tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341751582024-03-08T06:33:42.750-05:00ImageFiction<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/byrneprintmaker/"><img src="http://homepage.mac.com/byrneprintmaker/.Pictures/Storage2/imagefiction2.jpg"></a>Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.comBlogger1171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-67308760335350770182023-10-15T14:43:00.000-04:002023-10-15T14:43:49.811-04:00True GritBreakfast coffee in Konya, Türkiye. Ever wondered why Turks are legendary warriors? Here's the secret atop the fork I scraped through that stuff. Totally delicious (and chewable) coffee! Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0Konya, Türkiye37.8746429 32.49315549.5644090638211523 -2.6630946000000009 66.184876736178836 67.6494054tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-25979028819181920342023-05-07T10:53:00.002-04:002023-05-07T11:02:34.929-04:00Are Cultures the Sum of What Their Fish Won't See? Freud taught, “Cultures are defined by what they ban.”Fresh eyes see the invisible. Cartoon: Guy passing fish tank sez to its denizens, "How's the water today?" Fish think, "What water?"On a morning stroll you veer around a trash dumpster and continue but that big green metal thing goes unlogged in your memory. Later you pass a fire hydrant, a couple of poles sporting graffiti, a Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com2İstanbul, Türkiye41.0082376 28.978358912.698003763821156 -6.1778911 69.318471436178839 64.1346089tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-5644680152561431172023-04-21T14:56:00.013-04:002023-07-13T14:20:09.201-04:00Ladies Do Tea: Knowledge Versus Wisdom Relearning Photoshop craft is 33% boring, 43% frustrating, and 24% fascinating. Is this like Physical Therapy: PT for the mind? Is this a sort of MT? Nudged by friends to send them samples of Turkey thoughts... the gap between knowledge and wisdom's growing larger. Our 2011 visit created a legacy of thousands of images...which is a reservoir of knowledge. A handful of them got Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0İstanbul, Türkiye41.0082376 28.978358912.698003763821156 -6.1778911 69.318471436178839 64.1346089tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-54415603958495485682023-04-15T09:57:00.001-04:002023-04-15T09:57:53.077-04:00Drama! To understand Turkey start with the dominant reality... the awesomeness of Islam. Almost everything in Turkey whirls about it. And symbolically... The Great Blue Mosque, without subtlety, tells the world much what St. Peter's Basilica proclaims from the other Rome... There is a huge difference between theocratic and political passion. Increasingly, Liberal democracy is in tension both with Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com1İstanbul, Türkiye41.0082376 28.978358912.698003763821156 -6.1778911 69.318471436178839 64.1346089tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-54113074730011094492023-04-13T13:00:00.009-04:002023-07-13T14:25:37.751-04:00The Date • Duden Waterfall Park • Antalya Turkey OK... IT's been a while since I've been able to do image making. Long story... short version - one day, a couple of years ago, I returned from a vacation and woke to discover that I could no longer work any Adobe products! Scary, huh? So I figured that page of my life had turned and the other pages filled my attention. Last March, friends at a party asked about my impression of Turkey, Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com2VR2P+GR Yukarıöz/Yapraklı/Çankırı, Türkiye40.851278699999988 33.83707213.938882037359917 -1.3191780000000008 67.763675362640058 68.993322tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-79922315756473601952021-04-06T17:39:00.010-04:002021-04-07T13:23:24.443-04:00Majorette: PreSpring/PostWinter 1974St. Paddy's Day • Holyoke, MA • 1974Forty-seven years ago three boys climbed a tree. Today they're what? Late 50s? Forty-seven years ago a pretty red-head led her high-school band up the street beneath that tree. She was probably 17 then and they were maybe eleven? Did she notice them? Is this the only memory of that moment? Holyoke once boasted the country's longest St. Patrick's Day ParadeTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-81671909426925680142021-03-23T16:10:00.008-04:002021-03-23T16:23:34.224-04:00Unsustainable MomentsEveready Diner • Rhinebeck, NY • October, 2008 Once upon a time the United States was the only major industrial nation not rubbled by World War. No, not wars... War! The gap between the first and second halves of the European Psychotic Break was a couple of decades... just enough time to reload and suck the Asian Pacific into its madness. And so it came to pass that world wealth got Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-20133076768620904532020-07-19T17:36:00.005-04:002020-07-21T23:11:57.556-04:00A Shadow of the Ancient Ways: Paris 6
Brisk winter afternoon.
