tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post5341745252280684791..comments2023-10-24T01:32:15.517-07:00Comments on Serendipitous Garden: PowerProsperohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07114988815558549577noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-71362370948238648132009-07-22T13:47:26.292-07:002009-07-22T13:47:26.292-07:00this block is great!!!...hhummm was sure you had c...this block is great!!!...hhummm was sure you had commented, I think I came so often to look at all the pictures that remain in my imagination, sorry.<br /><br />beautiful shots, of Papillion, the ring...my favorite!<br /><br /> kissesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-1183705480771953942009-07-21T11:53:53.907-07:002009-07-21T11:53:53.907-07:00Hi
I am all checked everything was okay.
I was ju...Hi<br />I am all checked everything was okay. <br />I was just fainted and ended up wrong.<br />I am now equipped because I've slept a lot.<br />I have a part of my face blue with a little yellow ;(<br />Thanks for all the kind words :)<br />Anya :)Anyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628814282192212442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-55743472028192396182009-07-20T20:08:30.085-07:002009-07-20T20:08:30.085-07:00Breathtakingly beautiful, magical & mystical.Breathtakingly beautiful, magical & mystical.Ramakrishnanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391020678534194379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-10356162425928516002009-07-20T12:18:36.043-07:002009-07-20T12:18:36.043-07:00Great DOF!
Lovely shots.Great DOF!<br />Lovely shots.Indranihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13097788106899971708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-79820017567974991282009-07-20T08:19:35.466-07:002009-07-20T08:19:35.466-07:00That dream house looks very soft and dreamy. I als...That dream house looks very soft and dreamy. I also enjoyed the music, thanks...pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07696361625481123431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-18353434783689710632009-07-20T01:49:40.451-07:002009-07-20T01:49:40.451-07:00No brushing needed. The complete natural look is j...No brushing needed. The complete natural look is just what we want today. (Me included.)hpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03909569906337732982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-1820075522489093382009-07-19T20:21:08.039-07:002009-07-19T20:21:08.039-07:00You have the greatest imagination! Love the priso...You have the greatest imagination! Love the prison!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219366045767828564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-16663045974441846162009-07-19T17:15:07.483-07:002009-07-19T17:15:07.483-07:00Mascara cracked me up. Power startled me. All of t...Mascara cracked me up. Power startled me. All of these are amazing.SandyCarlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10752798823532580733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-35638472012650749992009-07-19T15:43:14.761-07:002009-07-19T15:43:14.761-07:00Beautiful, my favorite this time is the shot of th...Beautiful, my favorite this time is the shot of the bee, and the flower blurred. I love this. And of course, sweet lil Angelina. :)Girl Tornadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289862625817473671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-33084861000073879692009-07-19T11:09:17.992-07:002009-07-19T11:09:17.992-07:00"The essence" - that's the Kind that..."The essence" - that's the Kind that i see your work - and i like it.<br />Always the dream elaborated to be decodedAdelino Marqueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18420957467244269013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-77455197167686161102009-07-19T10:04:06.903-07:002009-07-19T10:04:06.903-07:00Wonderful, as allways! This time I have a favourit...Wonderful, as allways! This time I have a favourite: 'Dream - House'! Fabulous b&w!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15783877262954668959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-83184368549037033652009-07-19T07:59:52.889-07:002009-07-19T07:59:52.889-07:00Love the slide show - especially thing that looks ...Love the slide show - especially thing that looks like a grass! Such smoothness! The mascara is my fav! Amazingly I just saw this carnivore plant at the zoo yesterday - it looked so regular - in your picture it looks exactly the way it is in my imagination - sexy and bold and merciless! The ring is fabulous. I saw your post yesterday, but my husband installed some kind of parental control and it did not let me to leave a comment - today he got rid of the thing - I am free to browse againAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-10562871760948036562009-07-19T03:06:37.344-07:002009-07-19T03:06:37.344-07:00With every scroll of the mouse wheel another great...With every scroll of the mouse wheel another great picture is revealed. Wonderful! Escape from the labyrinth is mysterious and telling at the same time.Buenos Aires Photobloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14534799750287596620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-40454136689841436552009-07-18T23:54:44.933-07:002009-07-18T23:54:44.933-07:00Hello Prospero, Thanks for the explanation on the ...Hello Prospero, Thanks for the explanation on the 'dream-house'!Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05867061279916535777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-29787043078293581132009-07-18T13:52:16.037-07:002009-07-18T13:52:16.037-07:00Too much mystery and philosophising going on here ...Too much mystery and philosophising going on here tonight for me ! so I will just enjoy the beautiful images and the little urchin and say Goodnight and have a great week-end.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15540591998909116816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-17149571654383882482009-07-18T13:46:24.026-07:002009-07-18T13:46:24.026-07:00Love the bee shot. Very sci-fi. Escape from the la...Love the bee shot. Very sci-fi. Escape from the labyrinth fits it perfectly.Faye Pekashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06176788826303435577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-78057125217411910792009-07-18T11:36:57.698-07:002009-07-18T11:36:57.698-07:00beauty as power, the power to define beauty, the p...beauty as power, the power to define beauty, the power to acquire and maintain beauty - all these in the context of a patriarchal society, deeply problematic concepts - you'll get no disagreements from me.