ipernity: Ern Jacoby

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Updated on: November 16, 2022.

Sometimes I Wish, album created on May 25, 2022

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rock'n stones, album created on January 2, 2020

As a retiree PhD Geologist I have an affinity to the aesthetics of rocks and stones beyond scientifics. I remember a zen koan like this: first there is a mountain later on there is knowledge - rocks and stones no more mountain - finally there is !

trekking highlights, album created on April 13, 2020

Dorothee and myself walk around together since 1973. Later on we organized outdoor coaching and group trekkings under the label „dialogging“. Since 2011 we practice regional CO2-friendly walking tours and travelling.

PEN F rangefinder feeling and downsizing - 2 years ago

I chose the form factor of the Olympus Pen F body due to my years of owning and using my father's rangefinder Leica M3 and later my own M6. After 10 digital years with the m43 camera system, I realize how familiar a system becomes. My Pen F is like walking around with different films in older times. I no longer shoot raw, for me the Olympus jpeg output is perfect - when I take time and slow down. Pen F offers all the latest imaging technology, you better read elsewhere. Here I introduce my subj…

Photosophy
- May 11, 2020

Photosophy by Ern Jacoby PhD The year 2000 was a turning point for me as a photographer. I hold a little gem of my deceased father in my hands, a Leica M3. And since I develop my skill, the concept "photosophy" expresses best the linking of visual imagery with philosophy: The art of light and the research of wisdom, combined as photo-sophia or photo-sophy. The speed of light in vacuum is the universal physical constant, postulated as invariance by Einstein in 1905. Light or photons move…
Quantum dialogue - incognito ergo sum!
- April 30, 2020

Quantum dialogue - incognito ergo sum! (c) by Ern Jacoby PhD Not being a good speaker generally results in not to be. Thousands and thousands of men and women worldwide communicate. When you ask them, they reply, yes, we had a good talk. This is understandable: to survive in life, and possibly be successful, a rather complete conviction must exist about the own presence as a human being. Since my early years I found discussions a rather confusing business. A lot of it is speculative, ab…