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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
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
Self portrait.
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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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“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
"What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home" —The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
Age is irrelevant. Ask me how many sunsets I’ve seen, hearts I’ve loved, trips I’ve taken, or concerts I’ve been to. That’s how old I am #✈️
"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.
There was such a beautiful #sunset this evening!
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“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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.
Camera - Canon 600D
Lens - Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Edited in Lightroom 5 with VSCO Film pack 4.
2014/11/22 Hultsfred - Sweden
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!
“What interests me is not the destination, but the attitude [traveling with new eyes and an open mind].” — Giampiero Bodino
The rest shall be left behind, but this remains. One moment of split sunlight bringing a distinct curiosity and a desire to just stay. Stay because this isn't the same without you. Because you make silence sing. #sweeterpoetry
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.
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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.
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.
[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!
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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
Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.
There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.
'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.
Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.
― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)
by Werner Herzog
I never grow tired of exploring the rural parts of the Ozark Mountains in Missouri. There are more old homes barely standing, more old barns, old towns that aren't even actually a town anymore, but at one point were thriving little places which still contain so much interesting history. Old general stores, old schools, it's truly amazing to read into an abandoned area and just imagine the life that took place there. If only these old buildings and locations could speak. And I guess in their own way, they do speak to me. Hopefully through my images of these abandoned locales, these places speak to you as well.
DEPICTIONS: A tale of PORTRAITS
Before my marriage to landscape, I was a disciple of portraits.
I missed shooting portraits.
That is why I would like to share some of my collection of portraits taken during a trip with Manny Librodo in Pagsanjan.
I wanted to rekindle my love for portraits and here are some of my work...