Assessment of the Geographical Factors Contributing to the Occurrence of the Flood and Flash Flood in Şanlıurfa on March 15, 2023 by Mustafa Recep İrcan, Neşe Duman

“…Floods and flash floods are among the natural disasters that frequently occur in the world and have high destructive power. …”
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Multi-Focus Image Fusion Using Energy Valley Optimization Algorithm by Harun Akbulut

“…When a natural scene is photographed using imaging sensors commonly used today, part of the image is obtained sharply while the other part is obtained blurry. …”
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AeroRunway: Diverse Weather and Time of Day Aerial Dataset for Autonomous Landing Training by Ali Berkol, Nergis Pervan Akman, Nesil Bor

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Sentiment Analysis from Face Expressions Based on Image Processing Using Deep Learning Methods by Orhan Emre Aksoy, Selda Güney

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Ipse vidit: fotografia antropologica ottocentesca e possesso del mondo by Alberto Baldi

“…The picture is therefore far away from its alleged aseptic nature and therefore forcefully enters into the dyadic relationship between the photographer and the photographed subject in a complex game of dependences, subservience, arrogance, reciprocal individual gains that end up in enlarging and above all distorting the documentation purposes and outcomes that we try to mark out within this contribution.  …”
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Fantômes de l’écrit chez Ralph Eugene Meatyard by Jean-Marc Victor

“…Throughout his short career, American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) incorporated into his pictures various physical manifestations of written signs, as well as traces mimicking the act of writing. …”
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Photographie et écologie aux États-Unis: l’image à contre-emploi by François Brunet

“…This contribution proposes a short history of this question through three successive stages: a) the creation of Yellowstone National Park (1872), which, according to a persistent historiographical legend, allegedly resulted from the timely distribution to Congress members of pictures by survey photographer William H. Jackson; b) the work and career of Ansel Adams, envisioned as the paradox of a highly polished style of landscape photography whose classic, mainstream look tended to contradict its underlying conservationist message; c) a series of more recent books and exhibitions (1975-2010), bringing together artistic projects that highlighted deconstructions of classic, iconic landscapes, or examples of the degradation and destruction of natural sites, while maintaining a stylistic taste for spectacular effect and spotless finish that seemed to contradict the artists’ avowed message.…”
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The American Landscape: from an Ideological to an Ecological Object in Oxbow Archive by Joel Sternfeld by Helena Lamouliatte

“…American photographer Joel Sternfeld (born 1944) published Oxbow Archive in 2008, a book comprising 77 photographs that were taken over the course of a year and a half, between July 2005 and March 2007, and depicting a place called the East Meadows, located on the East side of the Connecticut river bend. …”
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Observing versus creating flowers: a review of relevance for art therapy by Ephrat Huss, Mitsue Nagamine, Michele Zaccai

“…These findings are discussed in terms of methodological relevance for art therapy and nature therapy. While it is known that flowers arouse positive emotions, this more nuanced comparison has interesting implications for visual art therapy, and for the therapeutic effects of nature photos, as opposed to drawn interpretations of nature.…”
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Les Transparences by Lorraine Alexandre

“…By staging drag queens models, this series brings face-to-face the biological nature of sex and the performative nature of genders. …”
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An Assessment of Local People’s Support to Private Wildlife Conservation: A Case of Save Valley Conservancy and Fringe Communities, Zimbabwe by Given Matseketsa, Billy B. Mukamuri, Never Muboko, Edson Gandiwa

“…Data were collected through a household questionnaire survey during the month of April, 2018. In addition, photographs showing the nature of vandalism and sabotage imposed on the SVC ecosystem by fringe communities were also collected, as part of evidential data. …”
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Habenaria trichosantha Lindl.: A newly recorded orchid from China by ZHAO Mingxu, WANG Hengying, TAN Yunhong, SUN Xingxu, HU Xingrun, CHEN Fei

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La photogénie de l’artiste en action : six exemples de l’acte créateur photographié au xxe siècle by Pierre-Emmanuel Perrier de La Bâthie

“…Photography and the creative act are incompatible by nature: one freezes the moment in an infinitesimal fragment of time, the other is a process that extends into time and space. …”
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Digital enhancement and photogrammetric recording of La Joquera Levantine rock art (Borriol, Castelló) by Inés Domingo, Peyman Javadi, Dídac Roman

“…The heritage values of Levantine rock art, as UNESCO World Heritage since 1998 and as an Asset of Cultural Interest since 1985 according to the Spanish Heritage Act, together with its fragile nature, demand developing initiatives aimed at regularly revisiting and monitoring the sites and updating any existing records (descriptions, tracings, photographs, etc.). …”
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Marcher, créer, révéler by Sophie Goupille

“…The nature of frontiers is obvious yet it also remains elusive. …”
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Fetiches do desejo e da morte: sobre a literatura de Valêncio Xavier by Ângela Maria Dias

“…The photos, due to its dialectics between proximity and distance of the referent, have an ambivalent nature and dramatize the fetishism inherent to the commodities and to the sexuality. …”
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Lost Pathways of Urban Development by Erik Harms

“…Photographic images from Ho Chi Minh City’s Thủ Thiêm Peninsula draw attention to now-vanished trees and pathways from a place that has been demolished for the sake of urban expansion. …”
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Better Than the Real Thing: Processed Reality in Victorian Art and Fiction by Béatrice Laurent

“…This paper investigates the paradoxical and composite nature of realist photography and fiction. In the 1850s, strategies of aggregation were part of the regular compositional practice of Victorian painters, from the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt to William Powell Frith. …”
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“I want to see more of this, where our stories are told”: Exploring iwi cultural landscapes through photovoice by Kimiora Raerino, Rau Hoskins, Kara Beckford, Aneta Cram

“…Indigenous photovoice was utilised to explore the iwi cultural landscapes of Ngā Hau Māngere, Aotearoa New Zealand, through the unique perspectives of ten Mana Whenua photographers. This study demonstrates how iwi cultural landscapes, such as signage, buildings, artworks, and ‘nature’ features, function as vital expressions and facilitators of iwi identity, history, and values. …”
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Five New Species of Pezizales from Northeastern China by Zhengqing Chen, Tolgor Bau

“…Species belonging to the Pezizales are mainly saprobes in nature. They are most commonly observed in woodlands and humid environments. …”
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