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Жизнеутверждающий стимул природы / Lebensbejahender Reiz der Natur / Life-affirming Stimulus of Nature 🔆😃 💕🌼📷
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Recently fledged blue tit [Cyanistes caeruleus]
This little guy was calling out to his mother to feed him. Here, the mother bird is passing just over his head to feed one of his siblings. He is very excited and begins to vibrate his wings...apparently, a visual stimulus to the parent, but one of the cutest, most adorable things I have ever seen.
At The Pixies
South a Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
🎼 “I’m picking up good vibrations
She’s giving me excitations...”
Beach Boys ‘Good Vibrations’
(cropped)
An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey also presents a unique pageant of British history – the shrine of St Edward the Confessor, the tombs of kings and queens, and countless memorials to the famous and the great.
It has been the setting for every Coronation since 1066 and for numerous other royal occasions, including sixteen royal weddings.
Today it is still a church dedicated to regular worship and to the celebration of great events in the life of the nation. Neither a cathedral nor a parish church, Westminster Abbey (or the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster to give it its correct title) is a "Royal Peculiar" under the jurisdiction of a Dean and Chapter, subject only to the Sovereign and not to any archbishop or bishop.
Westminster Abbey, a work of architectural genius, a place of daily worship, deploying the resources of high musical expertise, a burial place of kings, statesmen, poets, scientists, warriors and musicians, is the result of a process of development across the centuries, which represents the response of a monastery and later a post-Reformation church to the stimulus and challenge of its environment.
Westminster Abbey is 69m (225 feet) high, with a width of 26m (85 feet) and a floor area of 32,000 square feet.
Text source: www.westminster-abbey.org/
- Soy una humilde rama de una flor vulgar.
La vi por pura casualidad, cortada y tirada en el suelo, cuando volvía hacia el coche después de fotografiar el aterrizaje de los últimos globos aerostáticos en el European Balloon Festival de Igualada del año 2015.
Me llamó la atención esa flor de preciosa tonalidad azul y los brotes que se extendían por toda la longitud de la rama.
- ¡Qué pena!, hubiera sido hermosa en su mata con todos los brotes florecidos, pensé.
Pero ni se me pasó por la imaginación fotografiarla allí, en el suelo, al lado de piedras, tierra y rastrojos.
Sin embargo, cuando llegué al coche, o mejor durante el corto trayecto hacia el coche, se fue apoderando de mi el deseo irrefrenable de fotografiar esa simple rama con su única flor azul. Aunque no conseguía imaginar cómo podría retratarla con un fondo decente, volví a por ella, la recogí y regresé al coche.
Y puedo asegurar que fue ella quien me dió la solución. Al dejarla sobre el techo del coche para poner la mochila fotográfica en el maletero y volver después la vista hacia ella, la vi allí encima, sobre un perfecto fondo blanco automovilístico y me dije...
- No tengo ni idea de cómo hacerlo, pero quiero fotografiarla ahí mismo, donde está.
Cerré el diafragma a f/20, puse todo el zoom que tenía mi 70-300mm y vi que el bokeh no estaba mal (o sea, que no se distinguía absolutamente nada por detrás de la rama).
No me gustaba nada el aspecto metálico del techo del coche, pero estaba seguro de que podría arreglarlo en el laboratorio digital.
Enfoqué, hice dos disparos, me la llevé a casa, la edité lo mejor que supe sin oscurecer el fondo ni virar nada... y me enamoré de ella.
Música recomendada: "Hearts". Marty Balin.
of my colored pencils.
For Macro Mondays
Theme: Pareidolia
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon common to all humans, known for making people recognize images of human or animal faces in objects, shadows, light formations, and in any other random visual stimulus.
Fifty Schades of Grey? NO they are 256!
Gray is created in additive and subtractive color mixing when the proportions of the respective primary colors are the same, but the brightness is neither maximum (white) nor minimum (black).
Gray is a color stimulus that is darker than white and lighter than black, but produces no or only a small colored impression (color valence).
So gray has no colorfulness, it is an uncolored color.
