Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

– Margaret Mead –

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

– Desmond Tutu –

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

– Dale Carnegie –

♫ TUNE ♫

This song was made to celebrate the power of speaking out in order to promote a more just world.

Juvenile Kingfisher about to take the plunge in the River Taff..

I committed this photocompositing hijack of the great Hokusai's masterpiece "The Wave" in order ro complete my series 36 views of Mont Saint Michel...

KZ-poses - Ring B - female pose

All My Links

I have wanted to do something different for a while, then one gets lost in what can only be described as "Photographers Block", akin to "Writers Block" same thing yet different tool of creativity. I even deleted a photo I put up yesterday as I hated it, simply because experimental change is sometimes difficult, in the enigmatic paradigm of remaining as was, yet contradicted by the yearn for change, albeit lost for choice yet unable to see the forest for the trees! If you catch my convoluted drift?!

I think the criteria of assumed "change" is tethered to the idea of realising that ,change, in one's self cannot therefore be abridged to the same/similar ideas of others, it is a struggle then to remain original. I am still trying to conquer it whilst trying to not to lose my perspective to the idea of absolutes!

So this photo I took along the A100 with the Westhafen Canal running parallel, in which there are three or four barges moored along the walkway, I had been meaning to get to them since the weather has since started to slowly improve. They are basically big floating elongated buckets of either nothing or asphalt, earth and what have you. But they are interesting for the very old mechanical presence, compositional offerings and overall differing of imagery from nature and anything else that has been done to death so far. The clouds were thin and wonderfully striated offering a bokeh contradiction of composition's directional flow. It was tricky getting the angle as I wanted to get the motorway out of the focus completely.

That's all my waffle for today, I hope everyone's' week has gotten off well and so as always, thank you! :)

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit.

I have not been happy.

Jorge Luis Borges

black and white version

I am committed to photography and life... and the gods have been good to me. What can I say? Treat my images kindly, they are my children :-)

Jerry Uelsmann

Character Matters!

malus micromalus, flowering crabapple, kaido crabapple, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh,north carolina

A handshake was a contract, it was commitment to a deal, a friendship, or a sincere greeting.

Female Barn Owl (Tyto Alba) ready to strike; I mentioned in a previous post that our extreme drought along the CA Central Coast has affected the vole population. After this dive, the Barn Owl stayed on the ground for awhile--possible catching a Jerusalem cricket or other insect. SLO County; CA; USA; Sony a9; Sony 200-600mm lens at 441mm; ISO 6400; f/6.3; 1/1000 sec; hand held in low light; Topaz AI De Noise

A Canada Goose about to land. Kane County, Illinois

Committed to Ferrania P30 using a Hasselblad X-Pan and 45 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.

committed to tradition

“You’re committed, you realize. You are…under the jurisdiction of me…the staff.” She’s holding up a fist, all those red-orange fingernails burning into her palm. “Under jurisdiction and control—”

- Nurse Ratched |One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

SL Prompt Project 2022

Taken at What's Lost Spirits

While I may have observed the Rule of Thirds, I confess I've committed mortal photographic sins here in the name of 'art'. Ever take a photo and say to yourself, 'Self, that's nice, but what if...." and before long you end up with an image that is way, way dramatically different than the original, but appeals to you more? (Sure you have.) A tweak here with the colour temp; a tweak there with the contrast; and then the editing drugs kick in and you're slamming those sliders left and right until the pixels quit talking to each other and leave the room. "Sorry," I say, "I don't mean to offend -- it's just that you, my digital friend, look more dramatic if I crop out all but a tenth of the original image," ...Rendering it a blob of noise and blur. "But it's Art," I exclaim, in self-defence. "People will applaud my Vision-thing, and maybe even the Flickr algorithm gods will smile down and decide it is Explore-worthy..." Uh, sure.... Maybe I need rehab; put the S1 on eBay, cancel my Adobe subscription, and shoot film again, leaving it to the kid at the pharmacy to send away my rolls for processing, just as his father did, back in the photographic Stone Age.

Blackrock diving platform, Salthill, Galway, Ireland, following Storm Bert.

Inside Saint Dymphna's Mental Hospital

Always bring a couple of doorstops when you Urbex.

We're Here! : Anything Goes

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” - Tom Robbins

Committed male Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) in the Dive; low light; Sony a9; Sony 200-600mm lens at 600 mm; ISO 4000; 1/1000 sec; f/6.3; handheld; Topaz De Noise and Sharpen; No fish this time

#4880 - 2021 Day 131: We've committed to No Mow May, a scheme to not mow the grass through the month of May, to encourage pollenators in to the wild flowers. We have the ubiquitous daisies and dandelions of course, but already there are signs of other wild plants, such as acquilegia, fox and cubs, and selfheal ... I'll make a few more studies over the month I think.

Committed to Ferrania P30 using a Hasselblad X-Pan and 45 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and local contrast in Photoshop.

