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'Sometimes you just gotta get through your fear to see the beauty on the other side!'
Quote from 'The Good Dinosaur', film from Disney/Pixar, screenplay by Meg LeFauve
For Macro Mondays theme 'Defining Beauty'.
No snails were harmed in the process of making this photograph.
Beauty is harmony and aesthetics but the small bumps and mistakes give it the individual character
Schönheit ist Harmonie und Ästhetik aber die kleinen Fehler , Brüche und Unebenheiten machen den individuellen Charakter
Defining beauty
My definition of beauty and the quote..
"The beauty of things exists in the spirit of the one who contemplates them" - David Hume
“Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun...Life is strange and wondrous.” ~ Virginia Alison
Macro Mondays - Defining Beauty
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Macro Monday - Defining beauty through both image and quote:
In life as in art, the beautiful moves in curves...Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton. HMM
"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."
--Roy Ayers (b. 1940) American jazz vibraphonist and composer.
Submitted to (and rejected by) #MacroMondays #DefiningBeauty
Beauty resides in the heart of those who contemplate it (Albert Einstein)
Thanks for your visit. HMM!!!
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank. There was a tree that she could catch a glimpse of from an attic window in the place where they were in hiding. She managed to find beauty while immersed in the depths of ugliness. This is a leaf from a huge Water Oak that is in our yard. It's not the same kind of tree as that which Anne viewed but I think she would still see the beauty.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Margeret Wolfz Hungerford) Porcupine Quills.
Weekly Themes Two Colours Black and Creme
Little brown garden snail was traversing from leaf to beautiful yellow daisy, probably well worth the effort I should imagine.
Yum-yum a beautiful yellow treat!!!!
It's said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, well in this particular case, little brown garden snail seems to be soon the beholder I should imagine!
Beauty is subjective.
Proverb: What one person finds as beautiful, or admirable may not appeal to all.
I found it difficult to take a decent image this week, rain, rain, Oh' yes and of course more rain.
Thank you everyone who, viewed, commented or favoured my image this week ...... cheers from Sean.
Macro Mondays: 27-08-2018 "Defining Beauty"
"La beauté des choses existe dans l'esprit de celui qui les contemple "
David Hume.
Macro Monday; thème Defining beauty.
'Beauty has so many forms' - Kiesza
This is a glass earring - it came from Cape Cod (created by a very skilled woman and I wish I could have purchased something more). It's beauty is (for me) not only in the item itself and how it catches the light - but in the memories of time spent staying in Harwich, Cape Cod (which incidentally is the namesake of my UK place of birth).
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
Quote - Rumi
I always have loved paper, then I found origami (such a beautiful and creative art) and I also love macro-photography. A perfect combination to reveal the beauty of all three of them ;-))
For the Macro Mondays theme “Defining Beauty”.
HMM everyone!!
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
Carre Otis
August 27, 2018
Macro Mondays Theme: Defining Beauty
Subject: souvenir
size: height 2.5" x width 1.75"
"Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux."
-Wylie Dufresne
"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
-David Allan Coe
Macro Mondays #DefiningBeauty
Size of the leaf: 4,7 x 2,6 cm / 1,8 x 1,02 inches
"Everything is beautiful if you look at it with love." Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914), German poet, writer and translator. "Schön ist eigentlich alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet. Je mehr jemand die Welt liebt, desto schöner wird er sie finden."
Another leaf ;-) Rose hip leaf with rose hips attached - or probably the other way around ;-), plucked during yesterday's Sunday walk at the park. The photos weren't much, as it was very windy, the light wasn't good, and I felt rather uninspired, too, but I took a few rose-hips home, hoping to get at least a decent shot of something. I nearly skipped, it was late, but then I took a closer look at the leaves - and saw this one smile. It is this imperfection created by the dryness and heat of this summer, by age, the leaf's slightly crooked, pointy "nose", the beginning "autumnisation", which make this leaf so beautiful and special. Had it been perfectly fresh and green, it would have been perfectly beautiful. And a rose hip leaf amongst many others. And of course this leaf today is a leaf amongst many others ;-), each single one unique and beautiful in its own right.
Photographed with the Oly's in-camera focus stacking function (it really works very well!), processed in Luminar, (details, micro structure / contrast, foliage enhancer), finishing touches in Nik's Viveza. Please press "Z".
Keep smiling, have a Happy Macro Monday, and a beautiful new week ahead, dear Flickr friends!
Bitte Lächeln ;-)
Noch ein Blatt ;-) Eine Hagebuttenblatt, mit Hagebutten dran (oder eher umgekehrt), gestern von einem Spaziergang im Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände mitgebracht. Ich hätte wieder fast ausfallen lassen, hatte keine rechte Idee für's Thema, es war windig, schlechtes Licht... Aber ich dachte, dass ich vielleicht wenigstens zuhause ein vernünftiges, wenn auch nicht sonderlich originelles Foto zustande bringen könnte. Bei genauer Betrachtung sah ich dieses Blatt lächeln - immerhin etwas ;-) Und es sind auch diese Spuren des beginnenden Verfalls, der Trockenheit des Sommers, die das Blatt eben anders, in meinen Augen auch besonders schön, machen.
Aufgenommen mit der Kamera-internen Fokus-Stacking-Funktion, die mich mal wieder auf's Neue beeindruckt hat. Entwickelt in Luminar (u. a. Detailverbesserung, Mikrostruktur, Grünverbesserung) und Niks Viveza. Bitte "Z" drücken.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne neue Woche mit hoffentlich vielen Gelegenheiten zum Lächeln ;-)
"Beauty surrounds us but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it" - Rumi
This flower is from the azaleas we planted in the spring
"Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder"
An often quoted expression with a long history of usage - and I have resisted the temptation to provide that history here.