It was 1887 when the French erected this huge relic from the edge of the iron age. Maybe that will save it in this moment of statue and history smashing? Cultural churning's sparked a fashion for ripping stuff down. History's got veins of bad... so it's the 2020 fashion to rubble-ize all of it.
But the Eiffel's neither a triumphal arch, nor a tyrannical Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com2Paris, France48.869351218381681 2.403514536858315547.508350718381678 -0.17827246314168432 50.230351718381684 4.9853015368583158tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-7493851915332969362020-07-10T13:36:00.003-04:002020-07-10T18:44:18.068-04:00Is There A Future for the Past?
Is my Hagia Sophia picture-portfolio's value about to spike? Dunno... Got a ton of haunting pix from inside the Hagia Sophia's de-plastered walls. The ancient Christian paintings are moving. However Koran's not supportive of images of most kinds within the walls of mosques. Sooooo....
Are we witnessing the collapse of the frame of a fragile world? As Hitler demonstrated, Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-89339855028019755632020-06-21T18:01:00.002-04:002020-07-21T23:11:32.326-04:00The Rooftops of Paris 5
About a block or so from the Bastille
Sort of across the street from the pictures in my last posting, I found this early morning shot. Gotta' admit that it's captivating. How the hell'd they pull this off. Those are 18th century buildings I think. Their lower floors are discreet as a nun's skirts. But up top?
Anyone able to translate this culturally, historically, and of course linguisticallyTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-38726629328595730742020-06-20T17:10:00.002-04:002020-07-21T23:10:39.326-04:00Paris Chic 4
Model: Marti Armstrong
A grey, damp, chilly parisian winter morning.
As my friend Andreas Manessinger knows I'm uncomfortable with graffiti. Bur a visit to Pompeii's softened my resistance since that ancient town's walls are covered in the stuff. My disapproval's leaning against an acient... maybe even primal... instinct for humans to scrawl, paint, scratch their presence onto Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-496695598220661382020-06-11T21:02:00.003-04:002020-06-11T21:24:13.134-04:00Paris 3
Exercise 3: (Color Management, HDR, Composition)
Bike messenger stops for Parisian winter lunch
Street photography's a hunting experience. You look for game, shoot it, then lug home the trophy to mount. As I wrote in the last post, I'm studying Photoshop. In this exercise I worked on three dimensions of an image:
(1) See the cyan shift in this image. I stole the color map from the art ofTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-73991925965726737642020-06-10T13:07:00.002-04:002020-06-12T13:45:49.863-04:00Paris 2: Églese Saint-Séverin
Yes - this image is over processed. And your point is? Heh heh...
Églese Saint-Séverin, Paris - Circa. 11th Century
Over the last five weeks I've returned to class. I'm taking 3-4 hour daily on-line Photoshop classes. The application's so immense and while I'd first entered it about 20 years or so ago, my study lacked the discipline necessary to explore huge modules particularly involvingTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-11974186794473594202020-06-09T22:13:00.003-04:002020-07-21T23:19:27.923-04:00Paris
When a feeling speaks for itself, best not to interrupt?
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-28192492419226469542020-05-12T11:16:00.000-04:002020-05-27T20:15:24.358-04:00West-World's Top Dozen - 2020
Source for this ranking? Forbes Magazine and Others
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Sequestered at home by fiat, the mind wanders/wonders... "It's artists' jobs to ask questions. Answers though are above their pay grades."
I'm just sayin':
"Did my heart not listen, or was it my head?"
12 Makes Ambani $59.7 Billion
"Life's heirlooms are tiny as a heartbreak."
11 Larry Page $Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-1915487239574242662020-04-25T00:36:00.000-04:002020-04-25T09:06:56.811-04:00Meaning
Go on, explain this. It's a fact I snapped. A room with all of its furnishings. All of them.
"There was nothing else? No bed, chair, sofa, sink, window... Nothing?"
"Nope, just this."
"Where'd you find it?"
"Don't recall."
"What's its story?
"That's the point. This is its story. All the words in its sentence."
"So? What's it mean?"
