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Commented on 06 Nov 2023 08:58:21
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Image by : Vageesha AR
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Thanks Adithya. I was drawn by how the branch laid to indicate impending embrace too
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Commented on 13 Oct 2023 18:02:42
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Image by : Vidyun R Hebbar
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Hi Vidyun , [ Commenting after viewing your portal series of images. You might find this unrelated and even off theme to your idea of portal as you used for the set of images here . So, discard my comment if necessary ] Portal as an allegorical concept in philosophy and architecture etc. has existed for a while now. Interestingly it was sometimes seen as an escape , a window to the otherworldly . Sometimes a place to be aspired for but hard to attain and other times a dangerous parallel. Felt this was related to your expression in these set of images even though it was not exactly same. This video explains some of the points that came to my mind after seeing your images . The person speaking is Eric Weinstein who is a physicist and an economist . He hosts a podcast by name The Portal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtJq71 ... RhbA%3D%3D -vageesha
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Commented on 18 Sep 2023 03:48:56
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Image by : Vageesha AR
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Thanks Ganesh and Anders . It was a chance seeing . Only had phone camera but I thought it deserved a snap. -vageesha
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Commented on 02 Sep 2022 14:05:02
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Image by : jayesh joshi
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Very nice observation. I don't think I would have made the connection without the title. Thanks for sharing. Thanks Vageesha A R
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Commented on 20 Aug 2022 19:06:40
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Image by : Anders Wahlund
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Very soothing picture. For some reason, the image reminds me of this Pink Floyd song and more so its video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMlFXo ... =PinkFloyd Thanks Vageesha A R
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Commented on 23 Jul 2022 13:23:19
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Image by : Rajkumar
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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I like - grain, blur in foreground elements, and the moving still water, and the whole frame in monochrome is transportive. But I am not sure of the border. Thanks for sharing Thanks Vageesha A R
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Commented on 17 Jul 2022 08:23:09
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Image by : Rajkumar
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Closer than usual I have the subject 'disappear' effect or 'fade away' emotion evoked. Ethereal even. At first, I read your instruction wrongly and watched it from afar instead. I found that interesting too due to frame compression. I think the thumbnail maximizes this impression ( a la miniature art of the photography world ). Thanks Vageesha
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Commented on 02 Jul 2022 17:38:45
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Image by : Vageesha AR
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Thanks, @Rajkumar for your comments. I will see how it fits in with other images and if there is a coherent idea or a theme that can be arranged from them.
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Commented on 30 Jun 2022 19:14:18
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Image by : Vageesha AR
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Just the scale of the beetle and how lost it looks on what seemed to be a symbolic field. Obviously, the attempt has fallen flat on its face. Hope this helps. Vageesha A R.
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Commented on 21 Jun 2022 17:15:17
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Image by : Vikram Sathyanathan
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Nice pic. The vultures do not hunt their prey much less a small passerine. Wouldnt be able to even if it wanted to. We can only contemplate what the vulture was contemplating, I contemplate. Thanks for sharing. Vageesha A R
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Commented on 24 May 2022 14:03:00
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Image by : swapnil19
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Excellent pic . The foggy blue and the denuded trees emerging from it and the animals' posture make it for me. I would be tempted to do a 16:9 on the lower bottom and retain elephants and trees alone in a panorama. This is a very fine image too. Thanks for sharing. Vageesha A R
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Commented on 24 May 2022 13:12:43
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Image by : vipinbaliga
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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I guess that lens is a lost cause now. Too pricey a fine to pay but a cool image as salvage. TFS. Vageesha A R
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Commented on 01 May 2022 23:21:58
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Image by : Vageesha AR
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Thanks Nevil. This bamboo, in somebodys garden, was lit up by mercury vapour lamp opposite to it. Liked the golden sheen and decided not to touch the scale. Thanks Vageesha A R
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Commented on 22 Apr 2022 17:56:01
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Image by : Nevil Zaveri
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Tandav it is . Jatadhara is here. I am not so sure of left part of frame . The wall has inclined inwards unlike the neat parallel perfect right side . Symmetry and hence balance is off I think . May be a more vertical crop leaves just essentials . Or it could be my OCD. Thanks for sharing Vageesha A R
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Commented on 13 Apr 2022 20:22:46
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Image by : Anders Wahlund
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Liked the impressionsit effect here Anders. The haze has paid off . I would request you to try chopping off top 5% . The bright top right corner and the bright trinagle further to left , I find them out of place here . Just a thought.
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Commented on 08 Apr 2022 11:20:40
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Image by : Vidyun R Hebbar
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Nice image Vidyut. Slightly more DOF would have helped. This is a Two-Tailed Spider ( Hersilia ). You can see why it's named so if you closely look at the spider.
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Commented on 14 Mar 2022 19:09:36
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Image by : Jignesh_Minaxi
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Like this result very much. The neon green and aqua blue, the fading plants, and a ghostly bird melting away its form into thinly white strokes. All have come together nicely. Thanks for sharing. Thanks Vageesha A R
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Commented on 08 Mar 2022 15:48:15
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Image by : Ganesh H Shankar
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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A snap in time but a story in full. This is a special image for sure. Decipher it if you want or just enjoy the atmosphere. Pick is yours. Thanks for sharing. Also Aditya and Sarthak, it's a human world in and out. Ironically many landscapes such as above are only protected for birds because pointing sticks and lenses visit them. Are we protecting nature for nature's sake or for ours? Does the difference matter? Vageesha A R
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Commented on 05 Feb 2022 07:45:25
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Image by : Vageesha AR
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Yes, Ganesh. Casque butting and bill grappling. These are Indian grey hornbills ( most urban of our hornbills ) within Bhadravathi town.
