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Pedestrian tunnel under the South-Eastern Freeway linking Mount Barker to Littlehampton. The 75 metre long pedestrian tunnel is actually quite stunning. Painted by street artist Wendy Dixon-Whiley, this incredible project took over 6 months to complete.
2013
Oil on stretched canvas 45cm x 60 cm
Painted 5 years ago when I resumed painting after a long break - stored away and forgotten.
Inspired by an empty pint beerglass.
Uneven lighting on photo.
No comments expected as I am working on a larger canvas at the moment which is nearing completion.
I'll try to catch up on my regular contacts before I go to UK in April.
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This one is for my friends Pervez, and Rick Schlamp.
This Image was taken when Air France took off for the first time with it's A380 service from San Francisco International Airport.
The jetliner had just disappeared into a fog bank over San Bruno, and I was putting the lens cap back on my camera when I suddenly saw this starting to take place.
After grabbing several shots, the plane ascended and was out of sight.
It was a good end to a long day of avoiding TSA and police as I searched for places to grab shots of Airliners taking off from this overly protected airport. A very nice end.
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A special view of a spiral staircase inside the wonderful Melk Abbey (Stift Melk).
Enjoy.
From Wikipedia:
"Melk Abbey or Stift Melk is an Austrian Benedictine abbey, and one of the world's most famous monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk on a rocky outcrop overlooking the river Danube in Lower Austria, adjoining the Wachau valley.
The abbey was founded in 1089 when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria gave one of his castles to Benedictine monks from Lambach Abbey. A monastic school, the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, was founded in the 12th century, and the monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection. The monastery's scriptorium was also a major site for the production of manuscripts. In the 15th century the abbey became the centre of the Melk Reform movement which reinvigorated the monastic life of Austria and Southern Germany."
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikkor 16-35 f/4 AF-S VR
It was almost hypnotising taking this image. I like the reoccurring pattern.
I would kindly accept any constructive criticism regarding the lighting.
Abstract view of the wonderful river flowing down from the Bruarfoss Waterfall in Iceland.. This is a most wonderful little waterfall with the most wonderful aqua blue water, which is quite difficult to locate... Also had to trudge for 15 minutes through very fresh snow to get here... Not especially fun times...
Most pictures of this waterfall look exactly the same, so hopefully this different one catches your eye as a wonderful piece of poetry in motion!
I was walking up onto Barker Arch when a pleasing pattern in the rock gave me pause. The word "vortex" rose from the mists of my memory banks--this vortex in stone made me smile.
The converging lines in the stone suggest that this area of sandstone is fossilized sand dunes, cut by wind then buried in sand, again and again. Erosion then shaped the surface and sculpted its form, and I suspect the major architect of erosion was wind.
Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness, Utah.
Vortex 521 Arriving at Glasgow. Bringing in spare parts for another Chinook which went unserviceable during a Navex sortie to Scotland from their home base at RAF Odiham, Hampshire.
Royal Air Force
Boeing Chinook HC6A
ZA708
Glasgow Airport, Scotland
15th July 2020
24H Series - Hankook 12H Estoril 2023.
Team: Vortex V8/Lionel Amrouche
Car: Vortex 1.0
Drivers: Amrouche-Bonnel-Courtois
Can you see Jack Skellington in the vortex?
I went to Moominvalley museum store today, it is situated downstairs the city library. I had to visit the library itself too. This is the vision in stairway from Moominvalley to the library. City library building was designed by architects Raili and Reima Pietilä. Reima Pietilä's sister Tuulikki Pietilä was Tove Jansson's life partner (and she was inspiration to Too-Ticky), and her work can be seen in Moominvalley dioramas.
I’m an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas
but not afraid
to speak my lonesomeness in a car,
because not only my lonesomeness
it’s Ours, all over America,
O tender fellows—
Let the states tremble,
let the nation weep,
let Congress legislate its own delight,
let the President execute his own desire—
60 miles from Wichita
near El Dorado,
The Golden One,
in chill earthly mist
houseless brown farmland plains rolling heavenward
in every direction
one midwinter afternoon Sunday called the day of the Lord—
Pure Spring Water gathered in one tower
where Florence is
set on a hill,
stop for tea & gas
O but how many in their solitude weep aloud like me—
On the bridge over Republican River
almost in tears to know
how to speak the right language—
on the frosty broad road
uphill between highway embankments
I search for the language
that is also yours—
almost all our ecstatic language
of prayer has been forgotten.