I'm on a roll, but I haven't committed to it yet 😉🎅🎄

inworld avatar name: Rain Lyric

The fella was particularly committed to fishing. We saw him fishing here on several evenings when we walked that way, once with a large barracuda in the sand beside him. So we know he had some success.

We don't know these people, but I like the implied story we get from the positions and directions of their bodies and fishing rods. What do you think the story is?

Kat Chauveau

I, Cassie Nova (aka Cassie Parker) committed these two to the Paynesworth Asylum - both Fidget Paynesworth (left) and Dr. Haddax Paynesworth (right). I hope they find a cure. . .

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) descends to catch large fish; Embarcadero; Morro Bay; CA USA

Brown Falcon

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After comfortably sitting preening, this bird turned into the breeze and simply lifted off.

Brown Falcon

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Part #2 of Cassia, of Cinnamon, takes to the air.

On the 12th of May, 1943, Szmul Zygielbojm committed suicide. Szmul was a member of the Polish Government in Exile. Being in London, he was aware of the Warsaw Ghetto and also of the Jewish resistance movement there with its tunnels and bunkers. This resistance was crushed by the Nazis and the Ghetto was stripped of its Jewish inmates. Szmul's farewell note contains this paragraph:

"I cannot continue to live and to be silent while the remnants of Polish Jewry, whose representative I am, are being murdered. My comrades in the Warsaw Ghetto fell with arms in their hands in the last heroic battle. I was not permitted to fall like them, together with them, but I belong with them, to their mass grave. By my death, I wish to give expression to my most profound protest against the inaction in which the world watches and permits the destruction of the Jewish people."

Fuji X-Pro1, Helios 44M-7.

Committed to Ferrania P30 using a Leica M6 and 50 mm Noctilux f1 lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as standard and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.

[Flame]: Santiago Shorts

[Rawr]: Committed Necklace and Bracelet

available at Access Alpha Teleport

[Unique Poses]: Call Me Anytime

available at Apostrophe Event Teleport

[Unique Poses] Mainstore: Teleport

[Battlescars]:STARS - CONSTELLATIONS 5.0

available at Marketplace Here

[Little Branch]: Royal Palm Tree

[Little Branch] Mainstore: Teleport

"Clancy is an all-or-nothig kinda dog-"

No I'm not!

"For example, he can greet people so enthusiasically

at times that he has to be calmed-"

No I don't!

"And playing with me, whether in the house or outside

chasing a ball, he's so fully activated, I worry about

him hurting himself again-"

No you don't!

"...And, as you might have noticed, he likes having the

last word."

Yes I do!

(This photo is two months old, but illustrates for

our purpose Clancy's commitment to, and for, life)

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Prescott-Russell Trail, Ottawa, Ontario

510 Clancy 9yrs 18wk

Clancy's YEARBOOK 10: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157720201164845

MONOCHROME Clancy: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157655760302498

EXPLORE Clancy: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157656171825332

Shot with a "Tomioka-Copal 75 mm F 2.8" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.

“A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate..”

― Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight

SLURL: Kintsugi; Spirited Beyond

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Runaway/71/122/24

[3rd out of 12 Photos]

P.S. I knew where I wanted the Wellspring little world globe but to get the right angle was a challenge. To allow one of the deers to peek through and join the duck and chicken around the well. The source of water for us humans to help sustain us and the environment around us. In the middle of Kintsugi's city just fits so well.

Isn't it everlasting? It will always take over in the end in some way or the other. There will always be a wellspring of nature, or at least, we can only help make it that way. Save animals, plant more trees or tiny plants and take care of your surroundings. If we make it a lifestyle, we can help make the world a better place by loving the very existence it came with. When you love, you automatically learn to care. I dream of a day when all the tall skyscrapers will be slowly overrun by crawling ivy, beautiful flowers and birds just making nests in every nook. I dream of a wellspring of hope and love, always.

Australian Hobby

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Another from the cricket hunting season.

The bird will launch with enough power to glide down snatch a cricket and pull up on to the next post with barely a wing flap.

28th March 2018:

Graham committed a crime this morning by forgetting to buy me my breakfast cereal so this afternoon I nipped into town to see what the small supermarket had, not a lot! But, I did find some porridge which will keep me going until he or us both next go to the main supermarket.

On my way down I noticed this ribbon tied to a lamppost. I checked the others nearby and none of them had been decorated, so no idea why this one was. However I did like the light shining on it, so took a photo. To the amusement of the owner of the house nearest to it. They were in their front garden doing some planting!

It's SOOC other than my copyright.

I've caught up as well as Flickr has allowed me to. If I've missed anyone, I'll try and catch up with you tomorrow.

Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)

www.flickr.com/groups/2018_one_photo_each_day/

Committed to Ferrania P30 using a Hasselblad X-Pan and 45 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and local contrast in Photoshop.

