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My therapist challenged me to try to spend time doing something I used to love and to take one photo. I chose the California Poppies in the garden as all my flowers are bringing me so much joy.
My world has at times been reduced to the home and the garden. So, I celebrate every new bud, new growth, the opening of a flower, the capturing of an insect by my carnivorous plants and the eventual passing to make way for new seasonal plants.
Thanks to everyone who has reached out to me to see how I am, in amongst all you own troubles. I am fine. I have reached abit of a plateau with recovery but recovery rarely happens in a straight trajectory. So patience is a must but something I am not very good at but am learning!
After taking some time in the garden taking photos, I had to rest and made myself watch yet another renovation show!! Honestly, I have never watched a renovation show until I had to spend so much time on the couch and discovered how much I loved them.
I should try to challenge myself take one photo a week and try to pop on more.
Take care everyone. Miss you all x
A su paso por la ciudad de Cuenca, el río Huécar forma una sinuosa hoz o cañón, entre sus hermosas rocas calizas y las casas de cientos de años que se sujetan milagrosamente sobre las mismas.
"El Puente San Pablo", contemporáneo de la Torre Eiffel, une ambos lados, siempre que no se padezca de vértigo.
On their way through the city of Cuenca, the Huécar river forms a sickle or winding canyon, between its beautiful limestone rocks and houses hundreds of years which are held on the same trajectory.
"El Puente San Pablo", a contemporary of the Eiffel Tower, binds both sides, provided that it does not suffer from vertigo.
An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
KP9 Geomagnetic Storm from AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group.
Recently I took a trip down memory lane. I realize the memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible and one invisible. The trajectory of what’s evident is always affected by the gravity of what’s concealed.
An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
KP9 Geomagnetic Storm from AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group.
Created for the "Kreative People" group's December challenge, "Social Distortion".
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Number 4 in an ongoing series of urban images shot in Pano-Sabotage that address the overload of overpopulated, urban centres and their trajectory toward unsustainability and eventual collapse. Our environments reflect our mindsets. Social distortion indeed.
"End Games" use only one Pano-Sabotage shot that is layered repeatedly in different sizings and shifted positions. Layers are treated with various levels of translucency to increase their interaction and to render the material objects in the image less so. It opens up the image's intent to suggest the interplay of several dimensions of a single world - co-existing.
None of the Pano layers in this particular image were subjected to photo manipulation. Basic tweaks of colour, shadow, highlights and contrast were used but no filters or effects.
Image shot Dec 8, 2018 and assembled Dec 9, the next day.
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An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
KP9 Geomagnetic Storm from AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group.
天気の良い日には海岸から海ほたるを見ることが出来ます。
近くに住んでいるのに一度も行ったことがありませんでした。
In fine weather you can see the "Umihotaru" from the coast.
Did not have that you have been there even once is to live near.
Фрагмент ікони іконостасу центральної нави. Художник Віктор Михайлович Васнєцов. Це друга ікона з правої сторони іконостасу, рахуючи від Царської брами, Володимирський собор.
Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych. (958 – 15 July 1015), nicknamed the Great, was Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015.
Vladimir's father was Prince Sviatoslav I of Kiev of the Rurik dynasty. After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk murdered his other brother Oleg of Drelinia, becoming the sole ruler of Rus'. In Sweden, with the help of his relative Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, he assembled a Varangian army and reconquered Novgorod from Yaropolk. By 980, Vladimir had consolidated the Rus' realm to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarians, Baltic tribes and Eastern nomads. Originally a follower of Slavic paganism, Vladimir converted to Christianity in 988 and Christianized the Kievan Rus'. Due to this act, which fundamentally altered the historical trajectory of the Rus' and led to his declaration as a saint in both Western Christianity and the Eastern Orthodox Church, Vladimir is thus also known as Saint Vladimir. Some scholars prefer Volodimer I or Volodimir I.