I suspect my play on words is somewhat shallow but what cannot be denied is the magnificence and beauty of these creatures. I hope you agree!
We owe them so much! HMM!
Thanks for all views, favs and comments!
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
Adam Brown
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Macro Mondays: Defining Beauty
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
Macro Mondays Week34 - Defining beauty
Look into nature and you will find as much beauty as you want.
The topic I'm repeating is "Defining Beauty". I love poinsettias this time of year.
Quote - Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance — each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon. Deborah Whipp
“It’s a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.” ― Hiromu Arakawa
For Macro Mondays
The theme is “Defining Beauty” We need to illustrate with an picture and a quote that links to it that specifically mentions the word "beauty" or "beautiful"
The picture is of sunlight through a Linyphiidae spider web in a gorse bush in the little wood beside my house. The colours are from wavelength dependent scattering of the sunlight. I love taking these pictures and have a crazy number of them in my Rainbow webs set
Great to get to use one in MacroMondays!
Camera is a simple device, the more inept until you can use it, the challenge is to create that combination of truth and beauty that is called art with it. That search is primarily spiritual.
I look for truth and beauty in the transparency of a leaf in autumn, in the perfect shape of a snail on the beach, in the curve of a female back in the texture of an old tree trunk...
Isabel Allende, fragment of the novel "Portrait in sepia"
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La cámara es un aparato simple, hasta el más inepto puede usarla, el desafío consiste en crear con ella esa combinación de verdad y belleza que se llama arte. Esa busqueda es sobre todo espiritual.
Busco verdad y belleza en la transparencia de una hoja en otoño, en la forma perfecta de un caracol en la playa, en la curva de una espalda femenina, en la textura de un antiguo tronco de árbol........
Isabel Allende, Fragmento de la novela "Retrato en sepia"
"Nature is Beauty"- in this case the color contrast and the shape and structure of the Pelargonium leaf.
What is beauty? Sometimes you see an object and see how beautiful it is. But the real beauty is what you can see in the simple things. Try to find the beauty in something no one would notice.
The beauty you see in this picture is a macro shot of a dirty baking pan. Just water, oil and a little bit of light.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir
My idea of beauty involves the handiwork of people - in this case I made the bread and jam (from cherries in my back yard). And we cannot ignore the beauty of nature ... including these 2 tiny wild daisies who found a home in my garden.
I love the work done by John Muir, too. His dedication to preserving nature enables us to enjoy beauty in natural spaces.
... in the eye of the beholder"
[Proverb]
For the Macro Mondays challenge "Defining Beauty" (August 27th 2018)
Its origin is lost in the mists of time, but the first written appearance was in 3rd century Greek!
It is so true - and yet so very false! Yes I can look at nature, a painting, a photograph, a person and call them beautiful, while another person might disagree. We agree to disagree! But there are much wider social frameworks that shape what we see as beauty. Art is a good place to go looking for society's ever-changing definition of what is beautiful. A simple starting place is how women are depicted, as one constant in the 'beauty' battle is hanging the word round all women's necks (and don't we know it!) From the plump Rubenesque to the boneless Pre-Raphaelite to the pin-thin Art Nouveau, the "beautiful" female form has morphed through the centuries. And the development of Impressionism caused outrage in the 19th Century, as "suitable" painting techniques and subjects were challenged. No-one bought a Van Gogh painting in his lifetime! Famously, in 1877 John Ruskin accused artist James Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'. "Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" was the painting, and now we consider it a masterpiece. Defining beauty is a battleground that has never ceased to be fought over with passionate emotions ;o)
Happy Macro Monday ;o)
I chose a macro which shows the beauty in the details you can't see without the help of a macro lens. This tiny 2cm clear marble has a flaw in the glass - or maybe a pontil mark? - that gives unexpected spidery lines that add to the composition. Light and glass working together with the camera lens is such a favourite of mine ;o)
My 2018 set: 2018 here
All the previous years of the challenge:
"There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection." James Salter
Macro of oak leaf for Macro Monday.
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere" Van Gogh
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched,They are felt with the heart." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Je vois parfois dans le regard d'un cheval la beauté inhumaine d'un monde d'avant le passage des hommes" Bartabas, écuyer, pédagogue, metteur en scène et scénographe français, fondateur du spectacle équestre Zingaro
"I sometimes see in the eyes of a horse the inhuman beauty of a world before the passage of men" Bartabas, equerry, pedagogue, director and French scenographer, founder of the equestrian show Zingaro (Google translation)
for Macro Mondays - defining beauty:
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius
I take the view that people who are passionate about photography tend to see more beauty in the mundane than others see. Btw the fruit salad was delicious.
For Macro Mondays' theme "Defining Beauty" I quote a sentence by Vincent van Gogh
"If you truly love Nature, you will find Beauty everywhere".
Happy Macro Monday
Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates to us how much she loves us."
_Johann Wolfgang von Goethe_
This is a "beauty" for me,because it looks like a "mythical creature" with a crown, looking out of a blossom of a Stapelia.
"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all." - W. Somerset Maugham
Shot for the Macro Mondays theme-based, moderated group. Stack of 7 images. HMM!
Renton, WA
"Die Sonnenbrille ist mein mobiler Lidschatten. Durch sie sieht alles ein bisschen jünger und schöner aus." - Karl Lagerfeld.
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"The sunglasses are my mobile eyeshadow, and everything looks a little younger and more beautiful." - Karl Lagerfeld
About the eye: The eye under the sunglasses is called "Glotzer" and consists of fruit gum.
Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude. Louie Schwartzberg
White lily anther