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I love this photo of mirrored beauty! Look at my profile photo. It is mirroring too the beauty at dawn. This was a view in front of my parent’s house in the Philippines.
This fits with your question of knowing. There is a wonderful effect here, where the exposure on the positive that we can directly see washes out some of the detail. That detail remains in the reflected negative, but the reflection is distorted by the top of the water.
To know the colors and textures in the flower, we look at both the positive and the negative. Both sides have their visual distortions, but in both cases there is a truth about the original object that we cannot see in the other. The color in the subject, the texture in the reflection.
We only really see one at a time, but we can know both. So getting to your question of the day, we know the flower, we know the flower’s reflection. We know both are the same, but while we see the one, the other can still surprise (and hopefully and delight) us.
The same is true with knowing people, only people have a choice in their surroundings. We tend to stand near mirrors that reflect us how we imagine we want to be seen, sometime more beautifully, sometime as the horrific monster we think we are. Our friends have the capacity to know us, and sometimes they see us for who we are, not the reflected image. Sometimes, they do still get confused. That does not mean they cannot know us, it just means we are complex.
Pretty! I like reflections, the ripples reworking the mirror.
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Thanks heaps liz
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Silent beauty.
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Very much so
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I just nominated you for the “Spread the Love Challenge” https://erikakind.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/spread-the-love-challenge/ I thought it would be perfectly fitting. But don’t feel obliged to participate. Most of all a sign of appreciation towards you.
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wow more then appreicate it erika thank you
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You are very welcome, my dear!
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Yesssssssssss
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Thanks Tiffany
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Wow
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Cheers
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This is beautiful
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Thanks sean, never liked this photo when i took it now i do though
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Really?!?
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Yip truth be told I had it in the photos to delete folder
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It’s a good shot
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Reblogged this on partandparcel2014 and commented:
I love this photo of mirrored beauty! Look at my profile photo. It is mirroring too the beauty at dawn. This was a view in front of my parent’s house in the Philippines.
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Thanks so much for the reblog
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This fits with your question of knowing. There is a wonderful effect here, where the exposure on the positive that we can directly see washes out some of the detail. That detail remains in the reflected negative, but the reflection is distorted by the top of the water.
To know the colors and textures in the flower, we look at both the positive and the negative. Both sides have their visual distortions, but in both cases there is a truth about the original object that we cannot see in the other. The color in the subject, the texture in the reflection.
We only really see one at a time, but we can know both. So getting to your question of the day, we know the flower, we know the flower’s reflection. We know both are the same, but while we see the one, the other can still surprise (and hopefully and delight) us.
The same is true with knowing people, only people have a choice in their surroundings. We tend to stand near mirrors that reflect us how we imagine we want to be seen, sometime more beautifully, sometime as the horrific monster we think we are. Our friends have the capacity to know us, and sometimes they see us for who we are, not the reflected image. Sometimes, they do still get confused. That does not mean they cannot know us, it just means we are complex.
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So beautifully written thank you
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This is brilliant i really love it 😀
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Thanks heaps 🙂
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any smoke?
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? I’m confused
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Smoke and Mirrors. you are very focused. thank you very much. alwaysbeaniceperson.
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Awesome! Thanks your sharing!
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