The gradations between pure white and pure black (black and white scale) are called grayscales.
the grayscale table has 256 gray tints.
Foto Location
Coast section from the Westkapelle Zeeland / Netherlands.
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Second homes are common in our area and the local economy largely depends on these part-time residents to prosper. Many of these owners are from out-of-state big cities and our state is discouraging them from coming due to the virus. There is typically a great deal of turnover on our "main street" and without the summer traffic, I have no idea how they'll survive...stimulus or no stimulus.
[A brighter view of the same scene in comments.]
Contemporary art is a joke, a game, a stimulus, a cheat, a sales account, a spit, an advertisement, a simulation. And it often sucks too.
Some localities of the city of Rio de Janeiro offer good opportunities for photographing the Christ the Redeemer. Particularly in winter I observed striking shades of colors involving one of the seven wonders of the world. This was a great stimulus to take some shots of this monument in some special moments. I hope you enjoy it and wish you all a great week.
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Canon EOS 6D - f/13 - 2.5sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays, theme: Pareidolia
- diameter of the flint stone, found on the garden path: 5 cm
- Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern where none actually exists.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations.
- Pareidolie of pareidolia is een psychisch verschijnsel, een vorm van illusie waarbij iemand een zodanige interpretatie van onduidelijke of willekeurige waarnemingen heeft, dat hij hierin herkenbare dingen meent waar te nemen.
De reden voor het verschijnsel ligt er waarschijnlijk in dat de hersenen behoefte hebben om verbanden tussen gegevens te leggen, ook als deze er eigenlijk niet zijn.
Bekende voorbeelden van pareidolie zijn het zien van gezichten of dieren in de wolken of het zien van het mannetje in de maan.
" Between the stimulus and our response there's a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our freedom."
{Viktor Frankl}
President Obama signs the Stimulus Bill in DENVER!!!!! The Goldies and I were sad that we were SO near, yet SO far from our President!!!!!
However, the Goldies felt like they WERE there to give President Obama their unfailing support!
Tool is an American rock band
Tool formed in Los Angeles in 1991, in the middle of the grunge era. Vocalist Maynard James Keenan, drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Paul D'Amour managed to forge a terrifying, claustrophobic sound, the ideal soundtrack for the insanity of an inmate confined in solitary confinement. It is a highly psychological music, which seems to want to open the most hidden ravines of the human psyche, where evil hatches waiting to be triggered by an external stimulus. The sound of Tool does not just reproduce the teachings of the masters of the 70s (certainly Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult), but assimilates the characters of a series of bands that have made the history of the last 20 years of extreme rock .
The aggressiveness of Metallica, the darkness of the Swans, the barbarism of the first Soundgarden, the tediousness of Godflesh echo in a highly spectacular sonic mosaic, somewhat in contradiction with the intent of the band to make existential music. What distinguishes Tool from the myriad of "hard" bands that populated the charts in those years, is the recovery of the progressive 70s, which can already be felt in the first compositions, but which will undeniably reveal itself in the last album, Lateralus.
Multiple images captured, composed and edited on an iPhone6S plus. The apps which I 've used during this process are ;
Leonardo, iColoramaS , trigraphy , lenslight , mextures
Pareidolia is the tendency for perception of a visual stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer.
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HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday
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Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus (an image or a sound) by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists. (Wikipedia) The Man in the Moon would be a good example.
"Viewer discretion advised"...I took those words to heart and have not watched, or listened to, the six O'clock news or any other news in seven months, until two nights ago. Same miserable crap. I glance away from the newspaper stand at the local coffee shop, not even wanting to catch a glimpse of the days headlines. My iphone and Google only seen to care about the forth stimulus check as I quickly tap past that. I don't care. I really don't care anymore, as I only want to see and hear the good that this world offers. Selfish. Indeed. So I needed to bring out some love and color to offset the hatred and the dismal darkness of the six O'clock news from two nights ago. Peace out.
Own image - texture: Topaz
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For Smile on Saturday. Pareidolia. ( This is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus..(often an image being perceived as significant. It commonly occurs as face-like patterns in inanimate objects.")
