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And now it is off to visit my grandson! I am really enjoying Grandma Land!
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I see so many people using Instagram these days, with so many (and I'm hesitant to say it) ... really bad pictures. So I finally installed the app tonight and played around with it. It definitely can be a cool tool, but I think it really takes some thought and effort into how the filters and effects benefit or improve the photo you're sharing, and in many cases, they don't. I scoured my pics for a bit until I put together this frame, which brings out the contrast of my black pup with the blue blanket, while blurring out the rest of the shot to give her an eye-catching sharpness. It's not really my type of thing, but this one did turn out pretty well.
Contemplating the snow. This little downy woodpecker sat on this limb for quite a time - letting me take several shots
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"Oh life, it's bigger, It's bigger than you and you are not me. The
lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes. Oh no, I've
said too much, I've said enough. That's me in the corner, That's
me in the spotlight, Losing my religion" - REM
Random shot of Thing One while she was out in the yard and I had the long lens on unsuccessfully trying and catch the finches that have been visiting the bird feeders. Played a bit with some cross-processing for a change, too, since it seemed to fit the shot.
Nikon D7000 w/Sigma 150-600mm @ 550mm, 1/750s @ ƒ/6.3, ISO400. Color finishing in Adobe Lightroom and Nik Viveza.
Lone figure sitting on a rock in early morning just taking in the surreal view of Portland waterfront with smoky haze from fires up in the gorge.
"Thinking with a feather
Moving it round the surface
It contemplates with me
Flowing, helping me make decisions
Lines carved deep within the metal
Waiting for the ink to be pushed into them
They will tell my story forever to be seen
Will someone read my story the way i drew it?
or will they bring their own visions to mine creating a merger of lives?"
- My Subconcious Thoughts
"Bridget always had a special devotion to Christ's Passion, contemplating in it God's infinite love for human beings. She boldly places these words on the lips of the Lord who speaks to her: “O my friends, I love my sheep so tenderly that were it possible I would die many other times for each one of them that same death I suffered for the redemption of all” (Revelationes, Book I, c. 59). The sorrowful motherhood of Mary, which made her Mediatrix and Mother of Mercy, is also a subject that recurs frequently in the Revelations."
– Pope Benedict XVI, speaking of today's saint, Bridget of Sweden.
My sermon for the feast of St Bridget can be read here.
Have you contemplated your home star recently? Featured here, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. The spectacular menagerie of silhouettes was taken in 2012 from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area near Page, Arizona, USA, where park rangers and astronomers expounded on the unusual event to interested gatherers. Also faintly visible on the Sun's disk, just to the lower right of the dark Moon's disk, is a group of sunspots. Although a partial solar eclipse by the Moon is indeed a good chance to contemplate the Sun, a great chance -- and one that is significantly more rare -- will occur next week when the Sun undergoes a partial eclipse by the planet Mercury. via NASA ift.tt/26H6BBR