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Beauty is harmony and proportion.
Pythagoras
And in nature it is where we can best find it.
La belleza es armonía y proporción.
Pitágoras.
Y en la naturaleza es donde mejor podemos encontrarla.
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
-Yves Saint-Laurent
The quote is an adage I have heard a number of times over the years at different times and in different places. Is there beauty in this macro closeup of the small pebbles I used in a landscaping project? To me there is; rough hewn as it may be. But as you behold this photo, what do you see?
Happy MM!
(This image meets the 3" limitation for MM. See original photo here.)
Processed with CameraBag 2
The Beautiful Game (Portuguese: o jogo bonito) is a nickname for association football popularised by the Brazilian professional footballer Pelé
For Macro Mondays theme - Defining Beauty
Tottenham Hotspur Members Lapel Badge
Walthamstow, East London, UK
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
Macro Mondays; this week's theme is: defining beauty. HMM
How to define beauty! Sometimes you look at something and it takes your breath away. It wouldn’t be the same thing for everybody and that is what makes it interesting. For me, flowers win, hands down. Their shapes, colour, smell and the play of light and shadows. And of flowers, it is the Orchid family that stands out.
Dendobrium spectabile. A lovely tiny curly specimen.
The 8/27 theme for Macro Mondays is Defining Beauty, and the image has to be accompanied by a quote that included "beauty" or "beautiful." I was having a lot of trouble with this theme and almost took a pass on it until I came across "imperfection is beautiful," and suddenly I found myself surrounded with endless subjects, among which was this bent nail, a perfect example of imperfect beauty.
This weeks Macro Monday theme - Defining beauty + quote.
Below are three quotes attributed to Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (1873-1971), one containing the word beauty, in line with the theme, the other two without -
"Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!"
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve."
Simple and short-lived, this tiny Tahitian Plumeria Flower is beautiful because it gives satisfaction to be seen even after rain. It is necessary to take advantage of the present moment to contemplate it because tomorrow it will not be any more there and it will then be necessary to find other beautiful things to be admired. #Macro #Beauty #Beautiful #MacroMondays #DefiningBeauty #MacroMonday #HMM
Quotation from Paul Claudel: That being asked to a flower, otherwise it is beautiful and fragrant one minute, poor flower, and after this is over. The flower is short, but the joy she gave a minute is not those things that have a beginning and end.
Citation de Paul Claudel: Que demande-t-on d’une fleur sinon qu’elle soit belle et odorante une minute, pauvre fleur, et après ce sera fini. La fleur est courte, mais la joie qu’elle a donnée une minute n’est pas de ces choses qui ont commencement et fin.
you're beautiful, you're beautiful... it's true" (James Blunt)
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Roses are the ultimate symbols for beauty.
Just met James Blunt here in Aschaffenburg for the first time and it's been the one gig, that really made an impact on me this year. Absolutely brilliant voice, stage appearance and sound of the band. Loved it!
And this song is the ultimate earworm ;-)
The pics of the gig: www.flickr.com/photos/4dreamz/sets/72157670229385107
"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."
Attributed to Bob Dylan (date unknown).
Think of the # tag, some lines in the sand and some of humankind's inventions, whether written or physical.
Defining beauty as truth, or wisdom.
If you truly love nature you will find beauty
Wenn Sie die Natur wirklich lieben, werden Sie Schönheit finden
Macro Mondays theme: Defining Beauty
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
— Dorothy Parker
This goose furcula (wishbone) looks like the head of a goose illustrating the axiom: Art imitates life.
HMM
Canon IXUS 265 HS
If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord. Nathan Phillips
"Beauty is in The Eye of the Beholder"
Yes, still a beautiful flower despite its deformity.
An informal decorative Dahlia, "Robann Butterscotch", at New York Botanical Garden.
Defining beauty :: "A Thing Of Beauty is A Joy Forever"
#DefiningBeauty #MacroMondays
🌕Mood Indigo :: When The Deep Purple Falls Over Sleepy Garden Walls🙏
"Beauty is The Glory Of The Lord's Creation Of The Universe..."
"Angelic Beauty Takes One's Breath Away..."
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"Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature"
My Amaryllis bulb is ready to hatch. It's beauty will last for several weeks this winter.
Happy New Year!
Un monde qui ne pourrait s’émouvoir de sa beauté serait bien près de la faillite. Edmond Gréville
"A world that could not be moved by its beauty would be close to its loss."
'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' Oliver Platt
I've always wanted to take a macro of an eye - this week was my chance. My friends daughter very kindly posed for me and this was the result.