Spotted owlets. A moment during allopreening.
Allopreening occurs when 1 bird preens another bird. The behavior is normally directed at the head and neck of the recipient, i.e., regions that the bird cannot self-preen. Studies of penguins, pigeons, and other groups of birds suggest that allopreening plays a role in the control of ectoparasites, such as ticks and feather lice.
- bioone.org/journals/journal-of-parasitology/volume-106/is...
It's that time of year again when the grebes look at their best and their exchanges of affection are so frequent. The Lee Valley in Herts is once again filled with these beautiful creatures. They were the stimulus for formation of the RSPB in the UK in an effort to stop the traffic in their feathers which were used to decorate women's hats.
D'un bon pas.
Une paréidolie (du grec ancien para-, « à côté de », et eidôlon, diminutif d’eidos, « apparence, forme ») est une sorte d'illusion d'optique qui consiste à associer un stimulus visuel informe et ambigu à un élément clair et identifiable, souvent une forme humaine ou animale.
Le cerveau structure son environnement en permanence, quitte à transformer les informations fournies par la rétine en objets connus. La paréidolie exprime la tendance du cerveau à créer du sens par l'assimilation de formes aléatoires à des formes référencées.
À la différence des autres illusions d'optique, qui découlent des lois universelles de la perception humaine, chacun peut, dans le cas des paréidolies, voir une chose différente. L'humain a tendance à deviner notamment des visages dès qu'un objet y ressemble. Les attentes, les prédispositions, la culture de chacun a un impact sur ces « projections ». Par exemple, le test de Rorschach est basé sur cette fonction cognitive. Les paréidolies relèvent donc de phénomènes cognitifs complexes.
The stimulus to change can come only from the “intellect,” the seat of the image of God in man, and man’s capacity for God, which can be drawn out from the passions of the soul into compassion, and which does not lose its responsiveness to God’s word. The intellect remains the sanctuary of free decision, which imparts to all human performance its worthiness or worthlessness.
-Despondency The Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Acedia, Gabriel Bunge translated from the German by Anthony P. Gythiel
Hunt defines that "two colors are complementary when it is possible to reproduce the tristimulus values of a specified achromatic stimulus by an additive mixture of these two stimuli."[9] That is, when two colored lights can be mixed to match a specified white (achromatic, non-colored) light, the colors of those two lights are complementary. This definition, however, does not constrain what version of white will be specified. In the nineteenth century, the scientists Grassmann and Helmholtz did experiments in which they concluded that finding a good complement for spectral yellow was difficult, but that the result was indigo, that is, a wavelength that today's color scientists would call violet. Helmholtz says "Yellow and indigo blue" are complements.[10] Grassman reconstructs Newton's category boundaries in terms of wavelengths and says "This indigo therefore falls within the limits of color between which, according to Helmholtz, the complementary colors of yellow lie."[11] Newton's own color circle has yellow directly opposite the boundary between indigo and violet. These results, that the complement of yellow is a wavelength shorter than 450 nm, are derivable from the modern CIE 1931 system of colorimetry if it is assumed that the yellow is about 580 nm or shorter wavelength, and the specified white is the color of a blackbody radiator of temperature 2800 K or lower (that is, the white of an ordinary incandescent light bulb). More typically, with a daylight-colored or around 5000 to 6000 K white, the complement of yellow will be in the blue wavelength range, which is the standard modern answer for the complement of yellow
Between the stimulus and the response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom (Viktor E. Frankl)
04/06/2021, portada del grupo www.flickr.com/groups/f/
Portugal
Tomar, situada na região Centro de Portugal às margens do rio Nabão, é uma das mais ricas cidades históricas de Portugal. No local da atual Tomar existiram as cidades romanas de “Nabantia” e “Sellium”.
Conquistada ao Mouros em 1147, foi doada aos Templários em 1159. Em 1160 iniciou-se a construção do Castelo e Convento que viriam a ser a sede dos Templários em Portugal, e posteriormente da Ordem de Cristo, e é hoje Património da Humanidade, classificado pela UNESCO.