«Володимир I Святославич (960/963 — 15 липня 1015) — великий князь київський (979–1015), князь новгородський (970–988). Хреститель Русі. Представник варязької династії Рюриковичів. Наймолодший (позашлюбний) син київського князя Святослава Ігоровича від ключниці Малуші (імовірної дочки древлянського князя Мала). Онук київської княгині Ольги, батько київського князя Ярослава Мудрого. Молодший брат і наступник київського князя Ярополка Святославича. Захопив київський престол після міжусобної боротьби з братом (977–979). Приєднав до Київської Русі землі в'ятичів (982), ятвягів (983), радимичів (984), білих хорватів (981). Воював проти булгарів (985), греків (988), вірменів (1000), поляків (1001), печенігів (996, 1015). Охрестив Русь 988 року. Встановив Київську митрополію Константинопольського патріархату. Розширив межі столиці Києва, збудував Десятинну церкву (996). Першим із руських князів розпочав карбувати власну золоту монету. Заснував Володимир (988) та інші міста. Використовував особистий знак «тризуб», що став у ХХ столітті гербом України. Помер у Берестовському палаці за Києвом. Канонізований Католицькою і Православною церквами як рівноапостольний святий. Засновник династії Володимировичів. Національний герой України. Прізвиська — Великий, Святий, Хреститель, Красне-Сонечко тощо.» Вікіпедія.
Current
May. Rain has been pounding the Adirondacks for several days, and supersaturated the mountains. Seasonal streams have awakened, runoff and percolation feed the flow, all that water finding it’s lowest level and charging the whole Schroon ecosystem. Some miles below the dam at the lake, the river picks up speed on gradients through boulder fields, now inundated and drowned under the flow. They are immovable, their resistance invisible but for the standing waves throughout the volume. A light mist hovers above the raging current. Standing this close, I can feel the vibration of it’s power, urging my blood pressure higher to match the atmosphere I’m in. Here is spring as allegory to life, the relentless wildness of youth, bursting to race ahead towards that age when you don’t. What I wouldn’t give to truly feel that voltage again, and know the trajectory of where I was headed, instead of treading, spent, looking back at where I’ve come. I stay awhile on the edge of the surge, enjoying the power of the season.
ps: Open the Large Size, to see better the picture.
Blogpost: Writing on the ground, trajectories in four casters
An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
KP9 Geomagnetic Storm from AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group.
An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
KP9 Geomagnetic Storm from AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group.
The Rio Grande Zephyr alters its trajectory as it ducks under US Highway 6 at Gilluly, Utah on May 15, 1977. Seating in a "Vista Dome" was unreserved, a tradition going back to the debut of the California Zephyr in 1949. The Silver Banquet dining car was out for maintenance on this day, and the Silver Shop Buffet-Lounge car was filling in for onboard passenger dining as best it could.
An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
KP9 Geomagnetic Storm from AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group.
Widely distributed across Britain & Ireland all year round, this small finch is a species of open country and farmland.
UK Linnet numbers fell sharply between the late-1960s and the late-1980s. Since then, the decline has slowed, but the overall population trend is still on a downward trajectory. This negative trend is thought to be linked to increased nest failure associated with agricultural intensification. The Linnet has been on the UK Red List since 1996.
Linnets have an overall streaky brown appearance. Males have more distinctive plumage than females, with a grey head and pink patches on the forehead and chest. They also have a very melodious song. Linnets form big flocks during the winter months, sometimes mixing with other finches, combing the countryside in search of seeds to eat.
[Explore #28]
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Night photography captured using long exposure, depicting a vehicle passing through a narrow, dimly lit path.
The red light trails from the taillights structure the image and convey motion within a quiet environment.
This approach aims to reveal the passage of time and give a graphic dimension to an ordinary scene.
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**🎬 Prompt :**
Une sphère de cristal luxueuse posée sur un socle en or finement ciselé, ornée de motifs baroques complexes, reposant sur une surface sombre parsemée de particules scintillantes. À l’intérieur de la sphère, un système solaire miniature en suspension gravitationnelle : un soleil incandescent au cœur, irradiant une lumière dorée intense avec des éruptions solaires dynamiques, entouré de planètes hyperréalistes aux textures détaillées (bandes nuageuses de Jupiter, anneaux translucides de Saturne, océans profonds de la Terre avec continents visibles, teintes glacées et atmosphères colorées des autres planètes).
