying at this hotel before so I squinted back a questioning look crossed with a curious grin. The same kind of look you give someone that has just said “Welcome back” but you have never been there before.
She smoothly pushed a registration card across the desk with my details on it and she asked me to sign. I looked at the card and it had my name on it all right, just spelt differently. I didn’t remember ever living at the address they had listed but I thought it sounded like a nice place so I signed it anyway.
Eventually I found my way to my room on the sixth floor. It smelled familiar but it looked entirely different to how it smelled. There was lots of stuff in there, all of which wasn’t mine.
I really felt like having a nap but there were two beds and having to make a decision on which one to lie on was too hard so I sat in the chair instead. Through the walls I could hear people talking in the next room. Some times they whispered and other times I could tell from the long pauses they were jotting things down so I couldn’t hear.
After a while I decided to order some food but I couldn’t read the menu because it was written in a language I didn’t understand. Instead, I poured myself a drink from the mini bar and sat back down in my chair. The whispering drifted on and off, much like a radio not quite on the station. Some time later I became even more tired and after inspecting the beds again I realised, to my surprise, that there had been only one all along.
I lay down and shut my eyes. Perhaps tomorrow will be different and not so cold. The whispering finally had stopped; perhaps they had run out of things to say.
extending the structural daring with minimal elaboration?
questioning the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest efficiency?
thank god it's friday?
- from the streamlined, 'less is more' archive
Being in your head is so easy, being mental, no dreaming, just being realistic.
Questioning everything.
Wanting answers.
Feeling secure because you will have some answers.
Not necessarily the correct answers, but you are content even tho.
But
Quite often there are no answers.
Being in your heart is so difficult, opening up for pure love, just suck it in, believe in your intuition.
We have beliefs that we aren't good enough.
You don't need to be perfect, you know.
And
What is perfect.
We are so hard towards ourselves, demanding that we need to do stuff we really don't want to do.
Others need us to do, to act, to behave, and we just stumble on our path, back and forth, and don't do what is really correct for ourselves.
My heart has become a meltingpot of love.
All old patterns can now be transformed, I don't want them anymore, I don't need them.
Let the future be mine to behold, then I know everything will be all right.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for
tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning - Albert Einstein.
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Technical info
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Overcast light
White boards
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(64 bit)
PS CS6
Lightroom 5.7
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Selective B&W conversion
(Polaroid film profile with green filter)
LR - Blended dodge - 30%
PS - Curve adjustment
PS - Twin contrast layers
PS - Global contrast
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As I sat on the pier at Bodega Harbor watching several Common Loons fishing I was struck by their elegant & serene beauty & how very 'wise' they appeared to me!
This one swam up very close to us as if questioning our reason for being there aiming cameras at it!
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I did put in an order for some blazing skies during my trip to Sydney...but that didn't happen. Upon questioning I was told the transaction didn't go through cause my credit card didn't have enough money. :)
Thanks to all of you for your time, comments and favs. Truly appreciated..
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Lately I've been questioning things. I have been so happy this year, and yet there are times when I don't feel fully alive. As if life has been put on hold.
What causes this?
I don't know for sure, but perhaps there might be something inside all of us that gives us feedback about whether we're moving in the right direction in life or not. An internal voice that we have access to at all times, and yet sometimes it feels like this voice speaks in another language. You can hear the basic emotion behind it, but can't understand the words.
I think we've been so conditioned to shush this voice since we were babies, because, well, you just can't do whatever you want. You have to conform to society and rules if you want to survive here. Then as we grew, this voice was so often replaced with programmed messages coming from someone's agenda. Ads, TV shows, articles, news, parents, friends, lovers... So many external voices teaching us what to believe and to want. So how do you know which desires are actually yours?
I guess this is it. When something makes you feel alive, it's good. When something makes you feel dead inside, it's wrong. It might not always make sense. The voice of reason might be advising you otherwise... But maybe the voice of reason is someone else's voice.
"Phone Home"
***This picture is perhaps the first time anyone has photographed the Milky Way with this cool alien looking space toy which explains why even Google was clueless.***
It is hard to explain to people what is so special about shooting the Milky Way especially if the person questioning happens to be your boss, i,e. spouse.
There are only a few months (8 if lucky) in the year that the Milky Way core is visible. Of those few months, the ideal moon less nights are about a week. Only one or two will fall on a weekend. Some of those nights are lost to weather. Effectively you get about 10 nights in a year that you can potentially shoot the stars. And if it has been 9 months since you last shot the Milky Way, it gets a tad uneasy under the skin.
