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St Mawes is a lovely little town in Cornwall, opposite Falmouth. It lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise dramatically, creating an immense natural harbour, often claimed to be the third largest in the world.

 

St. Mawes has a lovely festival in August every year where they light up the town and have music, local events etc. I was on the pier that evening and shot this, which came out remarkably well considering I'd only just had this camera for a few days and hadn't shot anything in literally 20 years!

 

I'd thoroughly recommend this town for an afternoon's stroll if you're down in Cornwall for the Summer holidays - the icecream shop is to die for and my kids love crabbing off the pier in the early evening.

 

From a technical perspective this photo came out nicely - I shot at night just as dusk was falling so I managed to retain some of that blue graduation in the sky and on the reflection, which is rather nice. The boats in the foreground make the picture really - a perfectly tranquil scene in a gorgeous Cornish town.

  

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I first would like to say thanks to Aaron M. for getting my Timberland boot out of the mud that was like quick sand. Aaron, just make sure you don't tell anyone that I had to drive home in my ballerina tights.

 

Also to all the photographers that were at Badwater this morning, the guy that was all the way out in the middle of the salt flats, in the water, that was me. So if I was in any of your frames, I do apologize, but the early bird catches the worm!

 

The title of the image speaks for itself. The salt flats were under water. The further I went out the deeper the water got. It was strange, but it was pretty cool seeing water out there. And a rare sight also.

 

Oh, and before I forget, to my co-worker Jim R., you missed out on an amazing sunrise, so I hope that Sizzler dinner you had last night was good!

 

no HDR

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A late photo from fall..

  

SPRİNG CLEANİNG; (30.06.2011)

 

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Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person. In folkloric tales, vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance. This is markedly different from modern fictional portrayals of gaunt, pale vampires beginning in the early 19th century. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures and according to speculation by literary historian Brian Frost that the "belief in vampires and bloodsucking demons is as old as man himself", and may go back to "prehistoric times", the term vampire was not popularized until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe, although local variants were also known by different names, such as vampir (вампир) in Serbia and Bulgaria, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.

(by Wikipedia)

 

You can see this photo on black in all sizes clicking to "Take me to the future" at the top of the page and then press on the magnifying glass icon!

 

P.S. This photo is very old and there was a colored version here in the stream.

Title comes from my favorite video game!

 

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Life is a journey, it’s been said.

It is a story of failure, but also of victory.

It is an experience of sadness, but also of joy.

It is a sketch of despair, but also of hope.

It is a painting of war, but also of brotherhood and friendship.

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Hope you find your own, beautiful path :)

~Albert Camus

 

Went on a little photowalk downtown last Thursday and got some pretty cool shots! This is the front of the Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh. I have a few other shots of this building, but I never was able to get the front!

 

This was actually taken during rush hour, but I was able to get my 7 exposures with only a few people in in that I was able to clone out.

 

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Pas très loin de ma rivière sauvage …!!!

 

Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés ...!!!

Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau …!!!

 

Near my wild river …!!!

 

An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet …!!!

A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach …!!!

Panorama Shot of the Manhattan Bridge shot from the Brooklyn Bridge

 

Looks way better this way

 

Info

 

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan (at Canal Street) with Brooklyn (at Flatbush Avenue Extension) on Long Island. It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges. The bridge was opened to traffic on December 31, 1909 and was designed by Leon Moisseiff, who later designed the infamous original Tacoma Narrows Bridge that opened and collapsed in 1940. It has four vehicle lanes on the upper level (split between two roadways). The lower level has three lanes, four subway tracks, a walkway and a bikeway. The upper level, originally used for streetcars, has two lanes in each direction, and the lower level is one-way and has three lanes in peak direction. It once carried New York State Route 27 and later was planned to carry Interstate 478. No tolls are charged for motor vehicles to use the Manhattan Bridge.