Des orbites lumineuses finement tracées en filaments d’or pur décrivent des trajectoires parfaites autour du soleil, créant un effet de mécanique céleste précise. Des milliers de particules lumineuses flottent dans la sphère, évoquant une poussière d’étoiles en mouvement lent.
Éclairage cinématographique volumétrique, avec reflets complexes sur le verre, caustiques lumineuses et aberrations chromatiques subtiles. Profondeur de champ très réduite (bokeh doré en arrière-plan), ambiance chaleureuse et magique. Contraste élevé entre les zones sombres et les reflets dorés.
Style hyperréaliste, rendu 8K, ray tracing avancé, global illumination, textures ultra détaillées, micro-reflets, HDR, photographie macro, objectif 85mm f/1.4, angle légèrement en plongée, composition centrée, esthétique fantasy luxueuse mêlée à science-fiction.
Atmosphère mystique, élégante et intemporelle, comme un artefact cosmique ancien capturant l’univers dans un instant figé.
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**🎬 Prompt:**
A luxurious crystal sphere resting on an intricately carved golden base adorned with elaborate baroque patterns, placed on a dark surface scattered with shimmering particles. Inside the sphere, a miniature solar system floats in perfect gravitational suspension: a blazing sun at the center radiating intense golden light, with dynamic solar flares and plasma arcs, surrounded by hyper-realistic planets featuring highly detailed textures (Jupiter’s swirling cloud bands, Saturn’s translucent rings, Earth with visible continents and deep blue oceans, and other planets with icy hues and vibrant atmospheres).
Thin, luminous orbital paths made of pure golden filaments trace precise trajectories around the sun, evoking a sense of perfect celestial mechanics. Thousands of tiny glowing particles drift within the sphere, resembling slow-moving cosmic dust or stardust suspended in time.
Cinematic volumetric lighting with complex reflections on the glass surface, realistic caustics, and subtle chromatic aberrations. Extremely shallow depth of field with warm golden bokeh in the background, creating a magical and intimate atmosphere. High contrast between deep shadows and radiant highlights.
Hyper-realistic style, 8K resolution, advanced ray tracing, global illumination, ultra-detailed textures, micro-reflections, HDR rendering, macro photography, 85mm lens, f/1.4 aperture, slight top-down angle, centered composition. A blend of luxury fantasy and high-end science fiction aesthetics.
Mood: mystical, elegant, timeless — like an ancient cosmic artifact capturing the universe in a frozen moment.
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Un message à mes amis Flickr
Cette fenêtre aux accents fantasmagoriques est située à quelques pas de la première habitation construite par Samuel de Champlain en 1608, à Québec. Et c’est à distance de marche de cette fenêtre que j’habiterai à partir de la mi-décembre.
C’est avec un pincement de coeur que je quitte mes montagnes, mes forêts et mes lacs de la région des Laurentides (à 350 KM de Québec) pour plonger en plein coeur de la vie urbaine. Mais la vie est une aventure et Québec est une toute aventure! Une ville libre, créative, passionnée que j’ai toujours aimé.
Ce changement de trajectoire a exigé beaucoup de temps et d’énergie et c’est pourquoi j’ai été peu présent sur Flickr au cours des 6 derniers mois. Et jusqu’à la mi-janvier 2018, je serai complètement absent pour préparer ma nouvelle maison dans l’éco quartier de Québec.
Vous me manquerez tous. Joyeuses Fêtes mes amis
Patrice
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A message to my Flickr friends
This window with phantasmagoric accents is located few steps away from the first dwelling built by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 in Quebec City; and from mid-December, I will live within walking distance from this window.
It's with a twinge of regret that I leave my mountains, my forests and my lakes in the Laurentian region (350km from Quebec) to dive right into the heart of the urban life. But life is an adventure and, Quebec is an adventure! A free, creative, passionate city that I have always loved.
This change of trajectory has required a lot of time and energy and this is why I have been so scarcely on Flickr for the past six months. Until mid-January 2018 I will be completely absent to prepare my new home in the eco-district of Quebec.
I will miss you all. Happy Holidays, my friends.
