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The beauty of ephemeral.
The light with its magic, the aroma of the see, the movement of the waves, the shapes and textures of their elements.
small moments that transport me to my inner peace.
“The symmetry of the sea urchin forms under the early morning light”
HMM
« La beauté existe dans les yeux de celui qui la contemple »
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." - David Hume
”It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.'”
David Attenborough
I agree of course with Mr. Attenborough.
To me nature is also hilarious.
Every morning Mr. teenage rabbit visits me, and trains for a combination of 100 meters sprint and pirouettes.
Don't try that at home.
'Frederik the pheasant' strolls by my house, also every morning.
A little annoyed with the disturbance from teen-rabbit.
Very proud bird. Only he lost his impressive call, leaving a not-so-impressive squeak.
Frederik is, not surprisingly, not so popular with the 'birds' these days.
Back to this weeks theme;
Nature certainly is a cornucopia of simplicity, complexity, wonder and beauty.
HMM everybody!
-Beauty is in the eye of the beholder-
-Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them-
Photo taken for #MacroMondays theme #DefiningBeauty
My Pandora Crab Charm contemplating his golden prize.
HMM Everyone!!!
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- Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, innit, ay? Beautiful plumage!
- The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
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Natural beauty (the feather) together with quotes from Monty Python's Parrot Sketch.
In life, big changes bring many unexpected things. The fall is both predictable (the color of the leaves fading into red) and really breathtaking. This is our new garden (not ours, just the forest at the back :-) seen from the kitchen window. A blessing. We just moved into our new home today after 31 years. A new life… Autumn, not "Otium"
... for a beautiful ending...
"Beauty in cooking is in sweet things"
For MACRO MONDAYS theme: "Defining Beauty"
For 7 Days with Flickr theme: "Free theme"
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Few sips ahead of sunrise,
And I see my coffee splash
Wide across the beautiful horizon
The colors of sky and warmth of my mug.
I hear the day break,
And the night turn away with a sigh...
A very happy morning
To this wonderful world.
A beautiful HMM to all of you :)
Alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet, ist schön!
Everything you view with love, is beautiful!
Christian Morgenstern ( 6.5.1871-31.3.1914 )
German author and poet
Beauty is something we admire and desire,
Beauty is the soft touch of a loved one,
Beauty is the scents that evoke happy memories,
Beauty is the words, music or songs that fills your heart with love.
Beauty is that moment you close your eyes
and lick your lips after savoring something heavenly.
Beauty pleases and brings us happiness.
Beauty is looking in the mirror wondering
why He or She finds you beautiful
when all you see is you.
Defining Beauty is a state of the mind
and therefore,
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Defining Beauty'.
'Perhaps I have no God - what does it matter?
I have beauty and joy and transcending loneliness,
I have a future full of surprises, a present full of wonder.'
'I am one of the searchers. There are I believe many of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we content. We continue to explore life. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we want to love and be loved. We want to love in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls: that will take us for what little we have to give.'
James Kavanaugh
San Diego, 1970
Easy enough to find a familiar or trite saying or quotation, but rather more difficult to find something I think is more thought provoking: and then to extend the thought with an illustration.
I think I am still a 'searcher'.
Pentax Auto 110 70mm .......................................................... just 3 inches
Western pygmy blue (Brephidium exilis)
A wingspan of 12-20 mm makes this the smallest butterfly in North America and one of the very smallest in the world. Shown here on one of its hostplants (atriplex semibaccata) at the Don Edwards NWR at Alviso California.
I have a sharper image of a butterfly of this species at www.flickr.com/photos/25673579@N04/28730652937/in/datepos... but yesterday I could not find one in ideal light, and the only one I found more than 8" [20 cm] off the ground flew off when I approached.
* Unattributed quotation found at www.pinterest.com/pin/451134087649939090/
“When I was Prince Charming and you were Cinderella Beautiful” by Peter Cincotti. Glass alone is not beautiful. Only until light is pouring through does it become magical.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, 1207-1273 CE)
Macro Mondays: Defining beauty. Happy Macro Monday!
-it was sunsets that thought me that beauty sometimes only lasts for a couple of moments, and it was sunrises that showed me that all it takes is patience to experience it all over again-
Photo taken for #MacroMondays theme #DefiningBeauty but the image dimensions too big to submit, lol.