"Tomar, Portugal is one of the country’s most historic cities. Its Templar Castle and Convento de Cristo became the national headquarters of the Templar Knights in the middle ages, and later was at the forefront of the Order of Christ. The city was home to Henry the Navigator and provided the stimulus and resources for his New World Explorations of the 15th Century."
www.ezportugal.com/tomar-portugal/attractions-tomar-portu...
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.
- Wiki
Ce n'est pas souvent qu'on a l'opportunité d'observer les oiseaux et surtout de les voir avec une attitude plaisante. Alors, qu'ici, je vous présente une réaction amusante dû à un stimulus.
Here is one last photograph of my rescue hoglet self-anointing and I do like this one as it looks as though she's smiling. The Handbook of British Mammals says" Self-anointing is an intriguing activity in which the hedgehog is stimulated to produce frothy saliva which is liberally plastered over its body. The nature of stimulus and purpose remain a mystery but likely to be a means of spreading odours over body for self-advertisement (eg to facilitate individual recognition)." My Hedgehog seemed to do this whenever she tasted something new. She had a surprisingly long tongue for such a small animal and you can see some frothy saliva to the right of her tongue where she stretched even further. I released my young Hedgehog a week or so back (when she was much larger than this), and she did return to her box after a first night out. But alas, she did not return after that and her food has remained uneaten. I'm hoping she might return when it's time to hibernate. Fingers crossed she's faring well.
The human brain can process visual information from the eyes very rapidly. Recent research suggests that the brain can identify entire images in as little as 13 milliseconds. This is significantly faster than previously estimated, which was around 100 milliseconds.
The time it takes for your brain to process an image from your eye isn't a single, fixed duration. While initial identification can happen remarkably fast (as quickly as 13 milliseconds), the overall processing and understanding of the image is a more extended and intricate process.
For example:-
(An explanation lifted from "Recursion" by Blake Crouch.)
"Helena leans forward, snaps her fingers. “Just what your brain does to interpret a simple stimulus like that is incredible.
The visual and auditory information arrive at your eyes and ears at different speeds, and then are processed by your brain at different speeds.
Your brain waits for the slowest bit of stimulus to be processed, then reorders the neural inputs correctly, and lets you experience them together, as a simultaneous event—about half a second after what actually happened.
We think we’re perceiving the world directly and immediately, but everything we experience is this carefully edited, tape-delayed reconstruction.”
A bright day on the Quay at Exeter, Devon, UK.
Half a second after it actually happened.
Una caja de lápices de colores supone un estímulo muy fuerte para cualquier aficionado a la fotografía. A box of colored pencils is a very strong stimulus for any amateur photographer
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to
choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
- Vicktor Emil Frankl (Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist)
From Devil's Dyke, Sussex, UK.
wind and water. lots of wind, less water than I'd like, but I can't complain.
marina at rest, in the sun, in between the rains.
digital with lensbaby
we ran around like crazy today, first to the grocery store to get ingredients for the sauerkraut and kim chi I want to make, then to the bank to deposit our stimulus checks, and to the post office. and after a very short rest, up to Eureka to get our first COVID immunization.
we're both tired tonight, and the dogs were ever so glad to have us home again.
life in the time of corona
The building pictured above has a long history with the YMCA in Rockford. It is located at 220 East State Street in Rockford, IL. Even though the YMCA of Rock River Valley does not currently occupy the building, the stones above the doorway will always read YMCA.
Rockford, Illinois was first settled around 1834. As Rockford grew, the east side of the Rock River developed into a commercial district, featuring the post office and the first two hotels. State Street, which runs through the district, became an important transportation corridor between Belvidere and Galena. The first bridge in Rockford was built on State Street across the river in 1852; it was the only crossing until 1890. Also that year, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad reached the east side of Rockford, built along the eastern riverfront, providing economic stimulus. By 1860, the entirety of State Street from the tracks to Second Street was commercial development. The commercial building at 324–30 East State Street is the lone remnant from this era that has not been substantially altered
It was so cold on this day that the mailman didn't bother getting out of bed. It was not the day to be looking for that stimulus check to arrive.
