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Wonder

Post author By Jim
Post date April 5, 2022
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This is a moderately close up picture of a rock in the yard down the street. It caught my eye a while ago because of the unusual nature of the holes in the rock.

It doesn’t quite look volcanic. Maybe it’s coral? But it doesn’t look like any that I’ve seen before. Perhaps just a strange type of erosion based on the different materials that originally made up the rock? But the holes don’t look like the kind of shapes that usually result from mixing.

So it’s a mystery, at least to me. What should we make of such things?

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Photographs

Feathered Clouds

This is an abstract picture of clouds, processed to bring out how it made me feel, what I saw in the original scene. In the process of making this, new ideas came to mind, and I further processed it to enhance them. The process was like a conversation with myself.

The result was interesting, and I allude to some of the things I was thinking in the text that accompanied the post on social media:

Abstract. A line of trees being blown by the wind? Something else?

The thing is, I’m pretty sure that some people, or even most, don’t see it the same way I do. They may not see the things I saw, and they may also see other things. Those views are entirely valid, in my opinion.

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Concepts Photographs

Seeing Color in Rocks

Here’s a possible example of seeing more of what’s there. In this case, colors in a simple field of rocks. What do we see? What’s really there?

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Concepts Essay Photographs

Backlit Leaf

This simple picture of a leaf is interesting, I think, because of the way the backlighting makes the leaf stand out from the background and gives it a richer, deeper color. There’s something about this sort of lighting, perhaps similar to stained glass windows, that we find visually appealing.

It takes two separate elements coming together to make this effect, and I think the combination illustrates a subtle aspect about our minds, especially the nature of consciousness.

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VR Photographs World Wide Panorama

WWP Transportation

This is the Albany train station, a transportation hub in the mid-valley. This was taken for the WWP Transportation theme.

Tags photography, VR Photograhy, worldwidepanorama

Essay Photographs

Photo Walking with Purpose

Post author By Jim
Post date March 11, 2020
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A recent photo walk taught me some things about seeing and how we influence what we see by what we are looking for.

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Museums VR Photographs World Wide Panorama

Thompson’s Mills 2

This is the interior of Thompson’s Mills.

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Museums VR Photographs World Wide Panorama

Albany Carousel

This is the Albany Carousel.

Tags Museum, photography, VR Photograhy, worldwidepanorama, WWP

Photographs

Structures

Post author By Jim
Post date May 27, 2019
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This is a picture of the ceiling inside Hoffman Covered Bridge. It was used as an entry to a photo contest of sorts, one that highlights photographers at work.