--Allen Ginsberg
from Wichita Vortex Sutra, 1966
Weekly Theme Challenge ~ Abstract
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A chilly Downy Woodpecker found shelter from the cold this morning in one of our Purple Martin gourds.
I may act like everything is okay, but really, the thing that goes over my shoulder STINKS! It smells like sweat.
Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan
PHOTO NOTE: I took this shot with the Nikon D850 at David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart on November 2, 2019. This tunnel reminded me of a time machine. I converted the RAW file to monochrome and then added colour toning.
Happy New Year. Live in Hope!
REFLECTION
Vortex
1: something that resembles a whirlpool
“the hellish vortex of battle”
— Time
From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." – Hebrew prophet Hosea 8:7.
Is the future determined or truly open? Are human actions taking us towards some pre-determined goal, or merely creating the appearance of agency? The Greeks had a term for this goal orientation of history or what some scientists today call the “arrow of time”: “Telos” . This is where the philosophical term "teleology" comes from. In fact one of the very earliest Western philosophers, the Priest of Apollo known as Parmenides plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/, believed that in the whole context of the Cosmos (i.e. everything that is or Eternity) nothing really changes.
In relation to the conservation of energy this is absolutely true. We merely live in a world of appearances that is constantly passing away. Forms change, but as Plato would have us believe, that doesn’t amount to a hill of beans when all is said and done. And yet sentient life is so precious that EACH INDIVIDUAL SOUL IS WORTH THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. [As I type this I’m listening to Coldplay’s latest album, The Music of the Spheres – a very Greek idea – and specifically the song, “My Universe”.]
The world of Spirit was before and will remain long after this material universe has passed into oblivion. Now this is a double-edged sword: It is at once our hope and a challenge. The ancient prophets always took the side of Parmenides, that this world is somehow merely a station on the way to greater things.
“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also… Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are? And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life? Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these! And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won’t he clothe you even more, you people of little faith? So then, don’t worry saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.” – Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 6:19-21; 25-34.
The day will come when we truly KNOW (gnosis) in fullness (pleroma), but for many this will then be too late to make our lives on earth actually mean something. The one thing that is certain about the future of the material world is death and destruction. The fundamental Law of Entropy in Physics shows us that. So the only way that a life here and now can meaningfully shape our future is when we stop living for the now and start living for our Eternal Future.
At the dawn of this New Year I’d like to recommend two books whose authors are worlds apart, and yet converge on the same fundamental idea: HOPE.
* Peter Kingsley, “In the Dark Places of Wisdom” (Golden Sufi Publishing, 1999).
* Jürgen Moltmann, “In the End – The Beginning: The Life of Hope” (Fortress Press, 2004).
At 95 years old, Moltmann of Tübingen, Germany, may well hold title to the world’s greatest living Christian theologian. And this book is one whose time has come right now.
No, not a vortex, but this is made with a spiral: A big plastic multicolored slinky, wrapped into a circle.
[C7 0899] Alt Tags: Canon Rebel T7i EOS 800D
Vortex Of Tensions.
Восприятие диагностических маний важные дискуссии обширные настроения обильные энергии творческие симптомы,
inspirations graves formulation de guerres intérieures controverses folie problèmes débilitants intense yeux de grandiosity poète,
Ruhelosigkeit Phantasie beschleunigte Nerven kognitive Gedanken ändern sich bedrohlich irrationale Unterschiede,
ποιητικοί κίνδυνοι αναπνευστικές ροές μετριέται ευελιξία εκφράσεις φράσεις αντιπαραθέσεις ιδέες συγκλίνουσες ελευθερίες,
depresivni ograničavajući rizici cikličnim emocijama bolni ograničavajući pogledi brze ritmičke ivice drobljenje želje,
éalaithe paiteolaíocha díospóireachtaí eagla breithniú breithiúnais chliniciúla gcodarsnacht nathanna mothúcháin mothúcháin meabhrach,
inconsistentes marés concentração mental expansivo sendo períodos mórbidos irracional modos severos períodos enlouquecidos enfurecidos,
偏った高み複雑な発作心理的な贅沢な画家長期的な狂気の狂気笑い絶望的な芸術的な言葉.
Steve.D.Hammond.