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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #47: Five Elements

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Miriam Hurdle 28 comments

The challenge Amy gave us this week is: Five elements.

Five Elements Theory is a Chinese philosophy which describes that the world changes according to the five elements’ generating or overcoming relationships.

Generating Interactions – The five generating interactions are fueling, forming, containing, carrying, and feeding:

Wood fuels fire
Fire forms earth
Earth contains metal
Metal carries water
Water feeds wood

Overcoming Interactions – The five overcoming interactions are melting, penetrating, separating, absorbing, and quenching:

Fire melts metal
Metal penetrates wood
Wood separates earth
Earth absorbs water
Water quenches fire

The interactions illustrate the relationship even though they are not necessarily in the exact order as listed above. Source

The Five Elements Theory is also related to the Chinese Zodiac and Fengshui, a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy. Source

A ball of fire going down behind the silhouette of woods in my neighborhood, California

Metal Bridge, Moulton Falls Regional Park, Washington

Hollow wood in Silver Falls, Portland, Oregon

One of the waterfalls in Silver Falls, Portland, Oregon

Muddy earth after eruption in 1980, Mt St. Helen, Washington

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #47: Five Elements

Flash Fiction Challenge – The Torch Relay

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Miriam Hurdle 13 comments

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The Torch Relay

“Did you see the torch?”

“The flashlight?”

“No, the torch carried by the runner yesterday.”

“The tick with fire burning at the end?”

“Yes, the runners were on their way to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.”

“There’re 337 competitors from my country Britain.”

“Yes, 522 from the United States. The Torch Relay began in New York City and ended in Los Angeles, traversing 33 states. There were 3,636 runners passing on, carried the torch on foot for over 9,320 miles. Los Angeles will host the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2028, 44 years from now.”

“I’ll be here.”

Weekly Photo Challenge – Elements

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Miriam Hurdle 26 comments

“For this week’s challenge, explore the classical elements of earth, air, water, and fire. How do you capture something invisible like air or the movement of water?” – ERICA V.

No place is like Yellowstone National Park that includes all the elements on this planet we call home. Its vast land covers mountains and flat land, waterfall, and volcano.

“Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles (8,983 km²), comprising lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges. Yellowstone Lake is one of the largest high-elevation lakes in North America and is centered over the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest supervolcano on the continent. The Caldera is considered an active volcano. It has erupted with tremendous force several times in the last two million years. Half of the world’s geothermal features are in Yellowstone, fueled by this ongoing volcanism. Lava flows and rocks from volcanic eruptions cover most of the land area of Yellowstone. The park is the centerpiece of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest remaining nearly-intact ecosystem in the Earth’s northern temperate zone. The vast forests and grasslands also include unique species of plants.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Elemental

Frying Pan

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Miriam Hurdle 21 comments

The Italian author Laurentius Abstemius wrote 100 fables based on popular idioms and proverbs of the day. One of them concerns some fish thrown live into a frying pan of boiling fat. One of fish urges its fellows to save their lives by jumping out, but when they do so they fall into the burning coals and curse it’s bad advice. The fabulist concludes: ‘This fable warns us that when we are avoiding present dangers, we should not fall into even worse peril.

The tale was included in Latin collections of Aesop’s fables from the following century onwards. The first person to adapt it into English was Roger L’Estrange in 1692. He was followed shortly after by the anonymous author of Aesop at Oxford, in whose fable “Worse and Worse” the fish jump ‘Out of the Frying-Pan, into the Fire’ by a collective decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_from_the_frying_pan_into_the_fire

Daily Prompt: Fry

Tuesday Photo Challenge – Fireplace

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Miriam Hurdle 19 comments

The cold winter is here. Even though it doesn’t have snow here, but the temperature drops. When we turn on the heat, upstairs is warm and downstairs is still cold. We enjoy to have fire in our fireplace downstairs. I took photos of the burning logs with the flames dancing. Then I played with Prisma with the same photos to get different effects. I only chose the conservative options. Here they are.

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