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Beauty comes within.
Not within the heart
But further, beauty within the soul.
If you look deep inside the soul
That beauty will be there.
It's a beautiful thing to see
If you're lucky enough to see it.
It's not on my face.
Not in the eyes.
Nor on the body.
The beauty is in my soul.
Always remember that.
I may not be pretty
nor skinny.
My beauty is below my heart, in my soul.
So if you take the time
And look deeper
You'll see the beauty I see!
What is beauty to me in the context of a photograph?
At least if the photograph forces me to have a second look on it (in Flickr I would say I click at it and zoom in).
Now the capture should show a red line: maybe a certain focus style, a composition that keeps the scene within the frame or lead out in a logical manner.
I am not sure that there is a general rule what defines what is beautiful but these were some feelings I have when I am gazing on a capture. Thats what I want to show with my contribution to todays Macro Mondays theme.
So now excuse my kitchen English. You are welcome to give me advise via mail in case of serious mistakes. Thanks for your favs and comments in advance. Happy Macro Mondays (5068)
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express"
Francis Bacon - English Philosopher (1561-1626)
(for Macro Mondays : Defining Beauty)
"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 Braun (American entrepreneur, author, philanthropist and founder of Pencils of Promise)
In camera focus stack with ringlight adapter. Approximately 1cm (3/8") edge-to-edge.
Defining Beauty Theme
"So if worrying adds nothing, but actually subtracts from your life, why would you worry about God’s care of you? Think about the lilies. They grow and become beautiful, not because they work hard or strive to clothe themselves. Yet not even Solomon, wearing his kingly garments of splendor, could be compared to a field of lilies. If God can clothe the fields and meadows with grass and flowers, can’t he clothe you as well, O struggling one with so many doubts?" Luke 12:26-28 The Passion Translation
"God breaks few records but he always arrives in the end. One of the best things we can do for our souls is to wait and one of the worst things is to force the issue. God lets the plant grow at its own pace. That is why He can bring forth supernatural beauty in and through imperfect instruments." Evelyn Underhill
I bought a bouquet of unopened white lilies a week before Christmas at Trader Joe's. A woman also purchasing some explained how you could "force" it to bloom faster. It made me think about how I've done that all my life (and for my poor children and loved ones. . .) This time, I allowed the lilies to open at their own pace and have enjoyed every slow unveiling of the petals until now at New Year's we are still enjoying their simple "supernatural" beauty that I had nothing to do with except enjoy. I hope I'll learn my lesson this next year to worry less and allow life to unfold before me. I'll try to Jesus' words to consider the lilies . . . .
"Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive". Sheherazade Goldsmith environmentalist and Jeweller. This one is smaller than my little finger which is less than the 3 inch allowance for the Macro Mondays group.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
For #MacroMonday
in keeping wit the theme, I concentrated this week on looking around me as I went about my daily life, instead of going on a photo shoot with my big camera and macro lens.
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Macro photography is an amazing way of seeing so much of this world's hidden beauty - like these "Spangle Galls" on an oak leaf!
These amazing galls are created by the tiny Common Spangle Gall Wasp is a tiny wasp, Neuropterus quercusbaccarum, in early autumn. The wasp is common and widespread, and a single leaf can host up to 100 galls, each containing a single larva. The galls fall to the ground and can be seen around oak trees during autumn. The larvae continue to develop through the winter, and emerge as adults in April.
" Think of all the beauty still around you and be happy.#
*** Anne Frank ***
" Beauty is the contrast of light, the curve of a line, the fall of a shadow."
*** An old photographer ***
“Beautiful As a Dandelion -Blossom Golden In the Green Grass, This Life Can Be" – Edna St.” Vincent Millay
HMM
They're coming to the end of their season. I've been drinking, cooking, eating, preserving, drying and fermenting them. I've picked them with the babies, I've smiled at their pretty yellow flowers. I've been marvelling that each one is a little different than the other. In another week or so I'm going to go dig up their roots to tincture. But today I want to honour them...cause they're just so awesome!
Is a joy forever... Keats
This is the sort of glass that was in the bathroom windows of my grandmother's 1917 house. She's long since died, the house sold, the windows replaced. But whenever I find this kind of glass, this starry beauty, I think of her and her house and smile.
Macro Mondays - Defining Beauty
Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, chase it not and it abides. - Emily Dickinson
I was chasing these bees at close range because of the macro lens. It was the only way I was going to get the desired shot for the theme. It so fitted with the poem I had chosen.
Happy Macro Mondays
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Defining Beauty.
Macro Mondays.
"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time." - Robert Browning
Something weird about this one.. it is actually in focus where the lines converge, but does not really look that way except at 100%
„Es gibt zwei Arten des Schönen: In der einen liegt Anmut, in der anderen liegt Würde.“
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are two kinds of beauty: grace in one, dignity in another. "- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Macro Mondays*Defining Beauty
Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.
~John Herschel
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it. — H. P. Lovecraft
Sprocket, my often-camera-shy cat. I measured the length between the outer edges of her eyes to ensure it was under the 3-inch (76.2mm) limit.
"Jamais je n'ai rien vu de laid dans la nature; il n'est point de sujet que l'ombre, la lumière, la perspective ne puissent rendre agréable" Victor Cherbuliez
All is beautifull in nature; it is not subject that the shade, the light, the prospect cannot make pleasant
“I declare this world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.”
Happy Macro Mondays Everyone :)
"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
― Ashley Smith
... and then take a picture!
... or : It is not easy to be as beautiful as you look.
~~ Sharon Stone~~
Macro Mondays August 27th theme: “Defining Beauty”
A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly,
A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud,
A brittle glass that's broken presently,
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
And as goods lost are seld' or never found,
As faded gloss no rubbing will refresh,
As flowers dead lie withered on the ground,
As broken glass no cement can redress,
So beauty blemished once, forever lost,
In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.
