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I haven't had a chance to get out and catch a sunrise in a long time. This makes me sad. So I went in search of an earlier capture ... and found this one. I feel euphoric and jubilant ... just looking ... at the 'big hard sun' in this image!! I hope you do too!!

 

Happy Bokeh Wednesday!

 

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♫ Eddie Vedder – Hard Sun ♫

“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace”

 

–Ruskin

“ 'Anything I learnt would have to be justified by private benefit rather than by the interest of others. My discoveries would have to enliven me; they would have in some way to prove ‘life-enhancing’.

 

The term was Nietzsche's. In the autumn of 1873, Friedrich Nietzsche composed an essay in which he distinguished between collecting facts like an explorer or academic and using already well known facts to the end of inner, psychological enrichment”

— The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

― Ma Jian

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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!

LIFE AND DEATH

 

Celebes Sea being an ancient ocean basin and part of western pacific ocean can be a friend or foe, in one time silent and still as a melody and the next as violent and vibrant as a rock song.

 

This is one of my fave in yesterday's session. Remnants of a once mighty sea spruce, it lies desolated in the shore, with a young tree blossoming in the background, withstanding the might of the waves.

  

PROLOGUE: It has been a while since I did some serious landscape shoot. Finally a chance to be alone with the sea.

  

SARANGANI: A Revisit to Paradise

 

More than a year has past since I last visited this place, with more than 3,000 kms of coastal area facing the mighty Celebes sea. My last visit has enabled me to capture memorable landscapes that have given me awards and recognitions. Truly this revisit is special.

 

A 45 minutes travel from Gensan, I set out to capture hopefully, enduring and timeless landscapes.

 

Blessed with a golden light and mighty winds with crashing waves, it was a perfect scene.

 

These are my takes on my first day in this landscape utopia.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. 🍃🍃

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  

The island of Alcatraz. Guest starring the Coit Tower.

 

*check out my instagram feed (@HelloCanuto) for more photographs.

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

“What interests me is not the destination, but the attitude [traveling with new eyes and an open mind].” — Giampiero Bodino

An underground hallway in Montreal leading to the subway. The lighting can probably make your problems go away!

“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

This a portrait of one of the locals..his face tells a lot of stories and the war he has seen.

 

A business trip to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam made me realized how much I missed shooting travel and streets.

 

Gearing away from my comfort zone of shooting landscapes, I try to wander the busy streets of Ho Chi Minh.

 

These are my capture of Ho Chi Minh with side trips at Cu Chi and Mekong Delta.

This infrared shot was taken in a rubber tree farm on the way to Cu Chi tunnel.

 

A business trip to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam made me realized how much I missed shooting travel and streets.

 

Gearing away from my comfort zone of shooting landscapes, I try to wander the busy streets of Ho Chi Minh.

 

These are my capture of Ho Chi Minh with side trips at Cu Chi and Mekong Delta.

Painting the city #Street_photography #ig_streetphotography #gf_streets #Fromstreetswithlove #everybodystreet #Lausanne #mylausanne #myvaud #igersvaud #switzerlandwonderland #switzerlandpictures #switzerland #constructionsite #living_europe #chasinglight #lightchaser #lrinstagram

Project 365

Thursday • June 10, 2010

 

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We were so busy last Thursday, I didn't even take one photo! Rachel really wanted to see photos from Jackie's trip to Belize and we came across this one! I can't believe I haven't done anything with their trip photos! And there are so many good ones! Bad Mom! So today, I am working on them so I can create a photobook.

 

As you can see, Jackie is also creative with the camera! She has a great eye! This photo blows me away! She said that every single day, there was an awesome sunrise & sunset. So wish I could've been there with her!

 

Photo: By Jackie

 

Editing: By me: all I had to do was a bit of noise reduction and straighten the horizon line

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

Simple one this week as I've been super busy!

10/52

~Be around the light bringers, the magic makers, the world shifters, the game shakers. They challenge you, break you open, uplift and expand you. They don't let you play small with your life. These heartbeats are your people. These people are your tribe~ Unknown.

 

Gosh what a summer it has been...Actually, What a year it has been!!! These words pretty much sum it up for me and I've done exactly that..Those 4 sentences, I'm doing and really amazing things are happening. You may not be able to visually see it but I know. Back to school tomorrow and throwing myself back into my Project 52 which I need to get back on track, lots of wed-editing and a trip to the doctors to see about my painful hips..Lots of cuddles welcome. Keep you posted about that! Abi xx

The majority allowed the dogma. They idled and retreated into nothingness where they will stay.

 

Others wouldn't comply. These individuals grew in one way or another.

 

Disconnected from the irrelevant, they too remain faceless, but by choice.

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.

“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

 

|| collab with the lovely @m_dunc, because I miss her and our adventures, and because she's in Switzerland #chasinglight without me. Brb going to Switzerland... ||

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Downieville, CA - Afternoon walk with the dogs & a few family members on Thanksgiving Day. Several days of snow had fallen and things were just starting to let up. Quiet Magical Snow everywhere & on everything. Fresh test roll of #kodakektar100 through a newly acquired hand me down #minoltax570 - Minolta Cameras & Glass have a definitive look and are highly underrated in my book. Minolta X-570? = Keeper.

“Standing on the snow-covered plain, as if in a pasture amid the hills, I cut my way first through a foot of snow, and then a foot of ice, and open a window under my feet, where, kneeling to drink, I look down into the quiet parlour of the fishes, pervaded by a softened light as through a window of ground glass, with its bright sanded floor the same as in summer; there a perennial waveless serenity reigns as in the amber twilight sky, corresponding to the cool and even temperament of the inhabitants.

 

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

 

— Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau

(Chapter 16: The Pond in Winter)

How many stories does the lines on the face hold? And how many things have these eyes seen?

 

Never fault a man with a dream.

 

A story of Mr Yau. forty-forty.com

15 October 2013: Looking up at the lights streaming down on our heads.

 

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