<br /><br />but how about power in different hands, like Adrienne Rich describes in one of her love poems:<br /><br />'Your small hands, precisely equal to my own -<br />only the thumb is larger, longer - in these hands<br />I could trust the world, or in many hands like these,<br />handling power-tools or steering-wheel<br />or touching a human face...such hands could turn<br />the unborn child rightways in the birth canal<br />or pilot the exploratory rescue-ship<br />through icebergs, or piece together<br />the fine, needle-like shreds of a great krater-cup<br />bearing on its sides<br />fingers of ecstatic women striding<br />to the sibyl's den or the Eleusinian cave -<br />such hands might carry out an unavoidable violence<br />with such restraint, with such a grasp<br />of the range and limits of violence<br />that violence ever after would be obsolete.'<br /><br />this must be possible. we must believe it is.<br /><br />and beauty in the greek sense of arete, excellence - beauty as the excellence of the world, the essence our world, and us here learning to see and manifest it. a piece of music or a photograph so beautiful it hurts, as in Rilke's:<br /><br />'For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure,<br />and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.'<br /><br />which has us going back to Keats's<br />'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'<br /><br />there would be no hiding from that, no matter if we have rings that make us invisible or not, and that would be the power of beauty?Manuelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14683398966448238779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-21766398990197119782009-07-18T11:17:48.033-07:002009-07-18T11:17:48.033-07:00escape from the labyrinth is my favourite this tim...escape from the labyrinth is my favourite this time, and again you impressed me with your imagination!!!!!!<br />have a nice weekend:)joohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09157508274122128501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-25365415351199579562009-07-18T10:49:36.030-07:002009-07-18T10:49:36.030-07:00Manuela:
the ring of power... is so beautiful! so...Manuela:<br /><br />the ring of power... is so beautiful! so, beauty as power?<br /><br />Interesting, yet consider the second shot closely.<br /><br />mascara - prison<br /><br />mascara, the eyelashes: fairly obvious.<br />the trap as prison: also obvious.<br /><br />How about mascara as a prison?<br />How about beauty as a prison?<br /><br />And considering the power aspect, we may ask: Is beauty power? Is vanity power? What about the power implications within a patriarchal society?<br /><br />Perhaps it is a cautionary tale as is in the Ring of Gyges (1) and Icarus (4).<br /><br />H.G. Wells, in writing The Invisible Man, surely had Plato's Ring of Gyges in mind. The ring gives the owner the power to become invisible and the moral dilemma of being able to steal at will (consider what is going on in world finances today). Absolute lack of societal restraints.<br /><br />In the forth photo, we have Icarus. He and his father were imprisoned in the labyrinth. They escaped by making improvised wings out of wood, feathers and wax. Icarus, drunk on the feeling of invincibility of flight, a sort of absolute power, flew too close to the sun and met his death.<br /><br />dream - house, is the least clear with respect to power. Some readers assumed "dream house" was the intended meaning. There is, however, a hyphen between the two terms.<br />It could also be a dream, where there happens to be a house (a completely different meaning).<br />It could also be the power of revelation, which may be good or evil.<br />The dream house meaning, may also be positive - as a dream house; or more sinister as a symbol of power and riches.Prosperohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114988815558549577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-92179881349098407682009-07-18T10:40:54.676-07:002009-07-18T10:40:54.676-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Prosperohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114988815558549577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-25652603173657533542009-07-18T05:57:24.480-07:002009-07-18T05:57:24.480-07:00GREAT POST!! Love your creative mind!GREAT POST!! Love your creative mind!Naturegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00177418253271097079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-20835116043334080832009-07-18T01:03:16.029-07:002009-07-18T01:03:16.029-07:00I see that you have been a bit in The Land o Myths...I see that you have been a bit in The Land o Myths and Fantasy - a good dream is not be despised.<br /><br />PS Thank you for the comment - yes, it is kind of special.Rune Eidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01008247272056395901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-7239026510215136542009-07-18T00:55:32.362-07:002009-07-18T00:55:32.362-07:00Powerful images. The ring is so vibrant.
the video...Powerful images. The ring is so vibrant.<br />the video is nice even in b/w. <br />Wonderful post.<br /><br />ReginaRegina https://www.blogger.com/profile/12505077820490238917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-78365478118210642212009-07-17T21:46:52.383-07:002009-07-17T21:46:52.383-07:00your photos and your words are wonderful.your photos and your words are wonderful.Tammie Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09018402134070834516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799450826638687314.post-56303298600313030552009-07-17T21:09:42.430-07:002009-07-17T21:09:42.430-07:00the ring of power... is so beautiful! so, beauty a...the ring of power... is so beautiful! so, beauty as power? hearing your music makes me feel more connected with you.Manuelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14683398966448238779noreply@blogger.com