Patrice
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MÉMOIRE DES TERRES ANCIENNES -- Δ (Delta)
« Cherchez la sagesse, pas seulement la connaissance. »
La connaissance appartient au passé, la sagesse au futur ».
Proverbe de la tribu Lumbee, États-Unis
Le titre de cette image, Δ (Delta), symbolise le changement en grec ancien. Elle s’ajoute à ma série Mémoire des Terres anciennes, consacrée aux enseignements de l’évolution de Terre et à ses influences pour les vivants. *
Ici, sur ces terres bouleversées, ravinées et arides, s’est écrite une page essentielle de l’histoire de la Terre. La « beauté » de ce site ne réside pas dans une esthétique douce, flatteuse et attirante à laquelle nous associons d’ordinaire le « beau ». Il s’agit plutôt de l’un des plus grands cimetières de dinosaures du monde, enfoui dans une rivière de boue résultant des changements climatiques qui ont perturbé les habitats et engendré une extinction de masse à la suite de la chute d’un astéroïde au Mexique, il y a 66 millions d’années. Cette catastrophe a modifié la trajectoire évolutive de plusieurs espèces vivantes de notre planète.
Cette image met en scène l’enjeu de la conservation de la vie, un danger primordial face à une puissance au-delà de toute mesure et qui suscite crainte et respect. C’est un « beau » étrange, mystérieux et souvent tragique, qui nous perturbe et auquel les philosophes ont donné le nom de « sublime ».
La science ne cesse d’accumuler des connaissances au sujet de ces catastrophes naturelles du passé. Mais demandons-nous… en avons-nous, ici et maintenant, tiré des enseignements empreints de sagesse destinés à mieux vivre au sein de ce monde vivant et inventer un autre avenir, comme nous y invitait la tribu Lumbee ? Prenons le temps de réfléchir à cette question en gardant à l’esprit « qu’il n’existe pas, en ce monde, rien de supérieur au monde lui-même. » ** C’est le premier enseignement de la Mémoire des Terres anciennes.
Patrice
Note * : Pour en apprendre plus, consultez mon livre gratuit ici: Une Odyssée Vitale…. www.flickr.com/photos/patrice-photographiste/54386154614/...
Note ** Une pensée attribuée à Alexandre Lacroix, philosophe français et auteur de Devant la beauté de la Nature.
N.B. Mes images ne sont pas conçues ou générées par des intelligences artificielles. Elles sont le résultat d’un travail artisanal dont je suis l’auteur.
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The Memory of Ancient Lands -- Δ (Delta)
“Seek wisdom, not just knowledge. Knowledge belongs to the past, wisdom to the future.” Lumbee Tribe Proverb, USA
The title of this image, Δ (Delta), symbolizes change in Ancient Greek. It is part of my Ancient Earths Memory series, dedicated to the lessons of Earth’s evolution and its influences on living beings. *
Here, on these ravaged, eroded, and arid lands, a crucial chapter in Earth’s history was written. The “beauty” of this site does not lie in a gentle, flattering, and appealing aesthetic with which we usually associate “beauty.” Rather, it is one of the world’s largest dinosaur graveyards, buried in a river of mud resulting from climate change that disrupted habitats and triggered a mass extinction following an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 million years ago. This catastrophe altered the evolutionary trajectory of many of our planet’s living species.
This image depicts the challenge of preserving life, a paramount danger in the face of immeasurable power, inspiring both fear and respect. It is a strange, mysterious, and often tragic "beauty" that disturbs us and which philosophers have termed "sublime."
Science continues to accumulate knowledge about these past natural disasters. But let us ask ourselves… Have we, here and now, drawn lessons imprinted with wisdom to help us live better within this living world and invent a different future, as the Lumbee tribe invited us to do?
Let us take the time to reflect on this question, keeping in mind that "there is nothing in this world greater than the world itself." This is the first lesson of the Memory of Ancient Lands.
Patrice
Note*: To learn more, consult my free book A Vital Odyssey here… www.flickr.com/photos/patrice-photographiste/54385997576/...
Note**: A thought attributed to Alexandre Lacroix, French philosopher and author of « Devant la beauté de la Nature » (Before the Beauty of Nature).
