I am like a big, black cat - the Black Panther (Melnā Pantera) - with two wings - Poetry and Photography - the cat who walks herself and who has her own thoughts on the whole. I cannot fly yet, I'm only still learning. But I believe in miracles - maybe?

 

To photograph for me - it means to experience a moment and immortalize it, thus stopping the time so the beauty which I see, I could show to others. A camera for me it’s the same that a pen for writer or a brush for painter - I’m writing and painting by it the beauty of the world and the love which surround us from all directions, as good as I can. Not always it comes as good as I would. But - only the Lord is perfect, all of us are the imitators only; we simply are coping from Heaven.

 

And here still some aphorisms about photography, what I accept completely:

 

I don’t photograph the world as it is. I photograph the world as I would like it to be (Monte Zucker)

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)

The equipment doesn't make one photographer, but eye makes.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

We do not take pictures with our cameras, but with our hearts and minds. (Arnold Newman)

Your photos speak of you.

Happiness is a warm camera.

We always can learn something from others.

The word ‘photography’ means ‘drawing with light’.

Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing; light is everything. (Leonard Misonne)

Nature is the first Artist. I am only the copyist.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul. (John Muir)

 

I love my country from all my heart. It is most beautiful place on the Earth!

 

Here are two little video about my beautiful country:

 

es.youtube.com/watch?v=9RuNWWdhHSo - this is the best!

And still this one es.youtube.com/watch?v=UvCXLacM2sU

 

I think these two video clips give very good notion about Latvia to anybody which is interested in.

 

To Latvia

 

In stately figure of any oak,

In any little fine silver spear-grass,

In any full and white cloud,

In any wave which breathes the sea,

In the all which attract my eyes,

I see how much my motherland is beautiful.

 

Through the lightest breath of the wind,

Through the hardest word of the frost,

Through the lark’s ringing song,

Through the powerful clap of the thunder,

Through the gentlest, lowest sound

I hear the all my motherland.

 

Through the rosy rise of dawn,

Through the meadow, giddying in wildflowers,

Through the power of sunset fires,

Through the maple, burning into pink gold,

Through the any touch

I feel my motherland.

 

With the smallest nerve,

With any drop of blood,

With any feeling and thought,

With all my heart and soul,

With pride, pain and joy -

Thus I love my native country.

 

Here always will be shown my own most favorite shot just now. This is a shot from my last “photohaunting” :)

 

 

See my shots on black!

darckr.com/username?username=Melnaapantera

 

 

ATTENTION!!!

PLEASE, DON’T INVITE ME TO JOIN TO NUMBERLESS LITTLE GROUPS - I’LL DO NOT IT! I am sorry!

I have too much invitations and too little free time; and I really have not possibilities for all groups - even if I’d want it! I am a member already in very much interesting groups.

But I am opening always for new contacts :))

 

I am learning a lot and growing slowly all time in my photographer’s skill and therefore I shall delete my old shots from my profile from time to time. I am sorry! :)

 

 

 

 

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