 

The original pedestrian walkway on the south side of the bridge was reopened after sixty years in June 2001. It was also used by bicycles until late summer 2004, when a dedicated bicycle path was opened on the north side of the bridge, and again in 2007 while the bike lane was used for truck access during repairs to the lower motor roadway.

 

* Main span: 1,470 ft (448 m)

* Length of suspension cables: 3224 ft (983 m)

* Total length: 6,855 ft (2,089 m)

 

The neighborhood near the bridge on the Brooklyn side, once known as Fulton Landing has been gentrified and is called DUMBO, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.

  

Technique/Processing

 

8 vertical shots taken at 180mm (using the Nikon 180mm f/2.8) and combined in PTGui. B/W, sepia processing done in Photoshop for the antique look.

My beautiful daughter Sophie Lu (she's my angel).... Here I used Florabella "Cosmopolitan" action & "Honeychild" overlay. ♥

Camera: Nikon D3X

Lens: Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8G

Focal Length: 17mm

Aperture: f/18

Shutter Speed :120 sec

ISO: 50

Exposure: Manual

 

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Garretstown Beach, Cork, Ireland.

 

Today, I would like to present to you another of my contacts -She Said Unprintable Things, I am sure you wil enjoy her photographs as much as I do.

 

Feast your ears

 

Explore Highest No. 50

Explore #4: January 17, 2010

 

A high mountain hairpin turn makes for a neat setting to shoot the starry night sky in winter. Glow from Denver's lights appears on the left (from 50 some miles away!) while the darker sky on the right reveals the Milky Way (woohoo!). This long exposure image (102 seconds) was taken near the top of Berthoud Pass in Colorado.

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Just a little break from the ocean stuff.....I hope you enjoy this dramatic scene.

 

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IBoKeHWaLK oN BLaCKI

 

HaPPY BoKeH WiNTeR

   

It was a fantastic day yesterday, outside walking on the river rhine and bokeh wonderland was everywhere.

 

The sun was shining and the girls walking………………

          

HBW!

 

Let it snow and……..

♪♪♫ L I S T e N ♪♪♫♪♪♫

  

Here we have bad hit again of winter

Too much snow everywhere

 

So it was good to be out yesterday………. 

Explore Front Page 10. Jan. 2010

 

Blick vom Berg Zwölferkopf (1480m) bei Pertisau auf den Achensee / Österreich

 

View from the mountain Zwoelferkopf (1480m) near Pertisau at the Achensee / Austria

Angalica

 

Only by one shot (None Composite )

 

Picasso and Braque which created "Cubism"!!.

The trial of their beginning.

A desire that the invisible side wants to watch it.

 

They took in multiple viewpoints in a picture.

 

I respect them.

I tried their imitation without using the composition processing.

I added one new work to conventional technique.

 

The camera turns to the ground first.

The LED lights up the front of the flower.

I point a camera to the sky next.

The LED lights up the back of the flower.

 

I focus on the stars and change a position of Aperture ring from F22 to F2.8.

The Milky Way exposes it afterwards for 60 seconds.

 

This shot may resemble early Cubism.

Perhaps this photograph resembles still life of the Cezanne.

He told a lie with the picture of the apple a little.

 

How do you think of this technique?.

Will this be composition processing? .

 

This place is a Mount Kirigamine .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kirigamine.

From my home, it is 20 minutes by car.

  

J irai sur la route illuminée ......

 

J will go on the road lit ......

 

Domi

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Heavy snowfall hits Amsterdam. Winter arrived in the Netherlands. It snowed continuously in Amsterdam for over 3 hours and other parts of the country. It was sticky snow so lots of snowmen and beautiful trees coated in snow! The children and adults were all out playing in the snow most of the afternoon and the street. Besides the joy there was irritation. The whole ring highway of 32km were totally jammed during rush hour. All cars were driving slowly step by step. Most cars don't even have winter tires here. Schiphol airport closed all except 1 runway and many planes were cancelled. Some people hoped that the snow and chill would permit the Elfstedentocht the famous Eleven Cities, 125-mile ice-skating canal race, the weather must remain cold long enough. We'll have to see about that. The Weather hasn't permitted that to happen in many years. Tomorrow extreme low temperature of -15 degrees Celsius is expected.