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Commented on 14 Jan 2022 17:24:50
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Image by : prathameshvg
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@prathameshvg . Excellent capture of fascinating and horrifying natural history. (The image works just by itself without the text/context too. The drops around are magical and the snail sits nicely in the frame) @Ganesh Shankar. How does the theory of evolution explain this? Well, it's an interesting question. The complexity of the situation here (and the sheer horror for snails to have parasites for eyes and lose sight only to be eaten by birds later) makes one wonder how all this could have come about. Trematode completes its life by infecting snail and occupying its eye stalks and then moves onto birds when the snail is eaten by them. Surely it must be a design process and the theory of evolution should fail to explain it. Not so quickly if you ask me. The misunderstanding mostly and for most of us is the assumption that evolution is a directional and a building process of complexity. Lower organisms becoming higher. This is not true. Evolution in biology just means one form of an organism becoming another form (Maybe " transformation “is a better word but evolution is OK as in most cases its lower organism becoming higher. But not always. Cave-dwelling crabs and fishes have lost preexisting eyes and so on). This transformation / Evolution is majorly through natural selection of candidates amongst the diversity to filter the best adaptable. It's a process of recurring events where a trait suited for better existence through adaptability is favored and rest is phased out. The trematode bubble sorted in billion instances over hundreds of millions of years. What this recursion means is every crazy pathway that was possible for it to start with and to complete is tried out initially and this one prevailed. " The swollen, pulsating eye stalk resembles a maggot ". The question is not how this coincidence came out. Other trematode sitting in snail's gut did not get picked by a bird. This trematode must end its journey in snail and misses the advantage of bird wings to travel further and establish further. It can be difficult to convince oneself that this is an emergent phenomenon and not an intelligent design due to how complex the result is and how un-intuitive the explanation according to science is. There was another resistance in the medieval past once they discovered the cruel parasites and it contradicted the ' kind' and ' beautiful ' creator image. How can a loving almighty create horrors? But I believe science we have is more than sufficient in explaining these things. Doesn't make nature less magical or less mysterious. But the awe should be from the triumph of science in explaining it and not retiring to a position of just worship/wonder where nature demands our fascination and not examination. All the unexplained of the past have been explained one by one and the pending too shall be one day. My 2 cents. Thanks Vageesha A R
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Commented on 08 Jan 2022 14:34:55
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Image by : Ganesh H Shankar
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Very much on the theme the way I see it. The image is fine but I cannot help but imagine how it would work by losing the top 5% of pixels to get rid of the elephant belly on the top right. This way the 2 legs come more into play in contrast to 1 human leg and makes the symmetry/juxtaposition more effective ( ? ). Just a thought. Please disregard if it is inappropriate. Vageesha A R
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Commented on 06 Jan 2022 22:10:11
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Image by : Ganesh H Shankar
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Revisiting this image as the comment by @rahultailor resurfaced the image on the comments page. [b:2eq9ut33]On the image itself :[/b:2eq9ut33] * This is my view, please disregard it if you find it out of place. It's a fine frame already. The square crop is off somehow. The negative space especially behind the bird is causing an imbalance. The square crop would have worked if the image was horizontally flipped, the bird having empty space in front of it. This way the head down posture is amplified. The vertical crop seems like a better fit. More braches and more empty space to amplify the subject. However, I would still prefer the image horizontally flipped to have more space in front of the bird than behind it. The blur is very effective and apt too. [b:2eq9ut33]On the relation between shapes, postures to emotions, and the emergent virtual grammar which can be used as a tool for visual artists :[/b:2eq9ut33] This relationship seems to be something that has been taken for granted. Without questioning why a certain shape means a certain emotion evoked. Maybe this coding is as basal as they come and is built into us. Hence the universality and effectiveness. You don't need to learn to identify it either. Same way body language works. We consciously might not understand/identify human postures and correlated emotion being signaled but we subconsciously process it and respond to it accordingly. Similar to posture/shape even colors have some coding ( as you have noted in " Goethe's Theory of Colors " post ) As to if they can be codified to an extent to be used as tools of visual grammar, I am not 100% sure. As you mentioned the hard formula is difficult. But I also think it gets tricky if we use the secret sauce that we might find repeatedly. I think so because humans also have a tendency to reject formula/repetition. Or it might work continuously. It can be such a strong mapping. Worthy of an attempt. Interested in hearing any thoughts you might have Ganesh on this since the post was made 7 years ago. Also, here are some interesting reads I found https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6749614/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6069791/
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Commented on 30 Nov 2021 22:36:17
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Image by : Nevil Zaveri
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Thanks Nevil. In an increasingly human-dominated world nature seems to have arrived at this strained position where it is shoehorned into existing in a way that we allow it to. What a contrast to not so long ago when man struggled to fight off the elements for his own survival. All around us run the echoes of this new reality: Pigeons that nests in your balcony, creepers that hugs our walls and humans removed from the natural world. A nature that is displaced from itself and now lives an adjusted life. Also, adjacent thoughts are well expressed in this Image Description. gallery/image_page.php?album_id=16&image_id=10483 Thanks Vageesha A R
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Commented on 26 Feb 2021 10:41:45
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Image by : Aniket R Thopate
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Indeed a remarkable image and seeing Aniket. This is such a powerful visual and metaphor . I wish this capture reaches more people and serves as an important message to everybody . Thanks for seeing and sharing . Vageesha A R
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Commented on 27 Jan 2021 02:26:58
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Image by : swapnil19
Comment by : Vageesha AR
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Nice atmospheric feel to the image. Foreground and fog add nicely. Agree with Jack, image sans hills in focus works too. Thanks for sharing. Thanks Vageesha A R