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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
Puku’s feathers are soft and delicate with the humble browns and grays you’d find in Oak Tree bark. We were tempted to ask if we could touch her. The little Western Screech Owl appeared to invite tactile contact from humans. We were told that in the past, she was petted, and her head area rubbed but some of her feathers were rubbed off, …loved off, because of the oil present on our fingers. Puku had developed a little bald patch which has since resolved. So, no more petting for this avian gal.
Puku has cloudy eyes. She had contracted a virus when a youngster that would have blinded her completely if it were not for veterinary intervention. She has 25% vision in her right but was totally blind in her left eye.
Puku is one of seven birds of prey that serve as education ambassadors. All were rescued and rehabilitated and, due to permanent disabilities, can no longer survive in the wild. EITS is the only licensed raptor education program in Santa Barbara County. The birds’ live presence and their unique stories of survival educate about impacts of human activities, good and bad, and foster respect and understanding for wild species and their habitats.
Eyes in the Sky (EITS) has been Santa Barbara Audubon Society’s key wildlife education program since 2000.
Winter Birds V4
Created with Midjourney AI engine. PP work in Luminar Neo AI filters
Prompt: overcast snowy scene with a row of bird feeders on stand colorful birds feeding pink sky pastel tones with pencil outline in the style of Dee Nickerson and Emily Balivet --ar 4:3 --s 250 --style raw
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In the end there doesn't have to be
anyone who understands you.......
There just has to be someone who
wants to.
Robert Brault
This HYBYCOZO sculpture titled Point of View is in the Kitchell Family Heritage Garden.
Point of View 2022
Stainless Steel, Powder Coat Pigment, LED
This sculpture's patterns draw inspiration from Ukrainian cross-stitching, a traditional folk art from Ukraine, the birthplace of HYBYCOZO artist Yelena Flipchuk. This tribute to her cultural origins invites visitors to reflect on grief, resilience, joy, and the yearning for peace.
Please spin artwork gently.
dbg.org/events/light-bloom/2024-10-12/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFelgzzzQqg
LIGHT BLOOM by HYBYCOZO is a limited-time exhibit where nature and light converge. This mesmerizing display invites you to explore the Garden transformed by stunning geometric light installations that illuminate the beauty of the desert landscape in a new way. As the sun sets, LIGHT BLOOM comes to life, casting intricate shadows and vibrant hues across the Garden. Wander the trails and let the enchanting installations transport you to a magical realm where the natural world meets the abstract.
HYBYCOZO is the collaborative studio of artists Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk. Based in Los Angeles, their work consists of larger than life geometric sculptures, often with pattern and texture that draw on inspirations from mathematics, science, and natural phenomena. Typically illuminated, the work celebrates the inherent beauty of form and pattern and represents their ongoing journey in exploring the myriad dimensions of geometry. HYBYCOZO is short for the Hyperspace Bypass Construction Zone, a nod to their favorite novel (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and was the title of their first installation in 2014. They continue to create under this name. In the novel earth was being destroyed to make way for a bypass. It lead Serge and Yelena to ask what it means to make art at a time where the earth’s hospitable time in the universe may be limited.
dbg.org/meet-the-artists-behind-light-bloom/
Q: Walk us through your creative process?
A: The focus of our creative process is to explore the intricate interplay between geometry, light, space and to inspire contemplation, wonder and a sense of place among our audiences. Geometry and pattern-making serve as the backbone of our creative expression. It is the framework through which we navigate the complexities of form, proportion and spatial relationships. Patterns, both simple and complex, have a profound impact on our perception and understanding of the world. They possess the ability to evoke a sense of order, balance and aesthetic pleasure. Pattern making and geometry offer us a means of storytelling and communication. These patterns serve as conduits for deeper exploration, provoking introspection and contemplation to uncover the underlying symbols embedded within the human psyche.
Q: What inspired the concept of LIGHT BLOOM?
A: Just as many cactus and desert plants have evolved to produce night-blooming flowers, adapting to their environment and thriving in darkness, our sculptures come alive after sunset, blossoming with light and transforming the night into a glowing landscape of art and geometry.
Desert Botanical Garden has an incredible collection of plants and cacti arranged in a beautiful park setting.
"Think the desert is all dirt and tumbleweeds? Think again. Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cactus, trees and flowers from all around the world spread across 55 acres in Phoenix, Arizona."
Desert Botanical Garden
DBG HYBYCOZO Light Bloom
Sephirot [or "enumerations", Sephiroth, Sefiroth (סְפִירוֹת), singular: Sephirah, also Sefirah (סְפִירָה "enumeration" in Hebrew)], in the Kabbalah of Judaism, are the ten attributes that God (who is referred to as אור אין סוף Aur Ain Soph, "Limitless Light, Light Without End") created through which he can manifest not only the physical but the metaphysical universe.