 

Last evening I did walk around the canals and made some photos of the snow in of my neighborhood. When it snows it’s light dusting and really beautiful. The steep bridges over the canals in Amsterdam are really slippery. ...especially for cars. The best way to travel in the snow is by bicycle, tram, walking or better by sleds like these kids. Tonight extreme temperature of -15 degrees Celsius is expected. The heavy snowfall is too bad for ice skating. Photo taken here at the corner of Brouwersgrachtand and Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. More snow expected these is coming weekend. It's a handheld streetshot at 1/10s, ISO800 and F2.0 .

 

Amsterdam zat helemaal vast door zware sneeuwval. Het KNMI gaf woensdag 6 januari 2010 begin van de middag een weerswaarschuwing af voor extreem weer in Noord-Holland en Zuid-Holland maar vreemd genoeg geen alarm. In korte tijd viel er 10 tot 15 centimeter sneeuw. In combinatie met de avondspits was daar geen sneeuwschuiver of strooiwagen tegen opgewassen. Door de hevigheid was ook nog sprake van verminderd zicht zodat er erg langzaam werd gereden op de rijkswegen. Heel Nederland werd afgelopen week getrakteerd op een dik pak sneeuw. Dit leverde voor het verkeer de nodige overlast op, maar er was ook veel plezier zoals hier in Amsterdam. Kinderen inde Jordaan grepen de kans met beide handen aan en gingen sleetje rijden. In en rond de hele stad stonden woensdag lange files door zware sneeuwval. Ook het openbaar vervoer ondervond zware hinder. De hele ringweg Amsterdam stond vasy met een file waarvan de langste 32 kilometer was. In de stad reden auto's stapvoets. Op sommige plekken kwamen automobilisten zelfs helemaal niet meer vooruit. Het vliegverkeer op Schiphol wordt ernstig gehinderd door sneeuwval. Volgens de luchtverkeersleiding was er slechts één baan beschikbaar. Nee, we zijn het niet meer gewend? We zijn de afgelopen 10 jaar gewoon sufgeluld door klimaat terroristen die ons voorgespiegeld hebben dat er nooit meer winters zullen komen en ook nog eens dat dat allemaal onze eigen schuld is ook nog.En nu één klein beetje zonne-inactiviteit en húp het is ineens gewoon weer winter...

 

A long exposure of a reflection with reflections of more reflections.

 

Some of you may remember my picture called “Space Dock” - www.flickr.com/photos/31246066@N04/4139298285/ - and the picture I had enclosed with it. It looked very similar to this one. I conducted a night photo shoot inside the top of the Oregon City Municipal Elevator because of all of the cool reflections. This version is from the other side of the “saucer”. I think I like this one even better. You can see the traffic passing over the Oregon City Bridge to the right.

 

( Watermelon flavor) Sou apaixonada por frutas e melancia é a minha favorita!

Attempting to capture an image that has been taken so many millions of times, takes a lot of thought and preparation. Reaching this area on the Marin Headlands, is not the difficult part; however adding my personal touch was somewhat harder.

 

Observing for about an hour before shooting, I noticed a couple of fairly large boats pass under the bridge. My thought was that if a boat or ship would pass through the frame at the right moment, it would create a motion of the water. This in-turn would cause the light reflection of the bridge to move in the water, and thus spreading the glow and reflection out just far enough to be a defining part of the image.

 

Well, about 30 minutes after sunset, it happened. Combined with a 30 second exposure, this was the result.

 

While, I didn't get much sleep bundled up in my vehicle that night, I really enjoyed this experience, and am looking forward to returning to the area with the hope of capturing more of it's beauty.

Today I received my 3rd Dan Black Belt for Batto. The art of Japanese Sword Cutting. Today I used only a wakizashi (Short Sword) One handed cutting.