"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains." - Anne Frank
I chose this photo to represent this quote as I feel the dew drops depict her tears - and the web, her captivity. However, looking at the web today, you see the beauty in its intricacies and the tears have turned to gems.
for #MacroMondays - challenge of August 27th, 2018: #DefiningBeauty
"The beauty of the natural world lies in the details" (© Natalie Angier) .... and .... "Beauty is light reaching [hitting] our soul" (free translation of a German aphorism by Anke Maggauer-Kirsche and Walter Ludin)
.. you can't really define beauty - as everyone sees the world a little bit different and has different preferences. But for me, beauty mostly is the combination of light and details ... and something "talking" to the soul : ))
A beautiful and happy Macro Mondays everybody!!
Thanks a lot for taking a look at my picture and giving feedback (comments and / or faves). I appreciate it very much!! : ))
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für die Gruppe Macro Mondays - Thema am 27. August 2018: die Definition von Schönheit (Kombination eines Zitats mit einem Foto)
"Die Schönheit der Natur liegt im Detail"
© Natalie Angier
"Schönheit ist Licht, das in unsere Seele fällt"
© Anke Maggauer-Kirsche und Walter Ludin ("Sticheleien", erschienen im Wegwarte Verlag, Bollingen, 2007)
Anke Maggauer-Kirsche (Jahrgang 1948) ist eine deutsche Lyrikerin und Aphoristikerin; Walter Ludin OFMCap (Jahrgang 1945) ist ein Schweizer katholischer Theologe, Priester, freischaffender Journalist und Buchautor.
Inspired by the quote of Anne Frank - "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." Taken using reverse lens method.
For the Macro mondays theme 'defining beauty'. A bud from a ruby red rose growing in my garden , but I'm not sure if the quote I've used defines its beauty as such.
I think that when the sun shines on even the lowly fungus, half hidden by a dead leaf, beauty comes out.
"I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” » Ansel Adams
Everything has Beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
or "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" and that is only good for those of us that are not blind. Beauty, for me, is not an intrinsic quality of an object that I find beautiful, but in my reaction to that object. With out this subjective appraisal of the object, that is in a state of nonrecognition, it remains simply matter, form and color.
What makes me feel that dewdrops on a blade of grass beautiful, I really can't really say but I am glad they do!
HMM
A quote by Haresh Daswani, I've seen it on mugs and T-Shirts. It made me laugh, thinking about the old joke about closing time.
A small shot glass of IPA Beer !
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire
Macro Mondays
Defining Beauty
"Beautie, sweet love is like the morning dewe,
Whose short refresh upon the tender greene,
Cheeres for a time but tyll the sunne doth shew,
And straight tis gone as it had never beene."
From Delia Sonnet XLII by Samuel Daniel (1562-1619).
There is a message for photographers in this - get up early!
Australian aboriginal art combines colors in a fresh and different way together with beautiful patterns... Simplicity is also beauty, dots and lines... And the fact that "hand made" includes small deviations from perfection. This picture is part of an authentic boomerang... I love it...
That's just a minimal excerpt, but the nature as whole is beautiful - at least to me.
Quote:
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
- Vincent van Gogh
Magnification: ~3.2:1
The composite of 106 photos.
Helicon Focus: C
Typical bank holiday Sunday, pouring down, as it stopped I exclaimed "You Beauty!" and headed for the garden.
*There is a scale shot of this in my photostream*
This crimped brown paper came as stuffing inside a box. Most people would just throw it out, but I thought it was cool looking and kept it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... Hope you find some beauty in it too. And there's MM's in there too! ;-) HMM!! :-)
Origin of “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”: This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. It didn't appear in its current form in print until the 19th century, but in the meantime there were various written forms that expressed much the same thought.
Dog figure is HO scale at 3/8 inch long from tip of nose to tip of tail.
To some extend beauty is culturally determined. On the other hand beauty is universal. Beauty is determined by someone taste. But yet beauty is not tasted, nor felt, nor smelled nor heard, beauty can only been seen. Sometimes beauty has to be revealed, when the eye cannot see by itself, i.e. when its very far away or when it's very tiny. Means can be very helpful the see the beauty...
"Find beauty not only in the thing itself, but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides." -Junichiro Tanizaki
Panorama of 6 photo's merged together.
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Zion Overlook | Zion National Park | Utah | USA