N.B. My images are not designed or generated by artificial intelligence. This is an artisanal work of which I am the author.
Ressignificar é perceber que nem tudo de ruim que vivemos é tão ruim assim, já que, mesmo se tratando de uma situação difícil, é possível sair muito mais forte dela, tendo a oportunidade de aprender e modificar aquilo que não estava trazendo tanto resultado assim para a nossa trajetória e evolução.
To give new meaning is to realize that not everything bad we live is that bad, since, even in a difficult situation, it is possible to come out much stronger, having the opportunity to learn and modify what was not bringing so much results for our trajectory and evolution.
Walking through the London neighborhoods, I wondered if there was anything reminiscent of the angry seventies or the tumultuous eighties, as everything seemed to be on a new, modern trajectory. I only found the image of the Power Station, which refers to another similar iconic photo of the 70's.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdyscH9TsnA
Time to board that train and introduce some other new work...
(If viewing on a PC, I highly recommend pressing "L" to view in Lightboard mode with a black background.)
THE SMALL HAMLET OF WINGDALE, within the town of Dover, New York, is home to the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
Despite its proximity to New York State Route 22, the stunningly beautiful property has been shrouded in mystery for decades. In 1924, The Harlem Valley State Hospital opened its doors to the public. Later to be renamed the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, the hospital was chartered “for the care and treatment of the insane” and included infrastructure that had previously constituted the Wingdale Prison.
Over the course of 70 years of operation, the facility treated thousands of patients who had been deemed mentally ill. Sprawling across almost 900 acres and encompassing more than 80 buildings, the hospital had its own golf course, bowling alley, baseball field, bakery, and a massive dairy farm that supported an in-house ice cream parlor. At its peak, the facility housed 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees.
Over the years, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center adopted numerous experimental methods of treatment of the mentally ill. In the 1930s, the facility joined several other institutions on the vanguard of a new insulin shock therapy for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other compulsive disorders. Later, when the method of electro-shock therapy was created, the hospital was again a pioneer in implementing the method as a treatment for its patients in 1941. When neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman developed a new method for treating a wide range of psychological conditions that became known as a lobotomy, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center was the preeminent institution for frontal lobotomy in the state of New York.
As with most mental health institutions in New York and across the country, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center saw a gradual decline in enrollment upon the introduction of psychotropic drugs such as thorazine. When the hospital closed its doors in 1994, it had been on a trajectory of decline for a number of years. For the better part of 20 years, the once-busy campus slowly deteriorated. Visited only by night-watchmen and would-be vandals, the buildings sat unused and the grounds slowly grew unkempt. Ghost stories and whispers grew alongside the weeds of the property.
An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
KP9 Geomagnetic Storm from AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group.
Admire the precision of the knit-work
[Exposition “ON AIR” Palais de Tokyo, Paris.]
Tomás Saraceno’s exhibition ON AIR is an ecosystem in becoming, hosting emergent choreographies and polyphonies across human and non-human universes, among which spiders’ webs. The artworks reveal the common, fragile and ephemeral rhythms and trajectories between these worlds.
//Tomás Saraceno, entouré d’une équipe d’araignées, d’architectes, d’astrophysiciens et de chercheurs, invite à repenser poétiquement notre manière d’être au monde. ON AIR se présente comme un écosystème en mouvement, accueillant une chorégraphie à plusieurs voix entre humains et non-humains, où les œuvres révèlent les rythmes et trajectoires communs, fragiles, et éphémères qui unissent ces mondes.
This old house is a good analogy for the human condition. Years of hardships and viscitudes can take their toll on the human soul. Previous trauma leaves it’s mark too with repercussions that continue into the present reality. I think here of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserable where the prisoner Jean Valjean is given a new lease on life when incredible kindness is unexpectedly shown to him by an old priest. The past continues to try to haunt him to drag him down and destroy him but the support he was given proves to be the key for inherent goodness to triumph in the end. Do you see someone for whom a little support might be decisive? Don’t hold back. You may help change the trajectory of a human life. Cheers.