The temp was -1C and as you can see it was snowing. This was held at a very old shrine. More photos later.

My wife took these nice photos at 6 frames per second.

 

Cropped in a hurry. Sorry about bottom left. :-).

  

Video da queima de fogos:

www.youtube.com/user/dircinhawel#p/a/u/0/F60-_2OOlQI

 

Amigos.. mais uma vez desejo-lhes um feliz 2010, estou sem tempo para visitas, mas na proxima semana estarei de volta.

Abraços a todos.

 

Friends .. once again wish you a happy 2010, I have no time for visits, but next week I'll be back.

Abraços.

 

Amici .. ancora una volta, vi auguriamo un 2010 felice, non ho tempo per le visite, ma la prossima settimana sarò di ritorno.

Abraços.

"... Entre um trago e um amargo,

recostado num esteio,

bombeava o piazito feio,

mas taludo - sem embargo,

sentindo no campo largo

cheiro de pasto e incenso

naquele desejo imenso

de que este ano que nasce

faça que o homem se abrace

no amor da paz e o bom-senso... "

 

Fragmento de "Payada do Ano Novo", de Jayme Caetano Braun

Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

 

"Here's to the Bright New Year, and fond farewell to the old;here's to the thing that are yet to come,and to the memories that we hold."

Wish you a Happy New year friends.

Faro Punta Nati Lighthouse - As always, no HDR - (18@216)

"Just let your love flow like a mountain stream

And let your love grow with the smallest of dreams

And let your love shine " - Bellamy Brothers

 

Location: Tagbibinta Falls , Maragusan

Compostela Valley , Davao Region

Philippines

 

Rough sea in Camogli, Italy.

 

Digitally developed with Raw Therapee and treated with GIMP.

   

Mallard Duck with full winter green colours tilting head back after a quick drink.

Few more days left in the year, I really hope 2010 is simply a better year.

 

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More from my night of reflections.

 

Hope everyone had a good Christmas etc, the weather here in Brisbane has been poor, might get a shoot in later today, but .... yeah I'll be looking for rainbows ;)

 

Enjoy.

 

- Canon 50D.

- ISO 100, f9, 1/30, 10mm.

- Sigma 10-20mm lens.

- Tripod.

 

Processing

 

- Saturation and Contrast in Photoshop 6.0 and Lightroom 2.2.

 

About Reflections

 

Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated. Common examples include the reflection of light, sound and water waves. The law of reflection says that for specular reflection the angle at which the wave is incident on the surface equals the angle at which it is reflected.

 

Reflection of light is either specular (mirror-like) or diffuse (retaining the energy, but losing the image) depending on the nature of the interface. Furthermore, if the interface is between a dielectric and a conductor, the phase of the reflected wave is retained, otherwise if the interface is between two dielectrics, the phase may be retained or inverted, depending on the indices of refraction.

”... Já ramalhei muito laço

nas reculutas que fiz

e, hoje, o tempo me diz

do pouco que aprendi

campereando por aí,

sons de milongas nos dedos

nas estâncias e varzedos

da costa do Piray... “

 

Fragmento de “Entre as frestas do tempo”, de Eron Vaz Mattos

Pelotas, Rio, Grande do Sul, Brasil

 

Jom solat sunat Dhuha?

 

About The Shot:

Keluar di pagi hari mengikut abang-abang menjala ikan, saya pun ikut diorang tapi bukan pikul jala, pikul tripod ;p Cadang nak HDR-kan gambar ni, tapi tengok dari 3 exposure yang saya shot, yang ada ni dah cukup berkenan di hati, maka saya lupakan proses tone mapping, terus je upload yang ni. Editing? Saya cuma guna clone stamp tool nak buang ada sedikit tompokan kat permukaan air, dan juga kat kawasan helaian daun yang ke-2 dan ke-3 sebelah kanan tu! Frust juga tak perasan ada dust, rasanya dah cuci molek dah kamera...