Through a careful study of the Tanakh, Jewish sages identified ten Sephirot (ten being the number of divine perfection) known by the following names/characteristics from highest to lowest:
1. Keter - Divine Plan/Creator/infinite light/Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh - I AM THAT I AM (Supreme/Total Consciousness)
2. Chokmah - Divine Reality/revelation/Yesh me-ayin - being from nothingness (Power of Wisdom)
3. Binah - Understanding/repentance/reason (Power of Love)
4. Chesed - Mercy/Grace/Love of (intention to emulate) God (Power of Vision)
5. Gevurah - Judgment/strength/determination (Power of Intention)
6. Tipheret - Symmetry/balance/compassion (Creative Power)
7. Netzach - Contemplation/Initiative/persistence (Power of the Eternal Now)
8. Hod - Surrender/sincerity/steadfastness (Intellectual/Observational Power)
9. Yesod - Foundation/wholly remembering/coherent knowledge
(Power of Manifesting)
10. Malkuth/Lower Crown - Kingdom/physical presence/vision and illusion
(Power of Healing/Accomplishment/Level of Realization of Divine Plan)
Opposites.
Hard and soft.
The hard element, is a scalpel with a number 10 blade. Those of you that a familiar with scalpels will have a good understanding of the scale of this image.
The soft element, is a blueberry. I find it interesting that all of the blue color in the blueberry comes from the skin. The things you can learn from macro photography.
Hard and soft.
Incidentally it was rather hard cutting this soft, rather small, blueberry for this arrangement. Hard because it had to be done under magnification to ensure that I remained injury free. Old eyes and all.
Shot in the lab, at home.
Best viewed large.
HMM.
A completely posed picture - from sliding him around on the floor to get him where and how I wanted him, to the tilt of his head and the direction of his gaze.
A posing natural - at least that's how I remember it.
I could check through the oldest pictures and see if memory serves, I suppose, but some part of me likes thinking of him as perfect.
It's been a rough couple weeks, with the thought of him having cancer hanging over our heads (he didn't).
Here's hoping we have many more years of happy photo shoots ahead of us.
Our Daily Challenge - June 3, 2020 - With Age Comes...
... understanding - for both the model and the photographer.
366:2020 - #159
100x in 2020: #35
Monk-Like Humanoid Meditating V2
Created with Bing Dall-E AI engine. PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 RAW filters.. Further PP work in Luminar Neo filters.
Prompt: Modern Surrealism with Buhaus Style and Small bubble wrap. Ultra detailed, 3D, 16K. Create closeup image of a surreal monk-like humanoid with a very long neck and scaly skin in a gold/onyx robe, sitting in a lotus position on a blue metallic sphere, meditating on a outdoor terrace overlooking a futuristic skyline under a red moon. Use cool colors and thick black outlines with gold rims. Cold blue artificial light and intricate shadows. Apply chiaroscuro style.
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A melting lunchtime sketch today in London.
Author, The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective available online and in stores.
On black
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Love, her colourful dress,..
Elle sait,..Elle comprends,...
She told me, Real,..
Je vais t'expliquer, again,..:-)
Someone abandoned their motorhome along Interstate 10 in Riverside County. It's become a substrate for street art. This originally had tires and an engine but they're now gone. Even the disc brakes have been picked off of the chassis. Ten years ago, this never happened. Now, it has become common.
My understanding is that towing companies often don't want to touch these vehicles. I think abandoned vehicles, when towed, rack up storage charges. The owner may claim the vehicle and pay towing and storage charges. If the owner does not claim it and vehicle were saleable, the towing company can sell the towed car after acquiring title. If you tow a recent model car and this occurs, it works out well for the tow company. They can't sell these motorhomes because they're garbage. I expect the state, county, or city government would have to pay for disposal. It's parked on a public roadway and no one else would.
...A whole lot of risks — the risks of layoff, the risks of job-stopping illness — lots of risks that we were previously helped to bear by business and government have been shifted to our backs and the backs of our families. I don't think that Americans realize the extent to which that shift has occurred.
— Peter Gosselin
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Journalism Grade Image.
Source: cropped from a 3,000x2000 16-bit TIF file.