Attributed to Shakespeare in The Passionate Pilgrim, an anthology of 20 poems collected by W Jaggard in 1599, but not authenticated.
Small rose, flower about an inch long.
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men. H. P. Lovecraft
This little shell is just under 2" long and a 1/2" wide.
Sea shells remind me that every passing life leaves something beautiful behind.
I found it a real challenge to do this weeks challenge. I figured there would be lots certain items, and wanted something a little different but something I still found beautiful, and could do a macro of with right size....it wasn't hard to do beautiful but size made it a challenge. It was to hard to do a macro of My Mother. To me she is the True meaning of beauty and is so beautiful. If I could half the person My Mommy is I would be so very proud. This is for you Mommy. Love you <3
I am very bad with words and I have noticed that I gave the impression my Mommy has passed. No Thankfully she is still with us. When I asked her to be a part of this weeks's theme she said ok until I told her what a macro was....she said no way no how. Her words....why would any one want to she a wrinkled old lady...I told her all the lines on her face are yrs of love that she gave to us 4 kids....she laughed and added and ordeals LoL.
I am so very sorry if I gave thee impression she had passed. I dread that day.
"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world." Ahmed Ali
(See also "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates. The three word title is used by many as a simple "stand-alone" quotation when referring to the nation's natural beauty and to the rights granted under the Constitution and Bill of Rights)
Alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet, ist schön. (Christian Morgenstern)
Everything you see with love is Beautiful.
"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." Vincent Van Gogh.
That's true, one can find it, even with a scene such as this. The fly met it's end at the jaws of a beautifully coloured crab spider, on the petals of a wild rose blossom.
"Ihre Schönheit reifte geschützt in ihrer grünen Hülle. Sie wählte ihre Farben sorgfältig. Sie kleidete sich langsam an, sie ordnete ihre Blütenblätter eins nach dem anderen. Sie wollte nicht so zerknittert aufgehen wie die Mohnblumen. Sie wollte nur im vollen Glanz ihrer Schönheit erscheinen."
ZITAT VON ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY Aus Der kleine Prinz
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"....but the flower was not satisfied to complete the preparations for her beauty in the shelter of her green chamber. She chose her colors with the greatest care. She dressed herself slowly. She adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to go out into the world all rumpled, like the field poppies. It was only in the full radiance of her beauty that she wished to appear."
Quote of ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY from to book The Little Prince
Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.
Jeffrey Glassberg
"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
A slightly different lighting setup from my previous rejected version, but the coincidental letters "BE" from the manufacturer's name are more visible.
#DefiningBeauty
#MacroMondays
HMM!
„Die Schönheit der Dinge lebt in der Seele dessen, der sie betrachtet.
the beauty of things lives in the soul of who looks at them.
HMM
Everything is beautiful in its own way... (Ray Stevens)
Beauty can be absolute, abstract or functional. Many beautifully functional items are not always beautiful in the traditional way. Brass pipe fitting in a carwash for the Macro Mondays group, topic: defining beauty. Happy Macro Monday!
For MacroMondays#DefiningBeauty
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholde"
What's the meaning of the phrase 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'?
Literal meaning - the perception of beauty is subjective.
Have a great week and thank you for visiting, HMM!
You can see the size of the rose here www.flickr.com/photos/138807894@N02/43379895805/in/datepo...
"And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
MacroMondays - #DefiningBeauty
"True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes." Judith McNaught.
My eye's iris. Illumination from a single flash unit. 56mm extension tubes on 100mm macro lens.
Monday, August 27 - Defining Beauty
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." - David Hume
52in2018 50 - In My Garden
118in2018 4 - A Sense of Calm
Hydrangea paniculata 'Little Lamb'
If you really love nature you will find beauty everywhere even in a simple flower in your backyard ...
MM theme´s of the week is #definingbeauty#
Better on L.
Xicon.
For MacroMonday, Defining Beauty
So often like this in lonely places in the forest, he would come upon something--bird, flower, tree--beautiful beyond all words, if there had been a soul with whom to share it. Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. George Orwell, Burmese Days
Perhaps this is MacroMonday's, Flickr's raison d etre.
EVERYTHING HAS BEAUTY BUT NOT EVERYONE SEES IT (CONFUCIUS)
Dee o zerbini: fra queste due categorie ondeggiava l’idea che Picasso aveva delle donne e, quando s’innamorava perdutamente di una dea, faceva di tutto per trasformarla in zerbino. Ci riusciva sempre, non ci fu essere femminile che passò indenne attraverso una seria relazione con lui. Le adorava le donne, le condizionava, le manipolava, le tradiva, le costringeva a confrontarsi una con l’altra, le disprezzava, le distruggeva, le disegnava, le dipingeva, le ritraeva, le ritraeva, le ritraeva.
Quando le abbandonava, spesso lo perseguitavano, lo pedinavano, facevano irruzione in casa sua, non lo lasciavano in pace pretendendo ancora qualcosa da lui, lui che le aveva umiliate e scacciate. Diceva: “Se avessi dovuto cambiare casa ogni volta che le donne litigavano per me, non avrei avuto tempo di fare altro nella vita”.
Statua di Guglielmo Gusella.(particolare)
CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. CANON EF 100 mm f./2,8 L Macro IS USM
27th August 2018:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
"The first person to use it in the form we know today (“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”) was an author called Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. She included the phrase in her book 'Molly Bawn' (1878). It is another way of saying that beauty is subjective. “It's true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
I thought of doing this for today's theme, my only problems was Rufus, he wan't happy with the camera being so close to his face. Even treaties weren't helping. So when I got this photo, although it wasn't quite what I was after, it's getting used.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)