I had not shot a Milky Way picture since last June. I was hoping for some clear skies in Big Bend but it was not to be. The only chance I got was at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas. After 7.5 total hours of driving, my motivator-in-chief Nayana and I arrived at the Observatory just as the rather large half moon was setting. We watched the moonset as the moon gradually dropped below the horizon leading to a the rapid change in the brightness of the stars. About 30 minutes later, the moonlight and afterglow was replaced by starlight that illuminated the ground around us.
It was brutally cold and windy. I was perfectly willing to return empty handed but it was not going to be fair if we did not try and shoot some pictures. I had seen this antenna during the day when we had come here to visit and took in a live Sun viewing session. It looked interesting enough that I had this picture in mind. Thin clouds drifted overhead while Jupiter shone bright right at the heart of the Dark Horse Nebula.
As always, I tried to find out what this Radio Telescope like antenna was. Unusually Google was not particularly helpful. It turns out this is a brand new NASA VGOS antenna is part of the McDonald Geodetic Observatory that just passed its Site Acceptance Testing. This new science facility is run by the UT Center for Space Research in partnership with NASA Goddard.
Sony a7RII
ZEISS Camera Lenses Batis 25mm f/2
ISO 10000, 25mm, 10s at f/2
Several identical shots stacked for Noise Reduction
Processed in Capture One Pro, median stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker and Adobe Photoshop
For your reading pleasure, below is some info on what this Antenna is.
NASA VLBI Geodetic Observing System (VGOS) antenna
The NASA Space Geodesy Project (SGP) has taken the next step in expanding the NASA Space Geodesy Network (NSGN) with the procurement of a VLBI Global Observing System (VGOS) 12-m radio telescope for a new core site located at the McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, Texas. Intertronic Solutions Inc. completed the installation of the antenna early in February 2019. An engineering room-temperature feed, developed and installed by MIT/Haystack Observatory, was used to support the pointing tests. On February 15, 2019 several extragalactic sources were observed. The antenna successfully passed the Site Acceptance Test (SAT) on February 20, 2019. A cryogenic, broad-band signal chain will be installed in April 2019. Afterwards the station will begin commissioning activities, and later in the year will being participating in VGOS test sessions, organized in coordination with the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS).
The McDonald Geodetic Observatory is part of NASA’s Space Geodesy Project - a global network of dishes dedicated to studying changes in Earth’s shape, gravity, and rotation. Data gathered by this 12m radio telescope will offer next-generation measurements for precision navigation and understanding the changes on our planet.
"Nobody is immune to a nationwide evil unless he is unshakably convinced of the danger of his own character being tainted by the same evil."
[Jung]
The bent grabiron above the conductor's side window almost appears as if the coal-stained locomotive is raising an eyebrow, questioning why I'm out here at 7 in the morning photographing it. The answer is the 1960s-era cantilever standing tall right above the engine, unbeknownst entirely to me at the time that it was living out it's last year of service. After the discovery of some new intermediate LED signals erected pre-service at mile 2.2, my efforts on shooting the North Toronto narrowed to mostly Mount Pleasant & Howland in the latter half of 2023, seeing as they were at mile 1.6 & 3.5 respectively and would almost certainly be obsolete once the new signals were cut in. A timeline wasn't known at this point and up until as recently as a month ago, I was holding out hope that they'd survive at least into the late spring/early summer. As I am now writing in early May 2024 with every last North Toronto searchlight & signal structure destroyed, I am saddened but overall grateful for moments like these where I made it my goal to document these structures while they were still around.
CP 118, Mile 3.5 North Toronto Subdivision (Howland)
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~ Albert Einstein
A pesky shadow from a cloud dances across the landscape threatening the prospect of a sunlit shot, but happily just failed in its bold attempt! A lone dog walker on Coulderton beach waves to the footplate crew of 46115 'Scots Guardsman' as it snakes around the stunning Cumbrian Coastline approaching Nethertown station heading the 1Z87 Carlisle to London Euston 'Winter Cumbrian Coast Express; on Saturday 28th January 2017. I drove through driving rain from Tebay to Cockermouth, questioning my sanity, but the final opportunity on the coast reassured me that I am not quite going mad yet.
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"...ove... it ...gots!" The sergeants screaming made the radio headset block out the sudden change in signal amplitude. No questioning what he wanted though, so I jumped the boulder that was my cover and ran forward through the swirling snow which severely hampered my vision.
Yes the empire demanded obedience of their soldiers, but why in the name of the Sith could he not ever lead the way. Lead by example, yes that's what they taught. But not this Bantha-piss of a coward, the sergeant would dance in when the objective was taken and claim credit. I swear one day he would find himself alone on the front line with no one to protect his white armour covered arse.