 

Location, Date & Time:

- Empang Jaleh, Kuala Lipis | 18 December 2009 | 8:12am (+8GMT)

 

Canon EOS 500D + Kitlens + Tripod:

- ISO100, f/22, 13 seconds at 27mm.

 

Photoshop CS3:

- Only for clone stamping to several places to remove dust!

- Watermark and framing editing.

 

You:

I really appreciate your kind visit and support =)

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The Jordaan is a district of the city of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. The Anne Frank House, where Anne Frank went into hiding during World War II, is located on the edge of the Jordaan, on the Prinsengracht canal. Rembrandt spent the last years of his life in the Jordaan, on the Rozengracht canal. He was buried in the Westerkerk church, at the corner of Rozengracht and Prinsengracht, just beyond the Jordaan. The most common theory on the origin of the name is as a derivation of the French word jardin, meaning garden. Most streets and canals in the Jordaan are named after trees and flowers. Built in the first half of the 17th century to house the working class, the Jordaan is now one of the most expensive, upscale locations in the Netherlands. In the Jordaan it's more easy to have a bike or red Vespa scooter since car parking is the most expensive in the world. Daily unsecured parking in the Amsterdam Jordaan cost 5 €/hour or 7.10 US$/hour.

Believe it or not: many Dutch people don’t mind the winter in Amsterdam. Probably because the city is built for it! Ever heard of the Dutch word gezellig? A real translation doesn’t exist, but the English word cozy comes pretty close. In the Netherlands we put a lot of effort in making a place look and feel gezellig. A lot of cafés in Amsterdam use wood and warm colours for the interior combined with dim light, sometimes comfy couches and nice little corners. Since the houses are very old, it’s exceptional to get a license for a fireplace. Some places have one though. Just because nothing beats a glass of red wine in front of the fire after a whole snowy day of strolling around in Amsterdam !

 

Last weekend it snows and it was -6 degrees Celsius. The heavy snowfall is too bad for ice skating. So I had walk around the canals of my neighborhood. Photo taken here at the Brouwersgracht in Amsterdam. A image of a classic red Vespa scooter. This smallframe Piaggio PK range was made in the early '80s. The largeframe Vespa scooter known as the PX range were manufactured in the late '70s. The Vespa was the first globally successful scooter. This red one is not mine. My red scooter is in my basement free of snow. In Amsterdam center it's more easy to have a bike or scooter since car parking in Amsterdam is the most expensive in the world. Daily unsecured parking in Amsterdam Jordaan cost 5 €/hour or 7.10 US$/hour. Not a lot of people can effort or want to sponsor our local authorities! So whenever I go abroad I'm always smiling about the cheap parking fees compared with Amsterdam.

 

De Jordaan is een wijk in Amsterdam. Tijdens de bouw van de Jordaan in de eerste helft van de 17e eeuw heeft men het patroon van de oude poldersloten gevolgd, dit in tegenstelling tot de grachtengordel Herengracht, Keizersgracht en Prinsengracht, met tot gevolg dat de straten in de Jordaan vaak scheef en schuin op de overige straten en grachten staan. De Jordaan was met zijn kleine huisjes van oudsher een typische arme volksbuurt. Er waren ook veel ambachtslieden en kleine bedrijven gevestigd. Maar tegenwoordig is het er hip om er te wonen en zijn de huizenprijzen hier hoog. De naam Jordaan komt van het Franse woord Jardin wat tuin betekend. Er zijn ook veel bloem namen van de straten en grachten in de Jordaan. Er zijn overigens meerdere theorieën over het ontstaan van de naam Jordaan. De afgelopen nacht is er zo'n tien tot vijftien centimeter sneeuw gevallen. Dit zorgde ervoor dat de stad er prachtig bij lag. De sneeuw bezorgt plezier, maar ook overlast en hinder. De hevige sneeuwval heeft het verkeer in Nederland zondag grotendeels platgelegd. De Jordaan is bedolven onder dik pak sneeuw zoals hierboven op de Brouwersgracht. Geen weer om op je rode Vespa te gaan rijden. Een klassieke scooter uit de jaren '80. Piaggio is een Italiaans merk dat vanaf 1946 beroemd werd met de productie van scooters die de naam Vespa wesp kregen. Dit is niet mijn scooter. M'n rode scooter staat lekker droog in de kelder.