My first event on the 3rd Rock Grid, "Mind Meld" hosted by Admiral Toocool
Poison Toocool, @Mind Meld, Astraios Colony, 220821
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere).
I made this image at Cedar Creek on a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest. The lush green foliage and warm Autumn colors really make this place a location of natural beauty.
© Tony Aceves 2014
I'm going to tell you something today that will sound absolutely mad.
There is a secret price that comes with awakening.
And it has to do with love, not the kind of love they write songs about.
But something far more dangerous.
Every truly awakened person carries a burden that makes them nearly untouchable.
And what I'm about to reveal changes everything you think you know about Enlightenment.
What do we mean when we say someone is in love, what's really happening there?
When two people fall in love, they're playing a very ancient and rather elaborate game.
It's a game of mutual deception, though we'd never call it that at a wedding.
Each person presents to the other a carefully edited version of themselves.
Not the whole catastrophe, mind you. But the highlight real.
The charming bits, the mysterious bits.
And the other person, equally desperate for connection, agrees to believe in this edited version.
They invest in it.
They build their dreams around it.
This is what we call romance, and it's absolutely necessary for the game to work.
But when you awaken- and I mean truly awaken, not just have a pleasant experience in meditation- something rather catastrophic happens.
Something happens to your ability to play this game.
You see through your own editing process.
You watch yourself trying to be charming, and you see it for what it is, a performance, a mask, a clever little dance you've been doing since you were old enough to realize that certain behaviors get approval, and others get rejection.
And worse still, you see through everyone else's performance, too.
The awakened person stands before another human being completely naked.
Psychologically speaking.
No pretense, no carefully crafted image, no future promises of becoming someone better.
Someone more complete.
Just this, this strange cosmic accident of consciousness that somehow learned to call itself by a name, and that level of transparency is absolutely terrifying to people who are still identified with their personas.
You know what happens when you stop pretending?
When you stop playing the game of "I am this kind of person, and I'm looking for that kind of person", people don't know what to do with you.
They can't get a grip on you.
It's like trying to nail Jell-o to the wall.
You become unpindownable, and our entire romantic structure is based on pinning people down into roles, into promises, into predictable patterns. The unawakened person is looking for someone to complete them.
They're looking for their other half, as the saying goes.
But the awakened soul isn't a half looking for another half.
They're already whole.
And two whole people meeting.
Now that's an entirely different proposition than two halves trying to make a whole.
Most people aren't ready for that.
They don't want wholeness meeting wholeness.
They want need, meeting need.
That desperate clinging that feels like love, but is really just two people afraid of their own emptiness.
Trying to fill the void with another person's presence.
Imagine you meet someone at a party.
Charming person, quite attractive.
They ask you what you do, where you're going in life, what your dreams are, all the usual questions we use to build the story of who we think we are.
Now, if you're awake, you realize you can't answer these questions honestly without sounding like you've lost your mind.
Because the honest answer is, I'm nobody going nowhere and the whole thing is a cosmic joke.
I'm the universe pretending to be a person.
Asking another part of the universe, pretending to be a person what they pretend to do.
Try that at a cocktail party sometime, and watch what happens.
The person will smile politely and find someone else to talk to.
Someone who's still playing the game, someone who has ambitions and plans, and a five year strategy.
Someone they can understand, categorize, and potentially fit into their life story.
You see, people want to date a character in a novel.
Not the space between the words.
They want someone with a story they can follow, a trajectory they can predict.
A future they can imagine.
The awakened person has no story.
They're just here, now, being whatever is happening.
The more you see through the illusion of the separate self, the less you can participate in the usual dance of relationship.
Because that dance requires two people who believe they're separate selves.
It requires someone who can say "I need you" and mean it in that desperate, hungry way that makes for great poetry and terrible relationships.
The kind of need that keeps the whole machinery of romance grinding along.
That beautiful, tragic need that spawns a thousand love songs and a million broken hearts.
It's the fuel that the entire romantic industrial complex runs on.
But when you've awakened, you can't say "I need you" in that way anymore.
Not because you're cold or detached.
But because you've seen that the "I" who would need, and the "you" who would fulfill that need, are both characters in a play.
