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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair'.
Anton Chekhov (Uncle Vanya)
Two Monarch Butterfly chrysalides. I raised them from caterpillars and released the butterflies this morning.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein
Defining Beauty.
"She's built like a brick house."
I really don't think the somewhat off-color expression of feminine beauty requires further explanation, or adjectives.
There's also a Commodores song played at nearly every wedding reception.
#DefiningBeauty
#MacroMondays
HMM! To everyone.
“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion [and] standing within this otherness — the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books — can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
-- Mary Oliver
8/2018
Taken for group 'Macro Monday' theme 'Defining Beauty'.
The quote for the theme is 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'.
It's not the best of macro shots. I could not use flash so have high ISO and slow shutter speed. However I think it fits the theme. It is cropped but otherwise is straight out of the camera.
This is a photo of my wife's eye with me reflected in it. It really is a case of "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
J'aime la beauté de ces fleurs en fausses couleurs où chaque action sur les curseurs donne des teintes différentes.
I like the beauty of these flowers in false colors where each action on the sliders gives different hues.
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.
When taking a 'selfie' of my right eye, I can see a tiny image of the view from my home looking back through the camera. It is a view of a soft, wooded stream bank of South Wales & it ticks my box marked Beautiful
Defining Beauty for Macro Mondays
" If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful." C. JoyBell C
For this week's Macro Monday challenge.
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower” - Rabindranath Tagore
from Endymion
BY JOHN KEATS
A Poetic Romance
(excerpt)
BOOK I
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing..
Some nights just call for me to jump in the car and find some silhouettes to take photos of when the clouds are just right in the sky as the sun sets.
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
- Thomas Nashe
A Macro Mondays submission on the topic "defining beauty".
Believe it or not, this flower is part of a bunch that has been on our window for over six months!
There was something about them that just wouldn't let me throw them away! I guess I saw it to grow in its beauty and character, the older it grew! Hence the quote from Frank Lloyd Wright.
The flower was lit by two speedlights. The one providing rim lighting from the back using harsh light, and the other one providing diffused light from the right.
My entry for this week's Macro Mondays theme, Defining Beauty.
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Ready for this year to be over. Got in my car today and it was dead, so I took the old subie up the mountain. The subie is not designed for driving roads like this. I did manage to beat the sun up the hill
The theme for this week's Macro Monday was challenging, unless I made a flower image. I decided not to, and based my work (of my eye while smiling) on a Sophia Loren quote:
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
It could easily have been a Francis Bacon one though:
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Thanks to www.brainyquote.com for the help.
"The beauty of the natural world lies in the details." - Natalie Agnier
Macro Monday - Aug. 27
theme: Defining Beauty
Naturalness and that kind of sophisticated simplicity is my definition of beauty. And, as Dante Alighieri said "Beauty (is what) awakens the soul to act"
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do-
Unknown
I went out and found the smallest, tiniest blooms I could find, arranged them in many different configurations, and shot with either Lensbaby Sweet 50 with a macro optic (this picture) or my 50mm with 24 extension tube.
I picked this quote because I love photography (just a hobby) and hopefully my photos are beautiful to others besides me.
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever". A miniature orchid I received from my elder daughter on Mothers' Day. The beauty of it is that I haven't killed it yet.
Macro Mondays - Defining Beauty
"The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chess board." – Simon Williams
Chess is a game that I have enjoyed since I was a young boy. I have never been very good, but I do find beauty in the game. It is both subtle and sublime.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius
The backside of a Black Eyed Susan, at least I think that's the name of the flower. Often times people don't see the beauty of a flower beyond first glance. Macro photography helps me slow down and look at things much more closely.
Macro Mondays theme: Defining Beauty.
What is Beauty? An age old question debated by philosophers through the ages.
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness...”
This is the opening line from Endymion, a poem by John Keats. It is based on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene.
As luck or misfortune would have it a fly landed on my thing of beauty. Of course we all know that the rose is beautiful but does the fly enhance the rose or does the rose enhance the fly? Or neither? Or maybe even both? HMM...