Alas, that day was not today. This day I would fight along side my brothers and claim another imperial victory.
You have experienced intense harm and evil so devastating that you find yourself questioning reality. It’s so easy for you to question yourself, to believe this means you are weak and it comes more naturally to turn this inward and severely criticize yourself. And you’re doing the hard work of looking for beauty and goodness wherever you can discover it and finding ways to try to express and validate your very real experience when you can’t find words for it. Maybe that is strength.
[image created on 3-1-2024]
Recently I became very fascinated by digital pinhole photography. This image was created with a modified pinhole body cap. I think I’m drawn to this type of photography because I feel it relates to my life and it seems to teach me far beyond photography. There are strict limitations that can drastically alter how images are captured and the final outcome of the photos, there is a lack of clarity compared to how I normally capture images with a lens, it’s difficult to predict exactly how the image will look and beauty and meaning can be found in the process and the final photo. It gives me a chance to practice embracing the unfamiliar, change, finding beauty in imperfection and growing in new ways.
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As a way to cope with circumstances beyond my control, survive and work to keep fighting for life I decided to try to take at least one photo (or more) each day. I call this “a photo (or more) a day.” Practicing this form of therapeutic photography helps me work to focus on the present moment, gives me something familiar and enjoyable to focus on as I use photography skills that have become like second-nature to me and being able to view the images I capture helps me recall what I was thinking, feeling and noticing at the moment when I created the photos. More of the photos from this series can be seen on my Instagram account
I may not always have the energy, time or capacity to share photos from this series—especially with the very challenging circumstances my family and I are experiencing—and will do my best to continue taking a photo (or more) a day even if I’m not able to share.
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A questioning Basset
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Zenza Bronica S2A
Nikkor P 75mm f2.8
Kodak Portra 160
Analog graphical study questioning human being and his environment
Perigord, France -
On of the locals questioning my need to stop and photograph them.
Seen in North Morro Bay, ca.
while out walking.
But in this word and this time I must
reach out to you in words.
J. M. Coetzee
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Bet šiame pasaulyje, šiame laike
galiu pasiekti tave tik žodžiais.
J. M. Coetzee
Things don't always have to be crystal clear to be understood. A certain amount of mystery encourages questioning and wondering. Always question things, because sometimes those questions can lead you to answers and on paths that you never thought possible.
I am learning to expect the unexpected. And I love it.
Only a few more days left until the big move. I've never been more scared of anything before in my life. But I also know that the independence will do me the world of good.
Me and Mark have got some exciting plans too. But knowing us, it'll take us forever to get round to it. hehe. And he's thinking of replacing his car. Go and tell him that he shouldn't. Ha. :)
This is the start of a new series. I think it'll be a long one. But I'm certainly excited for it.
#AbFav_FEBRUARY
for February and the Romantic season.
Love me without fear
Trust me without questioning
Need me without demanding
Want me without restrictions
Accept me without change
Desire me without inhibitions
For a love so free....
Will never fly away.
By Dick Sutphen
Keep your heart pure, don't clutter it with a book-keeping of lies.
Keep your love, as tender and sweet as these petals...
Thank you, M, (*_*)
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A lone dog walker on Coulderton beach waves to the footplate crew of 46115 'Scots Guardsman' as it snakes around the stunning Cumbrian Coastline approaching Nethertown station heading the 1Z87 Carlisle to London Euston 'Winter Cumbrian Coast Express; on Saturday 28th January 2017. I drove through driving rain from Tebay to Cockermouth, questioning my sanity, but the final opportunity on the coast reassured me that I am not quite going mad yet.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Questioning look in this portrait shot and as previously stated I could not move any further away due to the dry moat behind me. Once the stag was ashore I almost got some beautiful photos in dappled sunlight when it moved further away but some stupid girl saw me taking photos and got up from where she was sitting on a bench and stood in front of the Stag, no more than than a metre maximum from it...We witness this behaviour every year. Last year a man posed with his dog directly next to this stag whilst his wife/ girlfriend took lots of photos using a smart
phone..
Red deer have red-brown fur with a cream rump. The UK’s largest land mammal, a mature male (stag) may stand four feet tall at the shoulder and weigh up to 200kg.
Stags develop a large set of antlers that grow with age. Starting with just two points, the antlers steadily develop more branches, reaching up to 16 in most cases. These antlers are shed and regrown every year. Females (hinds) lack antlers and are more lightly built than males.