I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
~ Jeffrey McDonald The earliest tree-like organisms grew in forests in the Carboniferous period and their oldest fossils are dating back about 385 million years ago. Category: Diary Landscape Whenever I look at this picture, I always hear soft tones of Silent Night, emerging somewhere from beyond the space.
Category: Necropolis I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
~ Helen Keller Category: Urban Landscape Autumn 2014 in Europe was one of the warmest on record. People very often exploited nice weather and spent much more time outside. Snapshot was taken on the banks of the Torysa River.
Category: Urban Tales Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.
~ Hermann Hesse Category: Urban Landscape There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
~ Josh Billings Category: Urban Tales Almost all energy on the Earth originates from the Sun. Solar radiation reaches Earth with more than enough energy in a single square meter to illuminate five 60-watt light bulbs if all the sunlight could be captured and converted to electricity.
Secondly, when sunlight strikes a plant, some of the energy is trapped through photosynthesis and is stored in chemical bonds as the plant grows. We can recover that energy months or years later by burning wood, which breaks the bonds and releases energy as heat and light. More often, though, we use the stored energy in the much more concentrated forms that result when organic matter, after millions of years of geological and chemical activity underground, turns into fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, or natural gas. Category: Diary Urban Landscape In this post I am going to talk about a fleeting moment that happened more than 40 years ago.
It was a hot spring day. On the field in the City Park the boys were playing a football match. The atmosphere was marked by their constant babble, frequent laughter and sometimes even small quarrels. Suddenly a whistle of the referee interrupted the game and after that he ordered a penalty kick. All the players gathered around the goal and on their faces can be seen considerable tension. The goalie is now in the middle of the goal; he bends in his knees and is fully focused on the penalty kick. Another boy puts the ball on the ground, is underway, kicks the ball, the ball is now in the air and flies towards the goal ... and at that exact moment the history was frozen on the film in my camera. Frankly, I don't remember how ended that decisive moment of the football game. It is quite possible that the ball was caught; but it is also possible that it was the winning goal. It is this ambiguity what still enchants me, while looking at this image. Because it entails a small unsolved mystery. And here are some more pictures from this match. Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.
~ Stanislaw Lem, Solaris Category: Urban Tales You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
~ Lotte Lehmann Category: Wings From time to time, I speak to people and ask them about the portrait. I explain that they have specific features, or are interesting in their own way. It rarely happens that I would be refused. Of course, when I'm on the street, I often shoot portraits of people without their knowledge. In that way I try to capture their not affected, and the most natural expressions.
In the attached photo is Pavol. I met him in one sunny autumn afternoon on the sidewalk beneath the tall poplars. He is former footballer and bowling player. In 1986, he participated in sports games in Ukraine. It happened only six days after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and sports event was held only 60 kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion. Today, Pavol is the last surviving person of the 18 members sport delegation from former Czechoslovakia. Category: People Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~ Confucius Category: Urban Tales If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
~ Arthur C. Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama Category: Urban Tales All photographs © Thomas Weir When I first saw pictures by Thomas Weir titled The Virgin Forest, it came on me like a bolt from the blue. In other words, I was deeply touched and highly excited by his work.
The year was 1970; the Avant Garde Magazine - Volume 10, published Weir's photographic series of the young bared girls, posing freely amidst pristine nature. Pictures of naked people weren't at that time something special. It was finally time of hippies and nakedness was a natural part of their life. In Weir's photographs fascinated me in particular the concept of use of extreme wide-angle lens and a very low angle of view. For nudes these have been unusual, almost innovative. Take away point: In photography is extremely important experimentation, finding new approaches and breaking the rules and established cliches. Category: Influence |
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