{This is a tiny rose, the flower measures 3.5cm across (less than 1.5 inches) sitting in a small shot glass}
Well, for me this was a very intensiv week around the Macromondays theme.
I selected a quote from Jorge Luis Borges, the best writer I´ve readed. But, if you dont mind, I use a second one to complete the idea for my photo.
1) "La belleza es una sensación física, algo que sentimos con todo nuestro cuerpo. No es el resultado del juicio.
No llegamos a eso por medio de reglas. O sentimos la belleza o no".
["Beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement.
We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t"].
2) "Si pudiéramos comprender una sola flor sabríamos quiénes somos y qué es el mundo."
["If we could understand a single flower we would know who we are and what the world is"]. (From "A Personal Anthology",
Borges’ reference is to Tennyson’s poem, “Flower in the Crannied Wall”):
Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Macromondays theme: "Defining Beauty". Raw developed with LUMINAR 2018. The flower size is 12mm.
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"It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name". "Beauty, real beauty, ends where intellectual expression begins". Both quotes from Oscar Wilde !
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein
Driving home in the early A M and I had to stop in the middle of the road to grab this photo. Beautiful.
I have recently created 3 illustrations, their focus concentrated on three women who use fantasy to help them deal with a distressing situation within their lives. They see themselves become the princess' of fairytale stories which they have been told as a child. Each piece will reference these tales visually.
This illustration focuses around a homeless girl sleeping in a doorway who sees herself as the fairy tale character 'Sleeping Beauty'. Within the fairytale, Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger which caused her to sleep. This is referenced by the syringe in the girl’s hand.
To see my other illusrations please visit my photostream or website:
Well, this week I upload something different to my style "care", and it's the chaos.. the nature of chaos. This image was a color test of what would be a photo session with my favorite model: Xara!
There is no logical order. There is no cleaning; you can see the hot pixels. It doesn't have the best light nor the best contrast. There is no point of attention but it fluctuates throughout its space. It came out of the camera directly to FLICKR: this image was not reframed, not have filters, not passed through photoshop (in the EXIF you can verify this). And yet it has all my attention since I saw it the first time: I love it as it is! I would not change anything. I would not alter it.
I would not modify it. Because it's chaos and art. It's explosion and tranquility. It's color and penumbra. It's mystery. It's day and night. It says a lot without speaking and transmits without intending it. Because beauty is not prolixity: nature doesn't need an order..
and she knows it.
Let's see.. define "beauty".... You can´t? Logical! There is no definition for something that is subjective, abstract and variable. It could even be said, relative. Beauty is what stir our entrails when we contemplate whatever attracts our attention. It is what touches us internally. Beauty is to rediscover something in you that you thought was extinct. Something that simply appeared and your quiet world returned to shake. It is what makes you tremble, doubt and think.
Beauty doesn't exist because everything is beauty!
Because life is beauty! Because beauty.. is feel.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius
The backside of a coneflower, at least I think that's the name of the flower. Often times people don't see the beauty of a flower beyond first glance. Macro photography helps me slow down and look at things much more closely.
I have recently created 3 illustrations, their focus concentrated on three women who use fantasy to help them deal with a distressing situation within their lives. They see themselves become the princess' of fairytale stories which they have been told as a child. Each piece will reference these tales visually.
This illustration focuses around a girl who imagines herself to be the 'Little Mermaid' to help her deal with her disability, finding freedom in the water.
To see my other illusrations please visit my photostream or website:
The ancient city of Hierapolis near Pamukkale Denizli was founded in 190 B.C. by Eumenes II, king of Pergamon. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries, it reached the height of its development as a Roman thermal bath center.
The first theatre was constructed to the northeast above the northern gate, when the ancient city was destroyed by earthquake in 17 CE, during Hellenistic times.
After the earthquake of 60 CE, a new theatre was hollowed out of the slope of the hill further to the east during the reign of emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus with the remains and the seats of the old theatre. The auditorium consists of stacked seating with a capacity of 15,000. The theatre is now under restoration. Several reliefs and statues, depicting mythological figures, have been rescued from the rubble and fragments.