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In winter, Amsterdammers watch the falling thermometer readings with the same focus as people in Aspen and Chamonix. When the temperature drops low enough for long enough, the lakes and the canals become sparkling highways for the skaters. Little kiosks are set up on the ice to dispense heart-warming liqueurs. I really love this part of our culture. Almost everyone, young or old, likes to skate and is smiling and friendly. Today it's the first day of ice skating on natural ice at Ransdorp nearby Amsterdam. Dutch skaters enjoying the kilometers of natural ice. During the month January and February thousands of geese can be found here in Waterland. The geese are migratory, moving south or west in winter. The greylag geese fly in V- formation to save themselves energy. The next days extreme low temperature of -6 degrees Celcius expected. Too bad it started snowing yesterday which makes it very hard to go skating.

 

A fast snapshot of a Dutch ice-skate girl taken while I was skating too. A photo of Waterland at the Bloemerdalergouw towards Holysloot - nearby Amsterdam. As temperatures plunge across Europe, many are cursing the cold. But not in the Netherlands. There, many are hoping for further frigid conditions. It was my first time on skates again in this early winter of 2009. It was a cloudy day but at the end of the day the sun came through which gave a beautiful glow. Look at the thousands of geese flying in the background. At this time of year they are easy to find in Waterland. Too bad it started snowing yesterday which makes it very hard to skate. Waterland in the winter is a real skater’s paradise.

 

Eindelijk weer een weekend waarin Waterlanders de ijzers konden onderbinden. Nog geen ideale condities, maar geen wakken. Op de Ransdorper Die is het ijs nog niet dik genoeg, maar hier op de bloemendalergouw tussen Ransdorp en Holysloot kan er al aardig geschaatst worden. De Grauwe gans, grijsbruine gans met forse oranje snavel en roze poten is hier heel veel te zien in Waterland. Duizenden ganzen vliegen altijd in V-formatie waardoor de krachtsinspanningen over de groep worden verdeeld. De bomen en weilanden zijn wit, de sloten bevroren en de adem komt in kleine grijze pufjes uit mijn mond. Handen op de rug. Rustig ademen. Ik geniet van het geluid van de ijzers over het ijs en het prachtige uitzicht over de besneeuwde weilanden. Het is min zes, het is bewolkt maar aan de horizon komt uiteindelijk de zon nog door die een prachtige gloed geeft aan de horizon. Het is ijs is door de sneeuw helaas te dof om het licht te weerkaatsen. In de verte kan je de flats van Amsterdam IJburg zien en steekt de wonderlijk stompe toren van Ransdorp uit het landschap. Die stamt uit dezelfde vervlogen eeuw als waarin de Amsterdammer Hendrick Avercamp begon met het schilderen van zijn vermaarde winterse schaatstaferelen. Wie even wegdenkt kan zich vandaag in Avercamps wereld wanen.

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“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” - Elizabeth Lawrence.

 

I recently finished reading this Amazing book by Khaled Hosseini. When I was scourging for what to upload , i saw this and was immediately reminded of "Laila" & "Tariq", the two childhood friends from it. There is another equally important third protagonist, and the story is about , how the never ending Wars in Afghanistan Affect their Lives . . .

here's a conversation between these two . . .

 

"You changed the subject."

"From what?"

"The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy."

"You know."

"Know what?"

"That I only have eyes for you."

— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

 

"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."

Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

 

A Child's heart

 

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La navidad tambien tiene su parte patetica.... ayer salimos a comprar algunas cosas para Luciano y regresamos a casa con las manos vacias.... el mundo esta loco...

 

The christmas also has pathetic part .... yesterday we go out to buy some things for Luciano and return to house with the empty hands .... the world is crazy...

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