“How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!”
This is for this week’s Macro Mondays theme Defining Beauty which seeks a quotation and a corresponding image.
Eeek! That’s well outside my comfort zone what with both a nebulous concept and a pertinent quotation. Who do they think I am? [derranged laughter off-stage]
OK, the quote is a lovely one from the Song of Solomon. Song is a beautiful book in itself and little known partly because it is a love-poem and partly because the protestant prudery of yesteryear tended to suppress it.
Song is attributed to King Solomon, the son of David who was lauded in the Bible for his wisdom, yet it is one of only two books in the Jewish and Christian canons of scripture not to mention God (the other being Esther).
But it’s the topic that caused discomfort in ancient pews, dealing as it does with a warm, positive celebration of human love and sexuality in the context of marriage. Interestingly for more than half the book the "voice" that is talking is that of the girl.
The book is quite erotic in its language once you decipher the poetic metaphor – for example, it frequently refers to wine often as an allusion to sexual activity. Perhaps appreciating the beauty of the poem can restore some dignity to that aspect of modern lives and relationships. That would indeed be wisdom!
But you are not here to listen to me prattle about why I like the Bible. The image, lest you hadn’t guessed, is a selfie. Rare for me, it adds to the digit from the other hand previously disclosed. One of these days you will have collected the complete set I am sure :)
I’ve been married to the same lady for over two-thirds of my life. You’ll note that I don’t say how long, in order to perpetuate the notion, carefully crafted on Flickr, that I am young, tall, dark and handsome (and believe me you would fall about laughing with that if you ever met me!).
I’ve sometimes wondered, without much success I have to say, what the key to a good marriage is. I feel uncomfortable with the notion that it depends on some particular strength of character or other quality.
The quote about marriage that has resonated with me most has been the one that said that the way to a good marriage was marrying the right woman. So true, though it seems to me that as we all lack prescience there is no way to tell when you start out.
For myself, the best I can come up with is that it takes real, long-lasting commitment from both to make a marriage work.
The Hebrew Bible has a word for long-lasting love which it often applies to God. This explains the image I have chosen to go with the quote which you can interpret as saying that long-lasting love is more precious in a marriage than ephemeral (though enjoyable) sexual attraction.
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays!
[On the dining table with a dark card background and directional daylight from a far window; tripod, remote release; manual focus in LiveView, VR off.
Taken on the diagonal to strengthen the composition.
Developed in Lightroom. Changed the yellow saturation and hue to emphasise the gold of the ring, correct the skin tones in red and orange and colour temperature. Reduced the Clarity to smooth the wrinkles (yep, the reality is even worse lol)
Into Affinity Photo for cropping to within the 3-inch guideline (for one so tall I have small hands :) ).
Sharpened using Clarity (perversely) and High Pass filter with Linear Burn (the latter being particularly effective here).
Soft and gentle dark vignette.]
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere". Vincent Van Gogh
So the question is, is this beauty there if you did not find it? But lets not get stuck in a philosophical discussion.....
By the way, these are clivia stamens, and the scene about 10mm wide.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius.
I'm not pretty. The best you could say about me is 'plain'. But I think even I have something that could be called beautiful - my irises!
The beauty of nature is comfort for the soul
Thanks for taking time to fave, comment and look at my work. I really appreciate.
"The beauty in nature demonstrates just how little humans really know in life. We can never create the constantly evolving show of mother nature. Fredrick A. Babb
Macro Mondays
Defining Beauty
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent van Gogh
HMM! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.
© Melissa Post 2018
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
A close encounter with this trusting and curious juvenile Robin and the poem 'She Walks in Beauty' by Lord Byron inspired my entry for this week's Macro Mondays group theme of "Defining Beauty". HMM
Schoonheid is zichtbaar geworden liefde.
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Beauty is visible love.
PLATO Grieks filosoof 427 v.C. - 347 v.C.
“ Never loose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower".
Rabindranath Tagore.
Read more at: www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rabindranath_tagore_383634
No actual flowers were harmed (by me) in taking this photograph.
Plush Just For Laughs monster from the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal.
"Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life." --Diogo Morgado
true beauty is
gentle or rough,
silent or loud,
dreamy or real,
interesting or boring,
smooth or hard,
grey not black or white
...
and of course makes you speachless.
So I think, true beauty can be everything,
it's just a question of your feeling.
Happy Macro Monday to all flickr friends, HMM
p.s. wide of this part of a blossom is about 0.5cm