You've walked backstage and seen the ropes and pulleys.
You can't unsee that.
And you can't pretend you haven't seen it just to make someone feel comfortable.
So you stand there, utterly available, completely open, but somehow impossible to possess.
And possession, my friends, is what most people mistake for love.
Think about the language we use- my girlfriend, my boyfriend, my wife, my husband.
We speak of human beings, as if they were property.
And when someone leaves us, we feel robbed, betrayed, as if something that belonged to us has been stolen.
The awakened person cannot be owned, because they don't even own themselves.
How can you possess someone who has realized they don't exist as a separate, solid entity?
-Credited to @magnusim3
My second upload of New Years Eve fireworks. In the 4 second exposure, I lucked out by getting both the upward trajectory plus the actual burst. Or maybe that was a second going up. I can't say for sure now.
© AnvilcloudPhotography
After carefully watching the moon and its trajectory for the previous two evenings I was gutted when talking to my sister on the phone when she mentioned it was the full moon that evening. I was absolutely dropping and couldn't force myself back out. Instead I shot it hand held bracing myself on the small balcony of our caravan. On reaching home this afternoon I decided a simple composite the way to go. So this was a snapshot of Seagulls wheeling about above where our car was parked using the Fuji x100v and the shot of the moon using my d500 dslr with a 300mm f/4 lens plus a 1x4 teleconverter. I took lots of the moon so it may well end up where it should be which would be behind me not in front of me... I only snapped those gulls because Jonathan was laughing as I had been complaining because there were no gulls on the beach. He looked across and said they are all here :(
The Kissing trees in Fife. I have shot this scene on numerous occasions so decided to try a night shot with the hope of getting the milky way. I have plenty of apps for this and I still managed to get it wrong :( Its only visible for a very short period and i mucked up the angle of trajectory. I still think the image looks ok though.
"Ok, let's see, y = x tan θ – (gx^2/2v^2cos^2θ)" Jasper mentally calculates the ChuckIt's trajectory in real time.
Energetic live performance by Jally Kebba & his band during a fund raising event at the Jazz Cafe, London City.
About:
Accomplished kora playing maverick Jally Kebba Susso is a UK based griot, born and raised in 74 generations of Gambian musical heritage. But he is not your ordinary griot.
Forging a new trajectory of sound for the West African harp - songwriter and composer - he honed his own upbeat electronic sound over years of experimentation on the London underground scene since 2002 and as a core member of Afriquoi.
Skilfully mixing contemporary Mandinka and Wollof music, this is a new blend of afro-futurist psychedelic funky kora that is immediately accessible and uplifting, yet filled with nuance and intoxicating rhythmical layers that give the music depth and intrigue.
Raised in a household of musicians, Jally Kebba was exposed to incredible musicianship from a very early age and under the guidance of his father Bully Suso, a very well-respected kora player and his elder brothers, by 13 he was touring internationally across
Europe.
In 2007 he formed his band Manding Sabu and with them ran a highly acclaimed African music residency night at Passing Clouds for 5 years called Strings on Fire. He has released two albums of original compositions - Banjul- London (2017) and Malaye Warr
(2012) and is gigging extensively at festivals and venues across UK and Europe.
The new Freedom EP was released in 2021, the punchiest offering to date, pushed musical boundaries for afro-electro kora. Precision, speed and a merciless energy characterise their performance style making them solid dance floor fillers.
To the ones who’ve interest in Kora music and like to hear something different, I would suggest listening to some of it on his youtube channel:
An aurora (pl. aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). The resulting ionization and excitation of atmospheric constituents emit light of varying colour and complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the precipitating particles.
Most of the planets in the Solar System, some natural satellites, brown dwarfs, and even comets also host auroras.
KP9 Geomagnetic Storm from AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group.
This is my second trip to photograph Comet Neowise (C2020 F3) over Stanford dish. The trip was made after some re-caculations on azimuth angles at a few spots in my first trip. I was able to get a more precise timing and location for an image with better alignment between the "trajectory" and the dish.
Composite of two single shots @ f11, 200mm, 25s, ISO800, and
f2.8, 200mm, 2s, ISO800.