John Kennedy's....

I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came.

The Art Nouveau is the style of natural harmony. Its committed goal is the establishment of the concord of the beauty and function without compromise. This is the last comprehensive European style enriching the European culture in the applied art, the fine art and construction design. The art of the Hungarian masters enriched the unique idiom of the Art Nouveau. Being a rich resource of the trasures of this style, the Hungarian Art Nouveau is a worthy competiror of the heritages of the French, German, Belgian and Aystrian Art Nouveau. The permanent exhibition consists of paintings, furniture, ornaments and interiors. It provides and authentic sight of the atmosphere of the civic life of the “peacetime” of Budapest for the visitors. A cafe of friendly atmosphere and shop of original silver jewelries and ceramic copies waith the visitors.

Opening hours 10-17, closed on Sunday.

1054 Budaoest, Honved u 3. Hungary

www.magyarszecessziohaza.hu or

guideme.hu/place/house-of-hungarian-art-nouveau/

The building, designed by Emil Vidor, reflects the influence of Belgian and French architecture. At the same time, the facade of the building also incorporates Hungarian patterns, like the Zsolnay ceramics patterns. Not long ago, the building was entirely renovated. Besides the private museum operating in the establishment and displaying furniture, porcelain, ironwork and paintings, visitors can sit into a lovely café, too.

In 1907 the periodical Hungarian Competition (Magyar Pályázat) presents a description of the building in the Architectonic Chronicle section (Építőművészeti Krónika) with the title: Mr. Bedő Béla's Honvéd Street Palace. The designer, Emil Vidor, took good care of the building’s interior space as well, in the spirit of Gesamtkunstwerk (all objects in the same style).

This powerful unity of the arts and crafts in 1903 was a groundbreaking event in Hungary. The Bedő House was built only six years after the Belgian Victor Horta made his first fully Art Nouveau house, and in the same time with the Scottish architect, Mackintosh's famous arts house.

Even a contemporary description mentions the planned use of specially designed murals, the richly applied stained and ground glass, and generally the special design furnishing of the whole building.

On PBS Masterpiece Theatre “Vienna Blood” prodution the location was used and the Dr’s apartment was within this fine building.

Using my photo as base image created in DDG Text 2 AI filters.

Fourth image in the series.

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Gwynedd ▪️ Crime after crime committed by the Nazi-like IDF, a force continually defended by Starmer et al, while protests against the genocide outrage him, and the other Labour MPs who receive funding from Israeli supporters. - "Gaza aid site attacks: ‘They fired at us indiscriminately’

Israeli forces killed at least 21 people and wounded 20 others while attempting to get desperately needed food aid in southern Gaza.

Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it received the bodies of 11 people shot while returning from an aid site associated with the Israel-and-US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund in southern Gaza.

The killings are part of a deadly pattern that has killed nearly 600 Palestinians in the chaotic and controversial aid distribution programme over the past month.

Ten others were killed at a United Nations aid warehouse in northern Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Yousef Mahmoud Mokheimar was walking with dozens others when he saw troops in vehicles and tanks racing toward them. “They fired at us indiscriminately,” he said, adding he was shot in the leg, and a man was also shot while attempting to rescue him."

Committed to Ilford HP5+ using a Hasselblad X-Pan and 45 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning in Photoshop.

“Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Our resources and initiatives are collaborative and they prioritize opportunity, access, validation, and healing. We are becoming the ones we’ve been waiting for.” thelovelandfoundation.org/about/

You can see more images from Tokyo here.

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You can see other colour version here.

Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. See the change with in yourself

I was committed to a sunset shot a twenty-minute drive away from this location when I was struck by a desperate need to evacuate my bowels.

Worse still was the fact that I was a one-hour hike away from my vehicle and the nearest toilet was a 10-minute drive to the airport from my car.

If you're not familiar with the Faroe Islands, I can tell you that there are no trees or bushes to crouch behind and there were zero toilets available on the trail.

My options were to attempt an agonizing one-hour hike back to the grossly overpriced rental car or simply bespatter my pantaloons and accept the indignity of a long hike with besmirched breeches.

I chose the agonizingly painful option.

I confess I almost lost control several times as tears rolled down my cheeks and sweat covered my forehead in a war of wills with my own body.

I can't imagine what the passing hikers thought of this lone photographer, moaning and muttering to himself while shuffling along the trail with the smallest steps possible.

I am glad to report that I won the battle. But it was very close.

After an exquisite visit to the airport facilities, I decided to head to this very famous waterfall in the hopes of witnessing a lovely sunset.

Within 15 minutes of my arrival at Múlafossur, the sky lit up and continued to perform pyrotechnics for at least an hour, almost up until midnight.

I don't mind those days of extreme highs and lows when it ends on such a high.

Thanks for looking

Gavin Hardcastle

Committed to Ilford Delta 400 using a Hasselblad 503 CX and 60 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.