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Between my hotel and the Mid-levels there was a small neighbourhood of much shorter buildings. That meant I could look across the cityscape with no interruptions.
I was enraptured by the thousands of lights on display. The city feels alive at night in a way it simply doesn't in daylight.
"If you don't leave your past in the past, it will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away."
~ Blaise Pascal
HGGT to everyone!
I'm still in study mode but have much time to visit you all.
EXPLORE # 115
I need to diversify, I know...But time is always an issue. Here is another one of the Peaks of Otter, facing Flat Top one early morning.
September, 2015
“God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself.”
-Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, 37.
If we really want prayer, we’ll have to give it time. We must slow down to a human tempo. . . .The reason why we don’t take time is a feeling that we have to keep moving. This is a real sickness. . . .We live in the fullness of time. Every moment is God’s own good time. . . . The whole thing boils down to giving ourselves in prayer a chance to realize that we have what we seek. We don’t have to rush after it. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. (TM Monk 81)
-Thomas Merton
“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.
- Rilke
Astralia Clarity Wedges and feet accesory for Shoetopia 2017
Taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lost%20Cove/125/132/1000
Taken from the bridge at the McDowell Grove park entrance. Did I step on the vibrance, clarity, and saturation a little in Lightroom Classic Who could have possibly guessed?
Pistol River Beach, OR
A little after sunrise found me on a stretch of sand with vague shapes and incoming waves. When warmer air moving east hits the colder Pacific upwelling from the shelf, it aerosolizes into a mist that hangs along the coast. Good for the coastal rain forest, but not always good for photography. As with everything, definition seems to be a thing we chase. Climbing to the vantage of a hillside choked with scrub pine and manzanita, I looked down through soldierly stands of lupine to a gauzy strand of beach that stretches north to Cape Sebastian. Rising beyond weathered sea stacks and islands it doesn’t look as imposing as it actually is. The Oregon Coast Trail comes through here, although the softness of the scene belies the ruggedness of the path and the severity of the coastal landscape. A rough exterior often hides the tenderness lying beneath. I waited awhile before starting to trip the shutter: clarity is a series of reconsiderations.
Remember when I said there were ridiculous amounts of sun the other day? Well, here's proof. :P
I've figured that I'm gonna be pretty specifically organizing my photostream, on the basis of: 1 heavily processed shot uploaded at midnight each night, and 1 more lightly processed shot uploaded between 2 and 5 PM the same day. I've done it for the past couple days, and it seems to be working out okay... soo, yeah. :)
(Dutch poem by Martin Bril)
Kunst
Wat we willen:
Momenten
Van helderheid
Of beter nog: van grote
Klaarheid
Schaars zijn die momenten
En ook nog goed verborgen
Zoeken heeft dus
Nauwelijks zin, maar
Vinden wel
De kunst is zo te leven
Dat het je overkomt
Die klaarheid, af en toe
We're Here! shining our light at the "Lights, Lamps & Candles" group
Sometimes when you are in the weeds so deep that you can hardly see the sun you are just looking for a little clarity.
The value choices of each of us are conditioned by our perspective on the world—no one can claim to possess the entire truth—but that does not deprive me of the right and duty to stand by the conclusions I have reached.
-Night of the Confessor : Christian faith in an age of uncertainty / Tomáš Halík
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🎶[Bourée (Ian Anderson With A Full Orchestra)] 🎶
Enjoy!
- Bach Interpreted by Ian Anderson
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🐕 💝 🐈
💗 Hope 💗
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Protect Your Right To Vote!
BLM 8 Minutes 46 Seconds
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Get Your Booster!, I Got Mine! 💉
I Am Not Ukrainian But I Support You! 🌻💙💛🌻
Women's Rights Are Human Rights 1973-2022 RIP
A firearm should not have more rights than a human
Love is Love
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iMac
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The Tools
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Firestrom Photo Tools
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Ice on the beach at Jokulsarlon (the Diamond Beach). Not many diamonds that day as it was raining continuously. Still lots of fun to spend 3 hours there and oping for some sunshine next month when I return.
Scottish Borders / Dumfries and Galloway, South Scotland
Picture No: 2020-02-17-8548_P_FRAMED_S
Edited in Canon DPP4 (shadows brightened, noise reduction).
Not cropped. Framed in Photoshop 6. No photomontage.
Colors and contrast not changed.
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The winter solstice now grips the northern hemisphere in darkness. I refer to November and December as the dark part of winter even though most of this period falls in autumn. It's not just the darkness, but the constant ebbing away of daylight that depletes me. Each day brings less daylight than the one before. It's like a grim countdown that reinforces the notion that these final months of the year are something to be endured rather than appreciated. That's not a constant for me, however it is the general overtone. My psyche often rises and falls based on the cloud cover. Some days the overcast is so thick that it seems as if the streetlights will pop on during the midday. Skies so dark that it's impossible to detect even a glimmer indicating the position of the sun. And the landscape rendered into a shadowless, low contrast, and desaturated muddle. Optimism seems to surge when the sun manages to break free from the clouds. Still not much color in the world; quite bleak in fact. And the shadows cast all seem absurdly long and distorted. But everything is relative, so we take what we get and adapt to the circumstances. Three full months of astronomical winter lie ahead (and probably even more in terms of actual weather). But being on the gaining side of daylight is like hitting a mental reset button for me. A glimmer of optimism amid the shroud of fog, not unlike the sun, rising dimly in this scene.
this photograph was taken in january, when a deep hoar frost had descended on the central sector of hadrian's wall, england, on the only day that i could get out to housesteads (vercovicium) to take a photograph for a new book about the wall; the section on housesteads was written by the person who took me there. it was perishingly cold and mist kept swooping down and obliterating the views even of the stones 5 feet in front of us. at first we thought that this was going to prove an impossible situation, and that we would have to leave empty-handed and contact the editor of the book to bring news of a delay - but on one final walk round, sufficient cloud lifted to get the photograph in the comment box immediately below, and it was put into the book. sometimes a combination of patience, desperation and having to adjust your normal photographic eye, which we all have if we're practiced photographers, can be a very rewarding thing. all the other photographs in the book were sunny and light, like holiday postcards. the glowering, cold and frosted image of the east gate of the fort stood out - not better than the others, but certainly different :)