京都
The last breakfast of the last venturous spirit
still the first memory of the first foray portrait
of the heart growing confident of wishes portrayed
in this timelessness of moving images relayed
here I am, once, at last, and first again to stand
for the Kyoto welcome I bow to this dreamland
of friends, and the motion of softly spoken words
given with grace from the eyes taking me upwards
charmed with the assuredness of such elegance
I was taken completely with this instilling presence
then, as now, goosebumps rise from within me
for now I foresee what I sought then to guide me
yes, breakfast was served, misoshiru and nattou
the first of me from the very last serving of Kyoto
steam rising toward the light, then, as of now
distance of emotive objects made for each other somehow
a-linking is commonplace for the extant personification
of hidden selves touching and bonding memories that still waken
the redeemable points of all encompassing rewards of heart
for the call of journeying souvenirs forever ready to chart
progress in soul and a ready departure from humdrum days
delicate was the breeze that day, weathering the time it's set to appraise
that part of me arrested the said breeze with a silence of understanding
I'm there still, as I'm here now, for a hunger that breakfast is still filling.
by anglia24
10h40: 03/03/2008
©2008anglia24
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
(Bette Midler)
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Hi folks, this will be the last in this series of the Thrasher, I hope everyone understand's why I do these things, it's just that when you can get them after not seeing them for years you just do it, hoping for your understanding.
Thank you so much for the visit and have a glorious day.
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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
~ Chin Ning Chu
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Finally trying to add some sketchies to things after not picking up a pen/pencil properly in over 2 years..
I'll hide behind a smile and understanding eyes
And I'll tell you things that you already know so you can say:
I really identify with you, so much
And all the time that youre needing me is just the time
That Im bleeding you, dont you get it yet?
I'll come to you like an affliction then Ill leave you like an addiction
You'll never forget me... wou wanna know why?
cause Im a liar, yeah, I'm a liar
I'll tear (rip) your mind up, I'll burn your soul
I'll turn you into me, I'll turn you into me
cause I'm a liar, a liar, a liar, a liar...
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I usually don't shoot much mid-day however I had my camera with me as I passed this little farm yard south of Idaho Falls and saw the rain storm approaching from the south. This reminded me once more of Jay Masiel's advise to always carry your camera. Jay would even have his with him when he ate out, placing it in the middle of the table, ready for use if he saw something interesting.
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the light was a whisper, finding its way to his eyes. his gaze held a question, or perhaps a distant memory, directed at something unseen. hands, clasped in a gesture of intimate thought, grounded his presence. a beard, a cap, the subtle glint of an earring – fragments of an inner world, composed in monochrome. in the silence, a profound understanding unfolds.
Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla Mother Dog and her Puppy, Portrait
Created with Midjourney engine.
PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters.
Prompt: realistic Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla mother dog and her puppy, portrait, in a studio setting clean grey background --ar 1:1 --s 750 --v 5.2 --style raw
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Hello
I usually make a point of visiting your site and giving my opinion on some of your photos each time you visit my site and I see that you choose several photos as a favorite without my knowing what prompted you to to choose. What would make me happy once on occasion without being on each visit is to have an idea of what interested you in the photos is it the landscape, the subject, the colors, the circumstances, format, ect. I believe that the purpose of photo sites is to exchange opinions on the photos that interest us. Thank you for your understanding. Regards Michel
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualisation ~ Bo Bennett
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PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters.
This is a close-up of the acrylic welcome sign. It says "welcome" in gold, and is surrounded by white and burgundy tulip wedding flowers. It's very romantic. The welcome sign is placed on a wooden easel. The welcome sign is blank, so that guests can sign it as a keepsake. There are floating candles around it.
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Polaroid SX-70 + Polaroid 600
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It took him a while to understand her complexities – that some days all was smooth and she operated like a well oiled machine. He learned to compensate for the days when the gears just jammed and he tried to be patient when the wheels locked…
This young fella, is one of many 2nd year cubs that eventually find themselves alone. If you have ever witnessed the event when the mother bear becomes intolerant of her cubs and chases them away, you'll understand why they look so sad. The cubs will climb a tree and will wimpier and cry , not understanding why their relationship has changed so suddenly. The whole even will break you heart if you ever witness it.
"Echinacea is a genus, or group of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family. The genus Echinacea has ten species, which are commonly called coneflowers. They are found only in eastern and central North America, where they grow in moist to dry prairies and open wooded areas." - Wikipedia
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A final look at the 6E43 10.05 bitumen empties from Ribble Rail in Preston.
The loco ran round its wagons a short distance from here and pushed the tanks back to the loading area.
My understanding is that this service last ran on November 1st 2024, the traffic reverting to road haulage.
This line used to continue to Hartlepool Docks which can be seen a few miles further north. The branch to Port Clarence, Seal Sands and here has no booked workings.