Gulf Horizon

First endeavor in HDR imaging.

Beach Horizon HDR

Composite images (unaltered) used to create the HDR. 

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Barn Swallows

From wikipedia:

Many literary references are based on the Barn Swallow’s northward migration as a symbol of spring or summer. The proverb about the necessity for more than one piece of evidence goes back at least to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: “For as one swallow or one day does not make a spring, so one day or a short time does not make a fortunate or happy man.”[51]

Barn Swallow

The Barn Swallow symbolizes the coming of spring and thus love in the Pervigilium Veneris, a late Latin poem. In “The Waste Land”, T. S. Eliot quoted the line “Quando fiam uti chelidon [ut tacere desinam]?” (“When will I be like the swallow, so that I can stop being silent?”) This refers to a version of the myth of Philomela in which she turns into a Nightingale and her sister Procne into a Swallow; in less familiar versions, the two species are reversed.[55] On the other hand, an image of the assembly of Swallows for their southward migration concludes John Keats’s ode “To Autumn”.

Barn Swallow

There are mentions of the Barn Swallow in the Bible, although it seems likely that it is confused with the swifts in many translations,[56] or possibly other hirundine species which breed in Israel.[7] However, “Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young” from Psalms 84:3 likely applies to the Barn Swallow.[56]

Barn Swallow

The swallow is also notably cited in several of William Shakespeare’s plays for the swiftness of its flight; for example: “True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings …” from Act 5 of Richard III, and “I have horse will follow where the game Makes way, and run like swallows o’er the plain.” from the second act of Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare also references the annual migration of the species poetically in The Winter’s Tale, Act 4: “Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, …”.

Barn Swallow
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Happy 234th

Happy 234th from joseph Summers on Vimeo.

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Beware of Cow

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Notes on a foot

 

 

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When Bears Attack

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John Manley is Visited in the Night by The Vivian Girls

Henry Darger‘s epic “In the Realms of the Unreal” contains the stories of The Vivian Girls, a sisterhood of militant children rebelling against the child slave trade headed by the menacing John Manley. They are darling and magical, but also brave and even ruthless at times. Henry Darger provided two endings to the child slave war, one where the Vivian Girls and the Christian nation of Abbieannia are victorious in their fight for freedom, and another in which the pagan Glandelinians continue their atrocities.

In this short the Vivian girls, armed with their enchanted weapons stage an attack on John Manley. As they discover, John Manley can not be killed, but he can be changed.

Watch John Manley is Visited in the Night by the Vivian Girls in High Definition on Vimeo. From joseph Summers

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The Vivian Girls

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Playtime

Hopefully everything is in place so that tomorrow we can shoot a little short film.

 

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Croy Wedding… [ to come ]

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