Happy Slider's Sunday everyone.
Nevada City CA
🎵 The sun goes down, I feel the light betray me
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I CRY FROM MY HANDS
WHAT HYPERHIDROSIS REALLY IS
Hyperhidrosis is not a skin disease.
It is not a problem of the sweat glands.
It is not an aesthetic defect.
Hyperhidrosis is a dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system, specifically its sympathetic branch.
The autonomic nervous system automatically regulates:
body temperature
sweating
heart rate
blood pressure
digestion
stress response
It works without conscious control.
HOW IT FUNCTIONS IN A PERSON WITHOUT HYPERHIDROSIS
1. A stimulus arrives (heat, emotion, stress)
2. The brain receives it
3. Filtering circuits evaluate intensity and danger
4. If necessary, the hypothalamus activates sweating
5. When no longer needed, the signal turns off
There is always a brake.
WHAT HAPPENS IN HYPERHIDROSIS
In people with hyperhidrosis:
Filtering and modulation circuits work poorly
The signal is not attenuated
The brake is weak
This means:
stimuli arrive unfiltered
they arrive directly
they arrive amplified
No anatomical part is missing.
What is reduced is the functional efficiency of inhibitory filtering.
In simple terms:
The brain does not lower the volume.
WHERE THE PROBLEM OCCURS
In the connections between:
Limbic system (emotions)
Hypothalamus (body regulation)
Brainstem
Prefrontal cortex
These circuits should say:
“This stimulus is mild”
“This is not dangerous”
“This does not require a bodily response”
In severe hyperhidrosis, this mechanism is weak.
Everything passes through.
WHAT “EVERYTHING PASSES THROUGH” MEANS
Tension
Anger
Fear
Injustice
Humiliation
Conflict
Sensory overload
There is no effective protective barrier.
Every stimulus arrives pure.
WHY THE BODY CHOOSES SWEAT
When the brain perceives threat:
It activates the sympathetic system
It prepares for survival
It increases sweating
In hyperhidrosis, this channel becomes a primary discharge valve.
The body releases through sweat.
Not because it is wrong.
Because it is one of the fastest exits.
WHY IT WORSENS IN TOXIC ENVIRONMENTS
A toxic environment is one where:
You are not safe
You are not listened to
You are devalued
You experience injustice
You must constantly defend yourself
The brain does not reason morally.
It reasons in terms of:
danger / no danger
Toxic environment = prolonged danger.
Therefore:
Sympathetic system always active.
If you stay four hours in that environment:
four hours of continuous signal.
The body collapses.
WHY IT MAY DECREASE AT HOME OR IN SAFE PLACES
Because:
The brain perceives less threat
The sympathetic system slows
Baseline activation lowers
This proves that:
it is not a skin problem
it is not a local defect
It is a neurophysiological response to context.
LEVELS OF HYPERHIDROSIS
Level 1
Occasional increased sweating
Level 2
Frequent sweating
Level 3
Continuous sweating
Level 4 (severe)
Profuse, visible, disabling, uncontrollable sweating
WHY CREAMS, BOTOX AND SURGERY FAIL
They act at the end of the circuit.
They block the faucet.
But the pressure remains.
Result:
Sweat appears elsewhere
Compensations occur
Global worsening
This is physiology, not bad luck.
An honest physician knows this.
THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
Severe hyperhidrosis is often associated with:
Highly sensitive nervous systems
Trauma
Chronic stress
Prolonged overload
Highly perceptive personalities
Not weakness.
Neurological hyper-receptivity.
WHAT THIS PHOTO SHOWS
Not a wet hand.
It shows:
A nervous system under overload.
A body that can no longer contain.
A real biological response.
CLOSING STATEMENT
This is not shame.
This is not guilt.
This is not a defect.
It is the cost of a nervous system that feels everything.
"Pareidolia is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music."
I don't think I have it very strongly as I often can't see things other people see but I can't walk past this tree trunk without seeing a person reclining casually there.
Pareidolia (/pærɪˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music.