Adrienne Rich

Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured and even predicted, it is beyond human control. All 'we' can do is create an interior space against the storm, an enclave of self-protection, though the winds of change till penetrate keyholes and 'unsealed apertures.

American Poet

Sally Mann

I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

American Photographer

Ren Ng

For low light, all the light rays participate. We're using all the light coming through a large aperture to make a picture with a large depth of field - totally impossible with a conventional camera.

Malaysian Businessman

In general context, 'aperture' refers to how much light or substance can pass. Larger apertures mean more light.

Light Control

'Aperture' is not limited to light; it can refer to any substance moving through an opening.

Functional Diversity

An aperture is specific and often designed for a precise function or effect.

Specificity

In photography, changing the aperture affects the focus range, blurring or sharpening the background.

Depth of Field

Photographers adjust the aperture to ensure photos are well-lit, not overexposed or too dark.

Exposure Balance

For musical instruments, the aperture size influences the sound's volume and tone.

Sound Quality

Apertures are integral to an instrument's design, affecting how it is played and heard.

Instrument Design

In biology, natural apertures serve specific roles, like breathing or excreting.

Biological Function

Apertures in organisms are parts of complex systems, like anatomy or botanical structures.

Living Structures

In physical contexts, an aperture can be essential for enabling processes like heat exchange.

Physical Importance

 In the first panel, we see the moment of creation. All is ordered, all is beautiful, all the people and animals are doing what they're supposed to be doing, are where they're supposed to be. But then, given the way of the world, things change. We get every person doing whatever he wants, with every aperture of every other person and every other animal.

Jonathan Haidt: The...

 So I don't think it's any different than photography. - So you can see your aperture. That's what your camera's doing automatically. There's only three things cameras do. So you have a sensor. You have an aperture and a shutter. That's what a camera is. - That's right, yep. - Everything with those basics. - You know, we always say art imitates life.

Photography as...

 what's the deal with the eyes how come they've got that weird vertical slit going on oh well there's one theory going that I think you'll quite like it she basically the horizontal distance is as small as possible a bit like the aperture of a camera so if you keep that small you'll get a really good depth of

Crocodile Attack In Slow...

 delights in the first panel we see the moment of creation it all is ordered all is beautiful all the people and animals are doing what they're supposed to be doing where they're supposed to be but then given the way of the world things change we get every person doing whatever he wants with every aperture of

The moral roots of...

 If we make the aperture big, we'll have more light, true, but the sharpness of your photo will decrease very quickly from your focus point, backward and forward. This is what we call shallow depth of field. If we have a very small aperture, we'll have less light but a deeper depth of field.

How to take a great...

 And they said scaling, which is the build-up of minerals inside of pipes. And they said, you know what happens is, mineral -- just like at your house -- mineral builds up. And then the aperture closes, and we have to flush the pipes with toxins, or we have to dig them up.

12 sustainable design...

 widen the aperture of the modern veteran experience and try to bridge the divide between our civilian and our military populations too often our media has paid disproportionate attention to veterans who have committed crimes those struggling in their transitions those

Lessons we can learn...

 I do now, after learning about all the quantum stuff. It's really cool. Anyway, I wanted to show you a little bit about the world of toy design, at least from my small aperture of the world. This is a video I made when I first started doing toy design.

Caleb Chung: Come play...

 and has that beautiful long slender body and those beautiful big pectoral fins that help it glide through the ocean. It was a bright sunny day but in order to make that photograph I selected a very high aperture to turn the background sort of black

Swimming With Sharks:...

 the colored iris and the black pupil. Now WALL-E has the black of an eye, the gray aperture blades and the black pupil. Suddenly, WALL-E feels like he has a soul, like there's a character with emotion inside.