"There's everything in that frame..Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-6639203168693913782020-04-11T17:49:00.001-04:002020-04-11T17:49:15.034-04:00Outrospection: The Street King
King Mohammed VI, Rabat. Morocco
“We cannot expect the camera to suck in, with light and shadows, the photographer’s emotions.” - John Updike
“Information is a porridge of opinion, theory, and truth heated by feelings.” - Ted Byrne
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Familiarity grinds down dimensions all around us so that we don’t notice the normal. Our brains are lazy pieces of meat which exert Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-83503424501396712612020-04-11T15:35:00.000-04:002020-05-05T21:54:49.458-04:00Morocco VIII: What's A Ksar and Why?February 13, 2020
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Plate 64
The highway toward Marakesh from Ouarzazate winds through craggy southern slopes of the High Atlas mountains cut deeply by the Ounila river.
Plate 65
A half hour into that Valley the town of Ben Haddous sits across the river from ruins of the Ksar Ait Ben Haddous. Every North African town has a mud andTedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-55646055907678562172020-04-04T17:34:00.000-04:002020-04-06T17:43:36.144-04:00Morocco VII: Seraglio of Ouarzazate
February 13, 2020
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We bussed south from Erfoud out of the High Atlas Mountains through hairpin, windy passages toward The Door of the Dessert, the city of Ouarzazate.
Plate 54
Mid and Southwest along the spine of Morocco it’s sandy. Ouarzazate is nestled at the crossroads of the subsistence Draa, Dades and Ziz valleys. .
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-88002820338193055952020-03-29T15:28:00.000-04:002020-04-05T13:37:10.472-04:00Morocco VI: On The Road
Circa. February 11-13, 2020
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Morocco appears to be a place of dueling paradigms. As I’ve written, it’s a highway along which cultures moved each moulding what they’ve found along their way. It’s customs are a gift of its landscape. Today Arab/Muslim totems form a shell that’s kneaded by current and historic European and African ways.
Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-16991927121607798692020-03-25T21:16:00.000-04:002020-04-05T10:32:34.992-04:00Morocco V: The Sahara
February 11, 2020
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Plate 30
We bussed through the Atlas Mountains to Erfoud on the upper zag of Morocco’s zig-zaggy western border. It's just east of one of those spots where the country zigs into the world’s mysterious desert. The Sahara’s a big hot rocky and sandy thing… large enough to cover the entire United States with enough left Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-12668769145794323992020-03-20T13:29:00.001-04:002020-04-05T10:34:34.647-04:00Morocco Images IV - Fez: The Great MedinaFebruary 10, 2020
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Plate 20
The short termer dreams only of profit centers. He confuses conviction with wisdom. But the merchant transcends all of that stuff. He’s as excited by the unique and special things that may not be profitable. His customers shop him through trust.
Once upon a time, the merchant was much like a monk, he Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-83179284396286690812020-03-16T00:09:00.001-04:002020-04-05T10:31:34.704-04:00Morocco Images III - VolubilisFebruary 8, 2020
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Between the royal cities of Rabat and Fez there's a spot... A dig into the shadow of the ancient ways beneath Morocco's dirt. They've drilled sort of a manhole... Oops... person hole... down into the historic foundation of this causeway nation... This bridge which untold millions have crossed between the European and Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-58272734181672721422020-03-11T17:18:00.000-04:002020-04-05T10:34:58.069-04:00Morocco Images 2020 - Rabat II (Fixed)February 7, 2020
Rabat and its country are ancient with even its modern North African roots sunk deeply into the Middle Ages. Unsurprisingly then, Morocco's culture is steeped in tradition and traditional roles.
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Plate 5
Ramparts mingle with the ruins of Rome then medieval Europe. Cultural traditions confront secular influences Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34175158.post-87252490417867237922020-03-05T11:06:00.001-05:002020-04-05T13:28:40.220-04:00Morocco Images 2020 - Rabat IFebruary 7, 2020
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Passing the salt, my wife Rita curiously said, "I'd kinda' like to see Morocco."
Dishes clanked midst a gaggle of conversations that 2019 April night at Funk's Restaurant in Leola. We ate with Gib and Marti Armstrong.
"I can do that, and how about we add some Paris days at the end?" Gib, our amateur travel hobbiest grinned, Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07869579042505598957noreply@blogger.com0