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“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.
I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Learning became her.
She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place.
Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.”
— Robert Goolrick
Cool summer nights.
Windows open.
Lamps burning.
Fruit in the bowl.
And your head on my shoulder.
These the happiest moments in the day.
—The Best Time of the Day, Raymond Carver
Late afternoon landing at #Istanbul airport #flying #chasinglight #travel #eavig
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Leave me here in a world that my pen understands.
Where light passes dusty windows like inspiration through life's confusion; stubbornly unyielding yet absorbing mystery along the way.
Where stone echoes every melody like filled pages on a shelf; unwilling to let their voices be silenced.
Where stars pulse like mismatched heartbeat patterns; resounding uninhibitedly over the expanse of time and space.
Where every step carries the memory of someone's "someday," and makes me rejoice all the more. #sweeterpoetry
Delicate remnants of a warmer time are embraced by the first snow. A quiet moment of transition, captured in nature’s minimalist palette.
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“Nietzsche also proposed a second kind of tourism, whereby we may learn how our societies and identities have been formed by the past and so acquire a sense of continuity and belonging.
The person practising this kind of tourism ‘looks beyond his own individual transitory existence and feels himself to be the spirit of his house, his race, his city’.
He can gaze at old buildings and feel ‘the happiness of knowing that he is not wholly accidental and arbitrary but grown out of a past as its heir, flower, and fruit, and that his existence is thus excused and indeed justified'.”
—The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
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These are some of the test shots I did with the New Canon 7d, aimed at testing it in the field of Landscape photography including infrared and long exposure.
The 7d with its 1.6x crop factor suited well with the Canon 10-22mm ultrawide lens. First thing I noticed about the unit was the how the ergonomic design felt different. It had a feeling of a 5d mk2, the weight, the feel of the leather cover. Buttons were quite different, first thing youll notice is the a dedicated start and stop button for the live view/ hd movie. Second is the off/on button usually placed at the lower right side of the camera, its now aptly placed in the upper left together with the main dial. Two new buttons that's a first to me was the Q button and the m-fn button just beside the shutter button.
Peeping thru the viewfinder, one will be amazed as the 100% sight of the viewfinder plus the 10mm gave a wider perspective. It was my 2nd time using the live view to compose and focus. It made life simpler. The horizon axis function really helped a lot, cropping was lessen.
Focusing, with the 19cross type focal points, it was easier to focus and meter the foreground. I had a hard time shifting the controls since it was given to me without the manual. There are four presets of the focusing from automatic and manual.
I think ill leave the technical people to really dwell on the specs and other functions of the camera. I would like to concentrate more on actual field test. The photos in this thread were minimally processed...canon dpp software global adjustments and sharpening for web. Colors were not altered nor enhanced.
Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.
―John Muir, The Sierra Nevada
I honestly couldn't have thought of a better way to end the summer. The nights were warm with a hint of cool, the stars were out and the skies fiery as the sun set. We watched this beautiful sunset over Wisconsin Bay in Peninsula State Park. When I passed by this couple on a bench, I couldn't resist! Jackie said I was creepin'!! They were sipping wine and I tried to capture the wine glass being lifted but missed it. I 'almost' went over and requested that they 'hold that pose!'
Hope everyone is having a relaxing Monday. I plan on cooking up a huge pot of vegetable beef soup. I just got back from Michigan yesterday, and my childhood friend and her mum loaded up the backseat of my Honda with the bounty from their garden! I will be around a bit to catch up to everyone, to see what y'all have been up to!
Happy Monday!
Doesn't this look like ice? Not even close! Just another cliche Big Sur, long-exposure shot!!
Hope everyone is having a {smooth} Saturday! By the way: this looks really sweet in the lightbox!!
Happy Cliché Saturday!!
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Another view of the tangerine & aqua sunset I enjoyed while sipping a Scrimshaw Pilsner at Nepenthe in Big Sur!!
Heading to the garden to weed (a gift from me & Jackie for Father's Day). Trust me, he'll be very surprised when we pick him up from the airport today!! Weeding is NOT our favorite thing to do!! I'll be back this afternoon to check out all the awesome fences!!
Happy Fence Friday!
We went to the art museum yesterday and I checked out the new exhibit: "Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977." Fascinating. Interesting. A lot I liked, a lot I didn't. What impressed me the most was presentation; unique matting and framing ... ideas for shooting a series of images ... it was thought provoking and inspirational. I really liked the Boot Project!! 100 Boots, 1971-73. So where will I get 100 boots to do this? :-)
As we were walking around, we saw a painting we really liked from the renaissance period (forgot the artist) but the painting was breathtaking in how exquisitely the artist depicted 'atmospheric perspective.' So we launched into a long discussion on the topic.
I highly recommend taking along an art student the next time you go to an art museum! I love her perspective, her insights and how she encourages me to look at something I've seen many times in a whole different light.
And then they said I would be lonely. But that's not the point.
If this - with You - is "lonely," then it's more than enough. #sweeterpoetry
"You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold"
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I'm having so much fun experimenting with self portraits again! The light in these woods was really beautiful and trying out different photoshop actions really helped bring this picture to life even more. I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Late day wild capture of a visiting snowy owl to the Jersey Shore.
Photographed at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge - Holgate.
01.02.2016
“What, then, is a travelling mind-set? Receptivity might be said to be its chief characteristic. Receptive, we approach new places with humility. We carry with us no rigid ideas about what is or is not interesting. We irritate locals because we stand in traffic islands and narrow streets and admire what they take to be unremarkable small details. We risk getting run over because we are intrigued by the roof of a government building or an inscription on a wall”
The Art of Travel, Alain De Botton
We are passionate about bringing a relaxed approach while creating beautiful, natural and vibrant images.
[December 2006] Blacks Beach, San Diego, California.
This photo was taken by holding the camera at ground level. This has got to be one of the coolest sunsets I have ever seen!
We drove out of town last weekend, and decided to stop in a few small towns before getting to this place, 10 minutes after the park closed! At least we got to snap some shots from outside.
It's a sudden stop!
I headed to Holland at the start of June for a suprise buck's party for our good friend Guido. I spent an afternoon alone, exploring the canals & sun-drenched streets of Amsterdam before meeting with friends.
We head off to France tommorrow to shot our first wedding on the weekend.
Fingers crossed for good luck.
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Amsterdam, Holland.
2009.
☾ “I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives.
Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights – then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.”
— Why I Adore the Night ☾ (Jeanette Winterson)
Used the hi-ball glass again. Put a glow stick in the glass and white EI wire around the base of the glass. Used the laser pen to add the swirl.
Added two texture layers, removed all the color except for the pink. Created some overlays.
This conceptual, self-portrait represents part of my four-year journey at Azusa Pacific University. I am relatively new to conceptual photography but am excited to produce more photos soon!
“What interests me is not the destination, but the attitude [traveling with new eyes and an open mind].” — Giampiero Bodino
A FULL FRAME FISH in HK
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Something to remember HK by....I have been here so many times but never tried shooting the place...I mean really shoot it the way I wanted. Borrowing my partner's terminology for a full frame camera with a 15mm fisheye (thanks to Raymond Cruz for the lens), I tried to bend matter and light.
The distortion is to taste and i love it.
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I will have a few new little projects running from today. This is the one of them. In all photos the light is very important but that is series of pictures where the light is even more important than the composition.
wish you great first proper week of the year, especially if you are back to work!